What are your favorite quotes?

Answer 1

"Life is pain, Anyone who says differently is selling something"

By: westly, from the movie the princess Bride

Answer 2

Here's a collection of some of my fav quotes.

"The legitimate powers of government extend only to such acts as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."- Thomas Jefferson"

To condemn a class is, to say the least, to wrong the good with the bad. I do not like to hear a class or nationality condemned on account of a few sinners."- President Abraham Lincoln, in a subsequent meeting with Jewish leaders, after commanding Army General Henry Halleck to revoke Major General Ulysses S. Grant's orders to expulse Jews from Grant's war zone for alleged smuggling and cotton speculation, 1862.

"When I get a little money, I buy books. And if any is left, I buy food and clothes."- Desiderus Erasmus

"Faith is believing in things even when commonsense tells you not to."- "Miracle on 34th Street"

"Faith- acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove."- "The Da Vinci Code"

"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box." Unknown

"The more mixed up things are, the better the solution."- Ms. Frizzle,

"The Magic School Bus""The only thing constant is change."- Ms. Frizzle, "The Magic School Bus"

Answer 3

I have a book of them, It is hard to pick a few, but here are a couple:

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where htey should be. Now put hte foundations under them."
-Henry David Thoreau

"When life hands you lemons, make applesauce."
-said by "Angela" from "The Rugrats"

"You can see only as far as our headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
-E.L. Doctorow

""Love is like a snowmobile, racing across the tundra and then suddenly, it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the weasels come."
-Matt Groening

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars."
-Les Brown

"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say. And why are you waiting?"
-Stephen Levine

I hope you enjoy those!

Answer 4

1. If there is no alternative, there is no problem.
2. Dew in the home of an ant is a flood.
3. If you anticipate a disease inoculate against it.
4. If you hire people bigger than you, you will walk in the land of giants.

Answer 5

Thought for the day: Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic...

Answer 6

I dont have one but there are some awesome ones out there and there is this one quote website called firehotquotes.com and its pretty cool

Answer 7

"Every child has great ambitions. As he grows, he is bombarded by negative suggestions -- you can't do this; you can't do that; be careful; look for security, and so on. Year by year, he experiences the realities of life, and his ambitions fade away. Figuratively speaking, most children die by the time they reach their adulthood."
-proverb by Shall Sinha
i used this in an extended definition essay. I love it because it shows the importance of having dreams and aspirations.

Answer 8

1. " They can because they think they can" - Mme. De La Fayette
2. " feel the fear and do it anyway"
3." In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough, and women are afraid that they might be considered only women." T. Reik

Answer 9

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not be false to any man. Shakespeare/Hamlet

Answer 10

Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.

Benjamin Franklin