Does anyone have quotes?

Question

yes, i know, I ask this ALOT. Please tell me any and all that come to mind. they dont have to have the person who said them. thanks!
And dont give me other sites to go to; i have to stay on yahoo.

Answer 1

In music, the passions enjoy themselves - Nietzsche

The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly - Nietzsche

Now is blessed, the rest remembered - Jim Morrison

To the world, you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world.

I would rather have eyes that cannot see, ears that cannot hear, and lips that cannot speak, than to have a heart that cannot love.
- Robert Tizon

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense - Mark Overby

The problem with political jokes is they get elected

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Earnest Benn

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas - Paula Poundstone

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? - George Carlin

Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think - Tom Wilson

Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly and for the same reason

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened - Dr Seuss

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death - Einstein

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. - Einstein

I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people. - Jack Handy

Answer 2

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else.
- Unknown

Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbons.
–Ann Ruth Schabader

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
- Nelson Boswell

One man with courage makes a majority.
-Andrew Jackson (submitted by joynagpal)

Answer 3

I'll give you some famous ones from various philosophy books - they're all paraphrases cuz I don't have the books handy.

"Democracy is the belief that all people are equal, even when it is clearly not so." - Plato
"If there were a nation of Gods, they would rule themselves democratically; a system so perfect is ill-suited to men." - Rousseau
"God is Dead." - Nietzsche
"In the state of war, human life is nasty, brutish and short." - Hobbes
"The result of civilization will ultimately be the outcome of the inevitable war between the two immortal powers, aggression and love." - Freud
"Nature has placed mankind under the sway of two sovereign powers: pleasure and pain." - Bentham

There are a ton more, but yeah, that's a start.

Answer 4

If horses were wishes beggars would ride

Life is 1% inspiration and 99% persperation

Give me some more minutes and I'll keep throwing them at U

Answer 5

"It's not bragging if you produce." Don Sutton
"Weather is just an excuse." Terry Mulholland
"I'm goin' to Hooters." Mike Krukow

Answer 6

Do or do not, there is no try.... Yoda

A day without sunshine...is like....night. Steve Martin

You can't have everything, where would you put it....Steven Wright

Answer 7

"To err human, to forgive devine."
- Alexander Pope

Answer 8

"I'll have four fried chickens and a coke". - Jake Blues

Answer 9

"Never hold your farts in.They travel up your spine into your brain and that's where you get shitty ideas from."

Answer 10

"Less is more" - Dr. John Demartini

"What you flee ... follows." - ditto

"What you fear comes near." - ditto