I love quotes. I even have a book which i write them into.

Please share your favourite quote with me

It can be funny, enlightening, historical or sappy as shit. I don't care just share.

Ta!

That one is born every minute is a conservative estimate. Elbert Hubbard

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Oscar Wilde

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." - Helen Keller

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain. Ambrose Bierce

I knew you were a fellow quote fan Genesia. I mentioned it a few weeks ago on another thread.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Al Gore could really pollute a bathroom ... Just look at the guy. If someone doesn't take away his pork 'n' beans, he's bound to get another one of those 'gut feelings' and mistake his own greenhouse gas production for science!

"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal."

and

"Like apples of gold in settings of silver is the word spoken in its time."
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Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.

-Fernand Leger

As my words meander down your back, hush, without a sound CRACK! I crackle, crack you up as I tickle your thighs, tight. I'm wack, jamming as we were on the soundtrack of indulgence.

Mysterioso


Or at least it could've been

"place nothing above the verdict of your own mind"

-Atlas Shrugged

"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up"

"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child"

"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth"

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"There are only two types of women: Goddesses and doormats."

"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money."

"Bad artists copy. Good artists steal."

-Pablo Picasso

Some good stuff there. Cheers folks.

'Fear not what can harm your body so long as it cannot touch your soul'

"What do you despise? By this you
are truly known."

F. Herbert

3121 said:

I'm a writer. Goes with the territory.

johnart said:

i like this one
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"All men are created unequal"

"Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well"

"Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavour of life, take big bites. Moderation
is for monks"

"A woman is not property and a husband who thinks otherwise is living in a dream world"

"Masturbation is cheap, clean, convenient and free of any possible wrongdoing-and you dont have to go home in the cold. But it's lonely"

-Robert A. Heinlein

johnart said:

Genesia said:

I love that one.

When the earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people shall come unto the earth from many colors, classes, creeds, and who by their actions and deeds shall make the earth green again. They will be known as the warriors of the Rainbow -- Old Native American Prophecy


Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.
-- T. S. Eliot



"Be the change you wish to see in the world."

--- Mahatma Ghandi



Sow a thought and you reap an act.
Sow an act and you reap a habit.
Sow a habit and you reap a character.
Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

- unknown



Absorb what is useful
Reject what is useless
Add what is essentially your own.

- Bruce Lee


To think you know something is a perfect barrier to learning.

-unknown



"All these people are looking for 'the One' when they're 'the One' themselves and don't even know it. Stop pretending 'the One' is someone else you need."


That what I really am has nothing at all to do with words.

"You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty"

"Music is what feelings sound like"

"The little I know I owe to my ignorance"

"Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness"

(Sacha Guitry)

MarySharon said:

I like this one!

I smoke. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your fuckin' mouth.

"It is hard to tell if a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his place." -H. L. Mencken

"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while." -Josh Billings

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." -Abraham Lincoln

"We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle" -Winston Churchill

"I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may...light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful." -John Constable (this is my philosophy when it comes to photography )

“I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said I should do, than regret not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life would have been like if I had just been myself." -Brittany Renée

“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter." -James Earl Jones

“There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those." -Michael Nolan

“To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind" -Theophile Gautier

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love." -Neil Gaiman (I don't hate love but I do love that quote lol ...

"A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt." -G. K. Chesterton

"Sincerity doesn't need an audience." -Me


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# Operator! Give me the number for 911!

# Oh, so they have internet on computers now!

# Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like...love!

# Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

# I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.

# Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers.

# Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.

# Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

# Marge, don't discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel.

# Doughnuts. Is there anything they can't do?

# You know, boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like a woman. You just have to read the manual and press the right buttons.

# Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

# When will I learn? The answer to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!

# Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose: it's how drunk you get.

# I'm going to the back seat of my car, with the woman I love, and I won't be back for ten minutes!

# [Meeting Aliens] Please don't eat me! I have a wife and kids. Eat them!

# What do we need a psychiatrist for? We know our kid is nuts.

# Marge, you're as beautiful as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda.

# Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.

# The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and it's time to snatch your mother from his neon claws!

# When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces, I just know they're about to jab me with something.

# I'm having the best day of my life, and I owe it all to not going to Church!

# Lisa, if the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling and foxy boxing and such and such.

# I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?

# Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.

# It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.

# Lisa, Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.

# I want to share something with you: The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.

# Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that.

# Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought it was hilarious. But, it turns out we were wrong. That alligator was sexually harrassing that woman.

# Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.

# How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?

# Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?

# If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.

# I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

# I like my beer cold, my TV loud and my homosexuals flaming.

# [Looking at a globe map...country being Uruguay]
Hee hee! Look at this country! 'You-are-gay.'

# All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.

# Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

# But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

# I think Smithers picked me because of my motivational skills. Everyone says they have to work a lot harder when I'm around.

# Dear Lord.. The gods have been good to me. For the first time in my life, everything is absolutely perfect just the way it is. So here's the deal: You freeze everything the way it is, and I won't ask for anything more. If that is OK, please give me absolutely no sign. OK, deal.

# That's it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm going to clown college!

# Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

# If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing

# I'm in no condition to drive...wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk!

# 'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?

~Homer Simpson

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou

I will have here but one mistress and no master Queen Elizabeth I

“If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.” Malcolm X