What are your Three Favorite Quotes?

[Rheghead]

"Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us -- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along."
Carl Sagan

"A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
Sir Winston Churchill"

"Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is."
Sir Winston Churchill

[David Banks]

Here's two:

W.O. Mitchell: I think children have a right to expect a home to hold solid under them, an enduring platform on which to practise the anarchy of childhood.


Francois de la Rochefoucauld: We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.


No doubt, no. 3 will sprung to mind just after I hit "Post"

[Moira]

What's with the "favorite" thing, you gone all American on us?

Seriously, I have so many, I'll come back to this thread sometime.

[davem]

“The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.”
Jean Giraudoux

[secrets in symmetry]

Two of mine are in my signature.

[Kodiak]

1. Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Edgar Allan Poe

2. All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Edgar Allan Poe

3. The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Edgar Allan Poe

[billmoseley]

you are no better than anyone else and nobody is better than you. my dad

[riggerboy]

Tis better to keep yer mouth shut and appear stupid, rather than open it and remove all doubt,

The good lord gave you 2 ears and 1 mouth for a very good reason, to listen twice as much as you speak,

Hang em hang em hang em high, the gallows should be erected to hang em high

[cherokee]

Treat others as you would want to be treated yourself.

[gleeber]

My first one is top of my list.
The other 2 could have been any of thousands.
Father forgive them for they know not what they do. Heinrich Himmler.
Most of the things I ever worried about never happened. Churchill.
Memory loss is the rule not the exception. I cant remember.

[M Swanson]

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. Winston Churchill.

We buy things we don't need,
With money we don't have
To impress people we don't like.

[Flynn]

I have five.

"The optimism of the action is better than the pessimism of the thought." - Harald Zindler.

"I thought of that while riding my bike" - Albert Einstein, on the theory of relativity.

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” - Malcolm X.

"People are created to be loved, things are created to be used. The world is in chaos because things are being loved and people are being used." - Anon.

Ned Flanders: “You were bicycling two abreast?”
Homer Simpson: “I wish. We were bicycling to a lake.”

[caithness-chicky]

You cant beat some classic Dr Seuss:-

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those that matter don't mind"

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go"

Angela Schwindt - "While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about"

[Cape Crusader]

"You can always trust any man who tucks his shirt into his underpants" Peter Tinniswood


"The only advantage that women have over spaniels is that they don't chase motorbikes" Peter Tinniswood


"You can lead a horse to water but a rhubarb must be forced" Me, just now





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[Tilly Teckel]

I guess mine are more jokes than quotes, but I like them cos they always make me smile!

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by ~ Douglas Adams

How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand ~ Emo Philips

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later ~ Mitch Hedberg