Don't think there is a thread like this on here, but thought it would be nice to have a thread dedicated to great pearls of wisdom from inspirational figures.

Could be deep and meaningful, could be thought provoking, could be humorous.

Anything from;

"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before." - Jacob Riis

or "Never eat yellow snow" - Buddy The Elf

first one is brilliant, but the second.................

''That's inches away from being milimeter perfect.''
-Ted Lowe

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" - Lao-tzu

"what's the point in living ? , if nobody knows you've lived "
- Jammy

"The more you drive, the less intelligent you get."

"Lifes too short to clean an oven" - jonnytruant aka Lily Savage...

Important quote in my household

"You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours."

"Never argue with idiots. They'll drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience"

Sam Cummings

'Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.' - Confucius

"Ernest Hemingway once wrote: 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for', I agree with the second part."

Morgan Freeman in Se7en

"A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked."

"Quitters never win, and winners never quit"

In this world there are 10 categories of people; those who understand binary numbers and those who don't.

And

In this world there are 2 kinds of people; those who hold loaded guns and those who dig.

You dig.
--The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

"The only silly question is the one you don't ask." Baff

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

Omar N. Bradley

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

David Friedman

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

William Tecumseh Sherman

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Hiram Johnson

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

Will Rogers

Edited at 15:32 Thu 23/02/12 (GMT)

Dont be silly wrap your willy- kauto star

LOL^

"bigger they are the harder they fall"

Preparation can only take you so far. After that, you've gotta take a few leaps of faith

Michael Scofield

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is the ability to move from one failure to another failure, without losing ethusiasm - Chruchill

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.