Your Quotes

Try this one: Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't - -you're right. Sorry, I don't know the author's name.

Good quote, but I was hoping for something original.

Stop trying to be what you aren't
Start being what you are.

In order to clean up a little,
You have to mess up a lot.

Every child will always be different from it's parent.

Peace within, never without!

You have to go through it to get to it.

It takes two lawyers and a judge to figure out what we're supposed to know on our own.

The one thing about having faith in something is believing in it so much it would literally crush you if you found out otherwise.

I don’t care what you think. I just care that you think.

Sometimes I believe we retard our own growth when we think ourselves around in circles.

I don’t procrastinate. I allow ideas to ferment.

I don’t have all the answers. But, don’t try convincing me of that.

In the measurement of things, there is a great irony often overlooked. It’s a childish desire, the childish desire for good.
(That last one really isn't fair though. It's a play on a concept from Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, "Oh, it’s true that there’s a ferment of ideas and a desire for good, though it’s a childish one."

And my own signature is another original of mine. All of these are a collection of things from some published work of mine or another. I loved posting to this topic. Thanks for asking.

When something doesn't go the way you planned it, blame someone else.

If you want people to pay attention to your political views, have sex with an intern.

Just when you think you're right, something sexy hits you in the crotch, and you realize you were wrong, wrong, wrong....at least for a bit.

Women put the "I" in "period."

"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."

Amen! Can I use that sometime when I'm addressing Congress?

Sure why not. Here's another favorite.


I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada" - Britney Spears

How about Donald Rumsfeld. He just won the "Foot in Mouth" Award from Britain's Plain English Campaign.

"We also know there are unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know."

Or how about this doozie from Bush back when Clinton was in office and we were going into Kosovo..
"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is."

Genius has it's limits, but there is no end to the depths of stupidity.

I don't have any bon mots of my own, at least I can't think of any at the moment.
I just wanted to say I love your avatar, individual.
So apropos!

Following on from Cereal Killer said, it seems to me, that the Hotheads in the world have incendary bombs for brains. And as none of us is exactly fireproof we should have asbestos lined clothes

If ya wanna dance with wolves ya gotta bring a pork chop.

Here are two I believe are original (It's hard to be sure you didn't just forget hearing it):

You start starving the instant you stop eating.

I am a lonely island of reason in a sea of idiocy! (said many years ago after a very frustrating meeting).

And three that I like but are from some other mind.

You always find something in the last place you look for it.

Don't burn your bridges until you get to them.

eLviintuaxbilse! (for the computer nerds out there).

Everything's easy once you know how to do it.