what is your favorite quote? who wrote it? why is it your favorite?

Answer 1

"It is better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."-Unknown

"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art"-
Kahlil Gibran

Answer 2

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein

"If fascism ever comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag."
Huey Long

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety
Benjamin Franklin

Answer 3

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999

This struck a chord somewhere inside about being satisfied with who and what a person is and how to tell the difference.

Also from the same author, but cannot remember which book it is from:
"Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."

Answer 4

"Everybody has to be somewhere." By Henny Youngman. It is really a punchline to when man comes home and opens his closet door where an unknown man is standing.The man asks what are you doing here and the closet man repeats the above line.
A person asked Yogi" What time is it" he replies" right now". by Yogi Berra

Answer 5

I have two actually, both by Eleanor Roosevelt.

Great minds discuss ideas
Average minds discuss events
Small minds discuss people

Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

I like them both because they carry a very strong message.

Answer 6

"Anything can be accomplished if you put the screws to the right people." Dear Old Dad

another fav:

"Never teach a pig to sing, it wastes your time and annoys the pig" Don't have a clue who said it first. But I like it because it reminds me not to bother with people who have closed minds.

Answer 7

"A true friend is someone who loves you, even when you act like yourself." (No idea who said it, but I love it)

"I'd rather hunt with Dick Cheney than ride with Ted Kennedy" (I really feel that way)

"Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my gun" (I loathe that murdering blowhard)

"Fur is more violently opposed than leather because it's easier to pick on rich women than motorcycle gangs." (love it 'cause it's true!)

"...if you live feeling like your glass is half empty, well, it may as well be empty all the way." - Mattie Stepanek (if that kid could have a good attitude, I certainly can)

" . . . you know frankly, going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless noisy baggage behind." - Jed Babbin (just think it's funny)

Answer 8

"You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance."
Ray Bradbury
It is my favorite because it tells us all we need to know to make something of ourselves in writing. I am very much into writing, and I love looking at quotes from authors, but none are as necessary as this one.

Answer 9

"Giving power and money to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." P.J. O'Roarke

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have." Gerald Ford

"A friend helps you move. A real friend helps you move bodies." Unknown.

Answer 10

"Sometimes it's easier to shut people up than to make them happy." It was said by someone's boss and they submitted it to Overheard in the Office.