Favorite Quotes

[Xaero4]

What are the quotes you live by or are inspired by?

 

[Lady Crimson]

well, I don't necessarily live by the next quote, but I do agree with it:

"Search for freedom and you will become the slaves of your wishes. Search for discipline and you will find your freedom." - The Dune Saga by Frank Herbert

 

[Engyo]

One of Pah's old signatures:

"Seek Truth for Authority, not Authority for Truth" -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"Your Silence Will Not Protect You" -- Audre Lourdes

and most of the wisdom in the Notebooks of Lazarus Long by Robert Heinlein in "Time Enough for Love" like "Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing--with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for second and third place. "

http://www.geocities.com/fleembit/quotes/Notebooks_of_Lazarus_Long.html

 

[jeffrey]

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. -Gomer Pyle.

 

[Voxton]

"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."
-- Gomer Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002

 

[Engyo]

Not to live by, but I sincerely believe Mr. Henry Kissinger when he said:

"90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name."

 

[The Black Whirlwind]

try not. do. do or do not. there is no try.

-yoda

 

[john313]

try not. do. do or do not. there is no try.

-yoda

that one is good.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke

 

[Zephyr]

Bah who needs any of these quotes when you have "Ninja Vanish!"

That's my motto. Never failed me once, except for that ONE time that I failed to dissappear. It's a little hobby I picked up.

 

[SarahBeara]

I have a lot of quotations... believe me, you do NOT want me to list them all! Here are a few of my favorites:

"Equality is not so much a goal to be sought, but a fact that is often ignored." (from this page: http://freedomfriends.org/FF-Pastors.htm)

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

"God is generic, religion is a brand name."

"Live in such a way that those who know you but don`t know God will come to know God because they know you..."

"Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me....
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now, I see."

"Walk by faith, not by sight"

... Copy and paste changed the font... too lazy to change it...

 

[Majikthise]

Better to be silent and seem the fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

I don't remember if it was Lincoln or Samuel Clemens that said that.

 

[Riven]

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." -- Ernest Hemingway

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools." -- Ernest Hemingway

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." -- Ernest Hemingway

"I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?" -- Ernest Hemingway

"The brevity of human life leads us to many an erroneous assertion about the qualities of man." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"No power can maintain itself if only hypocrites represent it." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

"We praise or find fault, depending on which of the two provides more opportunity for our powers of judgment to shine." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Lack of intimacy among friends is a mistake that cannot be censured without becoming irreparable." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Whoever does not know how to put his thoughts on ice should not engage in the heat of argument." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

"No one thanks the witty man for the courtesy of adapting himself to a society in which it is not courteous to display wit." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[michel]

"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion."

Sir Francis Bacon, (1561 - 1626)