What are your favorite quotes?

[MACKTEXAS]

 

[OneEyedDiva]

I was watching Million Dollar House Hunters and when the gentleman was faced with three options, one below budget (closer to 3 million than 4 million), but comparable to the other two, the buyer said: "Practicality steps in and shifts perception." I've found that to be true

 

[Inept]

"No Viet Cong ever called me n*gger."

Muhammad Ali​

 

[Feelslikefar]

"By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with."

Duke Ellington

 

[jim_slim]

it is what it is…..

 

[officerripley]

"Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that."
~~Steve Edwards

 

[OneEyedDiva]

"No Viet Cong ever called me n*gger."

Muhammad Ali​

Don't know if you saw my posts about my husband having been on Muhammad Ali's security team. He traveled the country with him when they were young men. I didn't know my husband back then, but I have a couple of pictures of them together and a candid of Ali with the boy who became my stepson (after he was grown) and his sister, at Ali's camp. My husband had more pictures, but I don't know what he did with them.

 

[Paco Dennis]

"This is a man who would light the world on fire, so long as the flames reflected his name in the sky” - Tom Joad

 

[Inept]

Don't know if you saw my posts about my husband having been on Muhammad Ali's security team.

No, I didn't see it.

He traveled the country with him when they were young men. I didn't know my husband back then, but I have a couple of pictures of them together and a candid of Ali with the boy who became my stepson (after he was grown) and his sister, at Ali's camp. My husband had more pictures, but I don't know what he did with them.

I'd like to see those. Cassius Clay endeared himself like no other person I can think of. There was something about him that made everyone love him. He was obviously an excellent boxer but there was something else. Something even more important. He was so likeable – once you got passed his self-sarcastic boasting.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

No, I didn't see it.

I'd like to see those. Cassius Clay endeared himself like no other person I can think of. There was something about him that made everyone love him. He was obviously an excellent boxer but there was something else. Something even more important. He was so likeable – once you got passed his self-sarcastic boasting.

Check your messages.

 

[oscash]

I wrote this in another section:
"Sometimes you need to learn to be quiet, even when you have a lot to say."

 

[gruntlabor]

I wrote this in another section:
"Sometimes you need to learn to be quiet, even when you have a lot to say."

Sorry, off topic.
Boy, do I ever need to learn that! It would free me up and simplify life immensely. The problem is that I have learned never to assume that someone knows something, so I want to make sure they know it by telling them.
Ha! But what the hell do I know??

 

[spectratg]

“None are so brave as the anonymous.” —K.K. Steincke (June 1957)

 

[spectratg]

"In war there are no winners, only widows." --General Shang's wife's dying words in the movie Arrival.

 

[smiley]

No, I didn't see it.

I'd like to see those. Cassius Clay endeared himself like no other person I can think of. There was something about him that made everyone love him. He was obviously an excellent boxer but there was something else. Something even more important. He was so likeable – once you got passed his self-sarcastic boasting.

yea would have liked to be a 'white trash' friend of his back in the day!!

 

[DailyArtsyCrafter]

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. William Shakespeare, Hamlet

 

[Babs2u]

I love quotes. There are almost no subjects that can't be explored through quotes. This one is on "quiet".

The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.
Aristotle

 

[spectratg]

“We are all time travelers, journeying together into the future. But let us work together to make that future a place we want to visit. Be brave, be determined, overcome the odds. It can be done.” —Stephen Hawking, theoretical physicist, who died on March 14, 2018

 

[Rindee]

"I'd rather be lucky than good." Lefty Gomez

 

[timoc]

I had an aunt who was fanatically house proud.

Whenever anyone came to her door, she would always say, "Take those dirty shoes off if you're coming in, this is not a pig-sty, and I hope you've washed your socks."

 

[oslooskar]

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Lord Acton

 

[oslooskar]

"Hellish to one man can be the mere prick of a pin, whilst to another, it's the point of no return."

Marc F.J. Paulsen

 

[Rakaia]

My newest favourite quote is:
"You have freedom of speech. But freedom after speech that I can not guarantee."
Idi Amin

 

[jhummel73]

I don't necessarily view this as a favorite quote, but it is insightful into human behavior.

"If you mus break the law, do it to seize power; in all other cases observe it"

Julius Ceasar

 

[OneEyedDiva]

No, I didn't see it.

I'd like to see those. Cassius Clay endeared himself like no other person I can think of. There was something about him that made everyone love him. He was obviously an excellent boxer but there was something else. Something even more important. He was so likeable – once you got passed his self-sarcastic boasting.

From all accounts Ali was a kind, humble, thoughtful man, quite different from his public persona. Besides learning this from my husband, my brother said he was at an airport (I think) and helped this woman with something (can't remember what). Turns out it was Ali's wife. When he rejoined his wife, he thanked my brother profusely for helping her. My husband also told me that Muhammad liked to do magic and that he and Elvis Presley were very good friends. Who knew!!