OT: Your Favorite Quotations

SarasotaFrank · March 3, 2003 3:25AM

I am working on a project involving quotations - really good ones - profound quotes from persons of note - stuff that has stood the test of time. Considering there are hundreds of members here - might I impose on you to share some of your favorites? There just might be some pearls of wisdom I can use.

Thanks!

Outhaul · March 3, 2003 3:32AM

Those who can, do...Those who can't, teach...Those who can't teach, teach gym

Steve27 · March 3, 2003 3:45AM

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy (originally Marcus Tullius Cicero)

Steve27 · March 3, 2003 3:47AM

This is like deja vu all over again.
--Yogi Berra

Half the game is 90% mental.
--Yogi Berra

If I didn't wake up, I'd still be sleeping.
--Yogi Berra

Slump ? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hittin.
--Yogi Berra

Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical
--Yogi Berra

"You can observe a lot just by watching."
--Yogi Berra

FC57Coins · March 3, 2003 3:49AM

Be the best that you can be and you'll wind up exactly where you're supposed to.

Sparky Andersen

Whitewashqtr · March 3, 2003 3:49AM

From the old days in the Fraternity house:

You dont call your Fraternity a "Frat"... Do you call your country a c*nt?

MadMonk · March 3, 2003 3:54AM

The illumined walk without fear, by grace.
--J.S. Goldsmith

Except the lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
--psalm 127

TRUTH is within ourselves; it takes no rise
From outward things, whate’er you may believe.
There is an inmost center in us all,
Where truth abides in fullness; and around,
Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in,
This perfect, clear perception – which is truth.
A baffling and perverting carnal mesh
Binds it, and makes all error: and, to KNOW,
Rather consists in opening out a way
Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape,
Than in effecting entry for a light
Supposed to be without.
-- From “Paracelsus” by Robert Browning

MadMarty · March 3, 2003 3:55AM

The light at the end of the tunnel, is nothing but the train coming in the other direction!!

me

Steve27 · March 3, 2003 3:56AM

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity
--Albert Einstein

baccaruda · March 3, 2003 4:41AM

He who would trade liberty for comfort loses both, and deserves neither.

A patriot must be ready to defend his country against it's government.

braddick · March 3, 2003 4:49AM

"You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish."

"You can pick your friends. You can pick your nose.
But, you can't pick your friend's nose."

Clankeye · March 3, 2003 4:53AM

"Good Morning Class!" -- Mrs. Coinboard

Okay here's a real quote:

"In America the smart people who opt for a life that isn't based on getting rich... get their faces rubbed in it." --Randy Newman

RWW · March 3, 2003 4:57AM

I don't get mad, and I don't get even - I teach lessons.

paigowjohnny · March 3, 2003 4:58AM

No matter where you go...there you are.--unknown

Give me a fast ship, for I intend to go in harm's way.--John Paul Jones

You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.--William Jenning Bryan

You tell 'em I'm coming...and hell's coming with me !!!--Wyatt Earp (from "Tombstone")

I'm your huckleberry--Doc Holiday (also from "Tombstone")

Nuts--Army Gen McAlluife...when asked by the Germans to surrender duirng WWII

Dammit, that coin's at least a 65 !!!--90+% of board members who got hosed on a grading submission.

mommam17 · March 3, 2003 6:04AM

Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes? - Richard Pryor

paigowjohnny · March 3, 2003 6:06AM

Clank and I just killed several valuable minutes PM exchanging "Tombstone" quotes....

Geoman · March 3, 2003 6:43AM

"If you can't grow it, you gotta mine it."

paigowjohnny · March 3, 2003 6:46AM

As Ol' Blue Eyes was wont to say....." Do be do be do..."

LucyBop · March 3, 2003 6:46AM

"Be Bop A Lula!" - Gene Vincent

"Good Golly Miss Molly" - Little Richard

"Theres Good Rockin' Tonight" - Elvis Presley

paigowjohnny · March 3, 2003 6:48AM

Lucy...have you seen that Little Richard Verizon commercial ??? Cracks me up....

" Who took a picture of Little Richard !!!???"

LucyBop · March 3, 2003 6:49AM

That was Lucille snapping that photo.... Little Richard is a way Crazy HepCat!

clw54 · March 3, 2003 6:50AM

"Buy the coin, not the slab."

littlewicher · March 3, 2003 6:56AM

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."-Gandhi

I find that to be very inspirational. Always remember, two wrongs don't make a right.

Barry · March 3, 2003 7:04AM

The tail doesn't wag the dog - unknown

Seems to be appropriate re dealers leaving shows early.

LucyBop · March 3, 2003 7:08AM

"Knick Knack Paddy Wack, Give the Dog A Bone"
- Ritchie Valens

ClausUrch · March 3, 2003 7:09AM

"We are idiots, Babe
It's a wonder we can
even feed ourselves."

Bob Dylan

VonZipper · March 3, 2003 7:15AM

Braddick-- "You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish."

Good R.E.O. Speedwagon song/album.

MrKelso · March 3, 2003 7:21AM

I have a couple three

The first is my signature line below. The 2nd is "Yummy YUM YUM it's Goodie Good Candy" Ralph Kramden

The 3rd is "I am not a crook"

bulloncoins · March 3, 2003 7:22AM

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."

John F. Kennedy
(1917 - 1963)

CLASSICS · March 3, 2003 7:23AM

dont do as i do, do as i say......what goes up comes down.......i cried because i had no shoes, until i saw a man that had no feet.........iceberg ahead, a lookout on the titanic.......we will hang the americans, but where will we get the rope? not to worry, they will sell it to us.....lennin.........bah-hum-bug.......scrooge...........love is never having to say your sorry....barbra.......forgive them father they know not what they do.........jesus.......... if we all gave an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth,, we would all be blind and toothless.........

SarasotaFrank · March 3, 2003 7:24AM

well, I have to say, I haven't quite found what I am looking for you. I was looking for stuff juuuuuuuuust a litle more profound. But what they hey, at least I gave you numismatists and numismatettes an excuse to get a chuckle or two.

LucyBop · March 3, 2003 7:25AM

<< <i>well, I have to say, I haven't quite found what I am looking for you. I was looking for stuff juuuuuuuuust a litle more profound. But what they hey, at least I gave you numismatists and numismatettes an excuse to get a chuckle or two.
>>

ok, heres one for you..

'You big knucklehead!"
-Lucille the HepKitty

paigowjohnny · March 3, 2003 7:29AM

" Oh my God...they killed Kenny !!!"--South Park

How's that for profound Frankie

SarasotaFrank · March 3, 2003 7:56AM

I knew I could count on Lucy & Johnney to pull through!

Singapore · March 3, 2003 8:50AM

I think it was Yogi Berra who said about some restaurant: 'Nobody goes there anymore - its too crowded'.

Russ · March 3, 2003 8:59AM

Two of my favorites:

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

...Anonymous

The reasonable man tries to adapt himself to the world.
The unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

...George Bernard Shaw

Russ, NCNE

Libertad · March 3, 2003 9:45AM

From (I think) a Humphrey Bogart movie set in China (? Left Hand of God);

"The ox is slow, but the Earth is patient."

As a reply from a Chinese peasant farmer to the agricultural reformer do-gooder, extolling the virtues, speed, and efficiency of the new, gasoline tractor he was peddling to the farming commune.

boz · March 3, 2003 11:54AM

What the mind can believe, the body can achieve.

OT: Your Favorite Quotations

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