Favorite quotes

hntr18 said:
"About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends."
-- Herbert Hoover

"Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty."
-- Leo Rosten


"Write a wise saying and your name will live forever."
-- Anonymous

"A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat."
-- P. J. O'Rourke
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Great quotes!

The first one pretty much defines my life at the moment. :smt009

The second one is spot on, too. We all have to find a happy medium.
 
By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don’t have any substantive dimension to them
~ KRudd - Australian Prime Minister ~

May as well be here we are as where we are
~ Australian Aboriginal saying ~

Such is life
~ Ned Kelly - bushranger ~

Flynn is not always in
~ Errol Flynn ~
 
Tarshibear said:
By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don’t have any substantive dimension to them
~ KRudd - Australian Prime Minister ~

May as well be here we are as where we are
~ Australian Aboriginal saying ~

Such is life
~ Ned Kelly - bushranger ~

Flynn is not always in
~ Errol Flynn ~
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wow "such is life" originated from Ned.... wow, I still hear it quite often!!
 
curleyblonde said:
wow "such is life" originated from Ned.... wow, I still hear it quite often!!
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yes they were his last before being hung. he was quite the poet actually. another of my favorites is:

If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to madness men they persecute and ill treat, my life will not be entirely thrown away
 
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that. ​

Martin Luther King, Jr.​
 
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

William James

"Great part of being a grownup, you never have to do anything."
-- Peter Blake

"The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague."
-- Bill Cosby

"Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard."
-- Daphne du Maurier

"This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer."
-- Will Rogers
 
"What makes Hillary experienced enough to be president? Is it because she was married to Bill Clinton? With that logic, Robin Givens should be heavyweight champ of the world".

- Tracy Morgan
 
hntr18 said:
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

William James

"Great part of being a grownup, you never have to do anything."
-- Peter Blake

"The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague."
-- Bill Cosby

"Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard."
-- Daphne du Maurier

"This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer."
-- Will Rogers
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she's one of my favorite authors
 
"Your life is determined by Genetics, enviroment and luck. And I forgot.... a small fraction of it is also by what you do with it". A drunk Actress.
 
"The time is always right to do what is right".
- Dr. M.L. King Jr.

Perfect for today but a quote for every day.
 
“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
– Hellen Keller
 
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." Noam Chomsky
 
"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."
-- Evelyn Waugh

"But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
-- Benjamin Franklin

"People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them."
-- Anatole France

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
-- Andre Gide
 
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