Favorite Quotes

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals"

men in black 1997. bad film, good quote

whats your favorite quote?

" I can resist everything except temptation " - Oscar Wilde

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

Mark Twain

mine would be either

To educate the mind without educating the heart is no education at all
Aristotle

or

An eye for an eye
Leaves the world blind!

Mahatma Ghandi

xGGx

ghostgirl wrote:

mine would be either

To educate the mind without educating the heart is no education at all
Aristotle

Aristotle quote nice!

“Anyone can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not within everyone’s power and that is not easy.”

- Aristotl

" Many a good tune played on a old fiddle " - sex with older women LOL

Marlin wrote:

" Many a good tune played on a old fiddle " - sex with older women LOL

hope you not calling any of us mature OA ladies an old fiddle :P

xGGx

"as through this world I've wandered, I've seen lots of funny men, some will rob you with a six gun and some with a fountain pen" - Woody Guthrie; Pretty Boy floyd (song)

" fools make feasts and wise men eat them." Benjamin Franklin.

Ooh I have a lot!

Science:

"I am a tiny, insignificant, ignorant lump of carbon.
I have one life, and it is short
And unimportant…
But thanks to recent scientific advances
I get to live twice as long as my great great great great uncleses and auntses." - Tim Minchin - Storm

"Because throughout history, every mystery, ever solved has turned out to be....not magic" - Tim Minchin - Storm

"You don't use science to show that you're right, you use science to become right" - XKCD

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science(...) is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'that's funny'." - Isaac Asimov

"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong" - Albert Einstein

Love:

"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong.

Religion:

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" - Douglas Adams

"I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence" - Doug Mcleod

Human nature:

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams

"It is best to sleep on things beforehand than to lie awake about them afterwards" - Baltasar Gracian

"Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning" - Albert Einstein

My quote box is going weird so I gave up!

There are definitely more - a lot of clever people say a lot of clever things!

Adx

I have 3 I think

When gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
(Oscar Wilde)

To love means loving the unlovable.
To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable.
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
(Gilbert K. Chesterton)

And not sure where I saw this, but still love it:

Friend is a person who knows your past, believes in your future and loves you for who you are today.

'The psychic abolition of redemption' - (I'm not saying who it is because you'll think I'm weird ^-^)

Ugh, I'm a total quote-fiend. I have loads.

"I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." - Galileo Galilei

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life." - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

"Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, but I love thee. And when I love thee not, chaos is come again." - Othello

"Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the Sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt that I love." - Hamlet

"You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake." - Fight Club

Douglas Adams has some brilliant ones :P

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

"Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it."

ghostgirl wrote:

Marlin wrote:

" Many a good tune played on a old fiddle " - sex with older women LOL

hope you not calling any of us mature OA ladies an old fiddle :P

xGGx

Ha ha...no GG, I keep forgetting I'm probably in the 'Mature' bracket myself

 Coco pops make the milk go all chocolatey :)

"Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life." 

— Bob Marley

Laveila wrote:

Friend is a person who knows your past, believes in your future and loves you for who you are today.

 I'm stealing this!!!

There are lots of great quotes on here

 One of my favourites that always sits on the top of my head is from Shakespeares Macbeth.

"Tommorow and tomorrow and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lightened fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: It is a tale
Told by and idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.-----"

 "The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts."
Virgil

"Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know."
William Shakespeare

"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. "
Buddha

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."
Buddha

"You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." - The Velveteen Rabbit

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. - T.E. Lawrence