What is your favorite quotation or saying? Plus author if you know it. Mine is:
Never try to teach a pig to sing, it wastes your time and annoys the pig. (Don't have a clue who said this first)
2007-05-21 16:42:44 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Robert Heinlein? Thanks, Mark! Love Heinlein, should have known that :).
2007-05-21 16:55:07 · update #1
Great question
"The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way."
Mark Twain
2007-05-21 17:08:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Here are some of my favorites, sorry it's so long, I hope you enjoy:
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is miracle. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Physicist
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. Charles Kettering (1876-1958) Inventor
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Physicist
"In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator." --Samuel Adams
"I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those little prayers were destined to affect, and all the consequences of those prayers down through the centuries, we would be so paralyzed with awe at the power of prayer that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives." --Peter Kreeft, Professor of Philosophy, Boston College
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) Philosopher
I want to remind you that failure is an event--it is not a person. Yesterday really did end last night. Today is a brand new day. That simply means that you can fail in an event, but by no stretch of imagination does that make you a failure as a person. Zig Ziglar Motivational speaker
"Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favours. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean, for nothing can be valueless that is given by the most high God." --Thomas à Kempis
"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all." --William Faulkner
"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason." --Alfred North Whitehead
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." --Albert Einstein
"True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation." --Theophrastus
Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it. Jean Toomer (1894-1967) Poet
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?
Satchel Paige (c. 1906-1982) Professional baseball player
The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I will move the world. Archimedes (287 B.C.-212 B.C.) Mathematician and inventor
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. Antisthenes (c. 445-365 B.C.) Philosopher
2007-05-21 17:39:03 · answer #2 · answered by ROIHUNTER 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-31 01:43:55 · answer #3 · answered by catharine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DD has it it bit mixed up. This is an old Irish saying " An irish woman can tell a man to go to hell in such a way, that he gladly would run into the nearest fire for her"
2007-05-21 16:55:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Awesome question.
"To Be is to Do" Emmanuel Kant
"To Do is to Be" Frederick Nietzsche
"DO BE DO BE DO" Frank Sinatra.
I have this hanging in my art studio.
It puts everything into perspective.
Another I like is the following:
"I've been a bride married to amazement." poet Mary Oliver
"Zen mind, Beginner's mind" unknown
2007-05-21 17:13:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-Mark Twain
2007-05-22 04:14:49 · answer #6 · answered by Whootziedude 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My Senior Army Instructor in JROTC used to define tact as:
"the art of telling someone to go to hell, while making them look forward to the trip"
LTC (Ret) Robert Rasch
2007-05-21 16:48:23 · answer #7 · answered by DD 2 · 5⤊ 1⤋
There are always three ways to solve a problem. Go over it, go around it or go through it. My Dad always said that and then we analyzed my issue.
2007-05-21 17:06:31 · answer #8 · answered by nanny 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Robert Heinlein said yours.
My favorite is..."really? They bought it? They believed us?"- george bush
2007-05-21 16:50:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
the inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery.
churchill
and
the course of true love never did run smooth
wills shakespeare
2007-05-21 17:25:03 · answer #10 · answered by Mustardseed 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋