What is.....

[Roger Smith]

...one of your favorite quotes ?

Here is one of mine:

" Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man’s character,
give him power. "

~ Abraham Lincoln

 

[taabru45]

Some people can stay longer in an hour, than others can in a week. Someone I met when I was in my 20s...Steffan

 

[killdeer43]

one of your favorite quotes ?

"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday." Anon.

*On a sign above the door to my doctor's office when I was in the 5th grade and a day away from surgery.
In a bizarre way, it took my mind off the impending event and sort of perked me up a little bit. :wink:

Joe

 

[Qvart]

If I was half the man you are, I'd be a quarter of a man. :lol:

 

[littlesongs]

"Kansas City in August is hotter than two rats [making love] in a wool sock."

-- Ichiro Suzuki discussing the most useful piece of advice he heard as a rookie.

 

[fab467]

"You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.”
--Khalil Gibran

 

[dreadnut]

"Artists paint their pictures on canvas; musicians paint theirs on silence." Leopold Stokowski

 

[silverfox103]

by Will Rogers---Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. To which Woody Allen added: Those who can't teach, teach gym.

Tom C.

 

[GAD]

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here

If you have already abandoned all hope,
please disregard this notice.

 

[chazmo]

"This sentence is false" (courtesy of either Bertrand Russell or Kurt Godel, I'm not sure)

I always make my kids think a little with that one.

 

[Scratch]

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

Yogi Berra

 

[Bikerdoc]

"You don't have anything to say I want to hear and I don't have anything to say you can understand".

I don't know where that quote came from but sometimes I wonder if I've not developed the persona that goes with that quote. I mean, being alive for over a half century kind o' makes a lot of things/opinions a bit redundant and noone (my kids) ever listened to me in the first place. :?

"I told you so" isn't especially nice to say but I love the feeling. :lol:

I know, you said "one" of your favorite quotes but my very favorite is:
"I am a pseudo-intellectual beer drinker with uncanny 12 ounce curl abilities".

Peace

 

[killdeer43]

It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.

Ulysses Everett McGill

Joe :wink:

 

[jte]

Tons of 'em...

Five very important ones however are....

"There are only two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots, the other is wings." Hodding Carter

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." Leo Tolstoy

"There are only two kinds of music; music that sounds good, and whatever you want to call that other stuff." Duke Ellington

"This boy is "Ignorance" and this girl is "Want"! Beware them both, but beware this boy more." Charles Dickens (the Ghost of Christmas Present from "A Christmas Carol")

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." Judy Garland

John

 

[killdeer43]

I only know two songs....one is Yankee Doodle and I don't know what the other one is.

U.S. Grant

:shock:
Joe

 

[davismanLV]

This fave of mine from, what some would consider, an unlikely source:

"A little bit of pain is good for you. I feel alive. Everybody needs struggle. Once you overcome an obstacle, you springboard into the future. Life is interesting and short and it's not supposed to be easy, and if it is, you're probably just in denial and you're existing here like a zombie."
PAMELA ANDERSON

The Abe Lincoln one is BRILLIANT!!!

Tom in Vegas

 

[Scratch]

I do love Yogi Berra's sage, humorous wisdom. Another favorite: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it" :lol:

On a more serious note, a good friend gave me the following framed quote when I graduated from OTS in January 1981. It was the only wall hanging that accompanied me through many military assignments. When assigned field duty without an office, it was embellished within my heart:

"To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world."

Antoine De Saint-Exupery: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/ent ... nt-Exupery

 

[Taylor Martin Guild]

It's a fact that if your mother's mother never had childern, neither will you.

 

[CA-35]

"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco" Mark Twain

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt" Mark Twain

"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll realize what little chance you have of changing others" ?

"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we ought might attain by fearing to attempt" Shakespeare

 

[Walter Broes]

By Man Ray :

"Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It's inevitable that he who by concentrated application has extended this limit for himself, should arouse the resentment of those who have accepted conventions which, since accepted by all, require no initiative of application. And this resentment generally takes the form of meaningless laughter or of criticism, if not persecution. But this apparent violation is preferable to the monstrous habits condoned by etiquette and estheticism."