What is your favorite quote of all time? Mine is...

Hi all, just wanted to start a thread to find out what peoples favorite quotes are and are there any that people live their lives by..
I'll list a few favourites to get things started..

I haven't failed, I've just found 10'000 ways that won't work~Thomas eddison.

Find a Job you love, and you will never have to work a day I'm your life~conficus 551-479bc

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind~Ghandi

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take~Wayne Gretzky

Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize we cannot eat money~Cree proverb

And my favourite and one I try and live my life by is this...

Life isn't measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away~Maya Angelou.

Hope to see some gems here and hopefully some I can add to my favourites list..

Peace..

Hmmm this is a tough one but my all time favorite quote is, "Not my chair not my problem. That's what i always say."

reply to post by THIRDEYETRIPPIN


Good one.. Do you know who said it?

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I have no clue it was a cartoon gecko on youtube i saw a few months back. i will try and find the video and post it

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. ~ George Carlin

Originally posted by CarpenterMatt
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. ~ George Carlin

Excellent quote

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It has to be:

Is it not strange that the descendants of those Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the Atlantic to preserve their own freedom have always proved the most intolerant of the spiritual liberty of others?

Robert E. Lee

27th December 1856

reply to post by Misterlondon


I've always thought that this one was apropos in terms of love and the relationship between men and women.

Once inside a woman's heart
A man must keep his head
Heaven opens up the door
Where angels fear to tread.

Bob Seger "Shame on the Moon"

Originally posted by Not_u_again
It has to be:

Is it not strange that the descendants of those Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the Atlantic to preserve their own freedom have always proved the most intolerant of the spiritual liberty of others?

Robert E. Lee

27th December 1856

So true!!

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"Death is another path, one that we all must take" - Gandalf the White

Originally posted by The Baby Seal Club
reply to post by Misterlondon

 

I've always thought that this one was apropos in terms of love and the relationship between men and women.

Once inside a woman's heart
A man must keep his head
Heaven opens up the door
Where angels fear to tread.

Bob Seger "Shame on the Moon"

Yeah I get that..

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Originally posted by THIRDEYETRIPPIN
"Death is another path, one that we all must take" - Gandalf the White

Lord of the rings... One from I like from it and could be attributed to current times or the immediate future...

The world has changed, I feel it in The water, I feel it in the earth, I smell it in the air.
Much that was is lost.. For noone now live who remember it..

"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution."
— Mae West

Originally posted by margaretr
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution."
— Mae West

nor am I.. I'll have to let the girlfriend know that one..

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God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.

- Robin Williams

Originally posted by Mathoryn

God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.

- Robin Williams

So true.. I have heard that one before..

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Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Sir Winston Churchill

Originally posted by Pittsburgh
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Sir Winston Churchill

Sir Winston.. Came out with some great lines..

"history will be kind to me, for I intend to write it"

favorite quotes : from Me: "I wanted to be a philosopher, but I couldn't pass the metaphysical". and "I never metaphor I didn't liken".

anonymous: "I feel better since I lost hope".

philosophy: "Live simply, so that others may simply live" - gandhi

"the future ain't what it used to be'. - yogi berra

Originally posted by harry ashburn
favorite quotes : from Me: "I wanted to be a philosopher, but I couldn't pass the metaphysical". and "I never metaphor I didn't liken".

anonymous: "I feel better since I lost hope".

philosophy: "Live simply, so that others may simply live" - gandhi

"the future ain't what it used to be'. - yogi berra

Some good ones there.. The ghandi one sounds similar to another one I like "love the life you live and live the life you love"
My flatmate lives by that one!