What's your favorite quote?

[PeterPanette]

"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that all the dunces shall be in confederacy against him.''
--Jonathan Swift

"When I do good, I feel good, when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion."
--Abraham Lincoln

"When you laugh, you are in the company of the gods"
--Old Japanese Proverb

 

[Sparx]

I love quotes. I've got tons and I can pretty much dig one up by anyone you need. these are some of my favorites

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
- Emile Zola

"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
- Pablo Picasso

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
- Yoda

"Dancing is silent poetry."
- Simonides

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
- Salvador Dali

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
- George Bernard Shaw

"We have art to save ourselves from the truth."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Black holes are where God divided by zero."
- Steven Wright

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
- Walt Disney

"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."
- Jimmy Durante

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov

"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."
- Elvis Presley

"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."
- Mark Twain

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
- Abraham Lincoln
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"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance."
- Plato

"Plato was a bore."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."
- Leo Tolstoy

"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy."
- Ernest Hemingway

"Hemingway was a jerk."
- Harold Robbins
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"Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things."
- Epictetus

"What about things like bullets?"
- Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist, Professor of Psychology, upon hearing the above quote
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain

"Everyone always said "socrates, what is the meaning of life" "socrates, is there a god" no one ever said "socrates, hemlock is poison?"
-last words of Socrates

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
- Cato the Elder

"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
- last words of Pancho Villa



I've got a ton more. hope that helped.

 

[palmtreegirl]

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself."- Eleanor Roosevelt

"But you know that when the truth is told
That you can get what you want or you get old "- Billy Joel

 

[VSL]

Check out http://www.goodquotes.com/

It has everything from proverbs to gravestones.

 

[Jcricket Fan]

"Love thy enemy" strongly implies not killing them.

and

When an old man dies, a library burns down.
(African proverb)


Colleen

 

[rayelias]

My High School Band Director, Robert Perry, always told us
"To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late"

Maybe its a band thing?? I think this is one of the few things I actually remember from high school!

A little OT, but isn't this pretty bad advice from a BAND DIRECTOR?!?

One would think that someone teaching music would want everyone to be ON time (tempo), not early!

 

[wdw4life]

I think of this one every day.

We don't see things the way they are, we see them the way we are.

 

[Sparx]

A little OT, but isn't this pretty bad advice from a BAND DIRECTOR?!?

One would think that someone teaching music would want everyone to be ON time (tempo), not early!

Id rather be on time as to early or late.

 

[StitchfansJr]

]"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get." - Forrest Gump's Mom[/B]

"To be 'On Time' is to be late." - Glen Koca, my High School Band Director

That's the first one that popped in my head.

 

[snowwite]

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
Oprah Winfrey

 

[LadyyRedd]

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't go looking further than my own back yard, because if it isn't there, then I've never really lost it to begin with.



Some days are like licking icing off of a spoon. Today was more like stapling Jell-O to a brick.


Kimya

 

[LoriKay]

These are great! I didn't expect this thread to be so much fun to read. Anyone else have a quote to share?

 

[ZuZugal]

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

And from Yoda - "Do, or do not. There is no try"

 

[Aidensmom]

Live every moment - love every day
'Cause before you know it your precious time slips away.

 

[*Fantasia*]

"You're so stupid Rose!"- Jack
"I'll never let go."- Rose

 

[Evil Genius]

"It's all we've been given, so you better start livin' right now, because days go by" Actually lyrics from a Keith Urban song, but they all ways hit home.

My second favorite is "What if the Hokey Pokey IS what it's all about"

 

[lucas]

My High School Band Director, Robert Perry, always told us
"To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late"

Maybe its a band thing?? I think this is one of the few things I actually remember from high school!

Was this a band camp thing?

 

[Aidensmom]

Was this a band camp thing?

"One time...at band camp..."

 

[Kycha]

"Luke.....I am your father" Darth Vader

 

[lucas]

I'll worry about it tomorrow (after all tomorrow is another day!). ... Scarlett O'Hara.