What is your favorite quote? And why?
 

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.

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

George Bernard Shaw got it right
 

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.

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

Self evident!

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

There is so many to choose from. How about,

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

"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.

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

This served me well throughout my career in leadership capacities.

" LOVE THE GIVER MORE THAN THE GIFT."

Brigham Young


It is Self-Evident when seeking the why.

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

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.

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

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." :)

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

"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.

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.

Gen Patton
 

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:

“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.

see my sign off below

"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!!!

" 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.

"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!

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

"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.

Your Destiny Your Choice

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

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

"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.

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.

Great quotes
 

So many good ones have been posted. My favorite:

My past will remind me, but not define me.

Perfect in so many ways.

That's a deep thought.

It's a Handey one too.

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

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


― Saint Francis of Assisi

"Not my circus,
Not my monkeys."

I like it!

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

I like it! I often use another variety of that -- "This isn't the hill I choose to die on."

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.