I absolutely love great quotes. Here are a few of my favorites:

"God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity."

—Thomas Watson

"The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory."

—Richard Sibbes

"Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them with the weight of glory which is awaiting us."

—Arthur W. Pink

"We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?"

—John Owen

"I think that's where the church is doubly damned; when they use Jesus as a vehicle for achieving all of that [worshiping, pleasure, leisure and affluence]. Like, if you give a tithe, He ll make you rich. Why? ... If you give a tithe, you get rid of ten percent of the root of all evil. You should be giving ninety percent, ‘cause God can handle money better than we can."

—Rich Mullins

"I repent of ever having recorded one single song, and ever having performed one concert, if my music, and more importantly, my life, has not provoked you into Godly jealousy or to sell out more completely to Jesus!"

— Keith Green

Great topic, I collect quotes I have a big binder with nothing but quotes in them. Here are a few that I have memorized.

"I walk without fear and step with confidence discovering the new place that awaits me."

"In life there are no borders and no limits, only our instincts can lead the way, but our hearts holds the finale destination."

"People see God everyday, they just don't reconize him."

Some of my faves; a little more whimsical than the previous... (I don't recall who originally thought of these)



If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?


Whose cruel idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?


Is there another word for synonym?


Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?


How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign?


If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there is no woman around to hear him...is he still wrong?

Two of my favorite quotes are from Ellen DeGeneres, they're both on my sig.

As I Get Attacked, Or Criticized, Or The Show Is Canceled The Thing That Makes Me Hold On, Is Knowing That I've Saved One Life

When A Kid Is Thinking They Have To Kill Themselves Because Of Who They Are and Because Of Who They Love, There Is Something Wrong With Our Priorities

both of those quotes helped me during the hardest time of my life. :)

i dont have any "great qutes" but i quote friends a lot
All of my favorite quotes are from "Friends"
Chandler: "isnt this a womens hat?"
Joey: "dude, stop talking crazy and make us some tea!"
^^^^ my moms like "why cant he just let you be a girl" and i said this quote above.

Chandler: "well joe, im a headhunter. i hook up out of work soviet scientists with rouge third world nations....Hi Rasputin"
^^^^^^^ i love this one because i memorized it :)

Joey: "Mmm, noodle soup"
^^^^ i say this one all the time when im eatting soup or my mom is making some.

I have some great quotes, some from famous people and some from people I know or myself:


"Remember one thing, the life you save, may be mine." -Me talking to my dad after nearly getting into a car accident

"If you don't know where you're going, you could end up somewhere else." -Yogi Berra

"I got two words for you, gastric bypass." -Me talking to my friend after he called me anarexic

"What is this, a revival of Raisin in The Sun?" -Estelle Getty on a Golden Girls episode

"You suck so much you're not good enough to be bad." -Me talking to this kid about his basketball skills

"You're more of a *** than Dr. Phil." -Me talking to my friend

"Guess what I learned today in school?" "How to count from 11-20?" -Me after my incredibly stupid ass neighbor asked what he learned in school that day

"We're in sitcom hell."- ALF

I'm not saying you're gay, I'm just saying that Liberace had less feminine qualities than you." -After a kid in school asked me if I called him gay

"He's the reason for separate beds." -After seeing a kid who was at least 400 pounds

"She's such a butch it took her 15 months to give birth." -My dad after a woman pushed him out of the way to get some napkins

"Pretend the pocket is your girlfriend's *****." "If that's case, you missed your wife's by a mile." - My response to my bowling coach after he was giving a freshman some advice

Two of my favorite quotes are from Ellen DeGeneres, they're both on my sig.

As I Get Attacked, Or Criticized, Or The Show Is Canceled The Thing That Makes Me Hold On, Is Knowing That I've Saved One Life

When A Kid Is Thinking They Have To Kill Themselves Because Of Who They Are and Because Of Who They Love, There Is Something Wrong With Our Priorities

both of those quotes helped me during the hardest time of my life. :)


Those are great quotes

Here is one I try to live by-- "Seize the Day"

Simple but so powerful.

"That theory of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"It is true that not every conservative is a stupid person, but it is also true that most stupid people are conservative." - John Stuart Mill

"We shape our buildings; thereafter, our buildings shape us." - Sir Winston Churchill

"Film is a lie, and the actor is a liar." - Marcello Mastroianni

More later. . . .

I love quotes from Confucious.


I also love quotes from George Carlin, the comedian. Here are some of my faves, ones that I could post here, some of the others are not suitable for this audience LOL:When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?


If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?


When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?


I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?


If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?


Is a vegetarian permitted to eat animal crackers?


What if there were no hypothetical questions?


Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.


Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.


Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.


Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?


Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.


Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with.


I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.


May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.


Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?


If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?


I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.


Electricity is really just organized lightning.


Women like silent men, they think they're listening.


"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?


Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.


If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?


Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?


Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.


But the one that really sticks in my mind is one that a divorce client back in 1995 told me when I asked her why after 34 years was she getting a divorce. She told me a little story and told me this quote that helped her decide what she should do regarding her marriage: YOU DESERVE WHAT YOU TOLERATE. It was that quote that help me to decide abt my marriage and that I needed to get out of that mess. It's so true, no one can do anything to you unless you tolerate it.

"I'm not afraid of dying...I just don't want to be there when it happens."

- Woody Allen

"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side kid."

- Han Solo

"We are having more fun than human beings should be allowed to have."

- David Letterman

"Pardon me while I have a strange interlude."

- Groucho Marx

"I'm for the war, but against the troops."

- my friend Mike Munger

;)

Here are some quotes:

"Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you who you are." Creole Proverb

"The mountain you seek is higher than you know and farther than you imagine, for its existence is only true if it is believed, not conquered." A. Jamal

"It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakily depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No-one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things." Terry Pratchett, Jingo

"When you do something small, but you put your whole heart into it, it can be very powerful. It can change your whole world." Diego Luna

"If you have not crossed the river, you should not abuse the crocodile." Igbo Proverb

"Tiny is bigger than insignificant" Nepal Digest

"When the power of Love overcomes the love of Power the world will know peace." Jimi Hendrix

"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your heart to no more than living size when they are brought out." Stephen King

"A matter which in one place that causes laughter, at another place causes tears." Tshi Proverb

"Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too. Even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling." Tuesdays With Morrie

"When reality fails us at least we still have our dreams." Unknown

"If you don't ask because you might be refused, you've already refused yourself." Elements Of Success

"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible." Doug Larson

"Those in the cheaper seats laugh, the rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon

"Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up, who will stay awake just to watch you sleep. Wait for the boy who kisses you on your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you're in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you're just as pretty without makeup on. Wait for the one who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares about you and how lucky he is to have you. Wait for the one who turns to his friends and says, "...that's 'her' and smiles" Unknown

"Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day." Anon

"Whoever you are, there is a younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a good reason for becoming better than you are. There is a place you alone can fill." Unknown

"There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors." Jim Morrison

"Every time we ignore the suffering of others or stand by and watch we do not only act against our own interests but we violate a part of our humanity." Hamid Karza

"Do yourself a favor and be part of something extraordinary." Milad Elia

"When love blinds, you stumble and fall. When love hurts, you hide and cry. When love gives, you're glad you gave it first." Ilya Litvinov

"Before jumping to a conclusion, measure the distance. It is a dark drop if you're wrong." Deb Capozo

"Don't be afraid of showing your feelings, be afraid of regretting it when you don't." Laura Springer

"If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children." Mohandas K. Gandi

"If you don't take a chance, you don't have a chance." Unknown

"Enjoy the small moments in life, and life will have more color." Unknown

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Some of the best things in life will come to you when you're not looking for them." I. Nath

"You never know when you're making a memory." Chicken Soup For The Teenage Soul

"Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them." Chaim Weizmann

"You don't love a girl because she is pretty, she's pretty because you love her." Unknown

"It is better to open your eyes and say you don't understand than to close your eyes and say you don't believe." Unknown

"Friendship is the path that takes you everywhere....with a smile." Melissa Fauchier

"A dream is an answer to a question we haven't quite learned how to ask." Skully - The X-Files

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." Mother Teresa

"Some people come into our lives and then leave very quickly. Others stay for awhile and leave footprints on our heart, and we are never the same." Unknown
"There are two types of people. Those who come into a room and say "Well, here I am!" and those who say "Ah, there you are".Frederick L. Collins

"Words and memories are the only things that last." R. Ianz

"Making the decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide to have your heart go walking around outside your body." Elizabeth Stone

"Lose your dreams and you could lose your mind." Rolling Stones 'Ruby Tuesday'

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can possibly go." TS Elliot

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you've forgotten the words." Unknown

"The question isn't what you look at but what you see." Henry David Thoreau

"They may forget what you said, they may forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel." Carl W. Buecher

"Fate only takes you so far, then it's up to you to make it happen." Ross Kennedy

"Love is giving someone the ability to destroy you but trusting them not to." Unknown
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"Lose your dreams and you could lose your mind." Rolling Stones 'Ruby Tuesday'

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you've forgotten the words." Unknown

"Make yourself necessary to someone." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't waste your time on someone who isn't willing to waste their time on you." Unknown

"The hardest things to achieve in life are the most difficult to attain, but also the most worthwhile." Unknown

"Guarding yourself from a broken heart is truly the only way to never live." Unknown

Those are all some great quotes. Thanks for posting them up everyone.

These aren't on my list of favorite quotes, but they are a couple of the more infamous quotes in American history.

These are the last words of Budd Dwyer, a State Treasurer from Pennsylvania, who shot himself in the mouth on live tv during a press conference in 1987. He said these 4 words just seconds before sticking the gun in his mouth, and pulling the trigger. Sorry if this depresses anyone. :(

"This could hurt someone."

—R. Budd Dwyer

Here are the last words of a newscaster by the name of Christine Chubbock, who killed herself during her live newscast back in 1974. It was the first ever televised suicide, and is probably the most shocking quote I have ever heard. I still get chills when reading it. Seconds after saying these words, she put the gun to the back of her head, and shot herself.

"In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts in living color, we bring you another first, an attempted suicide."

—Christine Chubbock

One of my favorites is from "Auntie Mame" - Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

Another is from Golden Girls -
Rose:Gee, Sophia, why are you in such a bad mood?
Sophia:Pardon me, Rose, but I haven't had sex in 15 years and it's starting to get on my nerves!!

More -
"The more people I meet, the more I like my dog"

"Never trust a skinny cook"

"To you he's a dog. To me he's an adopted child who is short, hairy, walk on all fours and doesn't speak clearly. I have no problem with any of these things."

"You can't be serious, man, you CANNOT be SERIOUS! That ball was on the line. Chalk flew up! It was clearly in! How can you POSSIBLY call that out? How many are you going to miss?...Everyone knows it's in, in the whole STADIUM - and you call it out? Explain that to me, explain that to me." - John McEnroe.

Some of my favorites:

"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall hang separately."
- Benjamin Franklin

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
- Nathan Hale

"I'm not a crook"
- Richard M. Nixon :lol:

"These are the times that try men's souls."
- Thomas Paine

"He pulls a knife, you pull a gun:
he sends one of yours to the hospital,
you send one of his to the morgue.
That's the Chicago way."
- Jimmy Malone (Sean Connery) in The Untouchables

"I'm going to make it an 'X' movie.
You want to see violence?
You want to see sex?
I think it's about time to blow the top off the ratings!"
- Brian De Palma on his 1984 film Body Double

"It's only a move."
- Alfred Hitchcock

"All you need is love."
-The Bealtes (lyrics by John Lennon/Paul McCartney)

"I am the Lizard King. I can do anything."
- Jim Morrison

"This is the strangest life I've ever known."
- Jim Morrision

"I have a very common nature-
which is why my books sell.
I am not capable of being fancy.
If I buy a $700 suit, it immediately looks like it came off the peg.
I guess I don't have any taste and if there is any saving grace
at all at least I have never had any pretentions to be that sort
of person."
- Stephen King (1983)

"Like any good novelist, I can survive after I'm gone if my films exist." - French movie director Francois Truffaut (1932-1984)

"Those who deny freedom to others desreve it not for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln

"Choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil." - Jerry Garcia in 1989, explaining why he never voted

"America is the only country that, miraculously, ever went from barbarism to degeneration without the necesary interval of civilization." Georges Clemencau, French prime minister during World War I

"I loved it, except for the French." - D.H. Lawrence upon a return from a vacation in France

"Canada is a nation where moderation is taken to the extreme." - H.L. Mencken

"If you want to succeed in politics, you have to keep your conscience under control." David Lloyd George, prime minister of Great Britain during World War I

"There's no crying in politics!" - Bill Maher

In simpicity there is truth - River Phoenix

I'm just a musical prostitute my dear! - Freddie Mercury

"What do you think of Heaven if it's back from where you came? - Queen (Son and Daughter )

Many people think I am psycho. But in reality I have the heart of a small boy. It's in a jar on my desk- Stephen King

Best friends come in and out of your life like busboys in a restaraunt- Gordie (Stand By Me)

When you grow up your heart dies- Allison (The Breakfast Club)

"I need my pain!"

- Captain James T. Kirk - Star Trek V: The Final Fontier

"Politics is like football. You have to be smart enough to know the game, and dumb enough to think it's important." - Eugene McCarthy

"If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog." - Harry S. Truman

"If you deal with text out of context, you have a pretext." - Jesse Jackson

"In Washington, a gaffe occurs when a politician tells the truth." - Mark Shields

"When the Texas legislature is in session, many a village in Texas is deprived of its idiot." - Molly Ivins

"Outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx

"life is like a box o' chocolates, ya nevah naoh what yer gonna get"
_forrest Gump


"EYE HOPE EWE DYE!!11"
-TEH ALMIGHTY SARAHPUFFAY

"People pay for what they do. And still more, for what they allow themselves to become. And they pay for it simply - by the lives they lead."

-Bastard Out Of Carolina (movie) 1996

hi guys, newbie here, driane! ;)

i just want to share this one:
"Women are like apples on a tree. The best ones are at the top. Men don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling & getting hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples from the ground that aren't good, but easy. So the apples on top think something is wrong with them, when in fact they are amazing! They just have to wait for the right man to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree.."

I also love quotes from George Carlin, the comedian.

:rofl: I wish I were that witty.

hi guys, newbie here, driane! ;)

i just want to share this one:
"Women are like apples on a tree. The best ones are at the top. Men don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling & getting hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples from the ground that aren't good, but easy. So the apples on top think something is wrong with them, when in fact they are amazing! They just have to wait for the right man to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree.."

I like that. :)

Read my Siggie.;) :wave:

"I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -Voltaire

"A witty statement proves nothing." -Voltaire

"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost;
when health is lost, something is lost;
when character is lost, all is lost."
-- Billy Graham

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
-- Dolly Parton

"Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge, the other guy's out
dancing."
-- Buddy Hackett

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." -- John F. Kennedy

"Assumptions are the termites of relationships." -- Henry Winkler

"When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things, not
the great occasions that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness." -- Bob Hope

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."
-- Mark Twain

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can
reach for; perfection is God's business." -- Michael J. Fox

"Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight." -- Phyllis Diller

"Be nice to your children, for they will choose your rest home."
-- Phyllis Diller

"A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz."
-- Humphrey Bogart

"I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly
realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the
people saying they were weird that were weird." -- Sir Paul McCartney

"A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D. or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they
don't have a J.O.B." -- Fats Domino

"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock." - Pablo Picasso

"A sequel is a filmed deal." - Roger Ebert

Here's a couple of my best quotes. I'm sure someone probably came up with something similar to these long before I ever did, but whatever....

"The pursuit of popularity is for the insecure." - B.J.R.

"Christianity is not like Burger King, You can't always have everything you're way." - B.J.R.

"A sequel is a filmed deal." - Roger Ebert

That reminds me of a quote I heard today.

"Roger is an assh*le." - Gene Siskel :lol:

Listen to quote here (http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2685717?htv=12)

That reminds me of a quote I heard today.

"Roger is an assh*le." - Gene Siskel :lol:

Listen to quote here (http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2685717?htv=12)

I just listened to it again, and this was actually his exact quote:

"That's this week on Siskel and Ebert, and the movies. And the assh*le, and that's Roger."

I love that quote. LOL!!