"Quotes" Post your favorite ones here :)

[Missaim]

As we all grow and mature and/or find ourselves confronted with conundrums sometimes an old quote from days gone by can really shed some light on our issue at hand whether it be good, bad or indifferent. Please post your favs here. My 3 requests about this topic are:  1) the quote should be of a genuine nature not a humorous play on words. Any whimsical quote's should have their own topic/thread and be reserved for that area. If anyone has any quotes along that line then please start a topic for them. 2) As we're all aware by now there is an actively changing "Quote" on the portal. Please do not take from there and post in here for the sake of accumulating posts. Unless of course that quote has been one that you've been akin to prior or if that quote really struck a chord with you then by all means add it here. 3) Please make sure you add whom you're quoting. If you're not sure of the "author" you can always google your quote and the Author will show.
I have so many from days gone by that have made an impact on me to several degrees.
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change. So that every new moment is spent not in regret, guilt, fear or anger, but in wisdom, understanding and love.” - Jennifer Edwards

[Swift]

“Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.” - George Carlin

I know what you're thinking, thats a humurous quote. But honestly, i think its a little double sided, and he's not just saying it to be funny, that he's saying just because you forget about the problem doesn't mean its actually gone. Which is why i love George Carlin, he is a comedian, yes, but his work is to make other people think, not just laugh. Which is why i posted this quote here.

[Parakiss]

"We don't promise you a rose garden either"

-A quote about female Marines I saw this last month

[Swift]

More serious quotes, that i love.

"Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal." - Mike Ditka

"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered." - Aeschylus

"Our envy of others devours us most of all." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"It is better to be envied than pitied." - Herodotus

[Smokey]

"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is unread." ~ Oscar Wilde

"You see things and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were, and I say "why not?" ~ George Bernard Shaw

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." ~ George Bernard Shaw

"Fashion is a form of uglieness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." ~ Oscar Wilde



These are just the Irishmen....

[Fwirl]

"I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work." - Thomas Edison (I think).

[Swift]

"Lifes long, Deaths short, The measured time inbetween is endless, but only if you let it be." - Robbie B.

Yes a quote from me, lol.
Its been awhile, but i found it O:

[Dalsson]

"In nature we return to reverence and peace."
                                                                  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Akillyz]

"Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience." - Clarence Day

[Missaim]

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." - Winston Churchill

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." - Winston Churchill

[Smokey]

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. - Winston Churchill

Lol. "I am amused. Let it be known to the world." ~ Matthew K.

[Missaim]

"Yes we can!" - Barack Obama

[Parakiss]

"GEE WILIKERS BATMAN!"

-Robin, Batmans' semi-retarded sidekick

[Nebulosus]

"Only once in a lifetime do you do something that changes the world, try to make it worthwhile" ~Me.

[Poofball]

"I am desperately trying to figure out why Kamikaze pilots wore helmets" -Dave Edison

"If all wealthy people are happy, then money can buy happiness. If money can buy happiness, then true love dosn't exist. But true love exists, therefore, not all wealthy people are happy." -idk

"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist invents the parachute." - G.B. Stern