Favorite phrases?

Mikhail · **Posted:** October 27th, 2008, 5:48 pm

Do you have any favorite phrases? Can be in any language, as long as you can translate them into english.

My personal favorite: Tempus Fugit (Latin) basically translates "Tie flees" commonly it is said: Time flies by.

Adbot · **Posted:** October 27th, 2008, 5:48 pm

Gontcha · **Posted:** October 27th, 2008, 5:53 pm

Si pacem vis, para bellum. (If you want peace, prepare for war)
Non cacare debes (you don't have to **** [over me] used under the latinists to say **** off)
anyways, as for english phrases, too much

Marking22 · **Posted:** October 27th, 2008, 6:58 pm

she wants my ***** in or around her mouth
and yes i do tend to say that a lot cause of superbad

Shane · **Posted:** October 27th, 2008, 7:01 pm

The more things change... the more they stay the same.

You learn something new everyday.

Those would have to be my top two. There are other programming ones but they're downright stupid :oops:

Spoiler for Programming Sayings:

Brad · **Posted:** October 27th, 2008, 7:08 pm

"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best." - Margaret Thatcher

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." - Carl Sagan

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." - Carl Sagan (although the context of the quote is meant in the opposite to how it is written; Absence of evidence is as good as evidence of absence, sarcastic if you will)

"Theory is when you have ideas, theology is when ideas have you." Not sure where I saw or heard it though.

Waffle 350 · **Posted:** October 27th, 2008, 7:30 pm

"ooooooooooooh yeaaaaaaaaaaah" - Kool Aid Man

"Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know." - BERTRAND RUSSELL

"At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols." -ALDOUS HUXLEY

"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit." - Oscar Wilde

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch" -Jack Nicholson

Adbot · **Posted:** October 27th, 2008, 7:30 pm

Dokter Bob · **Posted:** October 28th, 2008, 1:40 pm

Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditiones habes

It means "If you can read this, you're over educated."

PhoenixEmpire · **Posted:** October 28th, 2008, 1:46 pm

Tempus Agere- latin for "Time to Go", but I like to think of it at "It's go time!"

Flocci non Facio- Latin for: I don't give a hoot.

Tu es Humuncules- Latin for: You are a tiny man. It's pretty much the mother of all insults if you're an ancient Roman...

"Engineering: where the noble semi-skilled laborers execute the vision of those who think and dream. Hello, Ooompa-Loompas of science" -Sheldon from Big Bang Theory

"Truth is only the truth to one's own knowledge." No idea who said it, but it's saying how if you truely think 1=3, then you wouldn't be lying if you told somebody that 1=3. You can't be called a lair if you honestly think what's wrong is really true.

"Women are a decorative ***. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, and Men represent the triumph of mind over morals." -Oscar Wilde

"I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees." -Anonymous

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** October 28th, 2008, 2:29 pm

Brad wrote:

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill

I love that quote, thanks for posting it.

"Victory, not vengeance." - ?

"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher." - Dalai Lama

"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. " - Mark Twain

Ranging God · **Posted:** October 29th, 2008, 7:53 am

take the universe as it is, *** devils dragon and magic, then stand back - Robert Asprin

Kenny · **Posted:** October 29th, 2008, 12:54 pm

Shane wrote:

The more things change... the more they stay the same.

That was on BBC Sport the other morning, I was like SCREENSHOT then I realised, you can't screenshot real life

I tend to say, Go and Die in your own filth quite a lot if I am on a game and the AI is annoying me.

Veggie Eater · **Posted:** October 29th, 2008, 12:57 pm

"Remember, you're not that special."

That's to all the people in the world that are so full of themselves that they don't show any respect for anyone else.

Pfkninenines · Global Moderator 12/4/08

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value."
-- Albert Einstein

"No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure."
-- Napoleon Hill

"When the rich wage war it's the poor who die"
-- Jean-Paul Sartre

addiv · **Posted:** October 29th, 2008, 8:10 pm

"If you're not early, you're late."

"I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability." - Oscar Wilde

EMS9889 · **Posted:** October 30th, 2008, 3:56 pm

The More things change the more they stay the same DOESNT MAKE ANY SENSE!

Shane wrote:

The more things change... the more they stay the same.

You learn something new everyday.

Those would have to be my top two. There are other programming ones but they're downright stupid :oops:

Spoiler for Programming Sayings: