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Your favorite quotes?

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"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
- Oscar Wilde

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
- Mark Twain

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
- Henry Louis Mencken

God I love the last one, ha.

-dp
 
^I'm feeling pretty normal this evening ;) hahahaha
I am totally kidding!



“If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

Henry David Thoreau

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
-Chinese Proverb

William Shakespeare:
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
 
I may have gotten the wording wrong but I've always liked Oscar Wilde, my favorite from him is this:

"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."
 
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.”

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
-Oscar Wilde

“Every man dies - Not every man really lives.”
-William Ross Wallace

-dp (yes I'm feeling the death today... just feeling the death...)
 
>>Judge people less on their mistakes than on how they handle their mistakes

>>Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation
 
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"
- Oscar Wilde

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
- Jimi Hendrix

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford
 
"I used to be high on life but eventually I built up a tolerance"- the marijuanalogues

"It's in your face but you can't grab it"- atreyu
I have no idea what ^ actually means but being a fiend for the straw and mirror I like it because it reminds me of snorting shit
 
"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope." ~ George Eliot
 
Two favorites to me. They don't really deal with the same topic either, but oh well!

"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me" - Emo Philips

"Insanity is the insistence on meaning." - Frank Bidart

I like the Frank Bidart quote a lot. I think it carries a lot of truth especially in this day in age.
 
vonchampz said:
"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me" - Emo Philips
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Haha that one made me laugh.

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
- George Burns

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr

-dp
 
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
- Thomas Henry Huxley

-dp
 
One from my high school days that I forgot about hehe...

"If you're going to use drugs, thats your choice, but you better give me a damn good reason why you're doing it!" - My Dad
 
>>Everything around you and everyone is our teacher.

>>We grow in higher consciousness, and when we do, we discover that it is more important to be the right person, then to find the right person.
 
Start here & go until you die, he said. What's so complicated about that?
 
"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest."
- Mark Twain

"Sanity is a madness put to good uses."
- George Santayana

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying."
- Woody Allen

-dp
 
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