Quotes to Live By

[amateriat]

Since this is the spot to wax irreverent (or is that irrelevant?), I offer this quote, which, regrettably, isn't my own:

"No one goes to their grave regretting the fancy cars they didn’t buy. It’s that pizza you didn’t eat that will haunt you."

The quote comes from this thread, which I actually took the time to contribute to. (Why? Don't know...I'm into bikes these days, not cars!)


- Barrett

 

[reagan]

“There never was a purchase of camera gear that I regretted long.
There never was a sale of camera gear to which I ever fully reconciled myself.” ~ Benjamin Marks (RFFer)

 

[George Bonanno]

Totonno's Pizza...

Totonno's Pizza...

No haunting here... I eat Totonno's pizza on weekends.

 

[Morca007]

"Leave your underpants with someone you can trust."
-Jethro Tull

 

[Sparrow]

I must be a real cynic; these are the first two that come to mind

“People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first”
Dan Quayle

“A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought”.
Doctor Who😀

 

[markinlondon]

"Keep dry and away from small children"

I read that on a matchbox once and it works for me 😀

Stewart, I think the Doctor nicked that one from Dorothy L Sayers.

 

[Sparrow]

"Keep dry and away from small children"

I read that on a matchbox once and it works for me 😀

Stewart, I think the Doctor nicked that one from Dorothy L Sayers.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
Darth Vader
🙂

 

[steamer]

Here is a good Mongolian saying:

Aival buu xiii, xiivel buu ai.

If you are afraid don't do it; but if you do it don't be afraid.

 

[Gid]

I don't know who these are attributed to, but they make sense to me -

"Not many people lay on their deathbed wishing they'd spent more time at work"

"There are no pockets in a shroud"

 

[Sparrow]

In the same vain

“There were people on the titanic who waved-away the sweet-trolley”

Can’t remember by whom

 

[rxmd]

"Appreciation of irony is for those blessed with brilliance and cursed with depression."

 

[reagan]

a couple more from RFFers ~

“Seeing our pictures chosen by photo editors and used in newspapers is that little "nod" we need to keep us going. The next day it wraps fish and lines the bottom of bird cages.” ~ saxshooter

and recently...

“With these older lenses, you pays your money and you takes your chances.” ~ foto_fool

 

[Sparrow]

"Appreciation of irony is for those blessed with brilliance and cursed with depression."

Should I be pleased I don’t understand that?

 

[murrayb53]

"Don't Let The Door Hit You In The Ass".
Andy Cipowicz
NYPD

 

[dazedgonebye]

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say." ~Will Durant

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." ~Groucho Marx

"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress." ~John Adams

 

[mwooten]

"Is there anything wrong here that a lot of money can't fix?"
- Bernie Ecclestone

"There is, doubtless, as much skill in pourtraying a Dunghill, as in describing the finest Palace, since the Excellence of Things lyes in the Performance; and Art as well as Nature must have some extraordinary Shape or Quality if it come up to the pitch of Human Fancy, especially to please in this Fickle, Uncertain Age."
- Memoirs of the Right Villanous John Hall the late famous and notorious robber..., 1708

 

[Sparrow]

An expert – someone who’s made all the mistakes in a very narrow field
Can’t remember

Steve that Groucho Marx is precious

 

[kmack]

Mehitabel the Cat:

"I know a lot of tame tabbies
and what do they get
out of life
nothing my dear
but respectability
and a sense of superiority
life for them is just
one damn kitten after another"

Archy the Cockroach:

Insects have
their own point
of view about
civilization a man
thinks he amounts
to a great deal
but to a
flea or a mosquito a
human being is
merely something
good to eat

by Don Marquis

 

[kshapero]

"Glory does not attend a man until he tires of himself", Latin Proverb

 

[SteveM(PA)]

sorry, another old sig. line...🙂
"If wishes were omelettes we'd all be filled with cheese and ham." ~The Amanda Show