Notable Quotes (Nonreligious)

“A thousand throats can be cut in a single night by a running man.”*

—Klingon proverb

*Or maybe four thousand; who knows?

Number one! :cool:

“No good movie is too long, and no bad movie is short enough.”

– Roger Ebert

“No movie should be longer than two hours, the endurance of the human bladder.”

and

“Ingrid, it’s only a moooovie!”

—Alfred Hitchcock

“Yes we can’t!”

—Alfred E Obama, 2008

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One who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
–Lao-Tzu

“Men think themselves free because they are conscious of their volitions and desires, but are ignorant of the causes by which they are led to wish and desire.”
-Spinoza

“Well son, a funny thing about regret is - that it’s better to regret something you have done, than to regret something you haven’t done.” - Butthole Surfers, “Sweat Loaf”, from their Locust Abortion Technician album.

“Your best? Lo-szhers always whine about their best…Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.” - Sean Connery, The Rock

“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy” - I’m sure it’s ancient - the first time I heard it was from Tom Waits on Fernwood Tonight ('79?)

Speaking of FT - “If we can’t kid each other - WHO CAN WE KID?”

I have been lauded as a bounteous fount for this kind of thing, hence - “I shall return”.

Interesting that trolling here would get be getting all religious-y.

Shrewdness is a one-dimensional form of intelligence, an intelligence that does not evaluate but merely pursues. - Bill James

Came her to post that…you win! I would have credited *VARIOUS *

You will EAT IT and God Damned like it!! my mom

Improvise, overcome and adapt! *various training seminars *

There is no I in teamwork! some idiot who did not see the ME

What doesn’t kill you,make you stronger! some dead guy

I regret that I have but one life ! me, just now

::tips hat::Figured I’d do some internet snoopin on the bottle/lobotomy thing and apparently it’s from a comic I never heard of - Fred Allen.
Before my time, I spose.

“Make one mistake and you pay for it the rest of your life.”
*
—Snoopy*

“No, I don’t believe in ghosts, but I’m afraid of them.”–Edith Wharton

“Enjoy the war. The peace will be terrible.”–Anon. German officer in early 1945

“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.” - George Washington

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from mistakes. Mistakes come from bad judgment.
“The race is not always to the swift nor the fight to the strong- but that’s the way to bet.” - Damon Runyan

“If at first you don’t succeed, try try again. Then give up. No sense being a damn fool about it.” - WC FIelds

Religious, but not guff, IMO:

O God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed, the courage to change what can be changed, and the wisdom to know the one from the other.

“If they move, kill 'em.” - William Holden in* The Wild Bunch*

Internet rule 14: If you fail badly enough, could it not be considered an epic fail?

“Those who often quote others have no original thoughts of their own.” Oscar Wilde

‘Work is the curse of the drinking classes’ - Oscar Wilde.
‘Vestis virum reddit / Clothes make the man.’ - Quintilian (among others).

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~Aristotle

“Free the French and shoot the Germans.”

–Maj John Reisman, USA