Favorite quote? Any quote will do n/t

[cynatnite]

[terrya]

1. Dorothy Parker came up with some marvelous quotes, but this is my favorite

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to"

[cynatnite]

2. I love that!

:rofl:

Thanks!

[pokerfan]

3. "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." - Marie Curie

"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." - Mark Twain

[khashka]

4. Emma Goldman

"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution."


And best of all, this retarded kid I knew used to grab people and stare into their eyes and say "You have made my life more meaningful". What a wonderful quote :)

Khash.

[ccinamon]

5. I have several favorites

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." - Beverly Sills

"We are all continually faced with a series of great opportunities, brilliantly disguised as insoluable problems." - John Gardner

"One minute in planning will save you at least 3 minutes in the execution." - Crawford Greenwald



Seen on card:

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay,
Love isn't love until you give it away.

[Calliope]

7. The obnoxious pedantic me has to point out

that your last quote is Oscar Hammerstein - Sound of Music - "Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, love isn't love 'til you give it away."

[ccinamon]

9. thanks for the info..

I'm not a big fan of musicals and rarely watch them (I think I've only seen 3 or 4 in the last 40 years and that has been mostly local plays). I've never seen any of the "big" or "popular" musicals so am not knowledgeable about their songs, etc.

[SiobhanClancy]

6. from Brendan Behan...

"I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer."

[vademocrat]

8. Mark Twain has several of my faves

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform."

"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them."

And my all time fave:

"Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not?" JFK

[Calliope]

10. The obnoxious pedant is back

Your last quote is George Bernard Shaw. I remember Bobby Kennedy using that quote during his campaign, and Ted Kennedy using it in his eulogy for Bobby.

[TheBaldyMan]

11. yet another obnoxious pedant

the first quote is paraphrasing James V of Scotland, aka the wisest fool in Christendom.

[Sugar Smack]

12. "Either this wallpaper goes, or I go"

-Oscar Wilde's last words.

[NMDemDist2]

13. see my sig line n/t

[bbinacan]

20. See my sig line. n/t

[Va Lefty]

14. Woody Allen

Not only is there no God, try getting a plumber on the weekends.

[xmas74]

15. Here's a few.

"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants."

"Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice."

"I have read your lousy review of Margaret's concert. I've come to the conclusion that you are an eight ulcer man on a four ulcer job Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes and perhaps a supporter below. "

"When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril."

"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break."

And the most famous of his:

"I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."

We need another Truman to tell it like it really is.

[joneschick]

16. a real sweetie

Am I dying or is this my birthday?
When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside.
~~ Lady Nancy Astor, d. 1964

from http://www.corsinet.com/braincandy/dying.html

[x-g.o.p.er]

17. Never, ever, ever, give up

Winston Churchill

[leeroysphitz]

18. "He who makes a Beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being...

a man." -Samuel Johnson (by way of HST)

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. 'No generalization is worth a damn

— including this one."

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

"A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn."

~ W. Va. Board of Education v. Barnett, 1943 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_State_Board_of_Education_vs._Barnette)



"Timing is everything. Presentation is everything else."

~ Oeditpus Rex