What's your favorite quote?

Question

I like the quote, "Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it." –Irving Berlin

What's yours?

Answer 1

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. ~ James Dean.

Answer 2

"bite me"

lol jk
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i like

Nobody believes the official spokesman, but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
-- Ron Nesen
Have you noticed that all the people in favour of birth control are already born?
-- Benny Hill
The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night.
-- Otto von Bismarck
A recent survey stated that the average person's greatest fear is having to give a speech in public. Somehow this ranked even higher than death which was third on the list. So, you're telling me that at a funeral, most people would rather be the guy in the coffin than have to stand up and give a eulogy.
-- Jerry Seinfield
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
-- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

Answer 3

Is Life so Dear or Peace so Sweet as to be purchased with Chains and Slavery? Almighty God forbid it! As for me, Give me Liberty, or Give me Death!

Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775

“Those who stand for nothing, fall for anything.” ALEXANDER HAMILTON

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” EDMUND BURKE

“The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” MARK TWAIN


“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimists fears this is true.” JAMES BRANCH CABELL

Anyone who says you can't buy Love had obviously never bought a dog.
Doc Hudson

Answer 4

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J.R.R. Tolkien

An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.

Mohatma Ghandi

Answer 5

Steven Tyler, of Aerosmith, when asked " What do you hate?" in an interview said " Dope, teachers who can't teach, and the fact that you have to take a test to get a drivers license, but anyone can be a parent."

Answer 6

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
W. H. Auden

This excerpt is from a rather long poem. I love this poem ever since John Hannah's character read it aloud in his gay partner's funeral in the movie" Four Weddings and A Funeral."

Answer 7

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.


Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Answer 8

And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
Paul McCartney/John lennon
Abbey Road The End

Answer 9

"When you have eliminated the imposible whatever remains, However improbable, must be the truth."
Sir Arther Conan Doyle (sherlock Holmes)

or,

"Do nothing which is of no use."
Shinmen Miyamoto Musashi no Kami (Miyamoto Musashi)

Answer 10

Maybe it cheating but I have two...."I am beyond good and evil I just am!" Galactus from marvel comic books, And "Fame is a empty purse...Eat it and go hungry, drink it and go thirsty..seek it and go mad!" A thief in the movie Krull.

Answer 11

"Pride goes before a fall they say, but then I've never listened to they. For they are the same as them whereas I was an us, which is like a me but more."

I like this one very much but I don't remember who said this. Anyone Knows?