OT: slow day for non-golfers: What quotes mean a lot to you?

[Norm Petersin]

Dead bees make no honey

 

[bdgan]

Believe deep down in your heart that you are destined to do great things. Anonymous

 

[FHSPSU67]

You're never as good as you think you are when you win, and you're never as bad as you think you are when you lose.

 

[Lion84]

Live every day like it’s your last because one day you will be right

Nothing is illegal unless you get caught

D’s Get Degrees

 

[Agoodnap]

I have had the Man in the Arena hanging on my refrigerator for 15 years or so, but here's another one of my favorites.

"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or gazelle. When the sun comes up, you'd better be running."

 

[Woodpecker]

I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.
Jonas Brothers?

 

[nittany119]

If the thunder don't get you, the lightning will

One man gathers what another man spills

 

[Aardvark86]

I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.
Jonas Brothers?

Yeah and run dmc wrote walk this way too.

 

[N&B4PSU]

I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.
Jonas Brothers?

I'm pretty sure you meant "Bob Dylan"... JB's came long after

 

[Nitwit97]

Winners do the things losers are afraid to do.

 

[Player2BNamedL8r]

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes

Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself. MANKIND. Basically, it's made up of two separate words "mank" and "ind." What do these words mean? It's a mystery and that's why so is mankind.

It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.

Thank you Jack Handy!!

 

[Norm Petersin]

Candy is dandy but sex won’t rot your teeth

 

[CentexLion]

“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that." --John Stuart Mill

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me /
Than have to have a frontal lobotomy /
I might be drunk but at least I'm not insane."
--Some song I heard once.

Billy Balls from NYC. Very good podcast out called The Ballad of Billy Balls. About 6 episodes explores his life and death.

 

[psuro]

“You two are tied together with a dumbilical cord.”

My dad at my brother and I when we did something stupid when we were kids.

 

[LionJim]

From Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey:

"(Nothing) shall ever prevail against us, or disturb
Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold
Is full of blessings."

 

[poker1]

When an idea and a mind collide and you hear a hollow sound, it doesn't necessarily mean the idea was empty.

 

[Woodpecker]

Go big or go home.
- Rick Baker (friend of mine in grad school)