Favorite quotes?

Answer 1

"Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe." -- Jackie Mason

"The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news, we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were." -- David Brinkley

Answer 2

"If A is success in life, then A equals X + Y + Z. X is work, Y is play and Z is keeping your mouth shut."

"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.” -Charles R Swindoll

"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Answer 3

Who are a free people? Not those over whom government is reasonably exercised, but those who live under a government so constitutionally checked and controlled that proper provision if made against its being otherwise exercised. – John Dickinson:
Farmer’s Letters, VII.

Where is the heart that doth not keep,
Within its inmost core,
Some fond remembrance hidden deep,
Of days that are no more?
Ellen Clementine Howarth: ‘Tis but a Little Faded Flower, 1864.

An Atheist is a man who destroys the chimeras
Which afflict the human race, and so leads
Men back to nature, to experience and to
Reason.
P.H.D. D’Holbach: Le systeme de la nature, XXVI, 1770.

Answer 4

"I have a dream, that one day. My children will one day live in a nation where they are not judged by the colour of their skin. But by the content of their character."

Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King is amazing. That guy was arrested around 30 for sticking up for his mates and never gave up, he was a determined, resourceful, peaceful man who is my hero. The idiot who shot him does not have a heart. This is a brilliant line and speech that perfectly resembles Martin Luther King. He shows us that violance is not the way to solve problems! Martin Luther King Jr. is the greatest!

Answer 5

It was a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. --Shakespeare - in Macbeth (i think) I worked for a man once that this quote described perfectly.

A man becomes what he thinks about all day long. --can't recall who, I have it written down somewhere.

Answer 6

Aristotle's Laws of Non-Contradiction., A cannot be A and non A. Law of Identity, A is A. Law of Excluded Middle, A cannot be both A and B.

Answer 7

"It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be"

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed"

Answer 8

"Ladies and gentlemen, this tall drink of water headed my way is a pillar of the shopping community who informed me earlier today of a nefarious plan of his to screw my girlfriend in an extremely uncomfortable place. "
-Brodie Bruce

Answer 9

"Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" Ralph Waldo Emerson

Answer 10

Anything from H.L. Mencken