What's your favourite quote?

[recceranger]

"The need to build a new world is what lifts man's horizons in search of the future. Without these horizons, a man turns inward and is concerned only with himself. With them, he thinks more about tomorrow than today, more about society than himself."

 

Neil A Armstrong 

'First Man'

[iPeace]

"There's one born every minute."

Sir Patrick Moore

[estwing]

You believe what you want and I'll believe the truth...Calvin Hall.

[laudropb]

" I would not join any club that would take me as a member " Groucho Marx

[Alfian]

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known"

Carl Sagan 

[davehawkins]

We are all made of star stuff. Prof Carl Sagan

[Alien 13]

A couple from the great man, Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes? and 
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

Groucho Marx

Alan

P.S. looks like Laudropb beat me to it 

[steppenwolf]

"Don't judge me by your own standards"  - I don't know who said this first but I have had the great pleasure of saying this twice with both venom and meaning!!!!

"I didn't get where I am today by ........" Charles Jefferson (C.J.).

[RayD]

9 minutes ago, steppenwolf said:

I didn't get where I am today by

Wasn't that CJ in the fall and rise of Reginald Perrin? 

[Davey-T]

"Anyone that hates dogs and children can't be all bad" W.C.Fields

Dave

[RichLD]

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Oscar Wilde 

[simmo39]

If you are not cheating you are not trying! old fighter pilot saying.

[Davey-T]

 A fool astro imager and his money are soon parted.  attrib Thomas Tusser 1557

Dave

[steppenwolf]

33 minutes ago, RayD said:

Wasn't that CJ in the fall and rise of Reginald Perrin? 

Indeed it was - great series!

[RichLD]

1 minute ago, steppenwolf said:

Indeed it was - great series!

Jimmy was my favourite character - "bit of a cock-up on the ******** front"

[niallk]

I like this: from one of the Feynman Lectures on Physics, referring to a picture of M13:

"This figure shows one of the most beautiful things in the sky—a globular star cluster ... If one cannot see gravitation acting here, he has no soul"

[Tomjo59]

If you are depressed you are living in the past.

If you are anxious you are living in the future.

If you are at peace you are living in the present."

- Lao Tzu

 

[John]

I rather like:

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool rather than to speak out and remove all doubt"

Abraham Lincoln I believe although I've seen other attributions for it as well.

 

 

 

[Phil Fargaze]

`By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail`.        Benjamin Franklin

 

[AKB]

"If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure."  Dan Quale.

 

[Pondus]

"I have a dream"  Martin Luther King jr.

 

Plain, beautiful and heartbreaking.

 

Rune

[Dave In Vermont]

"Sacred cows make the best hamburger." - Abbie Hoffman

 

Bombs' Away,

Dave

[michaelmorris]

"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana" Groucho Marx.

[barkis]

Buzz Aldrin's description of the Moon.   
"Beautiful, Beautiful. Magnificent Desolation" .    

[tooth_dr]