I Collect Quotes?

Question

What is your favorite? And why?

Right now my favorite is "Knowledge without wisdom is like a stack of books on the back of an a s s."

Thanks to everyone who resopnded, got some really great quotes. Really nice to get some positive thoughts for a change on this forum. Thanks again. I can't pick a best answer, I'll let the people decide on this one.

Answer 1

I think you may like mae west. she is very witty
some examples
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly
A hard man is good to find.
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
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Answer 2

Well there is heaps but this is one of my favorite and it's true

"Some time things don't go the way that u wanted to ..it always goes the wrong way ...so get over it..."
If u don't u r the only one who get sick...

"Anything is possible if u make it possible"

and this is one of my favorite too and i make this one up

"if u hate me I will love u, if u ignore me i will call u & i can't make u love me but i can love u and make u happy, when the time is right i will let u go as u wish u don't hav to run, i will not die for u but i'll take the pain away from u, when u need me i'll be there but u don't have to be here if i need u, if u wish to leave then levave and don't turn around cause i'll not be there..if u forget me ..i allready forget u long time ago"

this is kind of long but this is my favorite ..LOL ...enjoy ..:-)

Answer 3

“Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.” - Ani DiFranco

"Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do"

"Do one thing everyday that scares you" - Elenor Roosevelt

"It's never too late to be what you might have been"

" Not a shred of evidence exists to prove that life should be taken seriously"

" If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you best teach it to dance"

"sail on silver girl, sail on by, and if you need a friend, I'm sailing right behind" -Simon and Garfunkle

"Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs"

"So I'll walk the plank and I'll jump with a smile. Cus if I'm going down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't see me surrender, you won't hear me confess, cus you left me with nothing, but I've worked with less"

"Bealive in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obsacle"

I collect quotes too

Answer 4

My favourite quote is one from the philosopher Socrates (470-399 B.C.) who lived in Athens. He said, "One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing." Although this one is my favourite, here are some other quotes from the famous philosopher.

"The trees in the countryside can teach me nothing."
On why he spent so much time conversing and arguing in market squares.

"Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life."
Socrates continually forced people he met and argued with to reveal the weaknesses in their point of view, and had no qualms with making public fools of people. He tried to make critical thinkers out of people, but not everyone was open-minded to his tactics. This very thing that made him a famous philosopher after his death would, in fact, cause his death. Socrates was condemned to drink hemlock poison in 399 B.C. He was accused of introducing new gods and of corrupting young people's minds.

He who knows what good is will do good."
Socrates thought this because he strongly believed in a human conscience, and thought that if one did wrong against their better judgement, it would make them unhappy. He believed that no one would intentionally make themselves unhappy, therefore he believed his quotation to be true.

Answer 5

I love Anais Nin, and two of my favourite quotes from her are:

And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk to blossom.

One cannot collect all the shells on the beach, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

Answer 6

S O R R Y.. but I have no particular favorite.. I like so many.. I will mention one that just came to mind.. by an anonymous person.. it goes:

Friendship is like a prism through which the many variations of beauty are revealed in our lives

Answer 7

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but yourself can free your mind.

An eagle will not know how high it can flies, until it spreads its wings.

Believe in yourself, even if others don't.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

I can complain because rosebushes have thorns, or rejoice because the thornbush has a rose … it's all up to me.

In our ongoing creation of who we are, nothing has greater impact on that process than the choice we make between optimism and pessimism. The choices we make for our thinking either motivates us or they do not.

You know more than you think you do. It is possible to do many things if you believe in yourself. But in order to, it is necessary to know who yourself is.

The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty, instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.

What goes around comes around. Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. Sing like nobody's listening. Live like it's heaven on earth.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Think of life as an elevator: you choose whether to press 'UP' or to press 'DOWN'.

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes.

5 simple rules to be happy: 1. Free your heart from hatred. 2. Free your mind from worries. 3. Live simply. 4. Give more. 5. Expect less.

For your collections :-)

Answer 8

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
- G. K. Chesterton

My beliefs were proven right after i read this quote at this stage of life and i know for sure if this quote didn't apply to me my life would be otherwise.

Answer 9

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

James Madison

Reason: I think it best describes current events!!

Answer 10

Hey,hi! even i'm quote collecter!i like to collect all kind quotes.
i think my favourite quote would be"don't make friends before understanding and don't break friendship after misunderstanding"
this is my fav. quote b'coz in life it is very important to know people or
friends whom u trust and can rely on.And after friendship u shouldn't break off just like that.u couldn't let small things ruin or break your frienship.ur bond must be strong enough to withstand such circumstances.

Answer 11

When I was in the Navy, the Chief of the Boat (I was on submarines) would tell me to be "a rocket a-s-s. All thrust and one direction".

I took that to mean, to be a hard charger. Make things happen the way you want it to happen.

This would lead to one other which is to be proactive and not reactive. Make things happen around you, don't react to things that are happening around you.