The daily quote thread

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Thats what i call a christian realpolitician.

[Septentrionalis]

There may follow several quotes from Matti Nykänen, the greatest ski jumper of all time. A subsequent professional alcoholic and a Schlager singer, who made a living getting into drunken troubles and crazy marital problems and selling his scandalous interviews to magazines and tabloid papers. He is legendary in confounding different sayings into one, getting foreign words and expressions wrong, and contradicting himself within a single sentence.


No matter if I have a pair of skis or a woman beneath me, something's going to fly!

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[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Ohlala Sept much machismo today!

[Septentrionalis]

Ohlala Sept much machismo today!

Haha, I will bring up his zany philosophical side as well. One of those for tomorrow!

[Septentrionalis]

A new day, a new Matti quote. This is one of his most quoted sayings. And as always with Matti, no truer words have been spoken.

For a human being, life is the best of times.

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[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

How should one live? In lively openness to all things.

Mechthild of Magdeburg (c. 1210 - 1283), German beguine and Christian mystic

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

Gustave Flaubert

[Septentrionalis]

Time to improve our lives by the eternal wisdom of Matti Nykänen.

Every chance is an opportunity.

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[Flinn]

"I spent millions on judges .. I mean, lawyers"

Silvio Berlusconi

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

[Septentrionalis]

Since it is Saturday today and some of us may have been partying last night, it is the perfect moment for quoting Matti when accused of getting drunk the night before a competition day. "So not" is an attempted "so what".

Maybe I drank, maybe I didn't. So not, as long as the jumping is good!

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Matti wearing a shirt with his own quote "maybe I drank, maybe I didn't" in Finnish printed on.

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Peace comes from understanding, not from agreement.

From Arabia

[Septentrionalis]

Matti replying to PepsiCo's 30 million sponsorship deal.

I am not going to be a mannequin for some soda pop buffoonery!

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Matti with some beer. Guaranteed no buffoonery.

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Every human has a magic in his eyes, which is liked by someone else.

Friedrich Hebbel

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Men who claim to be the unrestricted masters in the house also lie on other occasions.

Mark Twain

[Flinn]

“When asked if they would like to have sex with me, 30% of women said, ‘Yes’, while the other 70% replied, ‘What, again?’”

Silvio Berlusoni

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Its easier to marry millions than to earn them by your own hands work.

(by Daddy)

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Interesting conversations with oneself are requiring an interesting partner.

Herbert Georg Wells

[Gigantus]

If you love someone, set him free, except if he can cook.

[Gigantus]

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