What are your favorite quotes?

[Mike_Yates]

What are your favorite quotes from famous people and historical figures throughout history?

Here are mine.

"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." -- Winston Churchill

"Death solves all problems - no man, no problem." --Joseph Stalin

"You can only die once, so make sure it is worth it." -- Vladimir Lenin

""Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." -- Albert Einstein

 

[Tathagata]

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Groucho Marx

 

[Que]

That one is pretty good, but I like this one better:

"A man is only as old as the woman he feels." -Groucho Marx

 

[Tathagata]

That one is pretty good, but I like this one better:

"A man is only as old as the woman he feels." -Groucho Marx

"Time flies like an arrow, and fruit flies like a banana"

 

[Que]

Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk...

Oops. wrong trio.

 

[rimmy]

Air..

 

[CTski]

I'm surrounded by assholes
Dark Helmet(spaceballs)

 

[PoppingTom]

"You're an asshole, Mr. President" (Joschka Fischer, former head of the German "Greens")

"There are human beings, and there are republicans." (Frank Zappa)

"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind" (Gandhi)

 

[BotanyBoy]

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Dean Wormer

 

[Fata Morgana]

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

Clementine Paddleford

 

[GimpyIntellect]

Most of my favorite quotes come from Seinfeld.

 

[marshalt]

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat

Theodore Roosevelt

 

[sereneone4u]

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[jomar]

I smell *sniff sniff* skank. -FF1

 

[yossi]

"Listen, it's too big a world to be in competition with everyone. The only person who I have to be better than is myself. And in your case, that's enough."

Col. Potter (M*A*S*H*)

 

[domroger]

The buck stops here .

 

[oggbashan]

Even Such Is Time
By Sir Walter Raleigh (1554?–1618)

Even such is Time, that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with earth and dust;
Who in the dark and silent grave,
When we have wander’d all our ways,
Shuts up the story of our days;
But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust.

 

[RobDownSouth]

My two favorite quotes are both from 4est_4est_Gump.

2012: "The word 'excessive' does NOT mean 'too many'!"
2014: "The word 'subhuman' does NOT mean 'less than human'!"

#WordsHaveMeaning

 

[oggbashan]

Ernest Bramah

“When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.”
― Ernest Bramah

“The inimitable stories of Tong-King never have any real ending, and this one, being in his most elevated style, has even less end than most of them. But the whole narrative is permeated with the odour of joss-sticks and honourable high-mindedness, and the two characters are both of noble birth.”
― Ernest Bramah, Wallet of Kai Lung

“It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea-shops.”
― Ernest Bramah, Wallet of Kai Lung

 

[oggbashan]

Dylan Thomas

"Some people react physically to the magic of poetry, to the moments, that is, of authentic revelation, of the communication, the sharing, at its highest level...A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”
― Dylan Thomas

“I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.”
― Dylan Thomas

“One: I am a Welshman; two: I am a drunkard; three: I am a lover of the human race, especially of women.”
― Dylan Thomas

 

[patient1]

"I will either find a way or make one."-
Hannibal, on the impossible task of crossing the Alps with an army and elephants.

 

[MissAnon]

What are your favorite quotes from famous people and historical figures throughout history?

Here are mine.

"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." -- Winston Churchill

"Death solves all problems - no man, no problem." --Joseph Stalin

"You can only die once, so make sure it is worth it." -- Vladimir Lenin

""Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." -- Albert Einstein

I really appreciate yours.

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”- Maya Angelou

"I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." - Edward Everett Hale

"If we lose ourselves we lose everything."

"Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."- Shawshank Redemption

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

THIS TOO SHALL PASS. Abe Lincoln

 

[doowdniw]

It is better to enter a turn slow and come out fast, than to enter a turn fast and come out dead. Ferry Porsche

 

[toubab]

Any one of many quotes from this man, but here is one:

"Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh."

-Marcus Aurelius