What is your favorite quote? And why?

[cuppajoe_9]

"I am not a crook."
- Richard Nixon

"Yes, you are too."
- Everybody outside of Mr. Nixon's immediate family

[Sylph]

When a liberal is abused, he says: Thank God they didn't beat me. When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn't kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

[tmh17ak]

i am a first time user and i was wondering how i can post a few questions. also when i post that question how do i get back to it to see responses?

[rae_of_light]

Okay, I like quotes. A lot. So I want to see what you've got, they can be about anything, anything at all, completely serious, or totally random! I hope this thread hasn't been done before....

To start it off, there are a few of my favourite quotes down there in my signature.

[prankster]

what i like is this:

i know by my own pot how the others boil.
-its a french proverb.

success occurs to us in private, and failure in full public view.
-this is one of Lowe's laws of life.

[LPRox015]

"Half the night I waste in sighs,
Half in dreams I sorrow after
The delight of early skies;
In a wakeful doze I sorrow
For the hand, the lips, the eyes,
For the meeting of the morrow
The delight of happy laughter,
The delight of low replies."

Maud Pt.2 by Alfred Lord Tennyson

[Scheherazade]

[Adudaewen]

"Don't let it end this way! Tell them I said something!"

Last words of Pancho Villa

[summer grace]

You know you are in love
when you see the world in her eyes,
and her eyes everywhere in the world.

- David Levesque -

Great quote, where is it from?

[Domer121]

"We do not live as we wish to, but as we can"
Menander

[ablackjam99]

My favourite quotes;

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. (Thoreau)

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still born. (Thoreau)

I like many of Mark Twain's as well

[Madhuri]

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

I just came across this quote. I dont know who is the author.

[mo_dingo]

The one in my sig, plus:

Our doubts are traitors; they make us lose the good we oft might win. - S

O' tis a wonderful thing to have the strength of a giant; but it is tyrannous to use it like one. - Both from Measure for measure.

Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies - Passing someone playing a stringed instrument - Much ado about nothing.


You learn to destroy everything that's not utterly yours. All that matters is victory. That's how your reign persists. You're a slave to an insane construct. You are moral. A true ruler is as moral as a hurricane, empty but for the force of his gale.

Jealous, like plankton, envying the ocean that holds them. - both from Angel - The Series

[Woland]

\see below/

[kingooo]

" Truth is rarely pure and never simple; modern life is tedious either ways "

This was my favourite one. i quoted from Oscar Wilde's The "Importance of Being Earnest"