What is your favorite quote? And why?

[1sweetkate]

I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood.

William Shakespeare

[Gibran]

I'm forever walking upon these shores
Betwixt the sand and the foam

Khalil Gibran

[Keltic Banshee]

well, apart from the ones in my signature...

"Only two things are infinite: the Universe, and human stupidity... and I am not sure about the first one" (Albert Einstein)

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived" (heard it in "Dead Poet Society", don't remember where it originally comes from)

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
(Albert Camus)

Oh, sweeet glorious caffine, how I have missed your bitter kiss! ... er, I mean "Good Morning!"

"Loud" is never a suitable substitute for "Right"

and others I use as random quote of the day in my website

[Whifflingpin]

" "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived" (heard it in "Dead Poet Society", don't remember where it originally comes from) "


Thoreau "Where I lived and what I lived for" from "Walden, or Life in the Woods"

[Keltic Banshee]

Thanks I can never remember it

[alter-native]

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",

[Virgil]

" "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived" (heard it in "Dead Poet Society", don't remember where it originally comes from) "


Thoreau "Where I lived and what I lived for" from "Walden, or Life in the Woods"

It comes from Walden Pond, Henry David Theorou (spelling incorrect). I believe it's on the opening page.

[TodHackett]

A few favs:

The cloud capp'd Towers,
The glorious palaces,
the solemn temples,
the great Globe itself shall dissolve,
and, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
leave not a rack behind.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on,
and our little lives are rounded with a sleep.

--Shakespeare originally, Prospero's speech near the end of The Tempest. But I first heard it when I sang it-- #3 in Ralph Vaughn Williams' "Three Shakespeare Songs". I hear the music even as I type the words, despite the fact that it's been five years since I sang the piece.

And, so long as we are on Williams' appropriations of poets' texts, I shall add another:

"WORD over all, beautiful as the sky!
Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night, incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil’d world:"

--Whitman originally. Now, part of Williams' _Dona Nobis Pacem_. And everything-- EVERYTHING-- in this movement is a set up for the final resolution: this... soil'd... ... world. (I wish I knew enough about chords to describe it more effectively to the musicians out there).

[rachel]

That was awesome, thankyou.
I am sorry that my quote is not as lofty but it is 'food' for thought.

"Don't eat fruit and nuts, you are what you eat" Jim Davis

[Virgil]

Time for a new quote: Marcus Aurelius (Meditations)is filled with great quotes. Here's one to wake up to:

Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil. But I who have seen the nature of the good that it is beautiful, and of the bad that it is ugly, and the nature of him who does wrong, that it is akin to me, not only of the same blood or seed, but that it participates in the same intelligence and the same portion of the divinity, I can neither be injured by any of them, for no one can fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsman, nor hate him, For we are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another then is contrary to nature; and it is acting against one another to be vexed and to turn away.

[sdr4jc]

Here's my quote:

"I feel as though my life is a bad dream, and I often wonder whose it is and whether they are enjoying it."

[SirRupert]

to preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always posses arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.

- i think that was richard henry lee....

[Gehenna]

''manj strašna noč je v črne zemlje krili,
ko so pod svetlim soncem sužni dnovi!''
-France Prešeren (Krst pri Savici)

Translation:
''Less terrifying is the night
Within the folds of the black soil
Than days of enslavement
Under the shinning sun''

One from the greatest Slovenian poet!

[Anon22]

''manj strašna noč je v črne zemlje krili,
ko so pod svetlim soncem sužni dnovi!''
-France Prešeren (Krst pri Savici)

Translation:
''Less terrifying is the night
Within the folds of the black soil
Than days of enslavement
Under the shinning sun''

One from the greatest Slovenian poet!

I got a couple:

"Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out." ~Frank A. Clark

"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul." ~Michel de Montaigne

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune." ~Benjamin Disraeli

"Patience makes lighter what sorrow may not heal." ~Horace

"Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most." ~Ashleigh Brilliant

"Humility, that low sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot." ~Thomas Moore


also... that "Smile, it confuses people" and the one above it are from shirts

[hastalavictoria]

"every man is responsible for all the good he didn't do"
or something like that
Voltaire