What is your favorite quote? And why?

[tomwed]

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. Sir Joshua Reynolds

Edison liked the quote and posted it around his factory. When I was little my parents took us to Menlo Park. Maybe it was West Orange. I am not sure. I know it was a museum that celebrated the life and inventions of Edison. My Dad bought the quote printed on a piece of cardboard and he posted it in our basement. I must have read it a hundred times, maybe a thousand before it sunk in. The quote has served me well.

[2BNTV]

A friend of mine used to say, "Use your head for something, other, than a hat rack". :D

[DruannB]

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw

I lived my life by this quote and try to share it with my college students...stop whining and get to work. Don't wait for others to take care of you.

[eweissenbach]

Sometimes it is better to keep ones mouth shut and appear stupid, than to open it and remove all doubt.

Self evident!

[Judith Ann]

This too shall pass...got me through my kids teenage years!

[2BNTV]

There is so many to choose from. How about,

"It don't cost nuttin, to be nice".

[pbkmaine]

"The unexamined life is not worth living." Plato's Apology of Socrates. I like the quote because I have seen too many people rush through life without thinking about what is right and what would truly make them happy.

[jrandall]

It's easier to ask for forgiveness then to ask for permission - Grace Hopper

This served me well throughout my career in leadership capacities.

[cattywampus]

" LOVE THE GIVER MORE THAN THE GIFT."

Brigham Young


It is Self-Evident when seeking the why.

[Barefoot]

"When you try to control everything, you enjoy nothing.
... Relax, breathe, let go, and just live."

[elizabeth52]

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

[mixsonci]

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. Harry Truman
I use this on all my email signature blocks at work.

[Madelaine Amee]

If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing right!

[DeanFL]

My fav two:


"You can't have everything - where would you put it"? Steven Wright, comedian


"It's always something..." Gilda Radner, Sat Night Live

[tomwed]

My fav two:


"You can't have everything - where would you put it"? Steven Wright, comedian


"It's always something..." Gilda Radner, Sat Night Live

I also find them both very funny. Steven Wright also said.
"It's a small world---but I wouldn't want to paint it"
"Curiosity killed the cat -- but for a little while, I was a suspect." :)

[DDoug]

Touch with your eyes but don't see with your hands.

[redwitch]

"If you can't look at yourself in the mirror tomorrow, don't do it today."

"Accept."

Both came from my father, the wisest man I ever knew.

[kittygilchrist]

For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes should not perish but have eternal life.

I like this quote because it is the crux of existence.

[PennBF]

Gen. Patton addressing his troops: "I am not asking you to die for your country I am asking you to make the other #$@%$#@ die for his":ho:

[coloradotim]

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” - Howard Thurman

In reading this forum over the past year it seems many of you Villagers have done just that - with an active senior lifestyle involving many activities and interests. That's what I want for my wife and I, whether it be at the Villages or somewhere else. We are two weeks away from a lifestyle preview visit where we'll hopefully get a feel for whether the Villages is for us.

[Challenger]

see my sign off below

[George Bieniaszek]

"All Gave Some -- Some Gave All"

Don't know who authored this quote, but all I have to say is God Bless our military personnel and their families for their service to our great country!!!

[Lauren Sweeny]

" Nothing should be so highly prized as the value of each day " Goethe and " All is well, all is as it should be" Luo Tzu These quotes help me to remember to be in the moment... To treasure and cherish each minute of my life.

[nicoletta]

"Hell hath no fury than a women scorned" .
"Revenge is best served cold"
"keep you r friends close and your enemy's closer"

oh my time for more meds! lmao!

[ljarnold]

Not my circus Not my monkeys. An old Polish saying. It has kept me out of trouble at times.

[Villages PL]

"Hey, that's not fair, I don't have a favorite quote!"

That's my favorite quote. It was once said by a famous man who didn't have a favorite quote. I don't remember his name.

[Aandjmassage]

Your Destiny Your Choice

[mtdjed]

"Bad news ages poorly." Common quote by my Manager in the Aircraft Engine business. Whether budget, schedule, or incident, communicate the news quickly.

[manaboutown]

"Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets." President Ronald Reagan

[NottaVillager]

"You can get a lot further with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word alone." --Al Capone

This sat unobtrusively in a frame on the desk of Lt. Mike Torello (Dennis Farina) in the TV show Crime Story. I always liked it & put it on the door to my office.

[TheVillageChicken]

Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you'll be a mile away and have their shoes.

[In awe of TV]

So many good ones have been posted. My favorite:

My past will remind me, but not define me.

Perfect in so many ways.

[tomwed]

Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you'll be a mile away and have their shoes.

That's a deep thought.

[TheVillageChicken]

That's a deep thought.

It's a Handey one too.

[LianaB]

Bloom Where You're Planted

[Marlo]

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou

[2BNTV]

"All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”


― Saint Francis of Assisi

[Barefoot]

Not my circus Not my monkeys. An old Polish saying. It has kept me out of trouble at times.

"Not my circus,
Not my monkeys."

I like it!

[Halibut]

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. --Christopher Hitchins

Not my circus Not my monkeys. An old Polish saying. It has kept me out of trouble at times.
I like it! I often use another variety of that -- "This isn't the hill I choose to die on."

[EnglishJW]

Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.

Macbeth's Soliloquy

I never enjoyed Shakespeare but for some inexplicable reason I have always remembered this quote from a class in high school.

[Indydealmaker]

"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch" This quote attributed to Nobel-prize winning Chicago-school economist Milton Friedman is more appropriate today than ever before as we have nearly half of the country on some form of "free" government assistance. Somebody is always paying.

[getdul981]

There have been several on here that I really like. Another one that fits too many people these days is "You can't fix stupid." I believe comedian Ron White, aka Tater Salad, is responsible for that one.

[B767drvr]

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do."

- unknown


My wife and I have used this quote to justify nearly every vacation! :loco:

[TheVillageChicken]

Anything by Will Rogers, but especially:

"Live your life in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."

[Hankg42]

One of my favorite quotes is in my "signature block" below. It's self-explanatory. :smiley:

[pjgalloway]

My favorite quote: "It has been said, that time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone." Rose F. Kennedy

Jackie

[FlamingoFlo]

"Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug " I think this came from a country song.

[erictarleton]

"No one is perfect: I myself suffer from severe colds"

Oscar Wilde (and many more)

[TheVillageChicken]

"Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug " I think this came from a country song.

Mary Chapin Carpenter covered it, but it is a Dire Straits song.

[2BNTV]

"Experience is the best teacher, but wisdom is learning form other people's experiences".

Use to use that one on my son growing up, as he would listen and tend to not make mistakes, that could be avoided.

[Loudoll]

For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes should not perish but have eternal life.

I like this quote because it is the crux of existence.

Have to agree that this is the best quote ever. I have enjoyed all the quotes though.:angel:

[mrsanborn]

"If you are not fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." - Vince Lombardi

"If everyone wanted peace instead of two TVs, there would be peace." - John Lennon

[socrafty]

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”― Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!

[elevatorman]

I like these .....
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.—Harry S Truman
and for the boss that worked you to the limit
I cannot be fired. Slaves have to be sold.—Unknown

[mrdarcy]

A former boss of mine used to say, "Whenever I walk into a situation the first thing I try to figure out is--Who's problem is it?" He said other people were always trying to make him responsible for their problems, so he learned to quickly identify who the responsible party really is.

This saying is somewhat akin to: Not my circus. Not my monkeys. The slight difference is instead of just saying "It's not my problem", which is a valuable stance by itself, he went a step further and determined precisely whose problem it is.

[Blessed2BNTV]

For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes should not perish but have eternal life.

I like this quote because it is the crux of existence.

Where's the LIKE button :pray:

[Papa Cuma]

"Never give a sucker an even break" WC Fields

[Papa Cuma]

"Don't trust whitey" Advice given to Steve Martin by his father in the movie The Jerk.

[Papa Cuma]

"Better you than me" An old sage once said

[Blessed2BNTV]

Don't bring me problems...bring me solutions.

[George Bieniaszek]

"Experience is the best teacher, but wisdom is learning form other people's experiences".

Use to use that one on my son growing up, as he would listen and tend to not make mistakes, that could be avoided.

There's another quote that starts the same way --

"Experience is the best teacher;
It gives you the test first, then teaches you the lesson"

[tomwed]

"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member." - Groucho Marx

This makes me laugh inside whenever anyone asks me to join their club.

[springfield]

"There are no strangers here, only friends we haven't met"
This was always posted in my classroom. Now that I am in TV, it is very true here as well.

[John_W]

"Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending."

From the film Limelight, written & directed by Charlie Chaplin 1952.

[LatDoc]

I told them the truth and they fell for it.
Author forgotten.

[Villages PL]

"We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are." -Talmud

[tomwed]

"There are no strangers here, only friends we haven't met"
This was always posted in my classroom. Now that I am in TV, it is very true here as well.

I use to teach electric shop. It was a friendly classroom too. You reminded me of something. I glued a big blob of melted solder on one of the lenses of a pair of safety glasses. I mounted the glasses on the safety glass cabinet door.

The sign below the glasses read:

IT COULD HAVE BEEN HIS EYE!

You couldn't look at that combination without laughing.
The kids wore the glasses.
I enjoyed the drama of the sign and making up stories about how the solder jumped up in the air, was heading for the eye and safely landed on the glasses.

[Halibut]

"Better you than me" An old sage once said

That made me snort-laugh.

[Villages PL]

"Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes." -Jonathan Katz

[Aandjmassage]

"Looks like you're going to go broke saving money" A guy named Bob said this to me when I was telling what a great deal I got buying something.

[GMIJFI]

Change: Take it by the hand before it grabs you by the neck. Winston Churchill

[getdul981]

Don't try and confuse me with facts. My mind is already made up.

[2BNTV]

Half the world doesn't want to hear your problems, and the other half is glad, that it is happening to you.

[senior citizen]

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." PLATO

"For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.

People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others."

Sam Levenson (often misattributed to Audrey Hepburn)


"To belittle, you have to be little." Khalil Gibran


"We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love." Mother Teresa

(all of below quotes are also by Mother Teresa of Calcutta; all useful on life's journey)


"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."


Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.

People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God.


It was never between you and them anyway.


Mother Teresa
　

[Patty55]

"That ship has sailed." Don't know who said it first but I say it often.

[Laurie2]

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou

The above is one of my favorites, too. It is pure truth.

Another one for me: "Hey, Boo."

Yes, I know that's not exactly a quote in the sense of the word intended here -- like a saying. But when Scout says those two little words in To Kill A Mockingbird, those words speak volumes. For anyone who knows and loves that book, they know all the things held there in simply, "Hey, Boo."

[Villages PL]

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." -Albert Einstein

Here's why I like this quote: It fits with one of the biggest health issues we face today, the poor health status of Americans. The kind of thinking that got us into this state of poor health will not bring us back to good health. The thinking has got to change.

But how is that supposed to happen when most people have a vested interest in the status quo? Some are now mindlessly parroting food industry spokesmen who say, "we all have to die of something eventually". It's true but they say it in an attempt to nullify anything that anyone might say to improve health status standards.

It represents mindless thinking and won't solve the health issues we face as a society. If everyone is going to die, why do we spend billions upon billions of dollars every year on such things as cancer research?

If everyone is going to die, why build all the many Villages Clinics and search for the very best doctors?

Here's another true saying that comes from industry spokesmen: "People need to take personal responsibility." It has been repeated endlessly for decades. But the food industry never worries when anyone says this because they know it has absolutely no effect.

As the above quote says, "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." -Albert Einstein

[tomwed]

I don't know---

Starting a quote with "People will forget what you say" doesn't sound like there is any hope you will be quoted. :)

[Patty55]

I've always liked Dr. Phil's "How's that working out for you?"

[George Bieniaszek]

I've always liked Dr. Phil's "How's that working out for you?"

Another one of my favorite Dr. Phil quotes -- "This ain't my first rodeo!!"

[Laurie2]

I don't know---

Starting a quote with "People will forget what you say" doesn't sound like there is any hope you will be quoted. :)

Now that's irony. I never thought about it that way. That's a fun angle on the quote. (When did fun become an adjective?) Anyway, love the comment. :clap2:

Still one of my favorite quotes though.

[ladylilly]

If you always do what you've always done
You'll always get what you all ready got

[cattywampus]

Probably already in this thread.

He who watches the Clock
Will always be one of the Hands

[Bay Kid]

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Easy to live by.

[taurus]

There are only three kinds of people in this world, those that make things happen, those that watch things happen, and those who say "what happened?"

[EnglishJW]

“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”

― Aristotle

There was a great young Frenchman (Jean-Francois Paquereau) I worked with who gave me this profound bit of wisdom:

"You do not know what you do not know."

[TheVillageChicken]

http://www.doconomics.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/alfred-e-newman1.jpg

[ditka41]

"No Good Deed Goes Unpunished!" --

I first heard it from a close friend who was a State Senator who still kept trying to help his constituents.

[Hankg42]

“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”

― Aristotle

There was a great young Frenchman (Jean-Francois Paquereau) I worked with who gave me this profound bit of wisdom:

"You do not know what you do not know."

That almost sounds like a Yogi-ism! "It ain't over 'til it's over"! :-)

[2BNTV]

That almost sounds like a Yogi-ism! "It ain't over 'til it's over"! :-)

Another Yogi-ism:

"You have to go to other people's funerals or else, they won't come to yours".

Obliviously referring to the other people, attending the wake.

[llaran]

You are not old until your dreams turn to regrets!!!

[kevmo]

"A man is not a fool for what he does not know, but for what he knows that is not so"
I have always liked this quote (by Mark Twain?) because it speaks to one of the worst traits of us humans - arrogance.

[cattywampus]

Figures don't lie
but liars can figure

[Skip2MySue]

"I saw a man with no shoes and then I saw a man with no feet". I used this with my kids numerous times over the course of their lives to the point that they knew it was coming and they hated it :laugh:
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[Irish Red]

Out of chaos comes order!

[tommy steam]

There is No U-Hall behind a hearse , you can't take it with you.

[graciegirl]

What goes around, comes around.

[George Bieniaszek]

I think this one belongs to Mark Twain --

"It is better to remain silent and be thought of as a fool;
than to open your mouth and remove all doubt!!"

[Barefoot]

"That ship has sailed." Don't know who said it first but I say it often.
I've always liked Dr. Phil's "How's that working out for you?"
I like the above two quotes from Patty - they come in handy.
I also like "It is what it is".
I know it's inane and meaningless; and it drives Fireboy crazy when I say it.
But sometimes, it's just the right response.

My favorite is still the following, it just tickles my fancy.

Not my circus. Not my monkeys.

[Patty55]

I like the above two quotes from Patty - they come in handy.
I also like "It is what it is".
I know it's inane and meaningless; and it drives Fireboy crazy when I say it.
But sometimes, it's just the right response.

My favorite is still the following, it just tickles my fancy.

I often use the flip of "It is what it is." "It aint what it aint".

I think my all time pearl of wisdom is "You don't take your good china to a picnic."

[jblum315]

Why are we so soon old and so late smart?

[EnglishJW]

For anyone into math and statistics:

"Statistics is a mathematically precise line drawn between an unwarranted assumption and a foregone conclusion." Dr. Isaiah Judah Gottesman

[jblum315]

Never never never give up.
(Winston Churchill)

[Shimpy]

if it works, don't fix it