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
"Who are a little wise
the best fools be." John Donne
If a drop of water falls in lake there is no identity. But if it falls on a leaf of lotus it shine like a pearl. so choose the best place where you would shine..
"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
No Matter Whats In Your Way There is Always A Path Through It
"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."
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ~ Norman Cousins
"Knowledge is the antidote to fear"
Ralf Waldo Emerson
HUDA
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 am glad to learn my friend that you had not yet submitted yourself to any of the mouldy laws of Literature."
-John Muir
"My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light"
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
That's probably 'inspired' by Bob Dylan's song "It's alright Ma, I'm only bleeding"Originally Posted by B-Mental
"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...
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?
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
Benjamin Franklin
Just last night I read Tartuffe by Moliere and thought this quote so funny, I put it in my signature.
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?
M. Loyal. Till by-and-by. May Heaven bless you all!
Orgon. And may it confound you, and him who sends you!
I'm not even sure if that's the exact phrasing but I do love those words.reaching their hands to the sky in mute lament for spring
I have others though. I'll probably post again later.
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
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."
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"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.
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