What Is Your Favourite Quotation?
What is Your Favourite Quotation?
This is probably a good time to share the messages that can bring hope, joy or inspiration — a line from a book, a short verse of poetry, words from a speech or song lyrics you love. You can never know who might find comfort in those words, as well as you..
It's hard for me to choose, there are so many that I cannot break the tie.
"Don't take life too serious, son. It ain't nohow permanent." (Churchy La Femme of Pogo fame)
"Don't believe anything you read or hear, and only half of what you see." (Somebody's grandpappy)
""Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." (I shouldn't have to identify JFK - I'd be shocked if there was anyone who doesn't know it)
And so, let's see your favourites.
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And so, let's see your favourites.
Pray for Smart: Plan for Stupid!
It's a saying I created 20 years ago in the Tradeshow Industry. We pray that people will be smart enough to get the job done correctly, but we plan for the idiot who could screw up a wet dream...
"I shall return! And when I do, I'll be back!"
General Douglas McArthur, Mad Magazine
Sounds like a Yogi Berraism.
"Regret Is Vain"
attributed to the Buddha by the buddhist writer Christmas Humphreys, although probably unsubstantiated.
My second choice would be one or more of the many memorable things said by Mark Twain.
''it is what it is''
The phrase appeared in a column written by J. E. Lawrence in the Nebraska State Journal:
"With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke."
Will Rogers
Fallback quote: "You can't cure stupid".
"I do not belong to an organized political party. I am a Democrat" - Will Rogers
"I refuse to join any group with standards so low they accept people like me" - Groucho Marx
Upper class English lady to Winston Churchill, "Sir, if I were your wife I would put poison in your food"...
Churchill, "Madam, were I your husband I would eat it".
He said it to Lady Astor but it was coffee not food.
May you stay forever young
Bob Dylan
"If you don't have anything nice to say come sit by me" - The Unsinkable Molly Brown
It was also used in Steel Magnolias. My favorite line is....
"You screw me, I screw you back. I'm a lady like that." (Camron Diaz...The Other Woman.)
"Oops" - Rick Perry
"it'll all be okay in the end.
If it's not okay, it's not the end.
John Lennon
"The next time I tell you that someone is entirely unfit to be the President of the United States...listen to me" - The Inimitable Molly Ivins
Ah yes. Loved reading her columns every week.
"What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority." ~ Molly Ivins
"Poor George...he was born with a silver foot in his mouth" - The Iconic Ann Richards
Many years ago I was in the audience in Dallas and witnessed Ann Richards giving a keynote speech. I walked away thinking that she should have been POTUS rather than just the Governor of Texas.
If everything is coming at you, you are in the wrong lane.
My mother
I need to remember that one.
"YEEEEE HAW" - Former Vermont Gov Howard Dean
"GERONIMO" - Geronimo
"Seek not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee."
(This is a simplification of a line from Meditation XVII written in the 17th century by John Donne. It has been explained as follows: "Donne seems to be saying that whatever affects one affects us all. This is highlighted by the famous 'no man is an island' line at the beginning of the 'for whom the bells tolls' paragraph." "For whom the bell tolls" was the title of Hemingway's masterpiece, which was also adapted to be a movie of the same title starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman.)
Ignorance is forgivable because someone does not know something is wrong. Stupidity on the other hand is unforgivable because they know something is wrong and do it anyway. My own.
"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns,
or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."
Abraham Lincoln
Buzz, some Canadian friends said a common phrase there was "You're an idiot, ya idiot". (I like it)
I never heard or read it.
"Never let go Rose. Never let go" - Jack
Or Brad Pitt: I would have shared the raft.
"Last night I slept under a bridge, and tonight I'm drinking champagne with you fine folks."
Jack from The Titanic.
"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." John Galt
"Of course I depend on Medicare and am collecting my Social Security. I'm not crazy" - Ayn Rand
"It is obvious, in such cases, that a man receives his own money which was taken from him by force, directly and specifically, without his consent, against his own choice. Those who advocated such laws are morally guilty, since they assumed the "right" to force employers and unwilling co-workers. But the victims, who opposed such laws, have a clear right to any refund of their own money—and they would not advance the cause of freedom if they left their money, unclaimed, for the benefit of the welfare-state administration." Ayn Rand
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore!"
Also
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Was the last one Annabel Lee? I'm assuming it's also Poe, and can't think of where else he would have said it.
Yes, it was Annabel Lee.
"When was the last time you did something for the first time"
David Lee Roth, also..
"I like the way the line runs up the back of those stockings. I've always liked those kind of high heels too. No,no,no,no! Don't take 'em off, leave 'em on. Yeah, that's it, a little more to the right"
Where is Vic Eldred? I think he'd share your love for that second quote.
Ya, I'm aboard now. Kat you got that right! Voted up!
For my second choice, maybe what I had to constantly hear in the old neighborhood growing up... "When the going gets tough...the tough get going!"
And along the same lines, from Bullet for my Valentine: "Keep on those high heel shoes and rip off all your clothes"
"I don't know about all that" - My Dad to a liar...
"My Dear, you are positively glowing" - Pierre Curie
"FUCK ME" - General George Armstrong Custer
"If wishes were horses beggars would ride".
My Mom
“...artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.
- Evey , V is for Vendetta
"You just hate me because I'm beautiful and I slept with your dad" - written on a bathroom stall
Followed by, "Go home Mom. You are drunk"...
"What are you looking up here for? The joke is in your hand" - Graffiti Above A Urinal
A bastardized version of the more popular quote, "Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die" (or something like that). The one I use at work a lot is "Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to limit the damage."
Sign at a fabric company....
We who about to dye salute you.
During my Navy days, ours went "Ours not to reason why, our but to do or get written up!"
It's from Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade".
"I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way" - Jessica Rabbit
I get a chuckle from Roger, when nobody he asked could tell him where Eddie was, until:
"But the liquor store guy - he knew!"
"What, Me Worry"?
Alfred E. Newman. Mad Magazine.
Always a good one!
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Now, Look what you have went and done
and
What do you have to say for yourself?
both from Charger's father
Nobody can go higher than this one...
"I AM WHO I AM"
Popeye could, if you gave him enough spinach.
An Irish blessing:
May you be in Heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you're dead
..and, conversely .. a Chinese curse that's very clever:
May you live in interesting times.
"Despite the constant negative press covfefe
Leader of idiots aka Donald Trump
I guess I should have put up a notice asking to refrain from politics - but then I'm sure it's burdening every American's mind these days.
Yeah you probably should have no matter how hypocritical it would have been since you quoted JFK in your opening remarks.
It's hypocritical to quote a politician who's been dead for more than half a century? I'm thinking of present day politics - which is in my opinion IN BAD TASTE to post. So please do me a favour and don't post your insulting comments on my articles.
It's hypocritical to quote a politician and demand that someone else not quote a politician. You move the bar constantly depending on your mood. I have no problem skipping over your articles and will do so going forward but before I never communicate with you again I do have one question that has bothered me over the years.
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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius.
I'm undeniably myself, and I think realizing that is the way to live life.
Colton Underwood
Two more JFK quotes:
"I'm the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris" (said by JFK at a welcoming banquet in Paris)
"Ich bin ein Berliner" (announced by JFK to a huge crowd by JFK in Berlin) "ein Berliner" is actually translated to mean a jelly donut.
And as Yogi Berra said...."It's never over til it's over."
But......but I thought you didn't want quotes from politicians. Oh......I think I understand now, you just don't want political quotes that make your guy look dumb.
Who is my guy? You KNOW I'm not an American. I've been posting quotes from a dead politician who I admired, and he was a DEMOCRAT. At least I have the good taste to NOT post quotes from present-day candidates for POTUS.
"Let him have the women, you have the money and the name." JFK's mother to Jackie
You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.” — ?
Freud
"I'm surrounded by Assholes." (the movie Spaceballs)
"Encumbered by idjits, we pressed on" the movie Billy the Kid.
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubt, while the stupid people are full of confidence.
Charles Burkowski
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
Frank Dane
"Clever tyrants are never punished; they have always some slight shade of virtue: they support the laws before destroying them."
---Voltaire
My favourite Voltaire quotation:
"I'm Rick James, bitch!"
---Rick James
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is 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 an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
-----William Shakespeare
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
----Friedrich Nietzsche
My favorite quote is on my personal page:
Leo Tolstoy
“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” Willy Shakespeare.
“We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.”
― Gene Roddenberry
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” - Matthew 22:36-40.
Two from TJ:
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education." - Thomas Jefferson
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them" - Thomas Jefferson
“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
― Mark Twain
Politics:
"If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority."
Barbara Jordan
Love:
The lifetime I have left
I open up to you
to tread upon
and travel through.
You pave the road
I'll follow,
You build the bridge,
I'll test it first.
-Rod McKuen, Caught in the Quiet
It is better to keep one's mouth shut and let the world think them a fool than to open one's mouth and prove it. - Mark Twain
Here are a few.
Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice (if you seek a beautiful peninsula, look about you)-Motto on the flag of the State of Michigan.
"Congress is the only distinct criminal class in this country"
(Regarding a school board) "A board is long and hard and narrow; it is made of wood"
"I came in with Halley's Comet and I will go out with Halley's Comet"
(NOTE: He did)
Born November 30, 1835
Died April 21, 1910
All three by Mark Twain
I'm from the dark side of the moon, and I'm going back there. - Air America.
A few more from musicians:
Reporter:
"Are you a mod, or a rocker?"
Ringo:
"Um, no. I'm a mocker."
"If you don't become the ocean you'll be seasick everyday."
Leonard Cohen
"If the phone doesn't ring it's me."
Jimmy Buffet
I could quote Leonard Cohen (my favourite singer-songwriter-poet-author) all day. I like this one from "Anthem".
"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
I loved Leonard Cohen too.
" This too shall pass"
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
"If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong, and at the worst possible moment." - Murphy's Law
'When life turns to shit, look for the pony'.