Favorite Quotes - Aristotle said ...

[JohnN]

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it

just caught my attention--- other favorite quotes??

[graciegirl]

There's not a kid in the world that's cute after eight o'clock at night. Old Woman In SHOE.

[uujudy]

One of the best things about living on earth is that you get a free trip around the sun every year.
Maybe this should be in the Travel Forum?

[chelsea24]

I swear Judy, I could just hug you! Love that quote.

My favorite has always been, "God may not be there when you want Him to be, but He's always on time."



***Gracie, so true!

[Sidney Lanier]

Mark Twain said (not exact words): 'I left home at 18 because my father was so ignorant that I couldn't live with him. When I returned 2 years later, it amazed me how much he had learned during those 2 years....'

[DDoug]

Read this when I was very young and one I will never forget Touch with your eyes but don't see with your hands

[islandgal]

"By expanding our knowledge of the world, we expand our knowledge of ourselves"........Monet

[Taltarzac]

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei

[redwitch]

Have no idea who said it, but it does such an excellent job of summing up things:

He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.

[Donna]

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.

Albert Einstein

[Sidney Lanier]

"Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it."

Jules Renard

[Shirleevee]

"To thine own self be true".


William Shakespeare

[villages07]

Old proverb.....

A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts

[barb1191]

"All truth passes through three stages.

First, it is ridiculed.

Second, it is violently opposed.

Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

Arthur Schopenhaur (Schopenhaur was a German philosopher who died in 1860.)

[tony]

Check my signature down at the bottom

[NYVette]

If you don't read a newspaper you are uninformed....
If you do read a newspaper you are misinformed.

Mark Twain

[graciegirl]

Check my signature down at the bottom




Ain't that jist the truth?

[ConeyIsBabe]

I don't remember who said it, but it certainly applies to public forums in cyberspace:

The Pen is Mightier Than The Sword

[Sidney Lanier]

"If Geraldo Rivera is the first journalist in space, NASA can test the effect of weightlessness on weightlessness."

--Anonymous

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Mark Twain is the best!!! Thanks, nyvette!

[The Great Fumar]

IT IS BETTER TO HAVE LOVED AND LOST, MUCH BETTER !!!


DUWARD FARQUARD fumar

[chelsea24]

Fumar! I thought your favorite quote was "Let them eat puppy paws!"

Marie Antoincat 1rnfl 1rnfl 1rnfl

[Donna]

"Never spend your money before you have it."

— Thomas Jefferson.....

That's what John always tells me...http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/money2.gif (http://www.millan.net)....http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/shopping.gif (http://www.millan.net)

[Blondie]

"You are never too old to do goofy things"

Ward Cleaver

[benj]

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress... but then I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that a taxidermist leaves the skin.
Mark Twain

A government big enough to give you everything you want , is strong enough to take everything you have.
Thomas Jefferson

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and repeat the facts.
Will Rogers

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Frederic Bastiat

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Winston Churchill

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
G Gordon Liddy

[NYVette]

A Liberal is a Conservative who hasn't been mugged yet.

Unknown
(probably someone on the Lexington Ave subway - NYC)

[Sidney Lanier]

Since we're on conservatives and liberals:

"Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."

--Ambrose Bierce

[benj]

Since we're on conservatives and liberals:

"Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."

--Ambrose Bierce
Sidney that is the most pertinent quote of the evening. Benj

[renielarson]

I'm with Tony and put my favorite quote as my signature at the bottom of every post.
...although I alter it at times by replacing "They" with "Children"...

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[ejp52]

"All you need is love." The Beatles 8)

[Sidney Lanier]

Thanks, Benj. And on a different subject (or maybe not...):

"I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it."

--Alfred Hitchcock

[barb1191]

Thanks, Benj. And on a different subject (or maybe not...):

"I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it."

--Alfred Hitchcock


Is that what one could call a counter irritant?? ouch!! ....b

[Sidney Lanier]

May be a counter irritant, barb, but it is classic Hitchcock! '-)

Is this any better?:

"I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it."

--Wilson Mizner

[graciegirl]

A conservative is a liberal who hasn't been mugged yet. A moderate is kinda someone who sort of believes muggings happen.

[JohnZ]

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

-Benjamin Franklin


If it's dumb, but works, it ain't dumb.

-GI Joe (I think ::))

[The Great Fumar]

NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS MOVIE !!!!


FUMAR

[inda50]

" even a stopped clock is right twice a day"--Moe

[Jim007]

"Don't be so humble... you are not that great." -- Golda Meir

[Jim007]

"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee."

[travelstiles]

"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all."
--Thomas Jefferson to Francis Hopkinson, 1789. ME 7:300

[Sidney Lanier]

"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."

--Dorothy Parker

[inda50]

''you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think'' one of my school teachers

[graciegirl]

"They won't buy the cow if they can get the milk free". ..........Aunt Lil

[Peachie]

"If you're born to hang, you'll never drown", (my Dad's thoughts about risk ;D)

[ohiogolf]

"A flute with no holes is not a flute. And a donut with no hole is a Danish." Ty Webb quoting the Philospher Vasho in Caddyshack

[Taltarzac725]

"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."

--Dorothy Parker

I have read a few books that could use a very good throw.

[stuckinparadise]

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
― William Shakespeare

[Bruiser1]

''you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think'' one of my school teachers

You can lead a horse to water but a pencil must be lead!

Stan Laurel:gc:

[2BNTV]

People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.- Lincoln

I don't cost nuttin to be nice.- Mom

[jblum315]

I myself have always disliked being called a genius. It is fascinating to notice how quickly people have been able to intuit this aversion and avoid using the term.
- John Lanchester, The Debt to Pleasure

[Patty55]

"If I had his money and he had a feather up his butt we'd both be tickled"