What is your favorite quote? And why?

[Monica]

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans

[ajoe]

I'll throw in a few unimportant and meaningless quotes:

"I got my eye on you. And I don't blink." -- Nigel Uno

"Yay, I'm a llama again! Wait." -- Kuzco

"No matter how good you are, there's always a billion other people better than you." -- Homer Simpson --> this one is actually true

[Taliesin]

I don't know if it has been said here, but I'll say it anyway:

"All attempts to achieve heaven on earth have always ended in hell on earth."

Popper

[seeker]

PLAUTUS: semper flamma flummo proxima
- the fire is always near(by) the smoke

i like that one best; then again im a pyro...

I have also been taking a liking to Kahlil Gibran:

"Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow."
(Kahlil Gibran’s letter November 8, 1908.)

[Stanislaw]

two rights don't make a left... they make a plain.

I love that one, but I can't remember the author

[vango]

i read your quotes one by one, and like them very much.
but i think it will be better to write out why you like them.
and if there is one thing has some relationship with them, please write it down, and that will be much better

[Jester]

Some of my favorites (i have a whole books worht that jsut keeps getting bigger and bigger...)

In my frail canoe I struggle to cross the sea of desire and forget that I too and playing a game.
-tagore

An age builds of cities; an hour destroys them.
- seneca

We must learn to live together as brothers or parish together as fools
Martin luther King, jr

nobody shoots at santa claus
alfred E smith

it is useless to send armies against ideas
gregory brandes

do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river
haitian proverb

when you shoot an arrow of truth dip its point in honey
arab proverb

its not that im afraid to die, i just dont want to be there when it happens
woody allen

after scolding one's cat
one looks into its face
and is siezed by the ugly suspicion
that it understood every word
and has filed it away for future reference
charlotte gray
(this is so true, my cats love to pee on the worst possible places at the worst possible times afte ryou piss em off, eg, the bed at three o clock in the morning on a week night when you hav eto get up at six the next morning.)

all are equal in the eyes of death and the bus driver
(dont know, tell me if you do)

You have to know the rules before you can break them
Scott Johnson (my english teacher)

whenever you come near the human race ther's layers and layers of nonsense.
thornton wilder, Our Town

we have not inherited the earth from our parents. We are borrowing it from our children.
(native american i think, tell me if you know)

[amuse]

i cut & pasted, then googled to confirm the last quote - thought it was native american as well. turns out, it's been attributed to native americans, kenyans, and more:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search

btw, love your quotes. & your location.

[Jester]

hey thanks

[bjortan]

"The mind is like a parachute: it doesn't work unless it's open."

"Some Scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe."
(both by Frank Zappa)

"Difficile est satiram non scribere." (The hard thing is to NOT write satire)
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

[Icarus]

"The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for."
- Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

[kushi]

I should just copy paste the Sunscreen song..i love all the stuff he says..
Do Not Read Beauty Magazines... They Will Only Make ... You... Feel.. Ugly!
Dance The Funky Chicken on Your 75th Wedding Anniversary!
tee hee hee
if you guys havent heard that song already, i suggest you do!

[subterranean]

"All attempts to achieve heaven on earth have always ended in hell on earth."

Popper

Pheww...sad but true..

[Eric, son of Chuck]

"Not to sound crass, but instead of complaining about stupid people why don't we remove all the warning labels and let the problem solve itself?" - Anonymous internet hero

[seeker]

i just found my big list of quotes, so here it goes!

Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.
-Gandhi


My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family, that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty, and that this defence prevails, though the world be against the individual resister.
-Gandhi


Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
-gandhi


I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.
-Gandhi

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
-Victor Hugo

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"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. "
-Alfred Adler


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"I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it"
-Voltaire

"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. "
-Voltaire

"All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. "
Voltaire

"Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother. "
-Voltaire

"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. "
-Voltaire

"A witty saying proves nothing. "
-Voltaire

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"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."
--- Isaac Asimov ---


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"People do not lack strength; they lack will. "
-Victor Hugo



"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. "
-Victor Hugo

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison. "
-Victor Hugo

"If no one loved, the sun would go out."
-Victor Hugo

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"Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil."
-Emo Philips

"I was at a bar nursing a beer. My nipple was getting quite soggy."
-Emo Philips

"I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don't know I'm only using blanks."
-Emo Philips

"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me."
-Emo Philips

"You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life."
-Emo Philips



"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
-- Gandhi

"Hatred ever kills, love never dies; such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred. "
-gANDHI

"Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy. "
-Ghandi

"The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted." -Ghandi

"I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. I refuse to live in other people's houses as an interloper, a beggar or a slave. "
-Ghandi