“This book fills a much-needed gap.”
“Never let it be said that I didn’t do the least I could do.”
As for this next one, timing is crucial.
When anyone says “…to make a long story short…”, before the next word can escape their lips, I’m often heard to respond “Too late”.
“I’d rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
I have no idea where it came from but I remember it from various quotations that were on the walls of my 7th grade english classroom, Jackson Heights Middle School, Oviedo, FL
Another “Polish Proverb” I like is:
It is far better to sit idle than to do nothing at all.
He who casts no shadow knows no shame.
The hand that turns the knob opens the door.
It’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
“Normal”, is a setting on my washing machine.
One of my favorites.
I like these:
The Classical Greeks were not influenced by the Classical Greeks.
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.
Hell is reserved exclusively for them that believe in it. Further, the lowest rung in Hell is reserved for them that believe in it on the supposition that they’ll go there if they don’t.
A fool has no business inside a balloon.
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, “I drank what?”
Chris Knight from the movie Real Genius.
Translation please.
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Non illegitimi carborundum
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If I recall, this is something like “don’t the the bastards get to you” Is that right?
Translation please.
The latin phrase I use most is: “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.” This (along with a further continued stream of non-latin) is used in place of real text when desiging page layouts.
with apologies to the Doper whose sig I’ve stolen this from, but whose username I’m forgetting:
Before you criticize a man you should walk a mile in his shoes - that way, you’re a mile away and you have his shoes!
My personal philosophy for dealing with office politics:
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by inertia.
Vedi, Veci, Veni
You leave my cousins out of this.
I’m not sure what the first one (“Hoc volo…”) is (it’s been a decade since I’ve had Latin classes), but the second is (allegedly) “Don’t let the bastards grind you down”. I say “allegedly”, because “carborundum” is a modern word for a mineral often used in grindstones, but unknown to the ancient Romans (and even if it were, it’s a noun, not a verb), and I don’t think “illegitimi” is the right word for “bastard”, even if “bastard” had the same connotations in Latin.
For the third, “fabricati” is the imperative form of “make” (compare English “fabricate”), and “diem” is the accusative of “day” (compare “Carpe diem”). “Pvnc” isn’t Latin at all, but you can probably figure out what it is.
And “lorem ipsum” isn’t Latin, but it almost is.
While we’re on the Latin, there’s always “Veni, Vidi, Velcro”: “I came, I saw, I stuck around”.
Lysdexia socks!
Sometimes, beauty is in the eyes of the beerholder.
There’s three kinds of people in this world: dicks, jerks, and assholes…
“Women are like dog poop. The older they are, the easier they are to pick up.” -The Bloodhound Gang. I forget the song, but it was on the album Hefty Fine.
Especially relevant to the SDMB:
There are no stupid questions, only stupid questioners.
I thought the Dorthy Parker quote was:
You can lead a Horticulture, but you can’t make her think. (Supposedly qupped when asked to use the word Horticulture in a sentence.)
I don’t know what Doper you stole it from, but he/she stole it from The Jerk