Quotations

[DanPihlaja]

"Accidents don't just happen. They are caused."

--My grandfather.

[mike miller]

"Accidents don't just happen. They are caused."

--My grandfather.

He wasn't referring to you, was he?

[jayar]

"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life."

- Rachel Carson

[DanPihlaja]

"Accidents don't just happen. They are caused."

--My grandfather.

He wasn't referring to you, was he?

Ummm......I don't know what you are talking about........

[SamSpade]

My late grandfather told me once that there are three types of people in this world, the ones that can count and the ones that can't.

[Jaylin Hochstetler]

My late grandfather told me once that there are three types of people in this world, the ones that can count and the ones that can't.

[DennisD]

Nostalgia has its place. Technology is not one of them.

@matt in viewtopic.php?p=4015#p4015

[Tom G]

Nostalgia has its place. Technology is not one of them.

@matt in viewtopic.php?p=4015#p4015

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you cant just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.
and
The secret to walkin´ on water is knowing where the rocks are.”
-- Bootsy Collins

[Tom G]

We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
Joseph Campbell

[mike miller]

The important things are never urgent, and the urgent things are never important.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

[Roasted By John]

The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.
Walt Disney

[DennisD]

There are high chances that your point of view is not the only one possible!
~ ~ Carl Sagan

[zxys001]

It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes.
- Agent Rogersz

[zxys001]

"if the enemy of my enemy is my friend then is the friend of my friend my enemy"
-somebody with a relationship issue

[Ömür Tokman]

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.

R.E.

[Roasted By John]

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley

[zxys001]

"Endless fields where human beings are no longer born...we are grown."

[DennisD]

[DennisD]

[Tom G]

As someone who has been wrong often, I can tell you one thing for sure: hindsight reminds you of your follies every day.
Om Malik

[Rob]

“Don’t make something unless it is both necessary and useful; but if it is both necessary and useful, don’t hesitate to make it beautiful.”
Shaker Adage

[jayar]

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself into one.

~ James Anthony Froude

[jayar]

"The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members."

- Coretta Scott King

[Roasted By John]

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Mark Twain

[jayar]

"The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience."

- Atticus Finch, from Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird"

[Roasted By John]

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
Abraham Lincoln

[jayar]

"For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before."
-Thomas Sowell

[Roasted By John]

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller

[jayar]

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller

"The best is the enemy of the good."

~ Voltaire

[Jaylin Hochstetler]

[Roasted By John]

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
Katharine Hepburn

[mike miller]

Men only grow in proportion to the service they render their fellow men and women.
-Edward V. Rickenbacker

WWI ace five times over
owner of Indy Speedway
owner of Eastern Airlines
Army Air Corps consultant in WWII

[Roasted By John]

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw

[Jaylin Hochstetler]

[Roasted By John]

Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde

[Tom G]

I happened upon some Terry Pratchett quotes from his books. Brilliant author. These are all his, attributed to the book it came from. I avoided formatting or this post would be a bit larger.

Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo.
Jingo

Give a man a fire and he’s warm for a day, but set fire to him and he’s warm for the rest of his life.
Jingo (I've heard this one before w/o attribution)

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.
Going Postal

Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.
Night Watch

The pen is mightier than the sword… if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp.
The Light Fantastic

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
Hogfather

Education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
Hogfather

If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star … you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy.
The Wee Free Men

[Glenn Schroeder]

If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star … you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy.
The Wee Free Men

That one should be posted at https://www.cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=487.

[zxys001]

(ah, it seems we need to add text if you want to see/attach a image?)

[bnemec]

"Solving Today's Symptom's, of Yesterday's Solutions, with Tomorrow's Problems."

I think that's how it goes...

[Roasted By John]

Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin Franklin

[Roasted By John]

Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.
Zig Ziglar

[Roasted By John]

[jayar]

“Life is a struggle and the potential for failure is ever present, but those who live in fear of failure, or hardship, or embarrassment will never achieve their potential. Without pushing your limits, without occasionally sliding down the rope headfirst, without daring greatly, you will never know what is truly possible in your life.”
― William H. McRaven

[Roasted By John]

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee

[Roasted By John]

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau

[jayar]

"It is far easier to start something than it is to finish it."

- Amelia Earhart

This is rather ironic.

[Roasted By John]

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

[DennisD]

[Tom G]

In honor of Towel Day,

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams

[Roasted By John]

There is no security on the earth, there is only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthur