Favorite Quotes, Apropos of Nothing

I love this post - thanks for starting it! I collect quotes, so here are just a few of my favorites:


**Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.
*– Mary Kay Ash, entrepreneur
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do and damned if you don’t.[– Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.

– Mark Twain

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*I just found out that the brain is like a computer. If that’s true, then there really aren’t any stupid people. Just people running DOS.
– unknown
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*If you lead through fear you will have little to respect; but if you lead through respect you will have little to fear.
- unknown
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It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child’s curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.
– Alice Duer Miller
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*Life is drawing without an eraser.
- unknown
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Now and then it’s good to pause in the pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
– Guillaume Apollinaire
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Sometimes, you can be walking around lucky and not know it.
– unknown
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*The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudices. – Clint Eastwood, actor, director
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This may be one of the quote that may just get me my gf back… i love you… and i love old Eleanar for being so… uh.. you know clever i guess

You can’t kiss a girl unexpectedly. You can only kiss her sooner than she thought you would. - Irish proverb

Chris

OMG! My TargetGuy needs to see this one!:roll_eyes:

A line from a Jackson Browne song that I would like to use as my epitaph:

“I could be just around the corner from Heaven or a mile from Hell.”

my cheesy love line… “How long is forever” “A long time,why?” “Because thats how long i want to be with you!” haha and yes i have used it… its very effective if you have been with the person for a while and really do love them :smiley:

Thank you!

I like quotes… They make it really easy to use on people… i used the mark twain one about regrets earier on my mom… i used Elenor Roseavelt’s (sp) quote about following your heart on my ex gf… and i used the pepe le pu’s quote about your new lover with some friends got a huge laugh… man this is fun

I remember many quotes from Buddha, this is one of them:

“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast. A wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind”

i like how i brought this topic back… thanks for making it possible :smiley:

one of the lamest quotes ever
“I thought it would be funny to watch a baby shoot an archbishop” assy mcgee

“Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.”

(Author Unknown, at least by me…)

(Below: Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd - Before and after - Mighty Morphin Power Rangers)

very cool… now only if i knew how to dance >.<

here’s a few of mine:

“Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.” - Lily Tomlin

“People will forget what you said. They will forget what you did. But they will never forget how you made them feel.” - Maya Angelou

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” - Eleanor Roosevelt (to which I add “and even smaller minds discuss themselves”)

The best quotes, in general, are Jack Handey quotes:
Deep Thoughts: Jack Handey SNL Quotes

When I die, I would like to go peacefully, in my sleep, like my grandfather did. Not screaming and yelling like the passenger in his car.

  • Jack Handey

I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don’t want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then when somebody comes up act like they just woke up and go, “What was that?!”

  • Jack Handey

Why can’t the ant and the caterpillar just get along? One eats grass, the other eats Caterpillars… Oh, I see now.

  • Jack Handey

A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call up the guy and hold the burning fuse to the phone. “Hear that?” you say. “That’s dynamite, baby.”

  • Jack Handey

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face

  • Jack Handey

I love going down to the elementary school, watching all the kids jump and shout, but they dont know I’m using blanks.

  • Jack Handey

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you’re a mile away and you have their shoes.

  • Jack Handey

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is “God is crying.” And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is “Probably because of something you did.”

  • Jack Handey

It takes a big man to cry. It takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man.

  • Jack Handey

Ohhh man, now my sides ache …

Cheers,

:cool: Quicksilver

“theres no “I” in team”
“but there is an ‘M’ and an ‘E’”

some calvin and hobbes by bill waterson

“sometimes, you can cry until there is nothing wet in you. you can scream and curse until your thoat rebels and ruptures. you can pray, all you want, to whatever god you think will listen, and still it makes no difference. it goes on, with no sign as to when it might release you. and you know that if it ever did relent, it would not be because it cared.”

“the ambitions that drive us should be the ones we respect and admire. to feel contempt for ones own motivations is a vulgar thing. too often, it seems, ive succumbed to less than admirable compulsions, driven by this furiously reprehensible machine of mine. urges and desires and whatnot, so extranous. by the next time i write in this book, i hope to be as cold as the moon that lights this page.”

-“jthm” by jhonen vasquez

“that is not dead which can eternally lie,
and after strage aeons even death may die”

-“the nameless city” by lovecraft

All these quotes and no Hunter S. Thompson. Tisk Tisk

If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix…

*(Quote Details: Hunter S. Thompson: I wouldn't recommend sex,... - The Quotations Page)

Cover a war in a place where you can’t drink beer or talk to a woman?
Hell no!"

Buy the ticket take the Ride

Malacide, lame? Nah, this rocks! lol*

Three of my favorite quotes, from “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery:

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye”

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed”

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important”

Words that I try to live by… right out of a ‘children’s book’

LMAO I like those Jack Handey quotes :smiley:

My daily mantra, passed onto me by my Grandad, and never more relevant than when I came out the other side of my extremely violent marriage:

Live every single day as if it is your last..
..after all..one day you will be RIGHT…

Ail :slight_smile:

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
–Mark Twain

“We boil at different temperatures.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Thy paleness moves me more than eloquence.”
–Shakespeare

And Dorothy Parker quotes:

“I’ve never been a millionaire, but I just know I’d be a darling at it.”

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

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”

“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”

I like that one Ail, I like “life is short” as it is very personal to me. I had a dream about my grandfather about 6 - 7 weeks ago and i remember seeing him in my dream, i hugged him and started crying and he said to me “life is short”. Im going to get it put into some jewellery made on etsy.com :smiley: