Favorite Quotes

[Flying Cement]

What are some of your favorite quotes?

Here are a few of mine:


"Things may come to those who wait, but only things left by those who hustle."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple."
-Barry Switzer

"I have noticed that all pro-choice people have already been born."
-Ronald Reagan

"To love another person is to see the face of God."
- Victor Hugo

"To whom much is given, much is expected."
-Luke 12:48

"A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not why ships are built."
-William Shedd

"Life is just one big game that you always lose, but you can get a few punches in on the way down."
-My best friend

[Flying Cement]

P.S. I don't mean to stir up any political debate with the Reagan comment

[jsluder]

Ni!

[SteveK]

The jaws of death grind everything to dust and the maw of putrefaction eats away every teleology-Ernst Bloch (not the composer.)

[carrie]

Following up on Steve's sunny thought, a favorite of mine that I have quoted on the board before:

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying." --Woody Allen

Carol

[Wombat]

'I wish I'd said that.'
Oscar Wilde, in response to a Whistler witticism.

'You will Oscar, you will.'
Whistler.

'If everybody were somebody, then nobody would be anybody'
Oscar Wilde

'One of the miseries of intellectual pretensions is, that nine-tenths of those you come in contact wiuth do not know whether you are an imposter or not.
William Hazlitt (On the Advantages of Intellectual Superiority)

'I'd like to help you out; which way did you come in?'
Anon.

'When reading Celine we are seized at that fragile spot of our subjectivity where our collapsed defenses reveal, beneath the appearances of a fortified castle, a flayed skin; neither inside not outside, the wounding exterior turning into an abominable interior, war bordering on putrescence, while social and family rigidity, that beautiful mask, crumbles within the beloved abomination of innocent vice.'
Julia Kristeva

'Anything you say may be used in Everton against you.'
John Lennon

'I've learned how to live without knowing.'
Richard Feynman.

'A wop bopa loo bop, a lop bam boom'
Little Richard

[Innocent Bystander]

Maul Halten und Weiter dienen." - "Hold your tongue and get on with your job" alleged (ironic) motto of Joseph Svejk, created by Jaroslav Hasek

"Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas"
- Happy the man who understands the causes of things - Horace

"Time, which no man hath, is in truth our only possession." - Robert Schekley

"Originality is the art of concealing one's source" - Oscar Wilde

"The artist never borrows - he steals" - Anon

"The other lot's eyes are too close together." - James Young

"Gnothe seauton" - "Know Thyself" Inscribed on the Temple at Delphi

"All things are changing, nothing dies. The spirit wanders, comes now here, now there, and occupies whatever frame it pleases... From beasts it passes into human bodies, and from our bodies into beasts... but never perishes." - Pythagoras

"Wretches! Wretches! Keep your hand from beans!" - Pythagoras (the same fellow.)

[jsluder]

"... I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."
-- Faramir, in The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien

[Jack]

Jesus is a great divider of life. One must walk parallel with Him or directly across His way.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these [oppressed slave] women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!

There are no ordinary people.

[Tyler]

"He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom."

- Gandalf

the ever immortal..."I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

- Bilbo at his party

"Certainty of death, small chance of success... well, what're we waiting for? ";

- Gimli to the Captains of the West

and my favorite...

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

[Congratulations]

"Mozart tells us what it's like to be human, Beethoven tells us what it's like to be Beethoven and Bach tells us what it's like to be the universe."

Douglas Adams

This was my sig for a while, I think. Still my favorite quote ever.

[fyffer]

My favorite quotes:

""

(sorry coudn't resist)

But seriously

Don't play anything faster than you can play it.

There is only one tune. We just play different parts of it at different times.

When I look at you and smile
And you say, "What?"
And I say, "Nothing,"
I'm only wondering what it is
When you look at me and smile
And I say, "What?"
And you say, "Nothing."

It must be Something ...

[jsluder]

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

Mel Gibson must've misheard this when he was filming Braveheart.

The Woad goes ever on and on...

[chas]

It's time for a few from Frank ZappaA

Merry go round, merry go round, merry go round do doo doo do doo doo do, and they call that doing your thing
So THAT's what doing your thing is!
The Thing is to put a motor in yourself

Drums are too noisy and there' no corners to hide in

Some people like cupcakes exclusively well; myself I say there is not, nor ought there be, nothing so exalted on the face of Gods' great earth as that prince of food, the muffin

Take me to some relative's house in East LA
Just until my skin clears up

[carrie]

I can resist everything except temptation. --Oscar Wilde

Carol