What's your favorite quote?

[cosmickitty]

What's your favorite quote and why?

Mines in my siggie but...

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.


or in a close second...

"you can always tell what kind a person a man thinks you are by the earrings he gives you" --- Audrey Hepburn

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Here are five quotes I like:

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.

Sects, sects, sects. Is that all you monks think about?

I think I speak for everyone when I say vegetarian pigs in the blanket are bullshit.

Then, crushing what he chanced to mould in play, the idiot Chaos blew Earth's dust away.

...early worshippers of Dionysus reenacted this gruesome scene by whipping themselves into a frenzy and tearing a live bull to pieces with their hands and teeth. These grisly rites, accompanied by loud music and the crashing of cymbals, were intended to propel the revelers into a state of ecstasy, a word literally meaning 'outside the body' to the Greeks. Through this ecstasy, the cultists hoped to transcend their earthly bonds and allow the soul a temporary liberation from the body. Only in this way could the soul achieve a condition of enthousiasmos, meaning 'inside the god', which the worshipers believed was a taste of what they might one day enjoy in eternity...

[DerVVulfman]

This one surprises a number of people when I say who came up with it.

"Crazy. But that's how it goes.
Millions of people living as foes.
Maybe it's not too late
to learn how to love and forget how to hate." - Ozzy Osbourne

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"Self realization. I was recalling the immortal words of Socrates who said... 'I drank what?' "
Val Kilmer in Real Genius The gag is that Socrates poisoned himself.

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here is one for inspiration:

He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration in the belief that craftsmanship alone suffices will remain a bungler and his presumptuous poetry will be obscured by the songs of the maniacs.

:)

[polo12]

Imagination is more important than knowledge...
~Albert Enstein

Whether you think you can
or whether you think you can't,
you're right.
~Henry Ford

You see things; and you say 'Why?'
But I dream things that never were;
and I say 'Why not?'
~George Bernard Shaw

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership,
of getting along with people,
of getting things done.
~Dwight D Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.
~Stephen Ambrose (1936 - 2002),D-Day, page 577

[Pherione]

A poet's hope: to be,
like some valley cheese,
local, but prized elsewhere.
-W.H.Auden

I wish I were a bird
-Chiyo's Dad

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I always say you can never travel with too many ointments.

[Mercenary]

'I am invariably late for Save-Point - sometimes as much as two days. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing. '

-Marilyn Monroe and me bro-ing it out over tea

[RosyPosy]

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

the greatest american ever,,, side from me...