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What are your five all-time favorite quotes?

Posted by fineartathome • 5/20/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic

What are your five all-time favorite quotes?

Here's mine:

Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley

My biggest fear in life is when I'm dead and gone, my wife will sell my fishing gear for what I said I payed for it. - Koos Brandt

It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. - John Steinbeck

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. - G. K. Chesterton

I do benefits for all religions. I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality. - Bob Hope

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5/20/08

focusorganic

"Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day." - Stephen Jay Gould

"Only after the last tree has been cut down… the last river has been poisoned… the last fish caught, only then will you find that money cannot be eaten." - Indian Cree Prophesy

"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul." - from Interview With the Vampire

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5/20/08

jsinkeywest

Better Live your life to the fullest cause your not coming back."me"

"I guess he had it coming" An old man looking down at this guy outside my house in Brooklyn when a local crackhead was lying right there in the street with his face gone. I'll never forget that one

You had me thinking though thanks:)

But don't "quote" me on that

I like the way your blog looks I'm checking it out now
stumbled

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5/20/08

kevingoodman

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George S. Patton

Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy. Picasso

Ability is nothing without opportunity. Napoleon

An army of sheep, led by a lion, is better than an army of lions, led by a sheep. Napoleon

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Napoleon

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5/20/08

baldeagle

Thought without Action is a daydream,
Action without Thought is a nightmare.
- Japanese Proverb

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5/21/08

sdk1988

Delve into your dreams and desires, to come out holding your destiny.. sdk2008

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5/21/08

RTBjr73

"Baseball is 90% mental -- the other half is physical." - Yogi Berra

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5/21/08

ekim941

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool
than to open your mouth and remove all doubt - Abe Lincoln

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Go out on a limb, that's where the fruit is.

Decaffeinated coffee is like kissing your sister.

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5/21/08

DarkAngelMe

All generalizations are wrong including this one.

Now say it four more times.

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5/21/08

GuyRCook

"If it isn't tested, it doesn't work."

"Cuz I'm the Dad, that's why."

"You have to live with the man in the mirror."

"You know what I mean?"

"Have a good one, and if they're real good have two."

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5/22/08

lulubelleb

"Outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx

"Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its 5-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before." - Capt James T Kirk

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C Clarke

"Brevity is the soul of wit." - William Shakespeare

"Cooookie!" - Cookie Monster

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5/22/08

acousticguitarist

There is only one religion the religion of Love

Choose a Path with a Heart

The Kingdom of Heaven is within you

All you are is all you have thought

Lokaa samastaa sukhino bhavantu

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5/22/08

lordiwanttobewhole

I love quotes...heres 5 I love

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." ~
Anais Nin

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
Anais Nin

"no one can make you feel inferior without your consent"-Eleanor Roosevelt

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

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
-- Helen Keller

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