Favorite Quotes Thread

[ehui]

What is your favorite quote?

Here are couple from me:

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.


Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

 

[Mat G]

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.

 

[biswajit g]

[...] compel my strength, make enormous demand on me, do not doubt my courage or my toughness, do not believe me naive or innocent [...] (Anais Nin)

 

[Badboy Scotty]

Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar’s gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart throught the world. There in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and hospitals, in drab suburban pubs, in brothels and gambling-hells, in the salons of the elegant, the Stock Exchanges, socialist meetings, churches, revivalist gatherings and ecstatic sects, through love and hate, through the experience of passion in every form in his own body, he would reap richer stores of knowledge than text-books a foot thick could give him, and he will know how to doctor the sick with a real knowledge of the human soul.

– Carl Jung

 

[feedphillipnow]

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. :razz:

 

[Nathalie K]

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Lao-Tze

 

[arcusx]

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
- Ernest Hemingway

 

[Jsgirl]

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

 

[Kevin.Hiroki.Lee]

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. -Voltaire

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
-Kahlil Gibran

The question to ask should not be: Do we have something in common - reason, self-consciousness, a soul - with other animals? (With the corollary that, if we do not, then we are entitled to treat them as we like, imprisoning them, killing them, dishonoring there corpses). I return to the death camps, the horror that convinces us that what went on there was a crime against humanity, is not that despite a humanity shared with their victims, the killers treated them like lice. That is too abstract. The horror is that the killers refused to see themselves in the place of their victims, as did everyone else. They said 'It is they in those cattle-cars rattling past.' They did not say, 'How would it be if it were I in that cattle-car?' They did not say, 'It is I who am in that cattle-car,' They said, "It must be the dead who are being burnt today, making the air stink and falling ash on my cabbages.' They did not say, 'How would it be if I were burning?' They did not say, 'I am burning, I am falling in ash.' In other words, they closed their hearts.
-J.M. Coetzee

 

["LC" KNOWEN AS AIRFORC]

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

 

[Pompal 09.]

Some of my favorite motorcycle quotes/sayings: :mrgreen:

Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. -Hunter Thompson

Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul. -Author Unknown

Remember when sex was fast and motorcycles were dangerous? -Bumper sticker

 

[Barb M]

"I've had shits longer than her retirement" Sonny Burnett(on another review board)

 

[JoDee.]

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone."
Bill Cosby

 

[queniano]

To be is to do.... Socrates
To do is to be....Sartre
Do Be Do Be Do... Sinatra

 

[Millo]

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

 

[bryanhughjr]

"Sex is one of the most wholesome, beautiful and natural experiences that money can buy."
Steve Martin.

 

[slw2992]

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

 

[P-Man]

“If the brain were so simple that we could understand it then we’d be so simple that we couldn’t”
Lyall Watson
“Happiness depends on how you handle the day”
Stephen Kellogg

 

[Eddie W]

What goes up will come down so don't spit up to the sky.

 

[gary m]

"I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics."
Richard Feynman