What is your favorite quote? And why?

from Bono's front gates:

In the service of God one can learn three things from a child and seven from a thief.

From a child one can learn 1) always be happy 2) never to sit idle 3) and cry for everything one wants.

From a thief you should learn 1) to work at night 2) if one cannot gain it in one night to try again the next night :p 3) to love one's co-workers just as thieves love each other 4) to be willing to risk one's life even for a little thing 5) not to attach too much value to things even though you've risked your life for them just as a thief will resell a stolen article for a fraction of its worth 6) to withstand all kinds of beatings and tortures but to remain what you are and 7) to believe that your work is worthwhile and not be willing to change it.

I've no idea if he came up with it himself or just took it from somebody. Anyhow, I like it.

This is just my memory of this quote and I'm not even sure if it was originally said by Ben Jonson or Samuel Johnson, but none of that lessens its greatness:

Young writers should go through their work and cross out all the good bits.

I am only one, but I am one, I can't do everything, but I can do something. And what I can do is what I ought to do. And what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I will do. - Edward Hale

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. - Thomas Jefferson

The earth has enough for enery man's need, but not for every man's greed. - Gandhi

I am singing in a chorus, but I want to hear my voice. - don't remember who said that

In prosperity is very easy to find a friend, in adversity, nothing is so difficult. - Epictetus

Keep your breath to cool your porridge. - English saying

Beauty is dangerous, wisdom must be earned, love is of your own choice.

Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealling thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous. - Dorothy Parker

To keep something, you must take care of it. More, you must understand just what sort of care it requires. You must know the rules and abide by them. - Dorothy Parker

Passion beholds its object as a perfect unit. The soul is wholly embodied, and the body is wholly ensouled. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

God save me from my friends, I can protect myself from my enemies. - Martin Luther

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Look down on me, you will see a fool. Look up at me, you will see your lord. Look straight at me, you will see yourself !
CHARLES MANSON

When you talk to God its called prayer,
When god talks to you its Catatonic Schizophrenia...
.....................Fox MULDER........................

one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine pic, and, if it were possible to speak a few reasonable words. (Goethe)

I like Emily Dickinson quotes, they say that She's the greatest American Poet writier,
sometimes I agree with them, but not all the time, I just can't forget how did she put away
all her wonderful poems form the world till she died, I hate that she was writing in secret,
but anyway, more than 2000 poem that she wrote, were found after she dided...
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I think that hope is the last thing we lose as human beings,
without hope...everything is simplely gone, hope is what makes us go on in our life,
without it, we would be laying on the bed wating for our souls to leave our bodys,
here's some of fave Emily Dickinson quotes about hope:-
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"Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words,
and never stops at all."
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"Hope is the dream of a soul awake."
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"May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong,
enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy."
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"When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God."
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"Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear.
If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today."
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"Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark."
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How great ! I can't stop reading them over and over...
I hope you like it, as I did...
Believer

There are already over 200 posts on this thread, and I confess I haven't read them ALL, so I hope these haven't been posted already:

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.-- Will Durant

God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I? -- Samuel Johnson

I and the public know what all schoolchildren learn. Those to whom evil is done do evil in return. -- W.H.Auden

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. -- Unknown (often misattributed to Eleanor Roosevelt)

I haven't read all the replys either, maybe 3 or 4, but I have read yours nickelsilver, I liked that last one, most of the times I discuss ideas, dose that really make me an owner of a great mind?


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I like this one very much:

"Say only what you mean. The word is the most powerful tool we have as humans".
Don Miguel Ruiz

the one thats my signature

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Originally Posted by NNoah3

I like this one very much:

"Say only what you mean. The word is the most powerful tool we have as humans".
Don Miguel Ruiz

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WONDERFUL !


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Yeah, Don Miguel Ruiz is a very wise man--well worth reading.

On another note, I have one more fave quote. Actually I have many more favorites, but just one more for now. Not that I'm one to give relationship advice, but if I were, it might go something like this:

It's better to be alone than to wish you were.

I have a couple, sorry if they are already on here.

"If I told you my reality, you'd
say I have a great imagination,
If I told you my imagination, you'd
say I've lost touch with reality" - Bob Shanks

"Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on." - Samuel Beckett

my signature

and my favorite is a short dialogue between a preacher and a young man at confession:
"Once a upon a time, a pale and troubled man came into your church. You spoke briefly to him, and he told you of his poor relationship with God. you asked him why"
"Yes.."
"And he had no answer, then"
"Yes, I remember you."
"I have returned to tell you that I have found the answer to your question. I know why I hate God."
"...why"
" I hate God because God is the Universe, and the Universe is insane. the Universe is insane because we have driven it insane. This is very embarrasing. God knows this, and uses every opportunity to remind us what we have done to It. Thus, I hate God because God is an embarrasment to me. God is insane. I have made It insane."
I stood up in the booth, and opened the door. "But I am not sorry." - Jonathan Titchenal

At the moment, I can only name three of my favourite quotes:

"In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty." - Edward Abbey

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell


"We don't admit, we could be wrong. Least of all, in written form." -

It's about jurists and a course instructor of mine said it. (In German, of course).
I just like it because it's the truth and about the "golden rule" of all lawyers and jurists in general. :)