Woo! New site is online - select here to use it!


Forums > General Discussion   Shooting the breeze...

Tag + Quote Lines

Reply
Created by Gizmo > 9 months ago, 27 May 2010
Gizmo
SA, 2865 posts
27 May 2010 7:04PM
Thumbs Up

Often people use a tag line or quote at the end of emails and postings have you seen some good lines? Some that I found and like.....


"Violence may not be the answer but it sure cuts down on the questions."

"The difference between Knowledge and Wisdom is... Knowledge is the knowing of facts.... Wisdom is the sensible application of good quality knowledge..."

"The eye is easy to fool, the ear is very much harder. "

"There’s a sucker born every minute" P.T. Barnum

"The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong." Andy Rooney

FormulaNova
WA, 15111 posts
27 May 2010 7:10PM
Thumbs Up

Not that its a funny one, but I like "never blame on malice what can be blamed on stupidity”. It often seems to be true. Maybe a conspiracy theorist can turn it into "never blame stupidity for something when you can blame the 'guvment' or the CIA"?

I hate it when people have quotes in their emails (sorry), but it's like they haven't got an opinion of their own so they adopt someone else's.

I am tempted to add my own quotes to my work emails and attribute them to me, but alas, I don't think anyone would understand the weird humour.

"gee I wish we could have some decent wind once in a while" - FormulaNova

Mark _australia
WA, 23737 posts
27 May 2010 7:11PM
Thumbs Up

I count him braver he who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self


It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it. – Aristotle



"Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough
men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - George Orwell


"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

colinwill78
VIC, 1395 posts
27 May 2010 9:15PM
Thumbs Up

this email was scanned by norton antivirus

Mobydisc
NSW, 9029 posts
27 May 2010 9:33PM
Thumbs Up

Important Information

This message may contain confidential, proprietary or privileged
information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the
sender immediately and delete the message from your system. You should
not copy or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any
other person. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or
error-free. No guarantee is made that any attachments are virus free.
We reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications.

Although the information is believed to be reliable, we do not guarantee
its accuracy and it may be incomplete or condensed. All opinions and
estimates constitute our judgement at the date of issue and are subject
to change without notice. Unless stated otherwise, pricing information
is indicative only, subject to change and is not an offer to deal at any
price quoted. Any reference to the terms of executed transactions is
preliminary only and subject to written confirmation.

FormulaNova
WA, 15111 posts
27 May 2010 7:45PM
Thumbs Up

Mobydisc said...

Important Information

This message may contain confidential, proprietary or privileged
information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the
sender immediately and delete the message from your system. You should
not copy or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any
other person. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or
error-free. No guarantee is made that any attachments are virus free.
We reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications.

Although the information is believed to be reliable, we do not guarantee
its accuracy and it may be incomplete or condensed. All opinions and
estimates constitute our judgement at the date of issue and are subject
to change without notice. Unless stated otherwise, pricing information
is indicative only, subject to change and is not an offer to deal at any
price quoted. Any reference to the terms of executed transactions is
preliminary only and subject to written confirmation.


That's even better when it starts with the message from the sender that goes something like 'Okay, no problem', and then has 50 lines of disclaimer. [}:)]

ginger pom
VIC, 1746 posts
27 May 2010 11:40PM
Thumbs Up

Science gave us planes and sky scrapers but it took religion to bring them together...

sausage
QLD, 4874 posts
28 May 2010 9:55AM
Thumbs Up

"Opinions are like arseholes.........everybody's got one"

maxm
NSW, 864 posts
28 May 2010 10:22AM
Thumbs Up

sausage said...

"Opinions are like arseholes.........everybody's got one"


Sausage... apparently, you should say "butterflies", not "arseholes"...

Wineman
NSW, 1412 posts
28 May 2010 10:54AM
Thumbs Up


"Everyone must believe in something..

I believe I will have another drink"

doggie
WA, 15849 posts
28 May 2010 9:07AM
Thumbs Up

You can have any colour you like as long as its black - Henry Ford.

One of my faves

cisco
QLD, 12365 posts
28 May 2010 11:44AM
Thumbs Up

doggie said...

You can have any colour you like as long as its black - Henry Ford.

One of my faves


This one is for you doggie.

"Why bark when you have a dog."

BlueStorm
WA, 71 posts
28 May 2010 3:25PM
Thumbs Up

Ok these are my favourite because im pretentious

"Do you realise if it wern't for edison we'd be watching T.V by candle light?" - Al Boliska

"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? they never mention that part to us do ther?" - George Carlin

"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painfull death than animals that know nothing" - Maurice Maeterlinck

"Suicide is a man's way of telling God, 'you can't fire me I quit!'" - Bill Maher

"Any idiot can face a crisis- It's day to day living that wears you out." - Anton Chekhov

"Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company" - Mark Twain

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." - George Burns

"I failed to make the chess team because of my height" - Woody Allen

"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member" - Groucho Marx

"When you are courting a nice girl a hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. Thats relativity." - Albert Einstein

"Common sense is not so common" - Voltaire

"Two things are infinate: the universe and human stupidity; and i'm not sure about the universe" - Albert Einstein

"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have." - Don Herold

"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him." - Winston Churchill

"I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me." - stephen Fry

upwind
QLD, 166 posts
28 May 2010 8:02PM
Thumbs Up

Better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are stupid, than to open it and remove all doubt

NotWal
QLD, 7436 posts
28 May 2010 10:44PM
Thumbs Up

"Its eich not heich"

or

"Its date-a not darter"

Jukebox
NSW, 155 posts
29 May 2010 1:45PM
Thumbs Up

Wineman said...


"Everyone must believe in something..

I believe I will have another drink"


Winston churchill " one drink clears your mind two drinks cloud it " or
After a tying on a big one "I woke up with my bear head on growling at everyone "

Sailhack
VIC, 5000 posts
29 May 2010 8:17PM
Thumbs Up

"I plan to live forever...so far, so good!"

and

"If at first you don't succeed...destroy all evidence that you tried"


...and basically any other Stephen Wright lines!
www.jokes2go.com/lists/list74.html

BadAltitude
33 posts
13 Jul 2010 5:15AM
Thumbs Up

Tits like coconuts - its true Ive seen them on the birdtable

doggie
WA, 15849 posts
14 Jul 2010 8:36AM
Thumbs Up

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Robert Benchley

petermac33
WA, 6415 posts
17 Jul 2010 3:53AM
Thumbs Up

“The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.”
-Dr Josef Mengele (Infamous Nazi doctor)

petermac33
WA, 6415 posts
19 Jul 2010 7:43AM
Thumbs Up

Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.

- Lord Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society, 1953

ginger pom
VIC, 1746 posts
19 Jul 2010 8:32PM
Thumbs Up

petermac33 said...

Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.

- Lord Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society, 1953



Bertrand Russell was an Earl and not a Lord. He wrote the Impact of Science on Society in 1952

Apart from that you have pulled a quote out of context from the last page of a chapter where he is explaining the consequences of running a society according to eugenic principles. He follows it up with ...if the Nazis had won the war then this is what they would have done

books.google.com.au/books?id=IZ3miaHwjdUC&dq=The+Impact+of+Science+on+Society&q=mutton&hl=en

He was a pacifist, against the bomb and believed that jealousy was one of the most destructive forces.

Not that you actually read the book, you would have got your information from the mass media that you love to hate



Now GET OFF THIS THREAD

petermac33
WA, 6415 posts
19 Jul 2010 9:57PM
Thumbs Up

credit where credit is due Ginger Pom, you are able to put a 'spin' on practically anything.

ever thought about getting a job working for the Big Brother Corporation or Foxy News.

and can you put a 'spin' on this for me as well.

see how good your 'spin' skills are here.

remember what he said is on video.






Bill Gates,

The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent."1 (author’s emphasis).

In plain English, one of the most powerful men in the world states clearly that he expects vaccines to be used to reduce population growth.











shear tip
NSW, 1125 posts
20 Jul 2010 9:15AM
Thumbs Up

sent from my iPhone

maxm
NSW, 864 posts
20 Jul 2010 11:36AM
Thumbs Up

petermac33 said...

and can you put a 'spin' on this for me as well.

see how good your 'spin' skills are here.

remember what he said is on video.






Bill Gates,

The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent."1 (author’s emphasis).

In plain English, one of the most powerful men in the world states clearly that he expects vaccines to be used to reduce population growth.


Did you actually bother to watch the video? Or are you just wasting our time by mindlessly quoting the senseless taken-out-of-context drivel of your brain dead conspiracy theorist heros YET AGAIN?? Do you actually have anything real to say that isn't a fanboy quote from one of those morons?

Since you quoted Bertrand Russell (and just to stay a little on topic), here's another quote from him you may like:

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

You may like to remember that one next time you're reading reports from those idiots.

ginger pom
VIC, 1746 posts
20 Jul 2010 11:35PM
Thumbs Up

petermac33 said...

The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on reproductive health services, we lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent."1 (author’s emphasis).


You utter idiot. I've removed three words.. and it makes sense. Reproductive services tend to lower the birth rate... if people want to lower the birth rate...now listen really carefully...

The vaccines element is trickier to get but if you try really hard then you can do it.

Poor people don't have super. Poor people rely on their kids for their old age. Infant mortality, or fear of it, drives them to have larger families than they need. If you can be sure that having two kids will mean that you have two kids to look after you in your old age, then you have two kids...

Go away and practice free thought.. free yourself of your stupid views that everyone rich is evil and everyone powerful is in a big gang together



petermac33
WA, 6415 posts
21 Jul 2010 3:42AM
Thumbs Up

so ginger pom anyone who quotes from one of the rich/elite is an 'idiot'.

maxm...mindlessly quoting the senseless taken-out-of-context drivel of your brain dead conspiracy theorist heros YET AGAIN?? Do you actually have anything real to say.

as mindless a comment that is, at least it's a response.[taken out of context]


in my post ginger pom, i never gave a viewpoint that everyone who is rich is evil and everyone powerful is in a big gang together. THEY ARE YOUR WORDS.

you did not respond to my post in full, short of ridicule.

look, the next day off you get,go to your local doc,get shot up with all those goodies in the vaccine[mercury, aluminium, aborted fetal tissue[cannibalism] so you can[supposedly] prevent all those nasty diseases!












ginger pom
VIC, 1746 posts
21 Jul 2010 7:26AM
Thumbs Up

petermac33 said...

so ginger pom anyone who quotes from one of the rich/elite is an 'idiot'.

maxm...mindlessly quoting the senseless taken-out-of-context drivel of your brain dead conspiracy theorist heros YET AGAIN?? Do you actually have anything real to say.

as mindless a comment that is, at least it's a response.[taken out of context]


in my post ginger pom, i never gave a viewpoint that everyone who is rich is evil and everyone powerful is in a big gang together. THEY ARE YOUR WORDS.

you did not respond to my post in full, short of ridicule.

look, the next day off you get,go to your local doc,get shot up with all those goodies in the vaccine[mercury, aluminium, aborted fetal tissue[cannibalism] so you can[supposedly] prevent all those nasty diseases!



I did. You are. You believe that though. Yes, it's all it deserves.

As for the last paragraph... the only comment other than that all the words are rubbish is that you should have begun it with a capital letter and you haven't closed your brackets.

The time of your post indicates that you stayed up till 1am looking for videos on you tube and then gave up.

Please Peter for the good of your own health, talk to someone.

petermac33
WA, 6415 posts
21 Jul 2010 5:45AM
Thumbs Up

yes ginger pom, i forgot to close my bracket and start with a capital letter......and that to you makes it all rubbish.

for the good of your own health ginger pom, keep shooting up m,a + aft.[cannibilism]

and soon you will need to go see someone too.

ka43
NSW, 3105 posts
21 Jul 2010 8:48AM
Thumbs Up

"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your going to get"
Forrest Gump.

"We child proofed the house but they are still getting in"
My dad.

"Life is too short to drink bad beer"

"Growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional"

knigit
WA, 319 posts
21 Jul 2010 11:47AM
Thumbs Up

Ginger-Pom, I fear that this may be you if you continue to try to conduct an argument based on reason with Pmac..








Subscribe
Reply

Forums > General Discussion   Shooting the breeze...


"Tag + Quote Lines" started by Gizmo