Anyone Got Any Favorite Quotes?
 

Here's one I really liked:

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
--Ronald Reagan

"If you have love, you don't need to have anything else.
If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."

"Faults are thick where love is thin."

Leo Tolstoy

This is one of my favorites.

Comshaw

"...On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?' and Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?' but Conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right...There comes a time when silence is betrayal..."

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Another from me!
Comshaw

"Respect all men, but grovel to none." Shanee Proverb

Iast one from me
Comshaw
"Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It's not pre-marital sex if you don't plan on getting married"

I’ve seen a lot of my favorites in the signature block of our Pixies:D... and I use a lot of them. I only have two that I really LIVE with and they aren’t even cute.:(


“Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest.” -AE-
:rolleyes:


I’m trying to be the man my dog thinks I am. –unknown-

:o

Here is just one of my favorites .............

"Opinions are like assholes.............
everyone has one." ;)

"Sometimes I go into my own little world. But that's okay, they know me there."
--Joel Hodgson, prop comic and creator of "Mystery Science Theater 3000"

I love that quote, too. Will Rogers was the man who said that.

Some more gems from him:

-There's two theories to arguin' with a woman. Neither one works.

-If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.

-Never miss a good chance to shut up.

-There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

To err is human......to forgive, devine!



I'm feeling rather charitable lately.............LOL!



Another fave.....When my ship comes in I'll probably be at the airport!


And so it goes............

My fave quote is really bizarre if ya haven't read the story but it is a story about love, the forever kind, forgiving and accepting.
From Zora Neale Hurston's Guilded Six-Bits," Ah'd ruther all de other womens in de world to be dead than for you to have de toothache."

Abe Lincoln was once asked by a reporter if he (Abe) thought God was on the Union side in the Civil War. Lincoln replied, "I just hope we're on His."

I also liked a quote from Gandhi ...

When asked what he thought of western civilization, he replied, "I think it's a good idea."

If the grass seems greener on the other side of the fence, try watering your own lawn.

I have heard ...........
the grass is always greener where the dog shits. ;) lol

I forget who said it, but I live by this one:

"Anything worth taking seriously is worth making fun of."

Better your sis in a whorehouse,than your bro on a honda...

"I triple guarantee you, there are no American soldiers in Baghdad." ---Iraqi minister of information

Amen, Deno! Preach it, brother!

OK- I've waited long enough!
 

Scotzoidman and OldFart...get you ass in here and drop some pearls on us. :cool:

PF - Pearls of Wisdom or oysters of foolishness?

To err is human - to really screw things up requires a computer - unknown

LOL- You notice I left that open. ;)










.....and I see what I got.;)

I think that may have been Bill Gates.

Never is the depth of love as deep, than at the hour of separation.......Kalhil Gibran

Life is like a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more......it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury.........signifying nothing.

Shakespeare


*dunno if I agree.........but I'm feeling rather jaded at the moment...........Things just come to mind per my mood*

"Does you train of thought have a caboose?"


:rolleyes:

"I've had a sleep since then"

used when you can't or don't want to recall something

"Sometimes you just have to pull down your pants and slide on the ice."

The shrink from MASH

"If there ever comes a day when we can't be together keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever" Pooh


""Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will!" Hope Floats

NB i have these quotes... well a Pooh DVD.... incredibly moving and such a suprise. I nearly cried!!

"the past is a foreign land - they do things differently there" actually this is an ex gf... she is in fact misquoting somebody famous, but she is also saying it better than them.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom......Anais Nin............Be kind.For everyone you meet is fighting a great battle..........Philo of Alexandria..........There are three perfect shapes in the world:A boat's hull, a violin and a woman's body..Jean Varda.......

very true lakritze, but which would you most want to make love with??

If you are currently in hospital, just let us guess your reply!

"If you didn't want the answer, then you shouldn't have asked the question."

Kerr Avon (Blake's Seven)

Blakes 7? wow i used to love that. It was in Oz too then I guess?

Yes.

I'm about to buy Series 2 on DVD.

i think i might be too scared to re-live it... it'd be a shame if it wasn't as good as my recolection of it.

But say "hi" to Orac for me!!

Back at you.

hmmm for some reason i can't get that.. and i was so curious too!!