OK, let's have a "Quotes" thread!

Originally Posted by jamison20000e View Post So what's the flip side to, "those who can; do, and those who can't, teach?"

Those who are to lazy to do, lecture at Universities?

Those whop can't teach write manuals?

From one of the naturally funniest people on the planet:

Originally Posted by Billy Conolly My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without ever thinking of the Lone Ranger.

Let me post a quote, helping me to live further no matter what.

“Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” — Mahatma Gandhi

Never put off until tomorrow, what you can put off until the day after tomorrow.

"what if the author's 'talent' is inseparable from his conscience and convictions, as in the best writers it is?"

Kenneth Tynan

Once I thought I was mistaken but, I was wrong.

Originally Posted by lex luthier Never put off until tomorrow, what you can put off until the day after tomorrow.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. ~ Mark Twain

Never put off till tomorrow what you can get somebody else to do today.

Originally Posted by brianL Never put off till tomorrow what you can get somebody else to do today.

That sounds like something that Groucho Marx would have said.

„When the children are well, the world is.” (Herman Van Veen)

I am not against one nation in particular, but against the general idea of all nations.-Rabindranath Tagore

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
Oscar Wilde

Reality continues to ruin my life. ...Calvin

Originally Posted by salima “America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.” Oscar Wilde

He really said that?
I like him more the more I learn about him.

Planting trees with Ecosia makes the world a better place — for local communities, chimpanzees, and for us all. ~ Jane Goodall

“off into outer space you go my friends
we wish you bon voyage” (Buffy Saint-Marie)

Edit: Okay, make that 旅途​愉快

“It's the little thongs that matter in life” (Pig / Pastis)