What's your favourite quote?

bonerm · 06-03-2010 11:38PM

"Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try."
- Yoda

(see that's advice you can take to the bank!)

He also had another one that went something like....

"Judge me by my size, do you?"

(fortunately however I've never had need to invoke that one)

Cheeble · 06-03-2010 11:39PM

"Life is everchanging"

Probably from multiple sources, but particularly Buddhism for Sheep by Chris Riddell:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Buddhism-Sheep-Chris-Riddell/dp/0091807549

Cheeble-eers

Jev/N · 06-03-2010 11:43PM

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

(Albert Einstein)

3hn2givr7mx1sc · 06-03-2010 11:44PM

Eric Cantona..
"An artist, in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970, and the poetry of the young Rimbaud."

Banksy..
"When I was five years old, my Mom told me happiness was the key to life. When I went to school they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy".
They told me I didn't understand the assignment and I told them they didn't understand life."

Both are pure legends among men.

bazmaiden · 06-03-2010 11:47PM

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.”

Bill Hicks

merengueca · 06-03-2010 11:50PM

Billy Franks :

I only had to be cut once to know how to bleed
I know why we tend to love most those who know
How to leave and Take my hand and let me tell you
All but my love will soon be gone
And the exit wound will be quick and clean
So the sacred art of leaving passes on.

TimTim · 06-03-2010 11:51PM

"It is better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven." - John Milton

Or I have another quote but I've never been able to find out where it came from.

"The secret war is never over, only the enemy changes."

Rebelheart · 06-03-2010 11:53PM

OPENROAD wrote: »

"Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
— Samuel Johnson

Speaking of Johnson, this one is classic:

"He, I know not why, shewed upon all occasions an aversion to go to Ireland, where I proposed to him that we should make a tour.
JOHNSON. "It is the last place where I should wish to travel."
BOSWELL. "Should you not like to see Dublin, Sir?"
JOHNSON. "No, Sir; Dublin is only a worse capital."
BOSWELL. "Is not the Giant's-Causeway worth seeing?"
JOHNSON. "Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see.""

I can't see the Northern Ireland Tourist Board using it anytime soon.

akkadian · 06-03-2010 11:55PM

kev9100 wrote: »

My personal favourite is "It’s better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you’re stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. — Rami Belson”

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
--Oscar Wilde

HalloweenJack · 06-03-2010 11:55PM

"A pint of plain's your only man" - Briain ó Nualáin/Flann O'Brien/Myles na gCopaleen

galwayrush · 07-03-2010 12:15AM

1. It's important to have a woman, who helps at home, who cooks from time to time, cleans up and has a job.

2. It's important to have a woman, who can make you laugh.

3. It's important to have a woman, who you can trust and who doesn't lie to you.

4. It's important to have a woman, who is good in bed and who likes to be with you.

5. It's very, very important that these four women do not know each other

Tiger Woods

daca88 · 07-03-2010 12:17AM

ronnie3585 wrote: »

If there's one thing I hate it's losing.

If there's two things I hate it's losing, and getting cancer.

Kenny Powers

Kenny Powers FTW!!

"I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know"
Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf

or

"I dont want to live, I want to love first, and live incidentally"
havent a clue who said that one, i just like it

Super-Rush · 07-03-2010 12:17AM

Withnail and I

"We want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here, and we want them now!"

"Don't threaten me with a dead fish"

Bill Shankly

"Some people think that football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that."

jd007 · 07-03-2010 12:23AM

"I've never really wanted to go to Japan, simply because I don't like eating fish, and I know thats very popular out there in Africa.” -Britney Spears.

Them crazy Africans and their fish!:pac:

Soul Cake Duck · 07-03-2010 12:35AM

"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
"Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice.

"There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist."

"It's still magic even if you know how it's done"

All Terry Pratchett!

mink_man · 07-03-2010 12:41AM

"regan is here, thaaank you, only way is to da pub, where da **** else!?"

BrianJD · 07-03-2010 12:49AM

May God bless and keep you always
May your wishes all come true
May you always do for others
And let others do for you
May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung
May you stay forever young

Bob Dylan - Forever Young

silvervixen84 · 07-03-2010 12:50AM

What is life if full of care
We have no time to stand and stare
A poor life this, if full of care
We have no time to stand and stare

William Henry Davis

theboss80 · 07-03-2010 12:52AM

"Its better to deserve awards and yet never recieve them than to recieve awards and yet never deserve them."

Cant remember who said that originally, or theres another great basketball coaches quote that goes.

"We have a great team of outside shooters, its just a problem the game is played indoors."

Wishbone Ash · 07-03-2010 01:01AM

"The fearless are merely fearless. Those who act in spite of their fear are truely brave".

catalyst88 · 07-03-2010 01:13AM

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." ~ Marilyn Monroe

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom" ~ William Blake

rgt320q · 07-03-2010 01:18AM

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - I think that I think, therfore I think that I am.
- Ambrose Bierce

mink_man · 07-03-2010 01:20AM

"Lets put the fear of God into them!"

filthymcnasty · 07-03-2010 01:23AM

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
einstein

Stacey.x · 07-03-2010 01:25AM

'If you let go of your dreams, you let go of your life.'

very true

Glico Man · 07-03-2010 01:36AM

"To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." ~ E.E Cummings

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." ~ John Lennon

"Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun". ~ George Scialabba

Bassboxxx · 07-03-2010 01:42AM

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

Bassboxxx · 07-03-2010 01:46AM

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
James Dean

Savage Tyrant · 07-03-2010 01:54AM

“Believe that we too love freedom and desire it.
To us it is more desirable than anything in the world.
If you strike us down now, we shall rise again and renew the fight.
You cannot conquer Ireland you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom:
if our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom then our children will win it with a better deed.”
Pádraig Pearse

BOHtox · 07-03-2010 01:59AM

super-rush wrote: »

Bill Shankly

"Some people think that football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that."

The real quotation was said by Liverpool F.C. manager Bill Shankly in 1981 on a Granada Television talk show called 'Live from Two' hosted by Shelley Rohde, and it was "Someone said 'football is more important than life and death to you' and I said 'Listen, it's more important than that'."

but my two favourite are
from planes tranes and automobiles:
Del "You wanna hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I’m an easy target. Yeah, you’re right, I talk too much. I also listen too much. I could be a cold-hearted cynic like you… but I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings. Well, you think what you want about me; I’m not changing. I like… I like me. My wife likes me. My customers like me. ‘Cause I’m the real article. What you see is what you get."

and of course
Julius Caesar"Veni, vidi, vici" (I came I saw I conquered).

My teacher in school always mis quotes Roy keane's fail to prepare prepare to fail with
"Fail to plan plan to fail" its quite funny.

What's your favourite quote?

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