What are your favorite quotes?

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“When we take away from a man his traditional way of life, his customs, his religion, we had better make certain to replace it with
SOMETHING OF VALUE”
― Robert Ruark, Something Of Value

I think this was a proverb before Ruark slightly altered it, still IT REMAINS ONE OF MY VERY FAVORITE AND MEANINGFUL QUOTES. I WISH OUR LEADERS WOULD HEED THIS ADVICE.

Readers Digest:
Like OP I used to tear out quotes, vocabulary and another page (can't remember). they also had a great example of a put down called 'the perfect squelch'.

I've purchased one Readers Digest for person in hospital. Yet, they were
always around. I know my parent's could not afford to purchase paperbacks, but they too were always around. Read them, never questioned where they came from-a great mystery

Reader's Digest is now $5.00 a pop, at the grocery store, no way, no way.
 
A few of my favs are:
(Don't know who said it) "To affect the quality of the day; This is the highest of arts."

From my hero, Teddy Roosevelt:
"Far better itis to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much , because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

Emerson: "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

"Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

"Never give up on something I can't go a day without thinking about."

"Don't give up what I want most for what I want now."

"Don't bend, Don't water it down. Don't try to make it logical. Don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, Follow your obsessions mercilessly."

I love wordsmiths. I think if Shakespeare were alive, I'd probably follow him around like a puppy dog! (not a quote)
 
I've always enjoyed a good quote. I was once on a forum tht had a cunit or forum called Tody's Quotes. Intereested members listed their favorite each day. I suppose it now contains years of daily quotes. I soon went through all I could remember. Finally went on internet to find interesting
quotes. The net result is I have too many favorites to remember them all. Finally bought a book whose title is the 2548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said. Most of which are quotes. So I'll just open up this book and see what lays before me. It is one by Mae West. She said I only like two kinds
of men: domestic and foreign. anotheer on the same page says, "When ideas fail, words come in handy, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Sorta of makes you realize, whatever comes down life's pathway, people like ourselves have encountered them before. Yeah, I like quotes, too.
 
Here's another of my favorites:
"The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life, the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. It is unafraid of what other people think . . It does not adapt either it's pace or it's objectives of it's neighbors. it thinks it's own thoughts, reads it's own books, it develops its own hopes and it is governed by it's own conscience. the herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone." Raymond Fosdick

I think when one is all alone with no one to help, these quotes sometimes give you a new strength.
 
A brainy, sly lady that could slash those she defined as inappropriate in her gentle-savage way was Flannery O'Conner.
Her quotes require study, she was far more brainy than I could ever be:

"There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."

good thread
 
God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~Jimmy Johnson

You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too. ~Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

The only way you may correct the bad things in your past is to add better things to your future. ~Shiloh Morrison

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.

Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.

Wake up, do your best, sleep, repeat.

Use your energy for good and it will be replenished with more good energy, use you energy for bad and your energy will be drained. ~Mike Dolan

Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny. ~Kathryn Carpenter

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. ~Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb
 
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