Everyone has a favorite quote or line from a movie, book, or whatever that they remember. It could be inspiring, funny, full of wisdom or whatever... but it has stuck to you. So, tell me your favorite quote.
Mine is
"Ignorance is free, but knowledge is earned."
~ Anonymous
2007-06-07 06:42:37 · 9 answers · asked by Answer-Me-This 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." - from the Princess Bride, spoken about the word "inconceivable"
"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." - Woody Allen
"Water, water, every where
And all the boards did shrink.
Water, water every where
But not a drop to drink." - from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by S. T. Coleridge
2007-06-07 06:50:41 · answer #1 · answered by Nerys 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
"I have been the lover of many women, but never of a man, and so it was with him; but there was something in him that could charm me, as a snake may charm its prey."
Theseus about Pirithoos, in The Bull From the Sea by Mary Renault
"Long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away" Star Wars
"Where are the snows of yesteryear?" don't know the source
"Ghosts of horses dead in Russia cannot plow the fields of France" about the famine following Napoleon's ill fated invasion of Russia
2007-06-07 17:58:45 · answer #2 · answered by LodiTX 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When you get to the fork in the road, take it.
For golfers - 100% of the putts that are short, don't go in.
Yogi Berra
2007-06-07 08:14:50 · answer #3 · answered by SPATTMAN 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
Henry David Thoreau
2007-06-07 06:49:41 · answer #4 · answered by B 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Man was given a sense of imagination so that he could envison what he is not and a sense of humor so that he could laugh and accept what he truly is.
2007-06-07 10:39:55 · answer #5 · answered by tirowan13 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I like the one credited to Groucho Marx who wrote to his club saying:-
'I resign. I wouldn't want to belong to a club that would have me as a member!'
2007-06-07 06:48:00 · answer #6 · answered by quatt47 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No sense being a dam' fool about it.
W.C. Fields
2007-06-07 08:29:32 · answer #7 · answered by open4one 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Other people's opinion of you do not have to become your reality.
Elenor Roosevelt (I think)
2007-06-07 09:17:13 · answer #8 · answered by Southern Lady 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"no matter where in the world you go........there you are."
2007-06-07 06:50:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋