Memorable Quotes

I vote we rename this the Jim's Memorable Quotes thread.

There certainly are some gems in there though...

 

I second that but it should be MEDS memorable Quotes

 

Only when the last tree has been felled, the last river poisoned and the last fish caught, man will know, that he cannot eat money.

Attributed to a Cree Indian Chief

 

The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.

Jacques Cousteau

 

dont blame me,,,do i look like i know anything? ---------Jim hehe

 

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
- Samuel Johnson
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
- Leonard Bernstein
A cult is a religion with no political power.
- Tom Wolfe
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
- Bob Edwards

 

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
- Fred Allen
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
- William Ralph Inge
Men who never get carried away should be.
- Malcolm Forbes
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
- Unknown

 

Jim, an excellent selection....

 

Thanks Mas

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
- George Orwell
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
- Kurt Vonnegut
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
- Arthur C. Clarke

 

Best quote

"that's not boat building that's fiberglass"
Bob Sherbert

 

Amen to that

 

just repeating what the man said and said alot

 

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
- Niels Bohr
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead
A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
- Caskie Stinnett
Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?
- Woody Allen

 

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
- Michel de Montaigne
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
- Russell Green
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
- Edward Teller
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
- Robert Byrne

 

Yes we're happily married, just not to each other!

The present wife and I before we got divorced from our former spouses!