What are some of your favorite quotes. Here's one of mine:

[Road Scholar]

"The most important things in life aren't things"

I don't know who said it but I thought it was pretty good.Do you have a favorite?

[sniffa]

1. that's what oLd peopLe do - they die

[underpants]

8. I plan to live forever

so far so good

[Richardo]

2. "I didn't attend his funeral, but I did send a note saying I approved of it."

Mark Twain

[Aristus]

38. My favorite from Mark Twain:

"When I was fourteen years old, I thought my father was the stupidest, most ignorant man that had ever lived; by the time I turned twenty-one, I was amazed at how much he'd learned in seven years."

B-)

[blockhead]

40. kinda like

"Why should I go to his funeral? He's not coming to mine."

[AllegroRondo]

3. "the only thing more expensive than an education...

...is not getting one."

Dont remember who said it, though.

[war on errorism]

4. "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"

-Tom Waits

[underpants]

7. Welcome to DU

-Me

[war on errorism]

37. re: Welcome to DU

gracias

[Road Scholar]

5. "All I ask is that you judge me by the enemies that I have made."

Ben Franklin said that one I believe.

[soleft]

6. From A League of Our Own

"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard everyone would do it. It's the hard - that makes it great"

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Good One. Two More Of Mine From That Movie

First one: "Well look who just caught up!"

Second one: "If i had your job, i'd kill myself!"
The Professor

[underpants]

9. Time flies like an arrow

fruit flies like a banana
-Groucho

[Richardo]

17. "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend...

...inside a dog, it's too dark to read."

Groucho

[Mendocino]

10. From Aldo Leopold

"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."

[gr8dane_daddy]

11. I'm from Texas so mine are...

"You can go to hell, I'm going to Texas" -David Crockett to the Tennessee Congress after refusing to help the Texans

"Dance with the one who brung ya" - Darryl K. Royal, former Texas Longhorn head coach

"I drank what?" - Socrates

"Was it the same dream where you're standing on the top of a pyramid in sungod-like robes surrounded by thousands of naked ladies throwing little pickles at you?" Val Kilmer's character in Real Genius

[Skittles]

57. one of the best quotes ever

General Sherman: "If I owned both Texas and Hell, I'd live in Hell and rent out Texas".

[gr8dane_daddy]

58. Freaking great...

we've got tougher hombres down here than the prince of darkness.

[skygazer]

12. Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend

Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx

[Richardo]

18. Damn. I did not read down far enough.

Good one, skygazer :hi:

[gr8dane_daddy]

14. Got another one...

"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son!" -Dean Wormer, Animal House

[bif]

15. "No matter how cynical you get, you just can't keep up."

Lily Tomlin, I believe.

[Road Scholar]

16. From Cool Hand Luke: " What we have here is a failure to

communicate."

[Drum]

19. A couple of favorites:

"Evil flourishes when good men do nothing."

and

"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."



Sorry, but I do not know who to attribute them to.

[underpants]

23. Because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding

Spencer Tracy as "Henry Drummond" in "Inherit the Wind"

I saw it for the first time over the weekend.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053946/quotes

Judge: Colonel Drummond, what reasons can you possibly have?
Henry Drummond: Well, there are two hundred of them.

Henry Drummond: And if that's not enough there's one more. I think my client has already been found guilty.
Matthew Harrison Brady: Is Mr. Drummond saying that this expression of an honest emotion will in any way influence the court's impartial administration of the law?
Henry Drummond: I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy, you can only punish. And I warn you, that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys every one it touches. Its upholders as well as its defiers.
Judge: Colonel Drummond...
Henry Drummond: Can't you understand? That if you take a law like evolution and you make it a crime to teach it in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools? And tomorrow you may make it a crime to read about it. And soon you may ban books and newspapers. And then you may turn Catholic against Protestant, and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the mind of man. If you can do one, you can do the other. Because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding. And soon, your Honor, with banners flying and with drums beating we'll be marching backward, BACKWARD, through the glorious ages of that Sixteenth Century when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind!
Judge: I hope counsel does not mean to imply that this court is bigoted.
Henry Drummond: Well, your honor has the right to hope.
Judge: I have the right to do more than that.
Henry Drummond: You have the power to do more than that.

[Drum]

25. Nice...thank you.

That's a helluva play. Have always loved "Inherit The Wind," but alas have never seen the entirety of the film version.

Thanks for that snip, and the link. :hi:

[av8rdave]

61. See the original..the remake with George C. Scott and Jack Lemmon wasn't as good

[av8rdave]

60. That is one of the all time greatest movies (and plays)

I still have the original publishing of the script.

[Rabrrrrrr]

59. "The chains of habit" quote is Samuel Johnson

so far as I know - I've never checked the primary source to verify, though.

[BarenakedLady]

20. "Everything looks perfect from far away"

It's from a song Iron and Wine "Such Great Heights".

I like it because it reminds me that everyone has their own issues and stuff going on even if they look totally put together. Or if you covet something that someone else has, etc. I don't think I'm explaining myself well. Once you see things up close and personal you see the flaws.

[Road Scholar]

21. LOL Good one!

[Paranoid Pessimist]

22. Here's one: I combined two quotes. I actually believe this

Life is just a bowl of cherries, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

[YankeyMCC]

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

"Hands that help are far better than lips that pray." -- Robert Ingersoll

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. - Andre Gide

Follow your passions and use your training, but be on the lookout for happy accident. William Cronon

[underpants]

44. +

"What do you think of Western Civilization?"


Ghandi:I think it would be a good idea!

[YankeyMCC]

47. lol

"That's a good one." ;)

[billyskank]

26. I like MiniMandaRuth's sig line

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Oh, that and the mildew in your saxophone. But ignore that.

Attributed to Matt, I believe. :D

[Rambis]

27. "Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious" Oscar Wilde

x

[NewWaveChick1981]

28. My mother says this one all the time, and I really think it's true:

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." :) She didn't come up with it, but it's her favorite saying.

[SPKrazy]

33. And It's True

well I don't know about hell, but good intentions never did anything but lay there.

:hi: :pals:

[Road Scholar]

36. Your mother is a smart lady.

:hi: :hi: :hi: :hug:

[4morewars]

46. My mom says it all the time also !

In fact, I knew that was going to be the quote before I clicked on your post, isn't that freeky ?

:hi:

[jobycom]

29. You should love people and use things, not the other way around.

[madinmaryland]

66. Flip it around, and you have the Repub mantra.

[SPKrazy]

30. "Don't Throw Toothpicks In The Urinal"

"The crabs in here can pole vault"

Eskimo Joes bathroom wall- Stillwater, OK- Circa 1985 ?

not really my favorite (I hope) just what came into my mind.

:rofl:

[SPKrazy]

31. "If I Weren't Such A People Pleaser"

"I'd be a serial killer"

my own quote!

scared??

:rofl: :rofl:

[Road Scholar]

70. Oh yeah. LOL

:rofl:

[NewJeffCT]

32. "I'm not a member of an organized political party - I'm a Democrat"

From Will Rogers. True in the 1920s and still true today.

[begin_within]

34. "Don't look for happiness, Richie. It'll only make you miserable."

[BOSSHOG]

35. Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right! Henry Ford

Also, to have a friend you must be one. Walt Whitman I think.

[denverbill]

39. Adam Smith:

"Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters."
-- Adam Smith, Wealth Of Nations

[rockymountaindem]

42. Thank YOU!!!

I'll remember that one the next time a Republican tries to say how Adam Smith would be ashamed of my liberal-ness.

[Divameow77]

41. One of them

"Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History"

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

[skypilot]

43. "It was so putrid...

...I couldn't take my eyes off of it"

---Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye describing a really bad movie he'd just seen.

[Left Is Write]

45. Dean Martin, circa 1967

"Boy, you can live here, but don't eat here, I tell you. I just had a bowl of bourbon and some crackers, and they ain't layin' right..."

[Patiod]

48. "No good deed goes unpunished" - Dorothy Parker

My S.O. is a miserable crank, who is ALWAYS doing stuff for other people - gives blood every 56 days (rare type), taking his mother to the doctor, helping one sister move, helping the other carry stuff. Right now he's getting my dad from the hospital.

For 2-3 years we helped raise the very difficult child of a friend of ours who had died. At the end of a long day, she would be laying on the floor of the supermarket (at age 7) kicking and screaming because we wouldn't buy her "Lunchables" and as everyone stared at us thinking we were horrible parents, he would just look at me, shake his head, and say "N.G.D"

[chaska]

49. Has a stunning resemblance to my sig line...

The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy. Alex Carey

[miss_american_pie]

50. Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

[Road Scholar]

51. "Time wounds all heels"

[Mendocino]

52. Ariosto

"How miserable are the idle hours of the ignorant man."

[CaliforniaPeggy]

53. I have so many, my dear In_Transit........

Here's a few:

If I know what love is, it is because of you. ~Herman Hesse

To love another person is to see the face of God. ~Les Miserables.

To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. ~Lao Tzu

:hug:

[Road Scholar]

55. Wow, those are very good.. I think your husband is a

lucky man.:hug:

[judaspriestess]

54. Its good to be the King

Mel Brooks - History of the world part one

on edit: or is it "it's good to be king"

[GenDem]

82. How about "Balls said the queen --

if I had two I'd be king"

[melliyna]

56. And most of these are West Wing *sheepish look*

"Listen up. Our ground game isn't working. We're going to put the ball in the air. If we're going to walk into walls, I want us running into 'em full speed. We're going to lose some of these battles. We might even lose the White House. But we're not going to be threatened by issues. We're going to put them front and center. We're going to raise the level of public debate in this country. And let that be our legacy." (Leo McGarry in Let Bartlet Be Bartlet I believe)

"Because I'm tired of it: year after year after year after year having to choose between the lesser of who cares. Of trying to get myself excited about a candidate who can speak in complete sentences. Of setting the bar so low, I can hardly bear to look at it. They say a good man can't get elected President. I don't believe that. Do you?" (Leo again appealing to the dreaming political idealist in me)

"This is our 5th press briefing since midnight. Obviously, there's one story that going dominating news around the world for the next few days, and it would be easy to think that President Bartlet, Joshua Lyman, and Stephanie Abbott were the only victims of a gun crime last night.
They weren't.Mark Davis and Sheila Evans of Philadelphia were killed by a gun last night. He was a Biology teacher and she was a Nursing student. Tina Bishop and Linda Larkin were killed with a gun last night. They were 12.There were 36 homicides last night. 480 sexual assaults, 3,411 robberies, 3,685 aggravated assaults, all at gunpoint. And if anyone thinks those crimes could have been prevented if the victims themselves had been carrying guns, I'd only remind you that the President of the United States himself was shot last night while surrounded by the best trained armed guards in the history of the world." (CJ Cregg, Shadow of Two Gunmen).

"I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy. I'm a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me?' And I really, really don't" (Aaron Sorkin encouraging me to believe that even the best writers get writers block on occasion).

There are plenty more where these came from but the trouble is most of my favourite quotes are essentially long dialogue pieces (and in the case of the West Wing entire episodes).

[av8rdave]

62. One of my favs

"The three most useless things are altitude above you, runway behind you and fuel in the truck."

Don't know who said it, but it's often repeated.

[benEzra]

63. Mencken...

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
--H. L. Mencken

Dr. Seuss is dead. He's dead, I said.
--Mrs. benEzra

[chaska]

64. 4

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us. Jerry Garcia

If you want to get anything done in this country you've got to complain till you're blue in the House. Oeditpus Rex

Money make talk but it rarely says anything interesting. At least bullshit makes good fertilizer. Ellie Erickson

Patriotism in times like these requires an impaired sense of smell. Gene Downs

[SteppingRazor]

65. A pair of quotes each from my favorite writers:

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."
H. L. Mencken

"... when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.
The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. "
H. L. Mencken

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
Hunter S. Thompson

"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. "
Hunter S. Thompson

"America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there ... waiting."
William S. Burroughs

"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on."
William S. Burroughs

“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
Jack Kerouac

"If you own a rug, you own too much."
Jack Kerouac

"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."
Charles Bukowski

"We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
Charles Bukowski

"There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves."
Tom Wolfe

"If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know."
Tom Wolfe

"I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land."
Mark Twain

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
Mark Twain

[Lowell]

67. I always like Will Rogers

even after all these years his observations make a lot of sense.

"Once a man wants to hold a Public office he is absolutely no good for honest work."

"Ain't it funny how many hundreds of thousands of soldiers we can recruit with nerve, but we just can't find one politician in a million with backbone."

"I honestly believe there is people so excited over this election that they think the President has something to do with running this country."

[GRLMGC]

68. From Family Guy

"How about less questions and more shut the hell up!"

Words of wisdom

[Initech]

69. "If we cannot be free, at least we can be cheap!" - Frank Zappa

[dropkickpa]

71. oooo, I have tons that I've saved

Here are my favorites

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
-Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
-Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
-Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876)

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
-Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
-Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), 'I Remember, I Believe,' The Pursuit of Justice, 1964

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
-Stephen Vincent Benet (1898 - 1943), Litany for Dictatorships, 1935

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
-William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
-Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Passionate State of Mind, 1954

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
-Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
-William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 1 scene 1

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
-Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
-Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) (attributed)

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

[Road Scholar]

72. Very good! Thanks for sharing.

:toast:

[Road Scholar]

73. Thanks to everyone for sharing. Merry Christmas to you all.

:toast: :grouphug:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

74. Next to the originator of a good sentence,

is the first quoter of it. ;) Ralph Waldo Emerson

[anti-everything]

75. "Do I look like someone who cares what god thinks?"

-Pinhead from Hellraiser Bloodline

[Hotler]

76. "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, .....

and today is a gift, that's why they call it the present."
Eleanor Roosevelt

[1monster]

77. "THESE are not the people who raised me! These are OLD PEOPLE

trying to get into Heaven!" (Bill Cosby about his parents to his children)

[1monster]

78. "Listen or thy tongue shall make you deaf." Native American saying.

"Whoso keepth his tongue in his mouth, keepeth his soul from troubles." Proverbs

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." Abraham Lincoln

[Briarius]

79. I have a big list of quotes

Here are a couple I really like :D

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.
Zen proverb

Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.
Spanish Proverb

Normal is just a setting on the dryer
Suzy Reedy

[hippywife]

80. When the power of love

overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix

[Tikki]

81. "I don't know but I've been told....

...you never slow down, you never grow old"........Thomas Petty





Tikki

[Jean Louise Finch]

83. Is it wrong to quote yourself?

"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks." -Harper Lee

"It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived." -Harper Lee

I DO like other things. Here, I'll prove it.
"Searching boxes underneath the counter, on a chance that on a tape I'd find a song for someone who needs somewhere to long for. Homesick. Cause I no longer know where home is." -Kings of Convenience

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"" -Kerouac

"I'm the boy in the white flannel gown
sprawled on this coarse gravel bed
searching the starry sky,
waiting for the world to end."
-Stanley Kunitz

[Road Scholar]

84. Very good. Thank you. nt

[Road Scholar]

85. Whenever they determine the center of the universe, some

people are gonna be really upset when they realize that they're not in it.