I find some quotes inspirational, motivating or simply witty. Here are a handful of my favourites ...
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" (Albert Einstein)
"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us" (Alexander Graham Bell)
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat" (Lily Tomlin)
"Stay hungry. Stay foolish" (Steve Jobs)
"Every man dies. Not every man lives" (Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption)
What are YOUR favourite quotes? Share them ...
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"You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it." (Robin Williams)
ReplyDelete"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." (Chinese Proverb?)
ReplyDelete"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box." (Italian Proverb)
ReplyDelete"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
ReplyDelete- Albert Einstein
"Regret is a second transgression."
ReplyDeleteDavid Baldacci
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." (Charlie Chaplin)
ReplyDeleteHey English Major, I have a better one than teaching a man to fish:
ReplyDeleteLight a man a fire and you give heat him up for a day.
Set a man on fire and you heat him up for the rest of his life .... LOL!!
"Just remember - when you think all is lost, the future remains" (Robert Goddard - rocket engineer)
ReplyDeleteHey lawyer man - your England going koyak aledy - "... you give heat him up .." ???? hehehe
ReplyDeleteTriggered by Georgie-boy, I remember this other one, which should be an apt reminder for all teachers and educationalists ...
ReplyDelete"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled" (Plutarch)
"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)
ReplyDeleteWJ, pls delete 'give' from my post. Clicked 'post comment' without proof-reading first, lah.
ReplyDeleteI like the Edmund Burke quote very much. A lot of the ills around us [the State, the Nation, the World] can be attributed to the fact that good men would rather stand on the sidelines than do something about it.
A follow-up of my last comment: Our old classrooms are in a very sorry state. They may be symptomatic of other problems in the school. The Old Boys Association could do something about it. But the Association needs new blood. It needs good men.
ReplyDeleteJimmy, are you prepared to step up to the plate?
It's not that I don't want to step up, George. I want to help, but I'm not convinced I have to be part of the OBA to do it. As I mentioned before, I don't spend enough time in Kuching to be effective in a physical forum like the OBA.
ReplyDeleteHaving said that, there are other ways to help our Alma Mater and shortly I will be starting a discussion on how we as the Class of 76 can contribute in financial and other resources to upgrading some of the school infrastructure.
Think about this. Perhaps we're taking the first steps of creating an alternative forum of old boys in cyberspace.
Even WJ doesn't have the capability to edit your posting. All I can do is delete entirely. Could do that or just leave it be .. anyway the subsequent comments have highlighted it as a typo.
ReplyDeleteGeorge, back from holiday already ka?
ReplyDeleteOur Maths teacher, Willianm Chan always quote this 'Great Minds Think Alike, Fools Seldom Differ'I also dont from which Great man in History. Who knows?
ReplyDeleteJimmy, it has to be more than giving money. There are so many old boys who are heaps more loaded than all of us put together.
ReplyDeleteSomeone needs to go in and organise all this. Identify the areas that need attention. Secure the funds, get the work going.
If you kick-start it, surely dedicated guys like Bob, Rob, Ben, Norbert and others will pitch in. You dont have to be physically present everyday. Just turn up for the meetings every few months.
Btw, I just heard the good news from Robert: Maybank has done the right thing by us. You know what I mean. So there's the seed money to get us on the road.
Don't dismiss the idea out of hand. We reckon you have all the credentials for the job.
"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer" (Sun-tzu)
ReplyDeleteHa ha, you ain't gonna let this go, are you George? Tell you what. Let me think about it over this weekend & let you know.
ReplyDelete'My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates ... you never know what you're gonna get.' (Forrest Gump)
ReplyDeleteDo not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive anyway. {elbert hubbard}
ReplyDelete"Grow old with me! The best is yet to be." - Robert Browning
ReplyDeleteAnother typo above. One of my favs, "Grow old along with me.."
ReplyDeleteIn 2005, the American Film Institute revealed the Top 100 Movie quotations in American cinema. A jury consisting of 1,500 film artists, critics, and historians selected "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," spoken by Clark Gable in the Civil War epic Gone with the Wind as the most memorable American movie quotation of all time.
ReplyDeleteHere are the top ten ...
(1) "Frankly dear ..." (as above) (1939)
(2) "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone, The Godfather (1972)
(3) "You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am." Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy, On the Waterfront (1954)
(4) "Toto, I've got [sic[4]] a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, The Wizard of Oz (1939)
(5) "Here's looking at you, kid." Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine, Casablanca (1942)
(6) "Go ahead, make my day", Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan, Sudden Impact (1983)
(7) "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard (1950)
(8) "May the Force be with you." Harrison Ford as Hans Solo, Star Wars (1977)
(9) "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night." Bette Davis as Margo Channing, All About Eve (1950)
(10) "You talkin' to me?", Robert de Niro as Travis Bickle, Taxidriver (1976)
Any other movie quotes that you find memorable?
For the full list, check out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI's_100_Years%E2%80%A6100_Movie_Quotes
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." (Albert Einstein)
ReplyDeleteAnother one ...
ReplyDelete"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." (Mark Twain)
Yep, the lawyer aka Georgie boy not gonna let it go right Georgie? Neither am I.
ReplyDeleteWJ, we are not taking your flimsy excuse that you 'don't spend enough time in Kuching to be effective'. I am not too sure that the present fellow spend that much time there either . And even so, how much of that time (that he is in Kuching) is dedicated to the OBA. No disrespect to the the fellow as we know he is a very busy person.
No 'Out of sight, out of mind' WJ.
ReplyDeleteSimply means that you don't see the classrooms, you just forget it, no hard feelings k.
Maybank has done the right thing FOR us, Georgie boy.
'A bird in a hand is worth two in the bush' (Don't know)
ReplyDelete"Sedikit sedikit jadi bukit" ... just like how this blog developed ... LOL
ReplyDeletePeople who Drink, get Drunk,
ReplyDeletePeople who get Drunk, go to Sleep,
People who go to Sleep, do no Sin,
People who do no Sin, go to Heaven,
So, let Us all Drink, get Drunk and go to Heaven.
-Philosophy in a Kerala beer stall-
A word of warning: You cannot drink in the company of a swarm of SYTs butterflying around.
Then Heaven's door sure closes on you.
QUOTE: It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
ReplyDeleteRead this quote somewhere sometime ago.
Saw a huge sign post outside a pub somewhere in Australia years ago....
ReplyDelete"Free Beer Tomorrow!"
Are you referring to the "pub with no beer", CLK(M)?:-)
ReplyDeleteSorry, Anon Anon 21 Jan 9.12 pm. I still say it is "Maybank has done the right thing BY us".
ReplyDeleteWhadaya think, WJ?
I am told that Dato AM was instrumental in making Maybank see the light. Thanks, Dato.
"REMEMBER THAT THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS IN THE WORLD ARE THE MOST USELESS; PEACOCKS AND LILIES, FOR EXAMPLE."
ReplyDeleteBY us, FOR us ... I think both can, lah - depends on your emphasis. Anyway who cares, so long as we got the moolah. Dato AM's DE MAN indeed !
ReplyDeleteShould I put up a Maybank banner too?
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
ReplyDelete"Friendship is like peeing your pants; everyone can see it but only you get the warm feeling that it brings" (Anonymous)
ReplyDeleteRe Movie Quotes, I thought Arnold Schwartzernegger (sp?) had some memorable ones with "I'll be back" and also "Hasta La Vista Baby".
ReplyDeletespeaking of peeing your pants, do somebudy have such problem at 50 ?
ReplyDeleteAnon 10:30pm, since you mentioned about "peeing your pants", I'd like to add a few more symptoms that we should all watch out at our age, namely
ReplyDeletefrequency (in peeing), urgency, nocturia (night pee), hesitancy (in starting to pee), weak stream
(loss of force), intermittency (stopping and starting again), incomplete emptying (despite the
vigorous shaking) and terminal dribbling (residual leak). If you experience any of these
symptoms, you'd better see a urologist to have your prostate examined but you must be prepared to have your rear end poked with a whole finger.
Not really painful though, just a bit uncomfy like John Cougar belted in his song:
"Hurt So Good"
pee doctor, this quote probably sums it up for all you 50 year olds:
ReplyDelete"JUST ABOUT THE TIME WHEN YOUR INCOME GETS TO THE POINT WHERE FOOD PRICES DON'T MATTER, CALORIES DO."
Hey, what about 'Pants on the ground'? heard the old man singing at the American Idol recently? Cute huh?
ReplyDeleteDon't think we at 50 will pee in our pants, just not yet, think we'll do that in the next 20 or 30 years. Your young and beautiful maid or servant girl or nanny WILL have a hard time changing your pants and washing you up!
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" (Gandhi)
ReplyDelete"Know Thyself" (Socrates)
ReplyDelete"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace"
ReplyDelete"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own"
ReplyDelete"He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool. Shun him." (don't know)
ReplyDelete"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." (US President?)
ReplyDelete"only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go"
ReplyDelete"Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." (Bruce Lee)
ReplyDelete"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
ReplyDelete"Life jades us all at different rates, in different ways"
ReplyDelete-Tami Hoag-
'Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody think of changing himself' - Leo Tolstoy
ReplyDeleteHere are some interesting ones ...
ReplyDelete•Confucius: The essence of knowledge is, after having it, to apply it.
•Lao Tze: Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know.
•Mencius: Your teacher is one who has learned before you have.
•Napoleon: Plan if you must. But when the time comes for action, stop planning and act.
•Voltaire: In all lies, there is an element of truth.
•Winston Churchill: That which is written without effort should be read without effort
WJ, go find some nice Vietnamese quotes. hahaha
ReplyDeleteMaybe some famous words of Ho Chi Minh !
ReplyDelete"Fo the woman, the first kiss is the end of the beginning, fo the man, the first kiss is the beginning of the end"
ReplyDelete"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart." [ Elisabeth Foley ]
ReplyDelete"Parents are friends that life gives us;
friends are parents that the heart chooses."
[ Comtesse Diane ]
"Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends." [ Arlene Francis ]
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away." (Anon)
ReplyDelete[Anonymous said... "Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box." (Italian Proverb)
ReplyDeleteJanuary 19, 2010 10:54 PM]
Hmm, this sounds remarkably like paraphrase of a piece from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (tr. Edward Fitzgerald)
'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days
Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays:
Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays,
And one by one back in the Closet lays.
Hi chipmunk1, care to explain the meaning and significance of the quote?
ReplyDeleteDoes it mean all are equal in death?
Thanks.
Alcohol is the lubricant of life.
ReplyDeleteIt makes men brave and women loose.
(Anon)
"Keep your face to the sunshine
ReplyDeleteand you will never see the shadow"
(Helen Keller)