Favorite Quotes

[silversky89]

What is your favorite quote? Is it inspirational, amusing, or just simply brilliant? Why do you love it? Who said it? A quote I just found by Theodore Rooselvelt is "In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. ". I found it on MW and i have a thing for inspiration quotes and such. I do have a few favorites that are silly but they have a good message to them. What type of quotes generally appeal to you?

[chevydevil]

Read my signature

[BabblingImp]

"Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself" That is by Rita Mae Brown, And I find it it funny and since I know Rita personaly I can see her saying it! But when it comes to Quotes I can't pick a "favorite" because it's like saying whats your favorite food to me, I have too meny!

[shimaura]

My favorite inspirational one is "I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing." :)

But I also love one from "shall we dance".... "F*** you all, and I hate football." :bumpsmili

But my life motto comes from Zsuzsanna Budapest:
A life without celebration is only half lived!





Chevydevil, those rock. :clapping:

[teishabee]

I like the quote from the movie Wild at heart

'This world is wild at heart and weird on top'

I think that sums me up as well as the world.

[Daeron]

"Don't panic"
"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
~ Douglas Adams
I'm a huge Adams fan and think he was brilliant and very funny.


"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
And my sig... both from Albert Einstein

Einstein had a lot of great quotes.

[chevydevil]

"Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself"

I have a tshirt that says that! :devil:

[chevydevil]

Chevydevil, those rock. :clapping:

Thanks! :acheeer:

[~Elise~]

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

Martin Luther King

[LadyTrinity]

Fav quote .. from the mouth of my bf.. "We're here for a good time, not a long time" :smooch:

[memnoch]

several here

This ego, if you wish to call it that, is perhaps my strength - Lestat (I don't remember which book specificly)

Everything I am, I am through you. Everything you are, you are through me - Hitler

"I'm not going to make enemies now" - Voltaire when asked by a priest to denounce Satan

I do not agree with what you say but will defend with my life your right to say it - Voltaire

How terrible to wonder wishing to escape ones self - on the magic card wanderlust

Nobody is happy, happyness comes in small doses, a cigarette, a chocolate chip cookie, sex...We smoke our cigarette, eat our cookie, have our orgasm then its back to the same old shit - not an exact quote, but you get the idea- Dennis Leahry

[SilentDreams]

"I don't know what I'm gonna do but I'm damn well gonna do it" --Geri Halliwell

[Lewen]

I love quotes and have a huge file of them on my computer. I collect them, you could say.
Here are a smattering of some of the ones I like. :D
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I dream of painting, then I paint my dream." ~Van Gogh

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is
true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering
yourself is true power." - Lao-Tzu

"A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."
Lao Tzu

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

- Carl Bard

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make
a living, the other helps you make a life.

- Sandra Carey

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned
about life: it goes on.

- Robert Frost

What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what kind of a person you are
C.S. Lewis
British novelist, 1898-1963

The friendship that can cease has never been real. Saint Jerome, Letter

"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence." --Joseph Roux

Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
Robert Heinlein

"There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand."
Joyce Jillson quotes

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin Franklin
American printer, writer, philosopher, scientist and inventor, 1706-1790


"Wit is educated insolence." --Aristotle

[Temptation]

"Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself"

I so love this one!!! :lol:

This one is one of my faves : "A mind once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimension." Oliver Wendell Holmes

[serenarian]

Not as serious and inspirational as some of the quotes in this thread, but I personally love funny quotes, so here's mine:

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. Hate me because your boyfriend thinks so.

:D

[malice]

"I was always a rebel...on the other hand, I don't want to be known as this loudmouth poet/musician...but I cannot be what i'm not."

- John Lennon

[Dio]

Here are a few of my favorites...

"If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees." ~Kahlil Gibran

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. " ~J. R. R. Tolkien

"'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."
~Abraham Lincoln

"In a mad world only the mad are sane. " ~Akira Kurosawa

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allen Poe

[redlady]

At the moment? "Don't MAKE me break my foot off in your ass!"My White Momma,Madtv

[Daeron]

Fav quote .. from the mouth of my bf.. "We're here for a good time, not a long time" :smooch:
Heh.. I like that one. :)

[Sleet]

Very recent and very funny, while strangely eloquent.

Quoth Tycho, as in Gabe and Tycho, authors of Penny-Arcade, describing the thrashing they took at the hands of rivals in a video game:

"There was something complete and just and final about their victory. It was a natural outcome, seemingly rooted in physical laws, so that when the grim and grinding event reached its completion there was no way to controvert it. When the universe authors your demise, you have no recourse."

[semi]

I forgot which Carlos Castaneda book it's from, but Carlos said to Juan Matus, his mentor, "I am afraid." To paraphrase Juans' reply, he said, "Of course, you are afraid. Only a fool would not be afraid. But the difference between a normal man and a Warrior is that a normal man runs away from fear while a Warrior runs at it."

[evie_mun]

"Well-behaved women rarely make history." -I believe that's Elanor Roosevelt

"The best way out is through." -Robert Frost

"Love is a piano dropped from a 40th story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time." -from "Two Little Girls" by Ani Difranco

I've got dozens of others, but I think those are my favorite three.

[Brielle LaLune]

"The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now." - Chinese proverb

[Ziana]

There is a fine line between sanity and insanity...I walk that line.

Anything not nailed down is mine, anything I can pry loose is not nailed down.

You cannot practice the craft while you look down your nose at it.-- Practical Magic

Cancel my Subscription. I don't need your issues.

But my absolute favorite came from my friend: "Either do something about it, or quit b!tching to me"

[forestrangergrrl]

"don't squat with yer spurs on."
*grins*
i'll think of more later.... lol!

[Etoile]

The one in my signature, which translates as:

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

[Mistress_Ravenshadow]

I love the quotes on t-shirts lol do they count for this thread

I'm trying to see things from your point of view but i cant get my head that far up my ass..

you need to find a proctologist and get checked for possible brain damage.. hawk eye pierce..M*A*S*H

stupidity is not a crime, you are free to go

[Alaiyo]

I still like,

"Please try to understand before one of us dies..."
-Basil Fawlty of Fawlty Towers

[Pure Ahimsa]

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature".

[Mistress_Ravenshadow]

I still like,

"Please try to understand before one of us dies..."
-Basil Fawlty of Fawlty Towers


lmao tff

[teh_fae]

ooo quotes! The one in my 2nd siggy image is one of my favorites. Also...
- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato
- "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln

[Ninjakitten]

A bumper sticker I saw once said "If there were no hypothetical questions, what would this say?"
I also like "If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything" which I think was Eleanor Roosevelt who said that.
Oh, and Tolken's "not all who wander are lost" quote.
I usually like things that are a combination of philosophical and funny. Witty humour I guess.

[Ziana]

I saw this one on the back of a car: I am not in heat. Get off my tail.

[lia_amberwolf]

"In a world of a million religions, everyone prays the same way."

I want to get that as a tattoo... i think i want it spiraling down my arm, either that or on my back...

[forestrangergrrl]

I saw this one on the back of a car: I am not in heat. Get off my tail.



omgs!!! lmao!! i want that one!

[Flaire-FireStar]

"Guns don't kill people; physics kills people." - Dick Solomon

[Alaiyo]

I like what my friend said yesterday. It was a play on the old "Password" series...

"And the word for to day is 'No'..."

[samalander]

"Some people are like slinkys, completely useless but you can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs."

[trippingdaisy]

I've got loads that I like, but I'm far to tired to think this morning. the only one I can think of (and I've no idea who said it) is;

live like you'll die tommorow, dream like you'll live forever. (or something like that!)

[argento_occhi]

Here's mine:

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
Sir Thomas More (1478 - 1535), Utopia, Book 1

The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Biologist P. B. Medawar

We haven't got the power to destroy the planet -- or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.
Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park
-- I absolutely adore the JP novel, mainly because of Ian. All his best bits are cut out in the movie

Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one, a moment, in childhood when it first occurred to you that you don't go on for ever. It must have been shattering- stamped into one's memory. And yet I can't remember it. It never occurred to me at all. What does one make of that? We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the words for it, before we know that there are words, out we come, bloodied and squalling with the knowledge that for all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.
Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others.
Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870)

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Orson Welles (1915 - 1985), The Third Man, 1949

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - - the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.
Donald H. Rumsfeld (1932 - ), Department of Defense news briefing, February 12, 2002

In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
Ellen DeGeneres

[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

All television is children's television.
Richard P. Adler

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.
Marie Curie (1867 - 1934) French (Polish-born) chemist & physicist
-- This quote sums up how I feel about science. Science is a wonderful thing. Very beautiful, strange, weird, and inspirational. :)

[Bethra]

Quentin Crisp's view of social mobility:

"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper"

LOL my motto for life

[Lewen]

Quentin Crisp's view of social mobility:

"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper"

LOL my motto for life

LMAO...I like this one! I'll have to add it to my collection!

[Akhkharu Asgard]

Coach McGurk's (Home Movies) attempt to explain women:

"Let me tell you something: Women are like men, but men are not like women. You'll understand when you get older."

[Alaiyo]

Be quick but don't hurry.
--Coach John Wooden

[Bethra]

Oh Oh I got another one from the fabulous Mae West

"I used to be Snow White, but I driffted"

she said some other pritty funny stuff too

Woman "Goodness what lovely big diamonds you have"
Mae West "Goodness had nothing to do with it my dear!"

lol oh that woman was a terrible man eater but she loved it and you can't help but love her audasity

[Ninjakitten]

Another sticker or saying I saw was "Don't judge until you have walked a mile in the other man's shoes... that way, he will be a mile away, and barefoot!"

[evilslinkycat]

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein
:smile:

Always thought that Albert would have been an intersting person to meet!

[Threase]

Mine is: Everything will be alright in the end. If it's not alright, it's not the end.

I have a few more, I just can't think of them right now

[Boogins]

"I have nothing to declare but my genius!"-- Oscar Wilde, coming through US customs.

[ollathair]

"Here's lookin' at you. kid" -- Rick Blaine - Casablanca