favorite quotes?

Question

one of my favorites is:

Forgiveness is the scent a flower leaves on the shoe of the heel that has crushed it. Anonymous

Answer 1

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."
A classic in my book

Answer 2

Here's a collection of some of my fav quotes.
"The legitimate powers of government extend only to such acts as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."- Thomas Jefferson
"To condemn a class is, to say the least, to wrong the good with the bad. I do not like to hear a class or nationality condemned on account of a few sinners."- President Abraham Lincoln, in a subsequent meeting with Jewish leaders, after commanding Army General Henry Halleck to revoke Major General Ulysses S. Grant's orders to expulse Jews from Grant's war zone for alleged smuggling and cotton speculation, 1862.
"When I get a little money, I buy books. And if any is left, I buy food and clothes."- Desiderus Erasmus
"Faith is believing in things even when commonsense tells you not to."- "Miracle on 34th Street"
"Faith- acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove."- "The Da Vinci Code"
"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box." Unknown
"The more mixed up things are, the better the solution."- Ms. Frizzle, "The Magic School Bus"
"The only thing constant is change."- Ms. Frizzle, "The Magic School Bus"

Answer 3

"The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose." Hada Bejar.

"I could never have been infected by the nihilistic emotionalism of those young men who, rather than gain knowledge of the world, would change it to make it accept their ignorance."

"The road away from Hell is the road that leads there."

Both of these by Michael Moorcock in his novel Byzantium Endures. The last quote about hell may be from something else. Not quite sure.

Answer 4

I have two favorite quotes actually...

"No one's life should be rooted in fear.We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existance, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are." -Dean Koontz (from the book Life Expectancy)

and

"Roll that beautiful bean footage!" -Duke the Bush's Baked Beans dog

Answer 5

All Nature is but art unknown to thee; All chance direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is is right.
Alexander Pope

Answer 6

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Thomas A. Edison

Answer 7

Some men see things as they are and ask why, I dream dreams that never were and ask why not?
George Bernard Shaw/Robert F. Kennedy

Answer 8

Just because i'm paranoid doesn't mean everyone's not out to get me.

I believe in karma. That means I can do anything I want to people and assume they deserved it in a past life.

and last,
I was wondering why a frisbee gets bigger as it got closer, then it hit me....

Answer 9

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

Answer 10

"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (Jesus- John 3:16)


"A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another ; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." (Jesus-John 13:34)