What's your favourite quote?

[Mr niall]

Success is going from failure to failure with no discernible loss of enthusiasm. Churchill

[mikeDnight]

I have many favourite astronomical quotes and have a collection of them in a volume I started years ago. Some are serious and some are humorous, and some are not for the touchy. The following are some that tickle my twisted sense of humour:

"There's little point in having a lens of large capacity at one end of a tube, and a man of little capacity at the other."   Denning

"Many look, few observe!"  Baum

"That telescope would make a Telrad look good!"   Hartley

"With imaging you get great results without having any talent what so ever!"   Yates

Mike ?

[mikeDnight]

Here's my all time favourite quote by Theodore Roosevelt, which is absolute genius:

THE CRITIC:

"It is not the critic that counts. Not the one who points out where the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit goes to the man in the arena, who's face is mared with sweat and tears and blood. Who at best knows the triumph of high achievement, while at worst fails but fails whilst trying greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls, who know neither victory nor defeat."

 

[chiltonstar]

From a lifetime's observations:-

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. 

Mark Twain

 

Chris

[Peter Drew]

"Nothing succeeds like a toothless budgie".  

[oobydooby]

"Thasth desthpicable!" Daffy Duck.

[Alfian]

I once worked in a hospital for a few years. In a ward sisters office (shows you how long ago it was) there were several whimsical notices on the wall.  My favourite, which was no doubt a friendly dig at "know it all" orthopedic consultants was:

"A specialist is someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know absolutely everything about nothing"

[Racey]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

"Until there is commitment, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness.

Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: That the moment one definitely commits oneself then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues forth from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would come his way.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."

[Ravenous]

90% of quotes on the internet are made up.

- Abraham Lincoln.

[adder001]

Dont know where I saw it and its not really astro related but it made me chuckle as a computer geek and its one that always sticks in my warped mind.

"There a 10 kinds of people in this world - those that understand binary and those that dont"

[Mr niall]

15 hours ago, John said:

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.

 

 

 

Did you ever see the Simpsons episode with that in? Truly Brilliant

Lisa: Its better to remain silent and be assumed a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Homer (internal monologue): What does that mean? Uh oh, better say something or they'll think you're stupid!

Homer (out loud):... Takes one to know one!!

Homer (internal monologue): Swish!

[JOC]

One vaguely astronomy linked: Zephram Cochram: "Don't try to be a great man; just be a man, and let history make its own judgments."

And one I heard on a kids sitcom that actually made me laugh was "Even a kick in the pants is forward motion"  I don't know which writer penned it for the show, but I just kind of related to it.

[Vox45]

My favorite :

"They didn’t know it was impossible, so they did it."

[r3i]

23 hours ago, adder001 said:

Dont know where I saw it and its not really astro related but it made me chuckle as a computer geek and its one that always sticks in my warped mind.

"There a 10 kinds of people in this world - those that understand binary and those that dont"

It's on my office mug:

 

My quote contribution is attributed to Arthur C. Clarke:

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” 

 

[Macavity]

One of two:

"On the internet no one knows you're a Cat" (Anon)

Or, at bit more upmarket (but true!):

Nemo enim fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanit.
Almost no one dances sober, unless he is insane.
(Cicero)

[adder001]

24 minutes ago, r3i said:

It's on my office mug:

 

My quote contribution is attributed to Arthur C. Clarke:

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” 

 

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[Mr Spock]

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

NDT

[Ravenous]

23 hours ago, adder001 said:

Dont know where I saw it and its not really astro related but it made me chuckle as a computer geek and its one that always sticks in my warped mind.

"There a 10 kinds of people in this world - those that understand binary and those that dont"

"...those that understand binary, those that don't, and those that understand Trinary."

[Mr Spock]

Astro-educators remain busy undoing damage caused by 1973 hit album “Dark Side of the Moon.” Nope. All sides get sunlight.

NDT

There's is no dark side of the moon really; as a matter of fact, it's all dark... (according to Pink Floyd)

[Nigel G]

Time and tide wait for no man.             ( or woman, including my wife but she thinks different  )

Meaning no one is so powerful that they can stop the march of time.

The origin of the quote is uncertain, Earliest known record is from St. Marher 1225.

Nige.

[adder001]

3 hours ago, Ravenous said:

"...those that understand binary, those that don't, and those that understand Trinary."

Those that do, those that dont and those that are in the middle ?

[Ouroboros]

One I heard the other day .... "I'd like to agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong". 

And a notice on my boss' desk ..... "The beatings will continue until moral improves". 

 

[Bobby1970]

One I heard on the TV show "The Apprentice"

 

"Stop finding problems to my solutions". 

 

Use it at work quite a lot. Lol