Popular/ Famous sayings... Post them + your opinion of them!

[Conan's Might]

Hi guys,

Ok rules are simple post a famous saying/ Quote and simply give me your opinion of it i.e. if you agree or disagree.

Ok 2 to start with -

"The bigger they are, the harder they fall."

I completely disagree with this! I have a feeling its a saying made by people with small man syndrome (I'm only 5'4" myself so I'm not having a go at short people) to make them "feel" able to take on bigger guys. Now weather the saying is ment to actually mean they fall harder in the sense of them weighing more therefore falling over results in more damage to them or the surface they fall on thats fair enough but I feel its the latter.

I've done combat sport (boxing/kick boxing) on and off for a number of years now and I think the saying should actually be -

"The bigger they are, the harder they PUNCH"

Right second saying -

"You don't know what you've got, till its gone"

Agree with 100%.

[DekuTrash]

"Left click on mouse don't work"

Disagree 100%

[Bovril]

Fun topic, but should probably be in Thema Devia.


"A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush."
I regard this saying as both valuable and dangerous. It teaches one to recognise the value of the concrete, as opposed to unrealistic aspirations. But there are also overtones of possesivism in the modern context that imply that things are only valuable in as much as they can be controlled and owned.

[Conan's Might]

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

Yep this is very true in my opinion :-)

[Mr. Pink]

"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull "

I think this one works pretty well

[Whitey5150]

"Piss or get off the pot."

hmm...I really don't know what to think of this saying.

[VALIS]

"What we do in life echoes in eternity"

Love this one. It's from popular film Gladiator. If it were from a famous piece of literature it would be oh so more remembered and famous. As an atheist the actions we do in life and how people will remember us by is our immortality.

"Youth is wasted on the young"

Again so true, we've got everything going for us as young people, sharpness of mind, healthy bodies, yet we're impatient, stupid, too hasteful or possibly to fearful. An old person who learns the lessons of life is more worldy and would know what to do but it's too late for them, time has passed them by.

"Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant taste death but once"

Not much to say to this one really.

[Arch-hereticK]

"Youth is wasted on the young"

Again so true, we've got everything going for us as young people, sharpness of mind, healthy bodies, yet we're impatient, stupid, too hasteful or possibly to fearful. An old person who learns the lessons of life is more worldy and would know what to do but it's too late for them, time has passed them by.

"Wisdom is wasted on the old"

Oscar Wilde, funny guy.

"work is the curse of the drinking classes"

A typical quote of an irishman. It sums up the opinion even the Irish upperclasses viewed the 'lower' classes.

[Bovril]

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"work is the curse of the drinking classes"

A typical quote of an irishman. It sums up the opinion even the Irish upperclasses viewed the 'lower' classes.

It actually an inversion of the then common addage 'drink is the curse of the working classes'. Wilde was turning this distillation of Puritan values on its head.

[Arch-hereticK]

It actually an inversion of the then common addage 'drink is the curse of the working classes'. Wilde was turning this distillation of Puritan values on its head.

Thats exactly what I said.

[Barry Goldwater]

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

I agree 110% with both, JSM was a genius.

[Lord_Mecharius]

For every battle honour, a thousand heroes die alone, unsung, and unremembered.

Truth

[Ishoss]

I am just going to copy paste from an English lection I did a few days ago...

“There is enough for everyone's need but not for everybody's greed”


What Ghandi means is that there is more than enough resources for everyone in the world if everybody would live simpler, but it's not enough resources in the world for everyone to live extravagant lives. You can't deny the truth behind this quote, because it's proven every day everywhere. I agree with the quote.


“Lack of money is the root of all evil”


I don't agree with the quote if I am supposed to take it verbally, but when I look behind the words I find myself agreeing with it. People are always driven by a will to get more, look at the Vikings for example: what they couldn't trade they pillaged. A criminal isn't born a criminal, he becomes so because of desperation.


“No one can earn a million dollars honestly”


No one is completely honest, so no, no one can earn a million dollars honestly. However, I do believe a person can earn a million dollars without committing a crime.


“Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make complete sense of the other five”


I interpreted this as without money I can't completely enjoy life or something similar... Well, without money I would have to find my own food instead of paying a farmer indirectly to butcher something for me. I don't enjoy butchering, so I am happy that I have enough money to pay the farmer. I agree with the quote.


“No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.”


I completely disagree with this quote. No one would remember Crassus (Krøsus) better than most Roman commanders, if it weren't for the fact that he was worth approx. 169 billion $. However, I doubt his funeral was any big considering that he was captured by the Parthians and had boiling gold poured down his throat. However, I do believe Julius Cæsar had quite a grand funeral.

[Lord_Mecharius]

Paranoia is a very comforting state of mind. If you think they're out to get you, it means you think you matter

Nobody is innocent, there are merely varying levels of guilt

[The Dude]

Gonna have to go with one from Warhammer 40K:

"Heresy grows from idleness". Definitely true. One should always work and be active, seek to accomplish things and seek to create things. Inaction kills the mind.

[Tankbuster]

"The mind is a creating machine."
With which I agree 100%


And one of my favorite quotes:
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

[Garrigan]

"Those who live in glasshouses shouldnt throw stones"

A fine sentiment, but it is a sentiment that is often far too hard to follow. If you feel yourself vulnerable to taunting etc, dont taunt. Unfortunately I'd say humans are in built to "throw stones" and nearly all humans happen to "live in glasshouses", which makes it something hard to actually live by.

[Каие]

How the mighty fall.

The greatest quote ever. It was invented to let the powerful know they can't be powerful for ever. Then when they do inevitably fall, us common folk may stand there and look down on there great fall.

[Ketchup]

Love of money is the root of all evil.

One of my favourite quotes, because it is so right!

[Copperknickers II]

"Girls are evil"

True, as shown by this simple equation:

girls = time x money
time = money
thus:
girls = money x money = 'money' squared
and:
money = 'the root of all evil'
thus:
girls = (square root of evil) squared

Therefore:
girls = evil