What is your favorite quote? And why?

[Joe Wright]

It ain't over 'till its over from Rocky 4.

[Dodo25]

"Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence; the gift of revulsion against its implications; the gift of foresight - something utterly foreign to the blundering short-term ways of natural selection - and the gift of internalizing the very cosmos."
- Richard Dawkins

Humbling, uplifting, and so damn true.

[JeffreyAdams]

These three are my favourites:

“There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.” - Johann Wolfgang

"You don’t need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence" - Jewish Proverb

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

[Cassidy Vitales]

The best thing to hold on to in life is each other. - Audrey Hepburn

[quasimodo1]

A tribute to the living? We are away beneath the sombre pines, amid a solitude that dreams to the ceaseless monotone of the west wind, the blue sky looking sleepily between the slowly bending boughs, and to, its veil of morning mist, uplifted by the morning breeze, white as pure thought, the monument of monuments. {from "A Monument to After-Thought Unveiled"}

[IzzaThePush]

The world is full of good people doing bad things.
hercule poirot by agatha christie

[Sirkka]

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

"Zwei Dinge sind unendlich, das Universum und die menschliche Dummheit, aber bei dem Universum bin ich mir noch nicht ganz sicher."

Albert Einstein

[quasimodo1]

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce

[quasimodo1]

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce

[Zhu]

Those who hold back rising anger like a rolling chariot are real charioteers. Others merely hold the reins.

from the Dhammapada, translated by Eknath Easwaran.

[PoeticPractice]

"But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."

[Skyfire]

"Andy Dufrene, who crawled through a river of **** and came out clean on the other side."

The Shawshank Redemption - Spoken by Red/Morgan Freeman

The humour in this one just gets me and makes me smile every time I read/hear it.

[Aragorn Elessar]

"He is richest who is content with the least." - Socrates

"Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching." - Unknown author

"Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Carl Sagan

"We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true." —Robert Wilensky

"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it." —Clarence Darrow

To name a few.

[MANICHAEAN]

I am quite prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared to meet me is another matter.

Winston Churchill.

[Lokasenna]

Heh, was reminded of this the other day:

"I'm the Bishop of Southwark; it's what I do!"
- The Bishop of Southwark

Google the quote if you don't know the story - I love that guy...