What is your favorite quote? And why?

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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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

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.

"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

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

- David Levesque -

"I am not a crook."
- Richard Nixon

"Yes, you are too."
- Everybody outside of Mr. Nixon's immediate family

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

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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.

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.

"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

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"Don't let it end this way! Tell them I said something!"

Last words of Pancho Villa

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

- David Levesque -

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Great quote, where is it from?

"We do not live as we wish to, but as we can"
Menander

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

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.

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

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" 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"

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

"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

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

"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."

"Knowledge is the antidote to fear"
Ralf Waldo Emerson

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

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.

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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.

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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."

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

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:

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

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

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

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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?

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reaching their hands to the sky in mute lament for spring

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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.

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."

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

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.

I simply love the quote in my signature

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

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

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

Without Action, Philosophy Would Have No Meaning

-Seb Foucan(co-creator of Parkour)