This thread is dedicated to your favorite quotes, be they deep, or funny, or just plain interesting.


Some of my favorite quotes:

"Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."
Abraham Lincoln

"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."
Groucho Marx

"The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths."
Groucho Marx

A few of my favorites. I should be visiting this thread a lot

"There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'"

Frederick L Collins

"Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood."

Mary Hirsch

"If that guy has any way of making a mistake, he will."
Edward A. Murphy (Yep, that's Murphy's Law...)

"People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy... It is in a glass jar on my desk."
Stephen King

"Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell 'em to do that, they'll find a little pot of gold."
Tom Waits

"I made the wrong mistakes."
Thelonious Monk

EDIT to add:

"If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right."
Anonymous

"I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened."
Mark Twain

Cuius testiculos habes, habeas cardia et cerebellum.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)

The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Soul Music)

There was a roar like the scream of a camel who has just seen two bricks.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Soul Music)

Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.
-- (Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent)

"The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret"
-- (Terry Pratchett, The Truth)

"Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it?"
"No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word.
Zoology is really quite short."
-- (Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men)

"You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people
can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage."
-- (Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad)


You know what, here is an entire page of Terry Pratchett quotes:

"I think god, in creating man, somewhat overestimated himself"

"We are not a society, but an economy, we are citizens, we are consumers"

just to give 2 of the threads that covered this. There is 1 or 2 more - I think.

I can conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is anything more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.

If there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.

Charles Fort, both.

Man, those are so old, even SpamTrap commented on their last pages.

Yeah, I started one of those a while back too.

"Theres no such thing as a stupid person. There are just some people who need more understanding than other" -Unknown

"There's 2 things you'll never see an Irishman without, 1-a woman with large breasts, 2-a pint" -Irish Proverb

'Bring on the trumpets!'

Favourite nonsensical quote from an advert about sweets (candy)

Youtube it...

Wow... Youtube has gone from a noun to a verb,, that is POWER!!

Extra doubley ironical coming from you.

You must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops are dirty,
the ocean does not become dirty.

Gandhi

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)

There are two types of people in the world. Those that put people into two types, and those that don't.

I feel more like I do now than I ever have before.

only once we have lost everything are we free to do anything -tyler durden (fight club)

it was my senior quote

Here are a list of quotes from the greatest crime fighters the world has ever known.

I saw that today on the website where I found out who my quotes were ffrom

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds”
-- Albert Einstein