Was a classic quote from Laurel & Hardy
What's your favourite quote?
2007-03-23 14:11:46 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
It's hard to choose a favorite.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison
Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.
Mike Ditka
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen
And the root of the Laurel and Hardy version that you favor:
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
Meaning
An animal, and by implication a person, will only do what it/he wants to do.
Origin
This is one of the older proverbs in the language and dates back to at least 1546 when it was included in John Heywood's A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the Englishe tongue:
"A man maie well bring a horse to the water, But he can not make him drinke without he will."
2007-03-23 14:56:03 · answer #1 · answered by birdwatcher 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Fortitudine Vincimus." "By endurance we conquer." It is on the family crest of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton - 1914, and I have adopted it as my own because it makes sense to me and is the way I have managed to win over several impossible situations in my life. Best to you, always. Chris in South Portland, Maine U.S.A. where right now it is 9:19 P.M. Friday night 23 March 2007.
2007-03-23 14:19:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose so. Some Zeppelins are led, but not to water. Pedants' Corner : Horses are not made of graphite.
2016-03-29 01:36:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favourite quote is from Ginger Rogers, "I get tired of everyone telling me what a great dancer Fred was... I did everything HE did... but I did it backwards in high heels!"
Either that, or what were reputedly Oscar Wilde's last words -
"This wallpaper is killing me, one of us has got to go!"
2007-03-23 14:20:43 · answer #4 · answered by franja 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off, - - Micheal Caine - The Italian Job. !! xx
2007-03-23 14:20:26 · answer #5 · answered by Sierra One 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
2007-03-23 14:17:28 · answer #6 · answered by Rayne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
War dont determine whos right...it determines whos left.
2007-03-23 14:18:58 · answer #7 · answered by Smarty Pants™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing".
Edmund Burke
2007-03-23 14:27:49 · answer #8 · answered by b97st 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the f*ck do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah? OK
Taxi Driver
or
from scarface...."You wanna play....oke...we'll play..." hahaha and i can imitate it perfectly too lol
2007-03-23 14:15:10 · answer #9 · answered by Carlos 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol thats nice mine is:
Walk a mile in another person's shoes and by then who cares? He's a mile away and u have his shoes!
2007-03-23 14:14:31 · answer #10 · answered by A Randome Person 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋