Fave quotes

"Some difficulties meet, full many.
I find them not, nor seek for any."

Lieutenant. James Holman, the "blind traveller", who travelled the globe and became the 19th century's most travelled adventurer despite being completely blind, having almost no foreign languages or money and insisting always to travel alone. His story has always inspired me to always find the positive in all situations.

"braaap brapp"
teenslain 08

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

• Buddha
  
  
  

if we're on winston churchill my fave is:
"never give up. Never, ever, ever give up".

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

It's a massive quote from a book, but alias I have to post it somewhere, it's about an American living in Sweden on bicycle;

First and foremost: bicycling in Sweden is not about a bunch of environmentally aware yuppies working hard at being pleased with themselves. Bikes in Sweden are not conveyances for spandex-coated fashion plates wearing color-coordinated jerseys and (maybe) helmets. Bicycles are real transportation for real people. Everyone rides. They’re going somewhere and doing something. The idea of using a bike to make a spectacle of oneself, the life goal of most riders in LA, seems inconcievable here. Bicycles in Sweden are real transportation, not a sporty toy. Bicycling is not a “fashion sport,” to use a term from the LA Times. People bicycle to work because it is the most sensible form of transportation: door-to-door, cheap, and easy to park. Because bikes are genuinely tools for transportation, not toys, people don’t treat them like toys. Gone with the spandex crowd are the expensive, show-off bikes so common in the US. (Have you noticed that these pricey toys are usually ridden by people whose tails are so bloated that they probably need to call the fire department to extract their bike-seats from their asses? These characters like to brag that their bikes are eight ounces lighter than mine, but most of them could easily afford to reduce their own weight by about 800 ounces.) Most bikes in Göteborg are, frankly, in pretty bad shape. And no wonder: they are subjected to heavy use, parking in the rain, and more time spent riding them than playing with them in the garage

Steve Maas

Greg Lemond

It never gets easier, you just go faster

Talking about this over coffee (mine was as black as my gothic soul).

"I think, therefore I am" Descartes .... fundamental axiom of mother fucking existence.

Descartes was straight up wrong. I prefer Kierkegaards critique which goes something along the lines of: existance is assumed for thinking to occur not, existence is not concluded from thinking.
Cogito presupposes the existance of I.

^ Dorothy Parker is the best

I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host.

"Mind cannot be still. It needs continuous thinking, worrying. The mind functions like a bicycle; if you go on pedaling it, it continues. The moment you stop the pedaling, you are going to fall down. Mind is a two-wheeled vehicle just like a bicycle, and your thinking is a constant pedaling" OSHO

"I bet that everything in this thread was actually said by Sheldon Brown."

Sheldon Brown

Friends, Romans, Countrymen. Lend me your gears

Sheldon 'Ooh my knees' Brown

**i felt less uncomfortable walking in on my brother getting a handjob off our cousin when we were little
**
Paramounted 27/6/2010

[

Giro dedicated $15,000 to creating Plastic Armstrong
](http://triathlon.competitor.com/2010/07/gear-tech/lance-armstrongs-new-time-trial-weapon_10428)

.

"The walking has stopped now, I did all I wanted to do.That was enough for me-now I cycle."
Will Self-2010

"The walking has stopped now, I did all I wanted to do.That was enough for me-now I cycle."
Will Self-2010

If it's an article, post a link! Wouldn't mind a nosey...

the names bond james bond

"Every morning i used to wake up at crack of Dawn"

Lenny Henry.

Omar Little

“How you expect to run wit’ the wolves at night, when you spend all day sparring wit’ the puppies?”

"Old people should be shot at birth"

Some of these are a bit cheesy (and not really quotes), but this passed a bit of time earlier:

http://www.onesentence.org/

from Yogi Berra

"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six. "

"You can observe a lot by just watching. "

"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. "

"The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase. "

Paraphrase my fav one... (not sure its the exact words...)
"no-one comes here any more... its too busy"

"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there. "

Google him. He was actually a real person. Complete nutter...

"Whisky on the rocks please... no ice"

Good advice from a 1935 Japanese brochure, in English, explaining the rules of the road to foreign drivers:
"At the rise of the hand of a policeman, stop rapidly. Do not pass him by or otherwise disrespect him. When a passenger of the foot hove in sight, tootle the horn trumpet to him melodiously at first. If he still obstacles your
passage, tootle him with vigor and express by word of mouth the warning, 'Hi, Hi!' Beware the wandering horse that he shall not take fright as you pass him. Do not explode the exhaust box at him. Go soothingly by or stop by the roadside till he pass away. Give space to the festive dog that makes sport in the roadway. Avoid entanglements of dog with your wheel-spokes. So soothingly on the grease-mud, as there lurk the skid demon. Press the brake of the foot as you roll round the corners to save the collapse and tie up."

"If you want my advice: stick to the cider, Get some cake in you around four. Keep your trousers on, and if you break any bones, or piss yourself, it's over - go home, there's always next year"

Johnny 'Rooster' Byron. Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth.