Great Quotes - Another Summer Boredom Thread

[TyWebb]

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt
“Citizenship in a Republic,”
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

[StormRider]

Before I ski this snowy slope I must climb up it.
- Jean Paul Sartre

Why did Jean Paul Sartre ski? How well did he ski? How well does he ski now that he is dead?
- The pages of POWDER some years back.


No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
- I forget.


Toil to reap.
- Tom Bie, I think. Also from POWDER in an article titled “Burned by the Bird”

[Superstar Punani]

"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age"

[half-fast]

It took me 17 years to get 3000 hits. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Hank Aaron

[FrankZappa]

"You know what the difference between me and you is? You don't know what in the hell I'm talkin' about"
-Lee Marvin

[Buster Highmen]

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

— H. L. Mencken

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by such learned dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe--that the god in the sanctuary was finite in his power, and hence a fraud. One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

— H. L. Mencken, Prejudices (fourth series)

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.

— H.L. Mencken, US editor (1880 - 1956)

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

— H. L. Mencken

Puritanism - The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

— H. L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques

Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.

— H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

— H. L. Mencken, Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

— H. L. Mencken on Shakespeare

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

— H. L. Mencken

[TyWebb]

“That’s thirty minutes away. I’ll be there in ten.”
Winston Wolfe

[StormRider]

Profanity is the linguistic crutch for inarticulate motherfuckers.


Hell is other people.

[PNWbrit]

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."

"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes"

Douglas Adams

[Droopy]

"Men have become the tools of their tools."
- Henry David Thoreau

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire

[ptavv]

"Overtime most people experience life involving love, suffering, compassion and an unspeakable drive for something new... For me there's skiing, nothing more nothing less and it encompasses everything, everday I'm out there." -Pep Fujas

[homerjay]

"Money, hoes, and clothes, all a nigga knows." - Biggie Smalls

[Platinum Pete]

We must take sides. Nuetrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national boarders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe. - Eli Wiesel accepting the Nobel Peace Prize

Hear and forget. See and remember. Do and understand. - ancient martial arts dictum

[Viva]

1999-USC 17 fucla 7
"It's no fun to lose...We will wake up tomorrow, the sun shine, and we'll be back."- bRuin HC Buffet Bob Toledo

2000-USC 38 fucla 35
"That was a terrible defensive display...we've got to live with this for 365 days"- Bob Toledo

2001-USC 27 fucla 0
"A shutout? It disgusts me" - bRuin TE Mike Seidman

2002-USC 52 fucla 21
"All I saw was Red" - bRuin RB Tyler Ebell

2003-USC 47 fucla 22
"I've lost every time. Came in a loser, going out a loser" - bRuin DE Dave Ball

2004- USC 29 fucla 24
“We showed we can play with them. They going to have to respect us from now on” – bRuin RB Maurice Drew

2006- USC 66 fucla 19
“They really took it to us” – bRuin TE Marcedes Lewis

[FREESKIER_FIVE-0]

"Get in there nice and deep like."

"Dote!"-Homer. Dont know if that is how its spelled.

"And what do you do if you're not a handyman? Kill youself, i guess"-Red Green

[Brocktoon]

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~ Theodore Roosevelt
"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

[72Twenty]

"he pissed his pants in my mom's car."

-Mike Hattrup on Glen Plake in License to Thrill

[Pimpin' FROG]

"Stretch pants - the garment that made skiing a spectator sport." ~Author Unknown

[BigDaddy]

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you have nothing nice to say about anybody, then sit next to me."
Eleanor Roosevelt

[ex-groomer]

"When the going gets weird,the weird turn pro." - Hunter S. Thompson

[SnowTigress]

I like big butts and I can not lie.

-sir mix-a-lot

thank goodness someone still likes 'em!

[Ubersheist]

"I grip it and I rip it!" - Hansel, so hot right now

"95% of all men are onanists [masterbaters]; 5% are liars." - Mark Twain

My favorite quote is in my current "signature" below.

[The AD]

"Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. "

John Updike (I forget exactly whick book this was in, but it was one of the Rabbit novels).