What is your favorite quote? And why?

[Scheherazade]

[blp]

'Yeah, yeah, industrial estate.' – The FAll

[Abdulbagi]

qoute:
Reputation is what ohters know about you while honor is what you know about yorself.

[Visionary3]

Children can easily open the drawer that lets the spirit rise up and wear its favorite costume of mirth and laughter.

Indeed God has written a thousand promises all over your heart that say, Life, life, life is far to sacred to ever end.

There is a madman inside you who is always running for office - why vote for him?

By the persian poet Hafiz


And this one by Maya Angelou...

Music is my refuge. I'd crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back loneliness.

[Dori]

"What do you mean," he said. "Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?" (The Hobbit, Page 4, J.R.R. Tolkien)

[Pensive]

"What do you mean," he said. "Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?" (The Hobbit, Page 4, J.R.R. Tolkien)

Heh, that's a good one!

[Dori]

Heh, that's a good one!

I thought it would be .

The quotes in my sig are also some of my favorites.

[prince's flower]

"Bold lover,never,never canst thou kiss,
Though winning near the goal-yet,do not grieve;
She cannot fade,though thou hast not thy bliss,
For ever wilt thou love,and she be fair !"

what a beautiful and dulcet pregnent moment given by John Keats.

[protagonist]

my signature tells everything.It is my favourite signature...

[Haven]

The forward thinking of today, will be the common sense of tomorrow. Matthew Arnold. 19th c. poet and cultural critic.

Of all Arnold's insightful sayings this is one of my favourites. It can be applied to just about anything.

On another forum [mainly for RPG's] someone mentioned [hi Kipi... name check should you be passing by] that in the 1950's rock and roll music was considered to be the 'devil's music... Well, Elvis et al what do you have to say?

[quasimodo1]

That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

[Mad Organist]

"Politicians are the devil's quilted anvil; he fashions all sins on them, and the blows are never heard"
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

"True poesy is not in words
But images that thoughts express
By which the simplest hearts are stirred
To elevated happiness"
John Clare "Pastoral Poesy"

"I have nothing to declare but my genius"
attrib. Oscar Wilde while passing through Customs

"An eductaion ought to be good to justify depriving a child of its liberty"
J.S. Mill, On Liberty

"Return with speed, time passeth swift away;
Our lie is short, and we may die today"
Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great, Part One

"When each gladness has gone, gathering sorrow
may cloud the brain; and in his breast a man
cannot see how his sorrows shall end"
Deor,translated from the Old English by Michael Alexander

"Suitable for indoor and outdoor use only"
Found on several brands of fairy lights

"Only to be used for processing food, not the other use"
Found on a Swedish blender.

"The world of the poor teaches us that liberation can only be achieved when the poor are not on the receiving end of handouts from church and state, but are truly the masters and protagonists in their own struggle for liberation"
Oscar Romero, Archbisop of San Salvador

"One must not love oneself so much as to avoid getting involved in the risks that history demands"
Ibid

Hmmm...I seem to have more favourites than I thought I had until I had to start thinking about which were my favourites...

[Shurtugal]

um... i'd have to say one of my signitures... "To die would be an awfully big and venture."

i wait for the day to say that!

[Annabel Lee]

"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success." - Louisa May Alcott

"A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent." - John Calvin

"No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief." - John Calvin

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." - Louisa May Alcott

"We all have our own life to pursue, Our own kind of dream to be weaving, And we all have the power To make wishes come true, As long as we keep believing." - Louisa May Alcott

"By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination." - Christopher Columbus

"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World." - Christopher Columbus

[Dori]

I have another one:

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Cicero