Good quotes - add one!

[Hank Sinatra]

"There is no dignity quite so impressive,
and no independence
quite so important,
as living within your means."

 Calvin Coolidge

[sheepstache]

Utah Philips at a high school graduation:
"You are about to be told one more time that you are America's most valuable natural resource. . . . Have you seen what they do to valuable natural resources?"

"'Guacamole.' That sounds like something you'd yell when you're on fire." -George Carlin

[Kitsunegari]

"Nothing happens in contrast with Nature, only in contradiction of what we know of it."

Rephrased from S. Agostino

[Travis]

Bit of advice when I joined the Army:

"Never stand when you can sit, never sit when you can lie down, and never pass up a chance to take a nap."

[Travis]

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.



Time management is the art of blowing people off and not feeling guilty.

No reason to feel guilty about blowing people off - but not sure what it has to do with time management

I forgot to mention the quote is from Dilbert author Scott Adams.  It has something to do with deciding whether or not to make time for people you really don't want to talk to when they're just going to be a drag on your day.

[JumpInTheFIRE]

My Uncle Shorty on politicians:

"Politicians are like cockroaches.  It's not how much they eat that's the problem, it's what they fall into and mess up."

Politicians are like a baby's diaper, they both need to be changed frequently for the same reason.

[Stillwantluxuries]

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. - Seneca

If you're going to make a mistake, make it at full speed. - Joe Paterno

Getting old sucks, but it beats the alternative. - my grandpa

[Miss Prim]

Money doesn't buy happiness.  My favorite quote of all.  Surprising for a mustachian, but I have found it to be very true.  Happiness comes from within.

                                                                       Miss Prim

[Can't Wait]

"By the time you've read this, you've already read it" - Saw it on a shirt somewhere.

[Cheddar Stacker]

Money doesn't buy happiness.

There's a country song out right now that goes something like:

Money can't buy me happiness
But it can buy me a boat....etc.

Pretty catchy tune IMO: https://youtu.be/mQPjKSVe1tQ

[jordanread]

Money doesn't buy happiness.

There's a country song out right now that goes something like:

Money can't buy me happiness
But it can buy me a boat....etc.

Pretty catchy tune IMO: https://youtu.be/mQPjKSVe1tQ

I don't even like country music, but yeah...that's kind of catchy. It makes my maths hurt though. Thanks for the link.

[Dicey]

Money doesn't buy happiness.

There's a country song out right now that goes something like:

Money can't buy me happiness
But it can buy me a boat....etc.

Pretty catchy tune IMO: https://youtu.be/mQPjKSVe1tQ

Not only catchy, but sorta mustachian. The boat, truck, cooler and beer of his dreams are all pretty modest choices for a newly minted multi-millionaire, LOL. Thanks for the laugh, CS.

[Cheddar Stacker]

Money doesn't buy happiness.

There's a country song out right now that goes something like:

Money can't buy me happiness
But it can buy me a boat....etc.

Pretty catchy tune IMO: https://youtu.be/mQPjKSVe1tQ

Not only catchy, but sorta mustachian. The boat, truck, cooler and beer of his dreams are all pretty modest choices for a newly minted multi-millionaire, LOL. Thanks for the laugh, CS.

Well, maybe the kayak and fishing rod are mustachian. It would be hard to say the same for the boat and truck (and cooler with a model name/# that likely costs $500 or something) but I guess if you're a multi-millionaire they are all relatively modest.

[jordanread]

Money doesn't buy happiness.

There's a country song out right now that goes something like:

Money can't buy me happiness
But it can buy me a boat....etc.

Pretty catchy tune IMO: https://youtu.be/mQPjKSVe1tQ

Not only catchy, but sorta mustachian. The boat, truck, cooler and beer of his dreams are all pretty modest choices for a newly minted multi-millionaire, LOL. Thanks for the laugh, CS.

Well, maybe the kayak and fishing rod are mustachian. It would be hard to say the same for the boat and truck (and cooler with a model name/# that likely costs $500 or something) but I guess if you're a multi-millionaire they are all relatively modest.

There was a lotto ticket mentioned too, I think.

[PencilThinStash]

"It's not that money makes everything good - It's that no money makes everything rotten." - Fortune cookie my dad opened about 30 years ago. I think he still has the fortune in his wallet.

[BTDretire]

Always liked anything George Carlin.  He had a quote something like this:

Think about how stupid the average American is.  Then think about the fact that half the people are stupider than that.

The great part of this is that it's actually not a "smart" statement.  "Average" is synonymous with the arithmetic mean.  Since with any intelligence metric you're most definitely looking at a skewed distribution, exactly half of Americans most certainly do not fall short of the mean.  The mean, in general, is not equal to the 50th percentile. 

I think he meant to say "Think about how stupid the median American is."   In this case, half of Americans will fall short of this figure. 

Come on, George.  You're better than that :)

 Don't sell George short. He used the word average because he knew half his audience was below the mean.

[BTDretire]

"You cant tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks."

 When you come to the fork in the road, take it.
                    Yogi Berra

[Avolonte]

"You never see a U-Haul behind a hearse" - not sure who said it

[jordanread]

Yup...this thread is now ruined for me. Thanks for that.

[Daley]

Yup...this thread is now ruined for me. Thanks for that.

This is why we can't have nice things.
-The Internet

[Threshkin]

"You cant tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks."

 When you come to the fork in the road, take it.
                    Yogi Berra

"I'm smarter than the av-er-age bear!"
                    Yogi Bear

[jordanread]

Yup...this thread is now ruined for me. Thanks for that.

This is why we can't have nice things.
-The Internet

I hate you so good right now. Bwahahahhahahaha.

[mastrr]

"to be great is to be misunderstood" ralph waldo emerson

[Daley]

Yup...this thread is now ruined for me. Thanks for that.

This is why we can't have nice things.
-The Internet

I hate you so good right now. Bwahahahhahahaha.

Good, good... let the hate flow through you.
-Emperor Palpatine

[SailorGirl]

God loves you just the way you are, but He loves you too much to let you stay that way.

[2Cent]

"Anything is possible, if it happens."

[barbaz]

"Hinterher hat man's immer vorher gewusst"
("Afterwards you always have known in advance")
- Horst Evers

[Pooperman]

"Hinterher hat man's immer vorher gewusst"
("Afterwards you always have known in advance")
- Horst Evers

English version below:
"Hindsight is 20-20"

[Kitsunegari]

"Hinterher hat man's immer vorher gewusst"
("Afterwards you always have known in advance")
- Horst Evers

English version below:
"Hindsight is 20-20"

There is an Italian proverb as well!
"Del senno di poi son piene le fosse", which translated loosely as "Hindsight fills up the graves" or "Graves are filled with hindsight"

[Smokystache]

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.   - Charles De Montesquieu

[Smokystache]

One more:

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."  – Charles Kingsley

[Mississippi Mudstache]

"If you find yourself lost in the woods, fuck it, build a house. 'Well, I was lost but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament!'" -Mitch Hedberg

[Roboturner]

Money doesn't buy happiness.  My favorite quote of all.  Surprising for a mustachian, but I have found it to be very true.  Happiness comes from within.

                                                                       Miss Prim

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. - Ayn Rand

A more complete thought on money IMO

[WerKater]

Richard Feynman (paraphrased):
If you can't explain it to a freshman, you haven't understood it.

Actual quote from David L. Goodstein about Feynman [source]:
Once I asked him to explain to me, so that I can understand it, why spin-1/2 particles obey Fermi-Dirac statistics. Gauging his audience perfectly, he said, "I'll prepare a freshman lecture on it." But a few days later he came to me and said: "You know, I couldn't do it. I couldn't reduce it to the freshman level. That means we really don't understand it."

[Roboturner]

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. - Ayn Rand

Also Ayn Rand is very mustachian in a lot of ways - even if she's heavy handed in her delivery a lot of time, and bastardized by the GOP

[2Cent]

To all those who seek happiness in comfort and self indulgence:

"This is the true joy in life, to be used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, to be thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap. To be a force of nature instead of a feverish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

I am a member of the community and as a member it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can before I die. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."

– George Bernard Shaw

[jordanread]

[...]Ayn Rand is very mustachian in a lot of ways - even if she's heavy handed in her delivery a lot of time, and bastardized by the GOP

I have to reread some of that from this place. It's been a long time.

Yup...this thread is now ruined for me. Thanks for that.

Never mind. It did not devolve as I expected. Great thread. And to contribute:

In the absence of information, we jump to the worst conclusions. - Myra Kassim (and no, I have no freaking clue who this person is...)

[DeepEllumStache]

A positive attitude may not solve all of your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
~ Herm Albright

[nazar]

"When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front-row seat."

Another George Carlin classic :)

[Sailor Sam]

I made the mistake of thinking that condemning other people's misdeeds somehow made me virtuous.
-Colin Beavan

Whether on scaffold high
  or in the battle's van,
The fittest place man can die
  is where he dies for man
- Unknown

[jordanread]

Life takes years to happen. As a long-term strategy, comfort is unsafe. - David Cain from Raptitude


Edit: I got my awesome bloggers mixed up, fixed now.

[fishnfool]

"I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women and gambling.....the other half I wasted!"

W.C. Fields

[geekette]

"Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug." - John Lithgow

[ahoy]

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything".  - Mark Twain

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education" -Mark Twain

also Mark Twain

"God created war so Americans could learn geography"

[Ozapftis]

"My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them." - Mitch Hedberg

[Travis]

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything".  - Mark Twain

Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from West Wing:

"You told him to piss off the dairy farmers didn't you?"
"I told him that if for no other reason than it's the easiest thing to remember - tell the truth."

[Dr. Pepper]

Gam Zeh Yaavor- Hebrew for "This too shall pass"

The poem 'If' by Kipling is my other.

[ahoy]

"Most people don't plan to fail, they just fail to plan"

[Travis]

"Most people don't plan to fail, they just fail to plan"

"A plan is useless; planning is essential." GEN Dwight Eisenhower.