What is your favorite quote? And why?

[billl]

The quote that I always think of first for lists like these is from Yogi Berra. He was talking about a restaurant or a nightclub or something:

"No one goes there anymore--it's too crowded."

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And another funny one by Mark Twain, describing a rival's book:

"Once I put it down, I couldn't pick it back up."

[rima]

rima, I don't know why optimisticnad said those quotes weren't relevant to the thread. Maybe optimisticnad thought they were your OWN quotes (that you created yourself)...? They were pretty difficult to understand, though. I imagine they're pretty difficult to translate.

I think the two quotes in your second post are good ones, (and easier to understand)!

You are right,i don't know why they are not relevant to the thread.They are written by Italian Author,i have no translation in English/needed to translate them myself/.I wanted you to meet this Author because i believe many don't know about him.Francesco Guicciardini XV century.It would be great,one day someone to find and read his sayings,and put English translation.Why not?Probably this forum is imagined to all members be active and innovative.
If you like the two last quotes i am glad for they are mine.

[Ohh]

Dance as though no one is watching you, love as though you have never been hurt before, sing as though no one can hear you, live as though heaven is on earth.
- Souza

[alexar]

"That part of ourself which we suppress in youth, for the achievement of some given ambition, will return many years later, knife in hand, determined to destroy its destroyer." - Carl Jung

Because I saw it come true so many times.

rima, I don't know why optimisticnad said those quotes weren't relevant to the thread.

I think that it was her own comments that she was saying weren't relevant. Well in truth I virtually know that.

I have a copy of 'The Bridge on the Drina' on my shelf, unread, as yet.

I thought Andric was a Bosnian Croat?

[AppY]

"This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays." Douglas Adams

[jocky]

The great actor and confirmed athiest W.C. Fields when caught thumbing through the bible on his deathbed pronounced '' I was looking for loopholes ''

[King Mob]

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." -Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

Beckett always makes my skin crawl. In that quote he expresses the only consolation of living he found. Fail better, do it again, paradoxically win at something: at failure. "I can´t go on. I´ll go on." (from The Unnamable)

And this victory-through-failure is seen in a passage from John Barth´s Title (quite direct):

"Self-defeat implies a victor, and who do you suppose it is, if not blank? That's the only victory left. Right? Forward! Eyes open."

[Olga4real]

...Suppose I happen to know a unique flower, one that exists nowhere in the world except on my planet, one that a little sheep can wipe out in a single bite one morning, just like that, even without realizing what he's doing - that isn't important? If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself, 'My flower's up there somewhere...

Antoine de Saint Exupery

[bluosean]

For all we take we must pay, but the price is crule high. Rudyard Kipling

[Tuggernaut]

"Religion is the opiote of the people"

- Karl Marx

[libernaut]

opiates are the religion of the masses, aldous huxley

[Mathor]

Mark Twain - "Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for."

[Zee.]

This great evil. Where does it come from? How'd it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who's doin' this? Who's killin' us? Robbing us of life and light. Mockin' us with the sight of what we might've known. Does our ruin benefit the earth? Does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you, too? Have you passed to this night?"

[FalseReality]

This great evil. Where does it come from? How'd it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who's doin' this? Who's killin' us? Robbing us of life and light. Mockin' us with the sight of what we might've known. Does our ruin benefit the earth? Does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you, too? Have you passed to this night?"

Explosions in the Sky used that in a song. Great quote.

[weltanschauung]

solitary, solar, bristling with lashes, it gazed from the lunette of a guillotine. the drawing was named eternal recurrence, and its horrible machine was the cross-beam, gymnastic gallows, portico. coming from the horizon, the road to eternity passed through it. a parodic verse, heard in a sketch at the concert mayol, supplied the caption:

god, how the corpse's blood is sad in the depth of sound. (bataille <3)