The "Your Favorite Quotes of All Time" Thread

[illidian]

Inspired by the Thomas Jefferson thread.

 

I'll start posting some in a minute.

[Thunderbroom]

"Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser."

--Donald Trump

[burdizzos]

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!

--Benjamin Franklin

[Emprov]

Hard to pick a fav but here's one I like:

 

"A witty saying proves nothing."

 

Voltaire

[BEAD]

Thornton Wilder - Our town:

 

Emily:

In a loud voice to the stage manager.

I can't. I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another.

 

She breaks down sobbing.

The lights dim on the left half of the stage. Mrs. Webb disappears.

I didn't realize. So all that was going on and we never noticed. Take me back - up the hill - to my grave. But first: Wait! One more look.

Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by Grover's Corners...Mama and Papa. Goodbye to clocks ticking...and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths... and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

 

She looks toward the stage manager and asks abruptly, through her tears:

 

Do human beings ever realize life while they live it?-every, every minute?

 

Stage manager:

 

No.

 

Pause.

 

The saints and poets, maybe-they do some.

[illidian]

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."

--Steve Prefontaine

 

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."

--Jules Renard

 

"If someone says, 'Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?' ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?.... The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles."

--Bill Bowerman

 

"There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people."

--Bill Bowerman

 

"Pain is an Illusion."

--Anon

 

"He who limps is still walking.

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

There is only one way to avoid criticism:

Say Nothing

Do Nothing

BE NOTHING"

--Anon

 

Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.

--Heywood Hale Brown

 

"Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in your mind. If you can walk, you can run."

--Vince Lombardi

 

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will."

--Vince Lombardi

 

"The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince."

--Nince Lombardi

 

"A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done."

--Vince Lombardi

 

"There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again."

--Vince Lombardi

 

"Maybe it wasn't the talent the Lord gave me. Maybe it was the passion."

--Wayne Gretzky

 

"What we do in life echoes in eternity."

--Maximus Decimus Meridius from Gladiator

 

"If you judge people you have no time to love them."

--Mother Teresa

 

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

--Helen Keller

 

"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits."

--Richard Nixon

 

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

--Thomas Edison

 

"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."

--George Halas

 

"According to aerodynamic laws,

the bumblebee cannot fly.

Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan.

Ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway.

--M. Sainte-Lague

 

"Yesterday is a cancelled check;

Tomorrow is a promissory note;

Today is the only cash you have,

so spend it wisely."

--Kim Lyons

 

"If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe."

--John Maxwell

 

"If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure."

--David Ambrose

 

"Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential."

--John Maxwell

 

"Most look up and admire the stars. A champion climbs a mountain and grabs one."

--Unknown

 

"Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required."

--Sir Winston Churchill

 

"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?"

--Frank Scully

 

"Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top."

--J.C. Penny

 

"Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing."

--George Eliot

 

"What would you attempt to do

if you knew you would not fail?"

--Robert Schuller

 

"Success is never final.

Failure is never fatal.

Courage is what counts."

--Sir Winston Churchill

 

"Victory

A mind troubled by doubt

cannot focus on the course to victory."

--Arthur Golden

 

 

[scarecrowbob]

"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."

 

"We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity"

 

"Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise."

 

http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/fran%C3%A7ois_de_la_rochefoucauld/

 

I find that rochefoucauld dude interesting.

 

Or maybe I like:

 

"Jihad and McWorld are the two sides of the same coin, Jihad is already McJihad." But that is from someother person.

[Squireaholic]

"Bravo the Seventies..."

 

-Steve Howe (of Yes)

[RIC N BACKER]

if i wanted to hear from an asshole, i would have farted.

 

I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?

[beam]

"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars."

--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

[fretless]

"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."

Nikola Tesla

[Dirty Sanchez]

My favourite, and most oft quoted sage, is the Greek guy - Anon.

 

He has an insight, and a foresight, greater than most fridge/PC combos...

[Retrovertigo]

http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html

[sunburstbasser]

I am Sam Roberts.

[syciprider]

You can rest when you're dead.

 

Me

 

I've never met a hill I didn't like

 

Me

 

Is it enough to breathe?

 

Avril Lavigne

[Perfessor]

"Hey Mo, Larry."

[dert_stylus]

Think...

Dont be cool...Be Humble

Be Religious...Salvation...

Think very hard about your Future...

And Your Life.....

Carefully write it down on a Large piece of paper...

 

 

AND FLUSH IT DOWN THE TOILET !!!!!!!!

 

---- Martin Atkins (Pigface, Killing Joke, PIL,Ministry)

[bassguy]

if you are what you eat, then im a {censored}

[Craig Vecchione]

You're either a smoker or a non-smoker. Pick one and be it.

[Jonny Five]

"English, mother{censored}er. Do you speak it?"

-Samuel L. Jackson as Jules, Pulp Fiction

 

"Awwww, cannot get your ship out!!"

-Yoda

 

Han: No time to discuss this with a comittee!

Leia: I am NOT a comittee!!!!

 

Gotta love the Star Wars.

 

"I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it."

-Life Aquatic

[DrSquirley]

This is good, lets keep it going.

[takeout]

"[Mine is] the wallet that says 'Bad Mother{censored}er' on it."

- Samuel L. Jackson

 

"Who's the scoundrel who stole the cork out of my lunch?"

"Water? Never touch the stuff - fish {censored} in it."

- W.C. Fields

 

"I wouldn't {censored} her with a stolen dick."

- George Carlin

 

"The next show is gonna be great. HUGE."

- Joliet Jake Blues

 

"...you boys made a hundred dollars tonight, and drank two hundred dollars' worth of beer..."

Bob of Bob's Country Bunker

 

Everything Will Rogers ever said.

[lug]

Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?....Morons. -Vizzini

[MrDOS]

(after a lengthy list of praise)

 

"Just gimme a gig, man!"

- Jaco Pastorius (this is the Bass Forum)

[zachoff]

http://www.mecca.org/~crights/dream.html

 

Brings a tear to my eye every time I see/read it.