What is your favorite quote? And why?

[mazHur]

" Praise be to God, Lord of the worlds ! The compassionate, the
merciful ! King on the day of judgment. Thee only do we worship and
to Thee do we cry for help. Guide Thou us on the right path, the path of
those to whom Thou art gracious, not of those with whom Thou art
angered, nor of those who go astray."
Al-Koran
translated by Rodwell.

[mazHur]

" Annasu ala dini mulukihim." Arabic Prov.

" People follow the religion of their kings.

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"When the generous promise, they perform."
Sadi.

[Valaquen]

Hello, new to the forum. I would have to choose, as my favourite(s):

"It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organised dust - ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out, which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream."
Mary Wollstonecraft, Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.

^ A plea from the soul for the existence of the spirit. And:

“I have a notion that, at big fires, a moment of extreme suspense can sometimes occur, when the jets of water slacken off, the firemen no longer climb, no one moves a muscle. Without a sound, a high black wall of masonry cants over up above, the fire blazing behind it, and, without a sound, leans, about to topple. Everyone stands waiting, shoulders tensed, faces drawn in around their eyes, for the terrible crash. That is how the silence is here."
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

^ Just heavy with atmosphere and dread.

[paulanderson114]

Today I caught myself smiling for no reason... then I realized I was thinking about you

[smerdyakov]

What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that ‘walks in us.’ There are all sorts of dead ideas and lifeless old beliefs. They have no tangibility, but they haunt us all the same and we can not get rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. Ghosts must be all over the country, as thick as the sands of the sea.

Ghosts - Ibsen

[Prairie]

That's an amazing Rilke quote above. It reminds me of the atmosphere of dread as today's economy crumbles under corporate avarice.

[cafolini]

Do not pray for something so hard because it might actually happen, and you, getting into a stupid habit, might then begin to waste your time praying for a lot of things that could never happen.

[cafolini]

"I am the president of Iraq and I'm willing to negotiate. Is this the mother of all peace?" ~ Ace in the hole.

[BlackCat]

"Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends" ~John 15:13, Jesus of Nazareth

[BlackCat]

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."

~Charles Dickens, A tale of two cities

[cafolini]

Know or listen to those who know. ~ Baltasar Gracian

[cafolini]

Life is like a star that thrives on the fuel of ideals. If you let it estinguish, you are left like a piece of rotten human flesh. ~ Jose Enrique Rodo

[cafolini]

All men are equal before fish. ~ Herbert Hoover

[KCurtis]

All men are equal before fish. ~ Herbert Hoover

All fish are not equal before men. Haddock is best. Karen Curtis

[cafolini]

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. ~ Mark Twain