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What is your favourite quotation?
Posted by marialuiza • 11/01/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: Quotations
Mine is
"If all mankind, minus one were of one opinion, and only
one were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be
no more justified in silencing the one than he, if he had
the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”(John Stuart Mill)
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"chance favors the prepared mind"
"Make love not war..set the bed on fire..not the huts and paddy fields"- Sorcerer on war..
I got more of my aweshome quotations in my blog.(somewhere) -
“It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.”
Arthur Calwell -
"You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith."
Mary Manin Morrissey -
"Why do men like intelligent women? Because opposites attract." Kathy Lette -
I have so many, since quotations are my stock and trade. I love this one by Shakespeare:
"I would rather have a clown to make me merry than experience to make me sad." -
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
Winston Churchill
"Anytime the going seems easy, you’d better check to see if you are going downhill." anonymous -
Ideologies are grimaces of the intellect.
Avatar -
"curiouser and curiouser"-
Actually, I thought of a better one..."Where's the beef?"
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The ignoramus laughs at what he is unable to comprehend.
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"There is no solution because there is no problem." Marcel Duchamp
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It is better to try and lose than losing without trying at all.
You miss 100 percent of the shot when you will not take it. -
I'd have to say my favorite is...
"Brian, ohmigod, I read your blog and wet myself I was laughing so hard. A piece of mushroom from my pizza fired out my nose. You are the most awesome blogger the world has ever known."
--Brian O'Mara-Croft -
"Men are like nails -- worthless unless you bang them."-
"And women are like hammers, even when they look at woods, they see nails"...
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I just watched Ghosts of Girlfriends Past today and something that they kept bringing up was "The power of a relationship lies with whoever cares less." Not my favorite quote but I think it's a lesson in itself.-
My new favorite quote: "Iheartcandies, what would possess you to watch that movie?"
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chick flick. enough said.
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I used to think that my favorite quotation was by Eleanor Roosevelt: "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
but now, I have a new favorite quote by Claude M. Bristol: "What you believe yourself to be, you are."-
Both quotes are solidly idealistic.
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“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.” - Zig Zagler
And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to Blossom
Anain Nis -
Opinions are like a*seholes - everyone's got one! -
"I can take a thirsty man to the pond, but it's up to him to drink"-
I thought it was a tavern, not a pond
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i modified it;P
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"If we live in a lightning flash it's the heart of eternity."
Rene Char -
"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument." -William G. McAdoo -
" Que Sera Sera "
Whatever will be will be -
It's never too late to be what you might have been -
“I impute to women, they often think differently. It is so nice to fly into the light. Only there I know what is really in me”. -
"The Negro buys what he WANTS and begs for what he Needs."
-- Nannie Helen Burroughs
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Oooh so many
"they're all gonna laugh at you"
"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love. Listens but doesn't believe and she leaves before she is left"
- Marilyn Monroe
"We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead."
-Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
“When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.”
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves."
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This may not be my all-time favorite, but a funny one I recently used in my divorce law blog is by Groucho Marx: "I was married by a judge, but I should have asked for a jury!" -
"Sometimes your the bug, sometimes the windshield." I forget who says it tho. -
One of my favorites is "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest" -
One of my favorites:
"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure." Albert Einstein -
"A life unenjoyed now is unenjoyed."
"When the skies fall, get on with the washing."
Frieda Lawrence-
I love that one! Is that from you?
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The first one I mean.
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I'm not sure who wrote the first one. The second is by Frieda Lawrence, the wife of DH Lawrence.
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My favorite:
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