What is your favorite quote? And why?

[Scheherazade]

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[Matsiah]

Absolutely understandable. We can't have these belligerent individuals performing any egregious acts of altercations in public.

[Conn]

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
Dr. David M. Burns

[Lily Adams]

This must have been mentioned before, seeing how there are so many enlightened and intelligetn people on this forum, but this is my favorite.

"Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed."-Don Wood

This simple sentece is basically my life structure. This is my logic. I get so aggravated by the morons around me who have everything put out in front of them, and they ignore it.

[dumwitliteratur]

My favorite quote is so hard to say b/c I have so many.

1. "Be not afraid of greatness, some are born with greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." -William Shakespeare

2. "The language of friendship is not in words but in meanings." -Henry David Thoreau

3. "Happiness keeps you sweet, Trials keep you strong, Failures keep you humble, Success keeps you glowing, but only LOVE keeps you going" -Unknown

4. "Friendship: Our greatest joy and sorrow. For without our most cherished friends our world is so oftern filled with sad sorrows." - Unknown

5. "Love is just like life. Its not always easy and it doesn't always bring happiness...but when we don not drop living, why should we drop loving." -Unknown

6. "There is only one happiness in life; To love and be loved." -George Sand

7. "A heart that love is always young." -A Greek Proverb

That is just to name a few of the many quotes that I love.

[heaven!]

don't remember who said it but it's my funniest:
" i have so much bad luck that if i bought a cemetary people would stop dying."

[Madhuri]

I cannot choose the best
The best chooses me -- Tagore

[Janine]

I have many many favorite quotes, but I will start with these two:


"Love and be bold
for only with these wings
can we fly from earth
to heaven".


Michelangelo


"For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave"


Robert Browning from poem "Prospice"

[Adolescent09]

"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
"God is subtle but he is not malicious."
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

---- All quotes from Albert Einstein

[Logos]

Edna St. Vincent Millay (http://www.online-literature.com/millay/)

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light. - “First Fig”
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[Logos]

Virginia Woolf (http://www.online-literature.com/virginia_woolf/)


Therefore if you insist upon fighting to protect me, or “our” country, let it be understood, soberly and rationally between us, that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share; but not to gratify my instincts, or to protect either myself or my country. “For,” the outsider will say, “in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”-Three Guineas (1931), Ch. 3
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[Adudaewen]

I have a new one

"If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And find someone who's life has given them vodka, and have a party."
Ron White

[Adolescent09]

I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.
Bill Gates.

[carina_gino20]

"If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." -Sir Isaac Newton

"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." -Virginia Woolf :p

"People are bloody ignorant apes!" -Estragon in Waiting for Godot

[Adolescent09]

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

- David Levesque -

[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]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42534000/jpg/_42534291_mailer_quote.jpg

[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"

[Adudaewen]

In awe I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebon void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang forever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought...I must put a roof on this lavatory.
-- Les Dawson

[masterlibrarian]

"We are all born mad. Some remain so."
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

"OPHELIA: 'Tis Brief, my lord.
HAMLET: As woman's love"
William Shakespeare, Hamlet

[UltimaHybrid]

He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.
Lao Ztu

[Jetxa]

"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Do anything, but let it produce joy." ~ Henry Miller

The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards. ~ Jablokov

My personal creeds . . .

"The best defense is to stay out of range."

"Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial."

"Warning: I am without Sin and have a basket full of stones."

[HUDA]

"Knowledge is the antidote to fear"
Ralf Waldo Emerson

[JamesXavier]

i know, it's someone who is not normally considered "of literary merit" but he could still turn out a good quote

"I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves"
Orson Scott Card

"All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe"
Orson Scott Card

[B-Mental]

Yes, both very good quotes JX and welcome to the forums.

I really like the movie Shawshank Redemption. I especially like the line "Get busy living, or get busy dying." I can't think of the main character's name, but the story is by Stephen King.

[Logos]

I especially like the line "Ge busy living, or get busy dying." I can't think of the main character's name, but the story is by Stephen King.

That's probably 'inspired' by Bob Dylan's song "It's alright Ma, I'm only bleeding" :)

"Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying."

[SaGe]

Can't really think of any specifics, but I love those of Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, and Voltaire.

[Daizee]

Although it's a hugely meaningless quote, I have to admit, I love 'The isle is full of noises' spoken by Caliban in Shakespeare's The Tempest. I know, it's incredibly random, you'll just have to trust me on this one...:idea:

[Parmenides]

Ben Franklin is a source of some very good quotes. My favorite is:
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
Benjamin Franklin

can you tell?
:lol:

[andave_ya]

Just last night I read Tartuffe by Moliere and thought this quote so funny, I put it in my signature.



M. Loyal. Till by-and-by. May Heaven bless you all!

Orgon. And may it confound you, and him who sends you!

There's another quote that I think of whenever I see trees bare of leaves with branches reaching to the sky. Can anyone tell me where it comes from?


reaching their hands to the sky in mute lament for spring

I'm not even sure if that's the exact phrasing but I do love those words.

I have others though. I'll probably post again later.

[Janine]

Actually Virgil quoted this in another thread. It is Walt Whitman. I love the quote:
"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes."

[chickenlittle]

"I would write you a shorter letter, but i dont have the time."
~Mark Twain

[marywright]

The quote " I may disagree with what you have to say but, Iwill fight to the death, your right to defend it." by Voltaire, are absolute words to live by. I am a practicing (somewhat devout Catholic) but I do believe in freedom of thought, speech, and belief.

[vin1391]

I simply love the quote in my signature

[littlewing53]

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it...alice walker, color of purple

[Phynx]

a few of my favorite quotes are:

i loved you at first sight. And you smiled because you know it- A. Boito

And books, they offer one hope- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe one is sayed
-Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm

[PXR5]

it's strange and probably for our own good that we can walk around with all these strange interpretations of what is going on around us. If we were to share them openly with one another, we would rightfully be seen as nutters

- bill drummond

[UltimaHybrid]

Without Action, Philosophy Would Have No Meaning

-Seb Foucan(co-creator of Parkour)

[ejarg7]

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
~Harper Lee (To Kill A Mockingbird)

[kiz_paws]

It is difficult to pick a favorite quote, but here are three that I really like:


“The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.” – Albert Einstein

"I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way." - Mark Twain

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx

[Wizard272002]

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e292/Wizard27/inigo1.jpg
'Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.'

[lumos]

"Our lives are shaped by those who love us, and by those who refuse to love us."
~Anonymous.

[Scheherazade]

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[alan_simon]

( I know its not as intellectual as this forum would usually require, but what the hey)

'SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEN' ' (Tony Montana) (Al Pacino, Scarface)

'You're only a rebel from the waist down' (Winston to Julia) (George Orwell, 1984)

[andave_ya]

"Here lies an anachronism in the vague expectation of eternity"

Rather a gloomy quote by Lord Peter, but it just stuck in my mind. He wanted it for his epitaph

[Domer121]

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e292/Wizard27/inigo1.jpg
'Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.'


:yawnb: :lol: :yawnb:

[jon1jt]

when you come up the stairs into my apartment, it's the first thing you see framed on the wall under his b/w picture:

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
-Jack Keraouc

[dramasnot6]

when you come up the stairs into my apartment, it's the first thing you see framed on the wall under his b/w picture:

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
-Jack Keraouc

I have only recently come across that quote in context, it is truly,truly fabulous :D

[Neo_Sephiroth]

"Yo! Yo! Yo! What Up, Homie!? Word! Fo shizzle! Mi hizzle! Ain't no thang but a chicken wang! Word!!!"

-Many, many people...That's including me!:D

[littlewing53]

neo, that was really funny!!!

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place - zora thurston

[BibliophileTRJ]

“Homosexuality is god's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children.”

Sam Austin

[Matt the Man]

"It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees."

I don't know who said that, though. :bawling:

[Moira]

Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has other matters in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. The more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.

Notes from underground

[flor]

"Earth's the right place for love..." Robert Frost from Birches

[Mrs. Dalloway]

"It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees."

I don't know who said that, though. :bawling:

It was said by Emiliano Zapata, a Mexican revolutionary (Chiapas). Do you know who was he? But this sentence is attributed also to Che Guevara (he's well-known, I think you know who was he) and to Dolores Ibarruri ("La Pasionaria", who was a revolutionary woman that fought against the Fascism in Civil War, in Spain (1936-1939) ). I don't know if you know who was she. She's not very well-known outside Spain or here.

So I think it was originally from Emiliano Zapata, but the other two people said this as well. It's a nice sentence and also were the people who said that. :thumbs_up So now you know who was the person who said it!! :D

[.closed.]

My favourite quote

"Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once."

--From Julius Caesar (II, ii, 32-37)

[bazarov]

It was said by Emiliano Zapata, a Mexican revolutionary (Chiapas). Do you know who was he? But this sentence is attributed also to Che Guevara (he's well-known, I think you know who was he) and to Dolores Ibarruri ("La Pasionaria", who was a revolutionary woman that fought against the Fascism in Civil War, in Spain (1936-1939) ). I don't know if you know who was she. She's not very well-known outside Spain or here.

So I think it was originally from Emiliano Zapata, but the other two people said this as well. It's a nice sentence and also were the people who said that. :thumbs_up So now you know who was the person who said it!! :D

Actually, you are wrong! It's Jose Marti in original, leader of the Cuban independence movement.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jose_Marti

look at the end of the page:idea:

[Mrs. Dalloway]

Actually, you are wrong! It's Jose Marti in original, leader of the Cuban independence movement.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jose_Marti

look at the end of the page:idea:

:blush: ooh! you're right!! I thought it was from Emiliano! :( :( :( anyway, thanks xD it's good to learn these things xD

[Scheherazade]

You have permission to call me anything you want - Lord of Lords, your Demigodness...New honorary knight Bono shuns 'Sir'

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42745000/gif/_42745255_bono.gif

[andave_ya]

I read that! cheeky, isn't it?

[heikemarie]

"All of us are in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars..."
-Oscar Wilde

[kandaurov]

"All of us are in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars..."
-Oscar Wilde

Good one, good choice, Heike Marie! If there were a contest to determine who contributed the most with quotable epigrams and aphorisms, Wilde would win it easily.

I don't have a favourite quote. Had a real hard time choosing from a vast array of them to post here... At the moment, this is one of my favourites:

"Every exit is an entrance somewhere else" - Tom Stoppard

As well as the one written below this sentence :p

[hyperinsomnia]

"Now is the very witching time of night when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world" - Hamlet

[toni]

Nice one, hyperinsomnia:thumbs_up I have another quote from Hamlet

I may be bounded in a nutshell, but I consider myself king of infinite space- Hamlet

[hyperinsomnia]

That one's quite good!
I was torn between that and

"... I love thee best, O most best!"

For some reason it appeals to me and i'm often shouting it at people for no reason. I also enjoy:

"Your noble son is mad!"

and of course:

"...he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true, 'tis pitty; And pitty 'tis 'tis true..."

[lumos]

"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
-Eeyore.

[toni]

Poetry, like all art, is a gesture towards the immortal. - A Writer Friend

[Basil]

"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."

Rogers Hornsby

[della]

"The whole world sees me as just one person, I want just one person to see me as the whole world."
I like this, so beautiful.

[Logos]

“This recommendation of steadiness and uniformity does not proceed from an opinion, that particular combinations of letters have much influence on human happiness; or that truth may not be successfully taught by modes of spelling fanciful and erroneous: I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.”

—[from Samuel Johnson's Preface to his A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)]

[bazarov]

"The whole world sees me as just one person, I want just one person to see me as the whole world."
I like this, so beautiful.
Beautiful, stays in my head definitely!:D

[kiz_paws]

"The whole world sees me as just one person, I want just one person to see me as the whole world."
I like this, so beautiful.

I second the sentiment of this being a keeper! :)

[bazarov]

"The whole world sees me as just one person, I want just one person to see me as the whole world."
I like this, so beautiful.

Who said that?

[Scheherazade]

'Lunatics, idiots, deaf and dumb'

Bournemouth reviewing law from 1766 on who cannot stand for election.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/default.stm

[della]

Some of my favs are...



The whole world sees me as just one person, I want just one person to see me as the whole world.
-I made this up. It was based on someone's signature link though, I just changed it so it sounded better. No idea where its from originally.

I see it in the first page of this thread,by Admin.

[JaneB]

Heaven for climate, hell for the company
-mark twain

ad astra per alia porci (to the stars on the wings of a pig)
-john steinbeck

[ForKnowledge]

" Man is a mystery if you spend your life trying to puzzle it out , then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery because I want to be a man"

said in the brothers karamazov that dostoevsky as an 18 year old wrote these words to his brother.

[summer grace]

Heaven for climate, hell for the company
-mark twain

ad astra per alia porci (to the stars on the wings of a pig)
-john steinbeck


Is there any specific place that Mark Twain said that first one about? Just curious. I'm a very distant cousin of his. I have never come across that quote of his before. Some places from my own life come to mind though...;)

[markymark]

"no regrets man, no regrets, thats my motto, that and everybody wang chung tonight!!!!!!!!" -out cold

[kandaurov]

Just found a great quote from Ludwig Tieck. I tried to translate it, even though my german isn't all that great: 'The wonderful utopia often lies directly under our feet, but we look through our telescopes too far from that spot'.

(Original: Das wunderbare Utopien liegt oft direkt vor unseren Füßen, aber wir sehen mit unsern Teleskopen darüber hinweg.)

Bitte korrigieren Sie, wenn ich Unrecht habe ;)

[Ladygreenhawk]

This has been my favorite quote for many many years.............

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke

[Lote-Tree]

Suicide is the most sincere form of self-criticism

:-)

[Art_mirrors]

in responce to the previous quotations the one about having regreted what he hadnt done i think.... i think its oscar wilde.
another one of his
all art is useless(in responce to critics of picture of dorian gray)
d

[Bookworm89]

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare

[rosierosie]

im studying king lear at the moment,
in act 2 scene 4
the fool says

"that sir which serves and seeks for gain,
and follows but for form,
will pack when it begins to rain,
and leave thee in the storm

i also like
"there are two motives for reading a book one, that you enjoy it, the other that you can boast about it"
unknown

"all men think men are mortal
but themselves"
unknown

"let them hate so long as they fear"
unknown

[bazarov]

"let them hate so long as they fear"
unknown

I think it's Sun Tzu.

[Season]

Welcome to my album of QUOTATIONS. Reading and assembling books of quotations is one of my hobbies. Whenever I'm feeling down or have a brooding personal problem, I turn to my books for some inspiration and words of wisdom. Listed below are some of my personal favorites……..

“A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.”

“Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.”

“Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.”

“May you live all the days of your life.”

“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”

“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”

“He is not a lover who does not love forever.”

“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.”

[tluvmcjones12]

"the only way to learn to fight is to fight"
Bruce Lee

[Scheherazade]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42849000/gif/_42849275_libries_quote.gif

[Regit]

"In this world we walk on the roof of hell and look at the flowers." - Japanese proverb.

[Sylph]

Have you any idea
How long a night can last, spent
Lying alone and sobbing?

Mother of Michitsuna

[Neo_Sephiroth]

"Word"
-Various

[Hannah-Simmons]

"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?"
- Benjamin Franklin

[Debrasue]

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men & women merely players.....

from Shakespeare's "As You Like It"

Debrasue

[Scheherazade]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42873000/gif/_42873045_lindsay.gif
Uhm, like, yeah... I mean, whateva...

[Moira]

'We have art in order not to die of the truth.'

Nietzsche

[Sylph]

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

[Slangalang18ca]

"We have lingered in the chambers of the sea/ By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown/ Till human voices wake us, and we drown."

"Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night."

"Aimons donc, aimons donc ! de l’heure fugitive,
Hâtons-nous, jouissons !
L’homme n’a point de port, le temps n’a point de rive ;
Il coule, et nous passons !"

which translates roughly to...

"Love, love! Time is a fugitive!
Hurry, be joyous!
Man has no port, time has no riverbank!
It runs, and we pass."

Sounds crappy in English, I know.

[Uncle Lar]

"To thine own self be true.
(William Shakespeare)

[Scheherazade]

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/228/42905919hiltonsihnquotehj0.gif (http://imageshack.us)

[madbert]

"Advertising signs that con
You into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime life goes on outside around you"
Bob Dylan

[Kara Ortiez]

"I desire a society which selects its rulers, from the best elements of every class and denies the right of any class or corporation to usurp the government to itself - whether it be the nobles, the clergy, the bourgeoisie, or the proletariat. For government by any one class is fatal to the
welfare of the whole." Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini

[Haven]

It's only called paranoia if you can't prove it
It's on the jacket of the book that I am reading. William Gibson's Pattern Recognition.

Not attributed. Expect part of the synopsis, but I like it.

I have to say I tend to have a favourite quote on almost a daily basis. The media always has something that is either facile, profund or both...lol. We could have a daily favourite quote. I am very new, so if that's already in place, I will go looking.:idea:

[IrishMark]

Debra sue, if you like the "All The world's a stage" quote you would undpubtedly like another one from Shakespeare, this time from Macbeth, very very famous: "Out, out, brief candle. Life's but a walking shadow, 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, sugnifying nothing". what you think of that quote?

[littlewing53]

if you haven't anything nice to say come sit by me....

[quasimodo1]

Well maybe not my absolute favorite but it is inspiring: "We all devise images of ourselves sufficient enough to deny our nothingness" Guy de Maupaussant

[lifelonglover]

my personal favourite is something i saw on a post card a long time ago and being welsh it has stuck with me!

"To be born Welsh is to be privileged,
not with a silver spoon in your mouth
but with music in your blood
and poetry in your soul"

enjoy!

[RoCKiTcZa]

"I leave this rule for others when i'm dead,
Be sure you're always right, then go ahead."
~Davy Crockett

[ByeByeButterfly]

If you really want something in this life, you have to work for it - now quiet; they're about to announce the lottery numbers! - Homer Simpson

Implied, Lisa? or Implode?- Homer Simpson

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand. - Homer Simpson

Stupid risks make life worth living.-Homer Simpson

Yes, all by Homer! He's just a bib bubbling fountain of wisdom, ain't he? lol

[Amazon]

My favourite quote is courtesy of Mark Twain.

"In certain trying circumstances, desperate circumstances, urgent circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer."

[no name]

"they say:a word is died when it's said,but i say it just starts living that day"
"an eye for an eye would make the whole world blind"
but no idea of who said them

[bazarov]

"they say:a word is died when it's said,but i say it just starts living that day"
"an eye for an eye would make the whole world blind"
but no idea of who said them

Gandhi.

[adagiosostenuto]

I am by no means a disciple of Schopenhauer, but this quote of his concerning writing is golden:
"It would generally serve writers in good stead if they would see that, while a man should, if possible, think like a great genius, he should talk the same language as everyone else. Authors should use common words to say uncommon things."
—A. Schopenhauer, On Style

[CaptureLife]

Pretty much anything Dorothy Parker ever said. I know, not exactly pity enough to be carved in granite and displayed on a giant building, but hey, they're good for a smile. Besides, this thread was getting a bit heavy, and someone has to lighten the mood.
A few of my favorites:
"I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn."
"His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets."
"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires."
"Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."
And finally, after being asked to use the word horticulture in a sentence:
"You can drag a horticulture, but you can't make her think."

[Unbeliever]

There are so many wonderful quotes, but my favorite has, for two decades, been this one:


The Discovery of the Future[/i],"]We look back through countless millions of years and see the great will to live struggling out of the intertidal slime, struggling from shape to shape and from power to power, crawling and then walking confidently upon the land, struggling generation after generation to master the air, creeping down into the darkness of the deep; we see it turn upon itself in rage and hunger and reshape itself anew, we watch it draw nearer and more akin to us, expanding, elaborating itself, pursuing its relentless inconceivable purpose, until at last it reaches us and its being beats through our brains and arteries...It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all that the mind of man has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening...
Out of our...lineage, minds will spring, that will reach back to us in our littleness to know us better than we know ourselves. A day will come, one day in the unending succession of days, when beings, beings who are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon this Earth as one stands upon a footstool, and shall laugh and reach out their hands amidst the stars.

[applepie]

My favorite quote, though not from a book, is very telling of life If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope.
. It was a quote made by Cousteau in his life and it really seems to sum up the human existance. Faith and hope are two of the most common themes in literature and it is what makes life worth living. If we didn't all hope for a better tomorrow after a particularly bad day what would be the point in living life? Hope is what makes life bearable, when the human condition is more or less one big tragedy.

[nomoredrama28]

I have many favorite quotes. Heres a few:
"If I truly love one person I love all persons, I love the world, I love life. If I can say to somebody else, ‘I love you,’, I must be able to say, ‘I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself‘"-The Art of Loving/Fromm

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Anna Quindlen

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude, don't complain. Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you will understand what little chance you have in trying to change others." (I forget who said this, sorry.

LADY MACDUFF:
Sirrah, your father's dead;
And what will you do now? How will you live?

Son:
As birds do, mother.

LADY MACDUFF:
What, with worms and flies?

Son:
With what I get, I mean; and so do they. MacBeth

"Listen to many, speak to a few." (once again, dont know who said it.)

"That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they
tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times, and
concentrate on the good ones" Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse five"

"Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,
Looking into the heart of light, the silence." T.S. Eliot

"I met a genius on the train
today
about 6 years old,
he sat beside me
and as the train
ran down along the coast
we came to the ocean
and then he looked at me
and said,
it's not pretty.

it was the first time I'd
realized
that."- Charles Bukowski

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

[nomoredrama28]

and also this: CHARLIE BROWN: I think lunch time is about the worst time of the day for me. Always having
to sit here alone. Of course, sometimes mornings aren’t so pleasant, either--waking up and
wondering if anyone would really miss me if I never got out of bed. Then there’s the night, too --
lying there and thinking about all the stupid things I’ve done during the day. And all those hours
in between--when I do all those stupid things. Well, lunch time is among the worst time of the
day for me. Well, I guess I’d better see what I’ve got. Peanut butter. Some psychiatrists say
that people who eat peanut butter sandwiches are lonely. I guess they’re right. And if you’re
really lonely, the peanut butter sticks to the roof of your mouth. Boy, the PTA sure did a good
job of painting these benches. There’s that cute little redheaded girl eating her lunch over there.
I wonder what she’d do if I went over and asked her if I could sit and have lunch with her. She’d
probably laugh right in my face. It’s hard on a face when it gets laughed in. There’s an empty
place next to her on the bench. There’s no reason why I couldn’t just go over and sit there. I
could do that right now. All I have to do is stand up. I’m standing up. I’m sitting down. I’m a
coward. I’m so much of a coward she wouldn’t even think of looking at me. Why shouldn’t she
look at me? Is she so great and am I so small that she couldn’t spare one little moment just to
... She’s looking at me. She’s looking at me.

[nomoredrama28]

Debra sue, if you like the "All The world's a stage" quote you would undpubtedly like another one from Shakespeare, this time from Macbeth, very very famous: "Out, out, brief candle. Life's but a walking shadow, 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, sugnifying nothing". what you think of that quote?


I know my name isn't Debra sue, but i LOVE that quote! Macbeth is great!!

[quasimodo1]

To nomoredrama28: Fav. quote: "The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new". Samuel Beckett first line of the novel, "Murphy"

[nomoredrama28]

"CARPE DIEM", SEIZE THE DAY.

love that. Dead Poets Society is brilliant.

[nomoredrama28]

To nomoredrama28: Fav. quote: "The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new". Samuel Beckett first line of the novel, "Murphy"

"Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now"

was that Samuel Beckett as well? I have a poster with him on it! good guy!

[quasimodo1]

caveat emptor / impramatur / nihil obstat / my lease fav. quotes quasimodo1

[nomoredrama28]

what?

[quasimodo1]

caveat emptor...let the buyer beware impramatur...it is permitted and nihil obstat...nothing objectionable The last two latin expressions must be near the title page of any book approved by the Vatican for catholics. Hence my least fav. status. quasimodo1

[nomoredrama28]

which one is your least fav.?

[quasimodo1]

least of the least...impramatur (mispelled above) quasimodo1

[Vittoria666]

Learn as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die tommorow- i don't know who its by...anyone else know who wrote this one?

Get rich or die trying-50Cent

live together die alone- i dont know about this one eithe
who knows?

[jon1jt]

"Is it getting better, or do you feel the same?"
-U2, first line from song, One. :)

[AuntShecky]

from the eminently quotable Dorothy Parker:
"You can lead a horticulture but you can't
make her think."

[AuntShecky]

"I can't go on. I'll go on."
--Samuel Beckett

[quasimodo1]

"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers". Herman Melville

[ale]

my favorite quote was spoken by one of the most famous murderers of all times!
"Life's but 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" (Macbeth)

[Aus. Lit. Kid]

"The Socratic Method is the most effective way of teaching - except for chainsaw juggling"

Gregory House MD

Yeah, that's sad I know. But it's oh so true.

[Mortis Anarchy]

"I can't go on. I'll go on."
--Samuel Beckett

I like this one.

[Tor_Hershman]

There is no God in foxholes - by *blush* moi

[weepingforloman]

"Suppose you were a member of Congress, and suppose you were an idiot. But I repeat myself."- Mark Twain

[Dark Star]

This is one I live my life by: "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. " -- Buddha

[Scheherazade]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42430000/gif/_42430068_arnie.gif

[blp]

'Yeah, yeah, industrial estate.' – The FAll

[Abdulbagi]

qoute:
Reputation is what ohters know about you while honor is what you know about yorself.

[Visionary3]

Children can easily open the drawer that lets the spirit rise up and wear its favorite costume of mirth and laughter.

Indeed God has written a thousand promises all over your heart that say, Life, life, life is far to sacred to ever end.

There is a madman inside you who is always running for office - why vote for him?

By the persian poet Hafiz


And this one by Maya Angelou...

Music is my refuge. I'd crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back loneliness.

[Dori]

"What do you mean," he said. "Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?" (The Hobbit, Page 4, J.R.R. Tolkien)

[Pensive]

"What do you mean," he said. "Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?" (The Hobbit, Page 4, J.R.R. Tolkien)

Heh, that's a good one! :D

[Dori]

Heh, that's a good one! :D

I thought it would be :D .

The quotes in my sig are also some of my favorites.

[prince's flower]

"Bold lover,never,never canst thou kiss,
Though winning near the goal-yet,do not grieve;
She cannot fade,though thou hast not thy bliss,
For ever wilt thou love,and she be fair !"

what a beautiful and dulcet pregnent moment given by John Keats.

[protagonist]

my signature tells everything.It is my favourite signature...

[Haven]

The forward thinking of today, will be the common sense of tomorrow. Matthew Arnold. 19th c. poet and cultural critic.

Of all Arnold's insightful sayings this is one of my favourites. It can be applied to just about anything.

On another forum [mainly for RPG's] someone mentioned [hi Kipi... name check :) should you be passing by] that in the 1950's rock and roll music was considered to be the 'devil's music... Well, Elvis et al what do you have to say? :D

[quasimodo1]

That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

[Mad Organist]

"Politicians are the devil's quilted anvil; he fashions all sins on them, and the blows are never heard"
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

"True poesy is not in words
But images that thoughts express
By which the simplest hearts are stirred
To elevated happiness"
John Clare "Pastoral Poesy"

"I have nothing to declare but my genius"
attrib. Oscar Wilde while passing through Customs

"An eductaion ought to be good to justify depriving a child of its liberty"
J.S. Mill, On Liberty

"Return with speed, time passeth swift away;
Our lie is short, and we may die today"
Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great, Part One

"When each gladness has gone, gathering sorrow
may cloud the brain; and in his breast a man
cannot see how his sorrows shall end"
Deor,translated from the Old English by Michael Alexander

"Suitable for indoor and outdoor use only"
Found on several brands of fairy lights

"Only to be used for processing food, not the other use"
Found on a Swedish blender.

"The world of the poor teaches us that liberation can only be achieved when the poor are not on the receiving end of handouts from church and state, but are truly the masters and protagonists in their own struggle for liberation"
Oscar Romero, Archbisop of San Salvador

"One must not love oneself so much as to avoid getting involved in the risks that history demands"
Ibid

Hmmm...I seem to have more favourites than I thought I had until I had to start thinking about which were my favourites...

[Shurtugal]

um... i'd have to say one of my signitures... "To die would be an awfully big and venture."

i wait for the day to say that!

[Annabel Lee]

"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success." - Louisa May Alcott

"A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent." - John Calvin

"No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief." - John Calvin

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." - Louisa May Alcott

"We all have our own life to pursue, Our own kind of dream to be weaving, And we all have the power To make wishes come true, As long as we keep believing." - Louisa May Alcott

"By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination." - Christopher Columbus

"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World." - Christopher Columbus

[Dori]

I have another one:

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Cicero

[Debrasue]

I love reading all of these quotes!

Today I'm thinking of this one by Edward Everett Hale, 1870...
"Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand"...

[Lily Adams]

"Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed."-Don Wood

(Did I already post that here?)

[Loveless]

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

One of the teachers at my school says that a lot, and I love it. Can't exactly remember who she said spoke it, but I love it all the same.

[chasestalling]

'oak park [illinois] is a place of broad streets and narrow minds'

ernest hemingway speaking of suburbia america, oak park being its microcosm

[Granny5]

"If fishing is religion, then fly fishing is high church."
Tom Brokaw

[catharsis]

Romeo: I defy you stars!

[quasimodo1]

"Suspense on the quicksands of ambivalence is our life's whole nemisis"

[Charles_Dickens]

My favorite quote is "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women are merely players." That,of course,is by Shakespeare.
-Charles-

[BlowAway]

" The heart is the eternal child. "


A quote I've written myself. I think it's beautiful.

[firefangled]

Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see. - My father.

[Mortis Anarchy]

At the moment: Hugs Not Drugs. I dunno, I heard someone saying it as he left Wild Oats and it just sounded really cool...does that make sense. It was just funny to hear.

[KipptheCool]

"There are things known and there are things unknown and in between are The Doors."
- Jim Morrison

That is my favourite quote.

[kmwmn]

Thre is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift those around us a little highter.

Henry Van Dyke

[Massalex]

My mother is a fish- Vardaman in As I lay Dying (by William Faulkner)

[BEXsezThAt]

"Don't believe your teachers; it's just hearsay."
--Science teacher of mine
~he's the best!~:D

[motherhubbard]

Humans come and go -

Life is short, but standing together two friends can prevail against all of lifes troubles-

rich clothes on peasant do still fit and both farmer and king will rot when there time is gone-

all from Gilgamesh

[rabid reader]

Politics: The art of making every answer, the wrong answer (mom)

[Demian]

"Love without power is meaningless. Power without love is tyrannical."

---Martin Luther King Jr.

[quasimodo1]

The Upanishads offer to each aspiring heart countless messages. There are quite a few messages which are at once most significant and most fulfilling. Here is a stupendous message about life and death. Before death and after death, what happens? This is the message of the Upanishads: 543

(Before death, life is a seeker. 544

After death, the same life becomes a dreamer. 545

Before death, life struggles and strives for Perfection. 546

After death, the same life rests and enjoys the divine Bliss with the soul. 547

Before death, life is God’s Promise. 548

After death, life is God’s inner Assurance. This Assurance of God’s we notice while we fulfil God in our future incarnation. 549

Life for each individual is an act of inspiration and revelation. Life is an experience; even so is death. Our human life is God’s sacred flame mounting towards the highest Source. Human death, the so-called death, is a secret play of God’s Will. 550

When we study the Upanishads we start with the concentration of the mind. This concentration of the mind is the most difficult thing that we can do)
{in my interpretation of this text, realizing the many gods included in this religion, I choose to interpret god in many alternate ways except for the god-concepts of Judeo-Christianity}

[Divine Comedy]

Dont know who said this but I like this quote "Remember at the end of the game the King and the Pawn goes back into the same box"

[quasimodo1]

"The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future." ....Joseph Conrad

[quasimodo1]

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy." Guillaume Apollinairea

[xangel]

hey, can u help me? i have a question

i didn't understand about the thing when they asked SHYLOCK to be a christia! lol
wat was his relegion befor?

[xangel]

Someone Answer Me Really Fast Plzzz!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Shalot]

i dont know the authors of my favorite quotes, but here they are:
"Destiny is a matter of choice, not a matter of chance",
"Life isnt measured by every breath you take, but by every moment that takes your
breath away"'
this one is by Harvey Mackay, "The one person who is always happy to teach you a
lesson is a tough competitor',
And of course those "in your face, smart-*** "comments from "No fear", like
"history is made by those who break the rules",
"Its not that life's too short, you've been dead for too long",

I don't know about all those quotes. I guess some are good. I like your user name though. That reminds me of being in a teenager in the 90's and everyone listened to the "alternative" stations that were playing "alternative" bands but it wasn't so alternative because everyone was jumping on that bandwagon. And somewhere along the line, I started referring to that type of music as alter native instead of alternative (most likely someone else said it first and i just copied - i am not claiming that I started this) and your username reminded me of that. I have no idea if you know what I am talking about, but just so you know. :)

[LadyWentworth]

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them. - Jane Austen

[Mr. Dr. Ralph]

All is fair

[gothic]

oh,don't get me started about fav quotes! I am a sincere quote collector(I don't know how it sounded,but it's true) and i jot down them whenever I come accross a resembling one(you know,resembling with my own opinions) Here goes some-
"If the facts don't fit the theory,change the facts."-Albert Einstein (coolest,isn't it?suits him!)
"Nothing begins and nothing ends
And that is not paid with moan
For we are born in others' pain
And perish in our own."
(don't know who said that,though,I just keep saying it to myself)

"I shall smile when wreaths of snow
Blossom where the rose should grow,
I shall sing when night's decay
Ushers in a drearier day."
-Emily Bronte

"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."-Shakespeare

"Our thoughts are nothing but the mere followers of the privileges that we utterly desire." -(said by T.Rahman,polished by me)

"Heaven gives its glimpses to those
Not in the position to look too close."-Robert Frost

(sighs) okay,dont want to get you bored.I'm giving it a stop for a while!

[Scheherazade]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44095000/gif/_44095240_orwell2_quote.gif

[lordofdrinks]

'' maybe this world is another planet's hell ''

-huxley

[Granny5]

"You better give your heart to God, cause the rest of you is mine." My Mother

"Oh No! I sound just like you!" motherhubbard.

[jon1jt]

"Sobriety is an absorbing contemplation." -Jack Kerouac

[Oniw17]

"You can't bring every horse to the pond and let him drink"

[quasimodo1]

Silence tells the seeker in us to love, to love himself.
It tells us it is wrong to hate ourselves because of our imperfections.
When the seeker loves himself, loves the Divine within himself,
he eventually realises the Ultimate Truth.

[JoanS]

i like too much one phrase of O.Wilde. iam not sure if was said exactly as iam gonna interpet it..


Sorry, i havent recognized you, i ve changed too much..

[trackgrl26]

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust

[Telegram Sam]

"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's" - Dostoevksy

"Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run... but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant... " - Hunter S. Thompson

"I had a flash of something I hadn't felt since my first months in Europe--a mixture of ignorance and a loose, 'what the hell' kind of confidence that comes on a man when the wind picks up and he begins to move in a hard straight line toward an unknown horizon" - Hunter Thompson again

"Some days, life just looks like me versus every stupid chick in the whole damn world" - Palahniuk (sorry ladies :angel: )

And of course my personal favorite:

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" - Benjamin Franklin. :D

[amalia1985]

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"-Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
For me, this is a mirror of our own era, and many times, our own lives.

[jon1jt]

"You gotta roll, roll, roll you gotta thrill my soul, all right..." Jim Morrison, Roadhouse Blues

[BEXsezThAt]

"I bet when you first came to school, you didn't expect to be answering stupid question like "what is the density of the earth?". Well, get used to it, your test is tomorrow. So prepare your stupid answers to the stupid questions in the stupid test made by your stupid teacher, and whoever gets perfect will get a burger.

Whoever fails owes me one 18"pizza." :D
-same science teacher
~he totally rocks!~

[syiah]

"All universal moral principles are idle fantasies."
-Marquis De Sade

"If it can be dreamt, it can be done!"
-Teddy R.

[River]

"Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage."- Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins.

Story of my life! Okay, so I know it's a song, but since I just quoted it, it is now a quote.

[Regit]

"How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Here will we sit and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.
...Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patens of bright gold.
There's not the smallest orb which thou beholdest
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins;
Such harmony is in immortal souls,
But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it."

- W. Shakespeare

[airun_71]

- "Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view"
- "Who's more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?"
- "The Force will be with you, always."

by Sir Alec Guinness alias Obi Wan Kenobi

[cactus]

Now there is one I really like but can't remember who said it or the exact words. It is something like this:

Every time I think of exercise, I lay my head down and let the feeling pass.

[alexsears]

who here want's to know my fav book...........well you dont..........TO BAD!?!?
my fav book is ghosthunters books those are the only books i ever bother to read usally any other books i read i get really really really really bored.

p.s i over did it on the reallys.

[the silent x]

alex, this is a quote thread, not a favorite book thread, why not start one.

there is no such thing as overkill - master Dave Weatherly

[Shurtugal]

dude, it's on my sig....

To die would be an awfully big adventure!-Peter Pan

[aubriann.rex]

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

The body is a house of windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
-Sylvia Plath

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I haven't gone where I intended to go, but I think I ended where I needed to be.
-Douglass Adams

Though my soul may set in darkness,
It will rise in perfect light;for
I have loved the stars too fondly
to be fearful of the night.
-Sarah Adams

I should have been a great many things.
-Jo March

i don't love you
like i loved you
yesterday

i feel that (false and true are only to know)
love only has ever been is, and will be, so
-ee cummings

The masses do not corrupt themselves; if they are corrupt, they have been corrupted.
-V.O. Key

"He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, valiantly keeping him alive...
Why had he never appreciated what a miracle he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart?...

It was not, after all, so easy to die. Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second. At the same time he thought he would not be able to go on, and knew that he must..."
-J.K. Rowling, from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

[summeronly]

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson


i loved this one

[Princess_1986]

The one I have in purple below this post ;)

[Gonturan]

When faschism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.
-I forget who

There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away.
-Emily Dickinson

An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
-Gandhi

[erato]

Athena I agree with your smoking one :P

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Plato

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle


Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle

[weepingforloman]

I have a new one now, "It is true that the clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society"- Mark Twain.

[Pretty^Athens]

some of my favorites:
1) Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference (Robert Frost)
2) We must struggle for our dreams, but we must also know that, when certain paths prove impossible, it would be best to save our energies in order to travel other roads (Paulo Quilho)
3) The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each lives his life in a completely different way (Shimon Peres)

[Shurtugal]

So what's the glory in living?
Doesn't any body ever stay together anymore?
And if love never last forever,
tell me... what's forever for? -Billy Gilman

http://countryangeldiva.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/billycasual.jpg

[Shurtugal]

ag! the pics gone! dang!

[lolitsjohn]

"Sitting in the studyhall he opened the lid of his desk and changed the number pasted up inside from seventy-seven to seventysix. But the Christmas vacation was very far away: but one time it would come because the earth moved round always." - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;"
And the white rose weeps, "She is late;"
The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear;"
And the lily whispers, "I wait." - Tennyson

"Memories of school are always to me like memories of destitution, of inexperience, the joyless impatience I suffered like poverty."- Paul Theroux

"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more." - Samuel Beckett

[Scheherazade]

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[liberal viewer]

My favorite:
Amicus Plato, sed magis amica Veritas

[jon1jt]

"I did not have sex with that woman...Monica Lewinsky." --Billy Clinton

[R. Schmidt]

"...I will tell you that the Senate certainly can bring about a censure resolution and it's a slap on the wrist. It's a, 'Bad boy, Bill Clinton. You're a naughty boy.' The American people already know that Bill Clinton is a bad boy, a naughty boy. I'm going to speak out for the citizens of my state, who in the majority think that Bill Clinton is probably even a nasty, bad, naughty boy."

Senator Larry Craig

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[birdFlu]

"This is what my soul was telling me, and I was hesitating for a long time, for I was afraid that at the moment of my departure, the beautiful Fatma, the baker's daughter, on account of me, being six months pregnant, would raise a yell throughout Baghdad, which wouldn't please me, for this virgin is capable of screaming so loudly that the dromedaries startle. So I called her to me and offered her a hundred coins and seven goats, which she willingly accepted, and I realized that I acted amiss, for when she was leaving, she told me that my gift came as a nice surprise, for she had been sure that not me, but certain ginger scribe of Vizier was father of her baby, or maybe cobbler Ibrahim. She also had some suspicions about two whirling dervishes. But she had never even thought of me."

:lol:

Kornel Makuszynski

Arabian Affairs

[Etienne]

"The best argument against democracy is a five minutes conversation with the average voter."

-Winston Churchill, this man was a quote machine and a very smart man.

"There is a concatenation of all events in the best of possible worlds; for, in short, had you not been kicked out of a fine castle for the love of Miss Cunegund; had you not been put into the Inquisition; had you not traveled over America on foot; had you not run the Baron through the body; and had you not lost all your sheep, which you brought from the good country of El Dorado, you would not have been here to eat preserved citrons and pistachio nuts."

- Voltaire at the end of Candide.

[dumwitliteratur]

Here is one that I truly love.

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give thee, the more I have, For both are infinite." - William Shakespeare

but I'd have to say that my favorite quote of all time is... my signature... :blush: :angel:

[thescholar]

"according to these tests, you put the upid in stupid." -Chris Rock

[Sylph]

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone.

-Thomas Hardy

[echo123]

a house doesn't make a home

[*_Annabel Lee_*]

The lies are the only human privilege that no other organisms have.

[Shurtugal]

that's latin.

amicus-friend
plato-?
sed-but
megis-great
amica-friend
veritas-truth
friend ?, but a great friend of truth?

is that right?

[bazarov]

Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas
I like you Plato, but truth even more!

It's Aristotelus quote, and Plato(very famous Greek philosopher) was his teacher.

[quasimodo1]

FAITH, n.
Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. Ambrose Bierce

[bazarov]

FAITH, n.
Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. Ambrose Bierce

With evidences it would be a fact, not a belief.

[quasimodo1]

To bazarov: I don't think Ambrose defined conundrum. He did define religion....RELIGION, n.
A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
"What is your religion my son?" inquired the Archbishop of Rheims.

"Pardon, monseigneur," replied Rochebriant; "I am ashamed of it."

"Then why do you not become an atheist?"

"Impossible! I should be ashamed of atheism."

"In that case, monsieur, you should join the Protestants."

[bazarov]

I know.

[LadyW]

"We know what we are, but not what we may be."
William Shakespeare

[Leonides]

Fav quote?...That's a tricky one since a lot of ppl have several fav quotes.
:-)

One of my all time favs is the short speech by Macbeth "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow..." in Macbeth.

[Shurtugal]

Dare to dream- billy gilman

[hellsapoppin]

Better to light one candle, than to curse the darkness.


Several cultures claim to have originated this gem.

[Pensive]

Better to light one candle, than to curse the darkness.


Several cultures claim to have originated this gem.

What to do if candle is nowhere to be found? :p

[hellsapoppin]

:lol:

I bet that some cannot see that this is meant to be figurative, of course. For indeed, it is better to see the good than to wallow in the bad.

:)

[byquist]

"Frankly, Scarlet, I don't give a damn" and "O well, I'll think about it tomorrow."

[Pensive]

:lol:

I bet that some cannot see that this is meant to be figurative, of course. For indeed, it is better to see the good than to wallow in the bad.

:)

But what if you can see no good?

[hellsapoppin]

... give it a good try ... :)

[Dori]

See my sig.