good quotes??

Question

i have a book im trying to fill with quotes. so i was wondering if any of you had any. any are good....funny or serious, or anything else. thanks

Answer 1

"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944), "The Little Prince", 1943

"Never have children, only grandchildren."
Gore Vidal (1925 - )

"You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers."
John J. Plomp

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
Albert Einstein

"Whatever you are, be a good one."
Abraham Lincoln

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
Abraham Lincoln

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
Abraham Lincoln

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
Abraham Lincoln

-I like these ones, and I hope you do too!

Answer 2

"You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be." Dumbledore

"To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." Dumbledore

"Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them." Dumbledore

"Harry, I owe you an explanation," said Dumbledore.

"An explanation of an old man's mistakes. For I see now that what I have done, and not done, with regard to you, bears all the hallmarks of the failings of age. Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young...and I seem to have forgotten lately." Dumbledore

"It is important to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then can evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated." Dumbledore

OK I am going through a Harry Potter thing with the last book just being read. I'll have to go back and reread it to get any quotes from it though sorry.

Answer 3

That sounds like a great and creative idea! Nice going!

As for quotes, try anything Shakespeare!!! There is a limitless amount, AND they come in both funny and serious!

Good luck on your book! Best wishes! =]

Answer 4

I too collect quotes and I will be happy to share my favorites with you. I have shared them many times on YA's.

“ If you don’t know where your going.
Any road will take you there.”
George Harrison
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise man grows it under his feet.
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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom, one helps you make a living,
the other helps you make a life.
James Oppenheim
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You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
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If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.
Doug Floyd
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Learn to pause . . . or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.

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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.


Fun Quotes

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I’m in for a good time,
not a long time.

~
Think like a guy
and
act like a girl.

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My aim is to keep this bathroom clean.
Your aim would help.

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Nobody listens to me,
until I fart.

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There is a town in Alaska that has very few women
and lots of single men, but the women have a
humorous saying concerning all of the men in town.
The odds are good
but
the goods are odd.

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You don’t have to worry about the world coming to an end today.
It’s already tomorrow in Australia.

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I Love You More Today
Than Yesterday.
Yesterday You Really Pissed Me Off.

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I smile because you are my sister.
I Laugh because there is nothing
you can do about it.

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If at first you don’t succeed, do it like your mother told you.



My favorite Patriotic quote.
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“ If you can read this thank a teacher and since it’s in English, thank a soldier !! ”

Hope you enjoy them, I certainly do.

Answer 5

Email Oprah,she makes books of quotes

Answer 6

"It is our choices, Harry, that determine who we truly are, far more than our abilities" (realize this is Harry Potter, but I just like this quote...

"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it." Arnold Toynbee

"Everyone lies." I've seen this quote in House, Agatha Christie's books, and more.

"best friends are the people who know all about you and still put up with you" (I've heard variations of this quote, but I'm not sure where it comes from)

"All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand"
=)

I have more, but I have to find them.

Answer 7

"To bait fish withal; if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends and heated mine enemies. And what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, passions, affections, fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same disease, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, do we not revenge? If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge! If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge! The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction."
-Shylock, The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare.

If there are few scrambled words, please don't shout. I did 4/5 of it from memory.

Answer 8

There is one web site provide many kinds of quotes. The quotes are very nice. www.lovingyou.com

Take a look.

Answer 9

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

To see in the eyes of others is to stand atop a new mountain.

Lies fly then fall, truth stumbles but keeps going.

I'm fat, you're ugly-- I can diet.

Answer 10

People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God.
It never was between you and them anyway.

-mother teresa, also her

I know God won't give me anything i can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.