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"It was impossible to get a conversation
going, everybody was talking too much."
- Yogi
Berra -
"You got to be careful if you don't
know where you're going, because you might not get there."
- Yogi
Berra -
"It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem
like it."
- Yogi
Berra -
"When you come to a fork in the road,
take it."
- Yogi
Berra -
"I knew I was going to take the wrong
train, so I left early."
- Yogi
Berra -
"It ain't like football. You can't
make up no trick plays."
- Yogi
Berra - (on his plans for the '64 World Series)
"Nobody goes there anymore...it's too
crowded!"
- Yogi
Berra -
"Always go to other people's funerals,
otherwise they won't come to yours."
- Yogi
Berra -
"Pitching always beats batting -- and
vice-versa."
- Yogi
Berra -
"Baseball is 90 percent mental and the
other half is physical."
- Yogi
Berra -
"It's hard to make predictions,
especially about the future."
- Yogi
Berra -
"Slump ? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hittin."
- Yogi
Berra -
"If people aren't gonna come out
to the ballpark, who's gonna stop 'em?"
- Yogi
Berra -
"It ain't over till it's over."
- Yogi
Berra -
"You better cut the pizza in four
pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six."
- Yogi
Berra -
"I couldn't tell if the streaker was a
man or a woman because it had a bag on it's head."
- Yogi
Berra -
"You can observe a lot just by
watchin'."
- Yogi
Berra -
"I want to thank all those who made
this night necessary."
- Yogi
Berra -
"Make
everything as simple as possible, but not simpler"
- Albert
Einstein -
"Only two things are infinite, the
universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert
Einstein -
"Gravitation can not be held
responsible for people falling in love"
- Albert
Einstein -
"Few are those who see with their own
eyes and feel with their own hearts."
- Albert
Einstein -
"If only I had known. I would have
been a locksmith."
- Albert
Einstein -
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not
everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert
Einstein -
"The
pure and simple truth is rarely pure, and never simple"
- Oscar
Wilde -
"The old believe everything, the
middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything".
- Oscar
Wilde -
"Tommy
Lasorda -- Dodger Stadium was his address, but every ball park
was his home."
- Tommy
Lasorda - (when asked what he wanted his epitaph
to read)
"Beside the tombstone when I die, they
can hang out the Dodger's home schedule. Then when people are in
the cemetery visiting loved ones, they can say, "Let's go to
Lasorda's grave and see if the
Dodgers are at home or away."
- Tommy
Lasorda - (1976)
"I got to thinking about my little
9-month old granddaughter, and I how I'd like to be around
when she goes to school."
- Tommy
Lasorda - (announcing his
retirement on July 29, 1996)
"Anything
that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never
to expect anything, and when it
comes it's no more than a gift on loan."
- John
McGahern -
"Forgive your enemies, but never
forget their names."
- John
F. Kennedy -
"You know nothing for sure...execept
the fact that you know nothing for sure".
- John
F. Kennedy -
"Give me the luxuries of life and I
will willingly do without the necessities"
- Frank
Lloyd Wright -
"A doctor can bury his mistakes, but
an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines"
- Frank
Lloyd Wright -
"Whether you think that you can, or
that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry
Ford -
"When choosing between two evils, I
always like to try the one I've never tried before."
- Mae
West -
"You can get more with a kind word and
a gun than you can with a kind word alone."
- Al
Capone -
"I think there is a world market for
maybe five computers."
- Thomas
Watson - IBM
Chairman, 1943
"640K ought to be enough for
anybody."
- Bill
Gates - 1981
"You cant be a Real Country
unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have
some kind of a
football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you
need a BEER."
- Frank
Zappa -
"Banks are a place that will lend you
money, if you prove that you don't need it."
- Bob
Hope -
"Most things, except agriculture, can
wait".
-Jawaharlal
Nehru -
I am a citizen of the world."
-
Socrates -
"When 25 percent of the population
believe that the president should be
impeached and 51 percent believe in
UFO's, you may or may not need a new
president, but you definitely need a new population."
- Harry
Reasoner -
"After all, there is but one
race--Humanity".
- George
Moore -
"The Key To Immortality Is First
Living A Life Worth
Remembering"
-
Brandon Lee -
"In the early days all I hoped was to
make a living out of what I did best.
But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall
back on my bass playing abilities."
- Les
Claypool -
"What's money? A man is a success if
he gets up in the morning and goes
to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
- Bob
Dylan -
"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm,
then you will be fired with enthusiasm "
-Vince
Lombardi -
"The road goes on forever, and the
party never ends."
- Robert
Earl Keen -
"Bull is what makes the world go
'round."
- Henry
Winkler - (as The Fonz in Happy Days)
"Well I believe in the soul... the
cock...the pussy... the small of a woman's back... the
hangin' curveball... high fiber... good scotch... that the
novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent overrated crap... I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I
believe there ought to be a Constitutional amendment outlawing
Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet
spot, soft core pornography, opening
your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep,
soft, wet kisses that last three days. Good Night."
- Kevin
Costner - (as Crash Davis in Bull Durham)
"Sometimes you're the bug, sometimes
you're the windshield."
- Mark
Knopfler -
"The glass is neither half empty nor
half full. It is twice as large as it needs to be."
- Brian
Leonard -
"Money isn't everything, but it keeps
the kids in touch."
- Mom -
"Sometimes the road less
traveled is less traveled for a reason."
-- Seinfeld -
"Life is like a shit sandwich; the
more bread you have, the less shit you have to eat."
-- James L.
Roberts Jr. -
"When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I
found the ideal woman. Well, I found her -- but, alas, she
was waiting for the perfect man." --
- Robert
Schuman - (French
Statesman - 1886-1963)
"There are no stupid questions. Just stupid
people asking questions."
- Chris
Berman - (Bristol
University Dean and ESPN Anchor)
"Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the
Way!"
- Henry
Beard -
"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy
from two, it's research."
- Wilson Mizner-
"Facts do not cease to exist because
they are ignored."
- Henry
Adams -
"Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is liking what you get."
- H.
Jackson Brown -
"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a
ton of explanation."
- H. H.
Munro -
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless
you are also stupid."
- George
Bernard Shaw-
"There is no sincerer love than the
love of food."
- George
Bernard Shaw-
"Every day I get up and look through
the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to
work."
- Robert
Orben -
"Its not the size of the dog in the
fight, its the size of the fight in the dog."
- Mark
Twain -
"The man who goes alone can start
today; but he who travels with another must wait till that
other is
ready."
- Henry
David Thoreau -
"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words;
they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character;
it becomes your destiny."
- Frank
Outlaw -
"A
friend is someone who will help you move;
A GOOD friend is someone who will
help you move a body."
"There are three kinds
of people in this world:
Those who make things happen;
Those who watch things happen;
And those that wonder what
happen."
"When you're arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
"The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing."
"Happiness is not having what you want. It's wanting what you have."
"Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love"
"Bureaucracy is a challenge to be conquered with a righteous attitude, a tolerance for stupidity, and a bulldozer when necessary."
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."
"Not everybody knows everything, so use everything you know."
"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."
"Never mistake motion for action."
"Well done is better than well said."
"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul."
"There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over."
"Nothing can be made foolproof because fools are so ingenious."
"Life is not a spectator sport. The man in the arena will know the greatest victory and the learning experience of defeat. The male person on the couch will never know either. I choose the arena."
"Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries."
"Physics is not a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money."
"Liberals want things to be fool-proof; for some reason, that most liberals don't understand, a fool-proof society tends to create *fools*."
"Don't go to bed with any woman crazier than you are."
"A man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun."
"Life isn't worth living if you're not living it to the fullest!"
"No matter where you go, there you are."
"Better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot."
"Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate."
"Experience is somthing you don't get until just after you need it."
"Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant!"
"Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives."
"76.4% of all statistics are meaningless."
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once."
"The only reason for time is so everything doesn't happen at once."
"Put your brain in gear, before you put your mouth in motion."
"Fail to plan, plan to fail."
"Don't confuse excellence, which is achievable, with perfection, which is elusive."
"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about."
"Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose."
"When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did---in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming --like the passengers in his car."
"The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has a limit. If at first you don't succeed, lower your standards."
"Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who don't."
"My past is my wisdom to use today . . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present moment because that is where life resides."
"Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions."
"Kill them all and let god sort them out"
"The only good is knowledge, the only evil is ignorance."
Don't Forget To SMILE!!! ;-)
"The only good is knowledge, the only evil is ignorance."
"Curiosity is the first step to growth....."
"You're always interuputing me during my mistakes!"
"Student who is late for class not only makes an attempt to go to class, but also makes an attempt to finish what he started before class began."
"Excuses are a futile attempt to justify failure."
"A charging herd of elephants always has the right away."
"The first thing to do when you find yourself in a hole is to quit diffing."
"If the trees die so will we"
"A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains."
"For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation will be given."
"If you think education is expensive, try
ignorance."
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