What is your favorite quote? And why?

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Originally Posted by aliengirl

There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox




Then who will give you company dear cafolini? You are prowling here alone and seemingly running out of quotes. Was trying to be helpful. :)

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I did think you were intentionally alienating and tried to please you. But if you want a visa you can have it for another six months. After that, we'll need to make some inevitable decision. We'll never run out of quotes.

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Originally Posted by cafolini

I did think you were intentionally alienating and tried to please you. But if you want a visa you can have it for another six months. After that, we'll need to make some inevitable decision. We'll never run out of quotes.

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Thanks for the effort. Mission successful. :) I'm very comfortable in my shining blue-grey spaceship and thankfully I don't need any visa. I'll be leaving some quotes on your doorstep just for a change. :wave:

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Originally Posted by aliengirl

Thanks for the effort. Mission successful. :) I'm very comfortable in my shining blue-grey spaceship and thankfully I don't need any visa. I'll be leaving some quotes on your doorstep just for a change. :wave:

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Not fair. You don't want our fantastic, six-month visa, but you want us to take your fantastic spaceship. Not fair.:toetap05:

There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/au...zjPeOKuW1OR.99

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. ~ ella_wheeler_wilcox

Every one of us is a commedian. And those who claim not to be are even more. ~ C A Cafolini

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Denis Diderot


A bit combative, the above quote, but it remains my favorite. I am very fond of Diderot.

"They wanted to pay me too much for that job. I couldn't afford it." ~ Woody Allen

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. - Albert Einstein ;)

You'll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do. ~ D.F. Wallace

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Originally Posted by aliengirl

You'll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do. ~ D.F. Wallace

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That's why there has to be a profitable business motive. Romney is lying his head off.

Truth cannot contradict truth

All these fine words are angelic and magical!
:iagree:

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Originally Posted by Admin

Some of my favs are...

Speak softly and carry a big stick.
-Roosevelt I think

I regret not the things I've done but those I did not do.
-I forget, if anyone knows, tell me

I may disagree with what you have to say but I will fight to the death to defend your right to say it.
-Voltaire

Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed that he has grown so great?
-Shakespeare

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.

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Originally Posted by cafolini

That's why there has to be a profitable business motive. Romney is lying his head off.

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Someone should send that quote to Romney. Aliens don't care about elections anyway. :smilewinkgrin: