What are some of your fav. quotes?

Question

I am bored, and just wondering what some of your fav. quotes are? They can be from famous people, movies, lyrics of a song..anything.

Answer 1

" If people didn't make mistakes, they wouldn't put erasers on pencils"

Answer 2

"For all men strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while non strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos."
- Chuang-tzu 369-286 B.C.

"We do not what we ought; what we ought not, we do; and lean upon the thought that chance will bring us through."
- Matthew Arnold 1822-1888

"There is a thin line between courage and stupidity."
- Unknown

"The public be damned."
- William Henry Vanderbilt 1821-1885 (but I do not like the context this quote was used in...)

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec 1909-1966

"Some are born mad. Some remain so."
- Samuel Beckett 1906-1989

"Even God lends a hand to honest boldness."
- Meander 342-292 B.C.

"Levin wanted friendship and got friendliness; he wanted steak and the offered spam."
- Bernard Malamud 1914-1986


"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."
- Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894

"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."
- Henry Brooks Adams 1838-1918

"Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad."
- Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830-1894

"Love is... Born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other; is is concluded withthe impossibility of semeration!"
- Jose Marti 1853-1895

"Today is the first day of the rest of your life!"
- Unknown

: )

I did an English project a few months ago that required us to find quotes to live by... that explains my quantity.

Answer 3

ok here goes
{from a great friend his dad told him}
all things happen for the best
you may not see the best at the time it happens
but somewhere down the road you will see what was gained from it! { and i have found this one true}

my daughters fav
to the world you may be just one person
but to one person you may be the world

my fav
you will most likely forget the things people say and do to you
but you will always remember the way they made you feel!!
{i just love that so so much}

this one is hard to understand if you have never seen anything bad like my young sons murder{shot in head}
there are some things once you see you can never unsee
from the movie 8mm with nicholas cage


yesterday is history
tomorrow is a mystery
today is a present {church sign]

live well
love hard
laugh often

if you love something set it free,if it comes back its your ,if it doesn't it never was

a friend will bail you out of jail
a good friend will be sitting there with you saying damn we _ucked up.......
that one is for my best friend ever she past at age 36 cancer
I LOVE YA KILL

the older the violin the sweeter the music
Augustus McCray lonesome dove

I will not leave you comfortless:I will come to you
Jesus john14-18


OK tired of typing

Answer 4

Seriousness is the Refuge of the Shallow, meaning, if you did something shallow and stupid (like adam sandler or the show jackasss) you will one day decide to do something very serious/ depressing to remind people that "hey, even though I just farted in this guys face because I have a remote that stops time and I don't like him, I can still make you cry with a good death scene." It's childish.

The other is: "I'm not young enough to know everything." That's a quote that made me realize that even though I have ideas, I'm still young and don't know all that much.

Answer 5

These are some of my favorite quotes. Hope you enjoy them.

“ If you don’t know where your going.
Any road will take you there.”
George Harrison

If you always do what you always did,
you will always get what you always got.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise man grows it under his feet.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom, one helps you make a living,
the other helps you make a life.
James Oppenheim

You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.

If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.
Doug Floyd

Learn to pause . . . or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.

“ If you can read this thank a teacher and since it’s in English, thank a soldier !! ”

Answer 6

VIGILIA PRETIUM LIBERIATIS
(Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty)
"Superior minds are concerned with ideas, average minds with events, and inferior minds with personalities."-Col. Jeff Cooper
"They that would give up Liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither Liberty nor safety."-Benjamin Franklin
....arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property.......horrible mischief would ensue were (law-abiding) citizens deprived the use of them."-Thomas Paine
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined. The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able will have a gun."-Patrick Henry
"The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms."-Samuel Adams
just a few of some of the important ones.

Answer 7

"The biggest enemy of best is good. If you're satisfied with what's good, you'll never have what's best." -- Unknown

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived." - Patrick Stewart

"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose." -Kin Hubbard

"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability." - John Wooden

Answer 8

Mark Twain:
"There are three types of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics."

wtf???
or:

"When you throw things up on stage, it is a sign of small and insignificant genitalia."
-Taken from Les Claypool at Woodstock '94.

"Silence is golden. Duct tape is silver."

"You know, Brain, your sense of time is impeccable. But your sense of timing is way the f*ck off, because that was way more than 27 seconds."
-Taken from Les Claypool at the Lorely Festival when his new drummer, Brian "Brain" Mantia, did a supposedly 27 second drum solo.

and finally:

"PRIMUS SUCKS!!!"

Answer 9

Save water .. Drink Beer

Answer 10

"Timing is EVERYTHING!"

"I don't know if I am on the edge of living or dying . . . truly, I am on the edge". (author Peter McWilliams)

"Yeah, but we danced our asses off !" (Kevin Bacon in FOOTLOOSE).

"If I have to choose between the lesser of 2 evils, I pick the one I haven't done yet." (Mae West)

". . . they can't take away my dignity!" (Whitney Houston)

". . . ahhh! It's great to be young and insane!" (Michael Keaton in The Dream Tean)

(good question!)
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Answer 11

I cried because I had no shoes until I saw a man that had no feet