Quotes. Meaningful and Funny. Tell us one!

[Sniggs]

Perfect for the Jeep:
"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious sh1t." --Dr. Emmett Brown--

 

[Boatwrench]

"It is not important what someone in Washington writes on a piece of paper about how you are fighting the war." - ADM "31 Knot" Burke

"We're going to need a bigger boat" - Chief Brody.

 

[joe_peters]

to be fair since most of Albert Einsteins quotes are intelligent and thoughtful, you would really be saying voting democratic is good? you should use "is like a G.W. Bush soundbite"......

My favorite quote is in my sig


Independently

Doug

Ha Ha! No, go back and read the Albert E. quote above my quote--they are a set.

 

[GrimmJeeper]

"Pipe down or i'll jump back there to smack you two and we'll all burn to death when the car flips over" -Dad

 

[joe_peters]

"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"

Alfonso Bedoya as Gold Hat in Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

 

[Rob Mayercik]

part of one anyway. RA Heinlein had an extended version of this quote intended as a barb towards current societal values.

"Roman matrons used to say to their husbands and sons, 'Come Back with your shield, or on it'. Later on this custom declined, shortly following this, so did Rome."

The phrase roughly carries the idea of "come home with honor": either through being victorious and returning with your weaponry, or dieing in battle and being carried home on your shield.

Now that you filled in the rest of the story on that, it rings familiar. I recall that the show where I heard that explained it, but that part kind of stuck.

 

[Pathfinder]

In theory, theory and practice should be the same. In practice, they're not.

 

[RichP]

Yesterday is always easier than today.

 

[5-90]

"It was a beautiful theory, until it was attacked by a marauding groups of facts." -Scientists' Maxim.

"Sovereign rule for a happy marriage: Pay cash or go without." -R. A. Heinlein

"I will not punish my men for making mistakes. I will only punish them for not learning from their mistakes." -Richard Marcinko

"Follow me." -Roy Henry Boehm's definition of leadership

"I will always be easy to find: I will always be at the exact center of the battle." -Rogue Warrior's Commandments of Leadership (Richard Marcinko)

"Honey, want to go to a party?"
"Sure! Where and when?"
"Here, in about ten seconds..." - James Dennis Watson III, to his wife, when seeing Roy Boehm and Rudy Boesch walking up his sidewalk...

 

[Rob Mayercik]

Got one more:

"Age and treachery will always overcome youth and vigor"

Saw it on a guy's sig on another forum, don't know the origins.


5-90: like the Scientist's Maxim. Allow me to add the "Engineer's Corollary":

"It was a beautiful design, until we actually tried to test something with it."

 

[kastein]

"The ninety ninety rule of development - the first ninety percent of the schedule will be taken up by development; the next ninety percent will be taken up by debugging"

(also applies to budgets, especially for large construction projects in the City of Boston)

 

[joe_peters]

"Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads!

Back to the Future II, but seems very appropriate for a Jeep forum.

 

[Rob Mayercik]

"The ninety ninety rule of development - the first ninety percent of the schedule will be taken up by hardware; the next ninety percent will be taken up by meetings demanding to know why software hasn't finished yet".

And here's the SW engineering version!

 

[Frank Z]

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!!

Monty Python

 

[kujito]

"Talent is God given; be humble. Fame is man given; be grateful. Conceit is self given; be careful." - John Wooden

RIP Coach