Favorite Quotes?

Question

Could be any movies, novels, ads, etc...

I'll post mine's along with the one I think is best, as it hasn't come to mind yet.

Answer 1

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. - Longfellow

Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes,
And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes
The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills,
Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills: -
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass:
Environment is but his looking-glass. - Allen

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. - Freud

I know this, at least, from my experience; if a man proceeds confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has envisioned, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. - Thoreau

The younger man knows the rules, but the older man knows the exceptions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

One who does not read has no advantage over one who cannot read. - Mark Twain

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. - Mohandas Gandhi

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. - Robert Frost

Answer 2

Who would have thought the meaning of life was so simple and clear..."Life is all about ***; you're either covering it, laughing it off, kicking it, kissing it, busting it, trying to get a piece of it, or behaving like one.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau

"It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens."- Woody Allen

when someone tells you nothing is impossible ask them to dribble a football

you know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is white, the best golfer is black, the tallest player in the NBA is chinese, Sweden has America's cup, France is talking about how arrogant the US is, Germany won't fight in the war, and the most powerful people in the nation are named Bush, Dick, and Colon.
-Chris Rock

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it

The truth is like sunlight. People used to think it's good for you.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.- Mark Twain

Answer 3

"Hurry, please. We have so much time and so little to see. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it. Thank you." - Willy Wonka

"To die will be an awfully BIG adventure." - Peter Pan

"I learned that if I ever go looking for my heart's desire, I won't look further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, then I never really lost it in the first place." - Dorothy Gale

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." - Inigo Montoya

"The reader knows and guesses the rest. It is all in keeping with this incredible and yet veracious story. Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be "some one," like everybody else. But he was too ugly! And he had to hide his genius OR USE IT TO PLAY TRICKS WITH, when, with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar. Ah, yes, we must needs pity the Opera ghost." - Gaston Leroux

"Poor- All my life I've always been poor. Keep asking God what I'm for, and he tells me 'Gee, I'm not sure- sweep that floor kid'." - Seymour Krelborn

Answer 4

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
-Helen Keller

The geat blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
-Seneca

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
-Hypocrites

Life is like a library owned by the author.
In it are a few books which he wrote himself,
but most of them were written for him.
-Harry Emerson Fosdick

The boundaries which divide life from death
are at best shadowy and vague.
Who shall say where one ends,
and the other begins?
-Edgar Alan Poe

One way to get the most out of life is
to look upon it as an adventure.
-William Feather

Answer 5

"Half of what I said I didn't say" > Yogi Berra

"If you tell the truth you won't have to remember anything" > Mark Twain

"That is the sort of thing up with which I shall not put" > Winston Churchill rebutting a criticism of his poor grammar

"There is nothing to fear but fear itself" > Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"For those who do not believe in the existence of God, no proof is sufficient; for those who do, no proof is necessary" > George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much" > Oscar Wilde

"If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion" > George Bernard Shaw

"He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches" > GBS

"Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest" > Mark Twain

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress" > MT

"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy" > Woody Allen

Answer 6

My personal favorite quote is
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
Winston Churchill

Answer 7

1. cowards die many times before their death,but valiant just tastes it once.-- Shakespeare(Julius Ceaser)

2. men at times are masters of their fates,the fault dear Brutus lies not in our stars but in ourselves --Shakespeare.

3. it's better to forget and than to remember and be sad.

Answer 8

How many cares one loses when one decides to not be something but someone- Gabrielle (CoCo) Chanel

Answer 9

ALL Problems can be solved - it is only a matter of time and money.....

in other words - given enough time and money ALL problems can be solved.

Answer 10

This too shall pass