Please share some of your favorite quotes

[Brad Russ]

There have been so many great quotes made by great people throughout this worlds history. Please share your favorites. Here's one of my favs from the late great Christian musician, Larry Norman.

"They say that all men are equal, all men are brothers, then why are the rich, more equal than others?" - Larry Norman

[tiredmike59]

Sitting Bull was asked to make a speech about the completion of a new railroad,they even had one prepared for him,but he had his own ready and it started off like this; " I Hate the white people,they are thieves and liars "
They didnt let him say much more,he was ruining their occasion.

[robyrob]

"two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do" - robyrob

[Brad Russ]

Originally Posted by robyrob

"two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do" - robyrob

Ha ha, good one!

[robyrob]

"The needs of the many... ...something, something... ...Star Trek!" - Master Shake, Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1

[robyrob]

"I'm so hungry i could eat at Arby's" -Ralph Wiggum, The Simpsons

"If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you’ll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy. "

"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason."

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is “God is crying.” And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is “Probably because of something you did.”

- Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts

[Reverend Jim]

Originally Posted by Brad Russ

There have been so many great quotes made by great people throughout this worlds history. Please share your favorites. Here's one of my favs from the late great Christian musician, Larry Norman.

"They say that all men are equal, all men are brothers, then why are the rich, more equal than others?" - Larry Norman

[Brad Russ]

Originally Posted by Reverend Jim

Awesome Reverend Jim, I love it. As usual, you put a big ole smile on my face. Thanks for being such an awesome guy, and thanks for making my day!! Enjoy your weekend my friend!!

[OH Nuts!]

Nobody ever drowned in their own sweat. -Ann Landers

[Family Ties Forever!]

From previous quote threads.

Once in a while you meet someone, and soon you both discover the two of you are truly something special to each other... you share your thoughts and feelings so relaxed, so openly, and right away you know your friendship's truly meant to be. Author: Gary Harrington

Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels. Author: Joan Walsh Anglund

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. Author: Joseph Addison

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I get by with a little help from my friends. Author: John Lennon

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. Author: Mary Catherwood

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own. Author: Benjamin Disraeli

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. Author: Francois Mocuria

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life. Author: Edward Everett Hale

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter. Author: James Fenimore Cooper

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. Author: Barbara DeAngelis

The world would be so lonely, in sunny hours or gray. Without the gift of friendship, to help us every day. Author: Hilda Brett Farr

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. Author: Helen Keller

Happiness is time spent with a friend and looking forward to sharing time with them again. Author: Lee Wilkinson

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh

True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value. Author: Ben Jonson

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend. Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice. Author: Samuel Johnston

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring. Author: La Rochefoucauld

A friend is a gift you give yourself. Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

The best mirror is an old friend. Author: George Herbert

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us. Author: Epicurus

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is like a sheltering tree. Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged with out any effort on your part. It's like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you. But instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you. Author: Steve Tesich

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. Author: Virginia Woolf

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. Author: Anais Nin

My friends are my estate. Author: Emily Dickinson

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one. Author: C.S. Lewis

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that. Charlotte in “Charlotte’s Web” Author: E.B. White

Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare false friends are like leaves, found everywhere Author Unknown

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving a mark on it forever Author Unknown

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. Muhammad Ali

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. Saint Thomas Aquinas

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. Aristotle

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. William Blake

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. Robert Brault

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little much of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers. Pam Brown

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. Buddha

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. Marlene Dietrich

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison

The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. Epicurus

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. Arnold H. Glasow

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. Francesco Guicciardini

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. Dag Hammarskjold

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. William Hazlitt

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. Oliver Wendell Holmes

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. Edward W. Howe

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Elbert Hubbard

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. Thomas Jefferson

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. Sarah Orne Jewett

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? Eugene Kennedy

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. Emily Kimbrough

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. John Leonard

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. C. S. Lewis

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. Emil Ludwig

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. George MacDonald

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. Shirley MacLaine

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Katherine Mansfield

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. Mignon McLaughlin

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. Mencius

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. Alice Duer Miller

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you. Alice Duer Miller

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man. Alice Duer Miller

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. Alice Duer Miller

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world. Alice Duer Miller

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. Toni Morrison

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. Henri Nouwen

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. Douglas Pagels

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. Samuel Pepys

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. Laurence J. Peter

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. Plautus

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Plutarch

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. Joseph Roux

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. Margaret Lee Runbeck

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. George Santayana

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. Henry David Thoreau

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Henry David Thoreau

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. George Washington

True friends stab you in the front. Oscar Wilde

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. Oprah Winfrey

We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often.
Jeanette Winterson

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. Thomas Jefferson

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

People see God everyday, they just don't recognize him. Author Unknown

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. Author 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. Author 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. Author 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. Author 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. Author Unknown

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. Author 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. Author Unknown

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

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

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

Speak with your head and listen with your heart." Author Unknown

You Can Make Cans Out Of Cannots, But You Cannot Make Cannots Out Of Cans. Author Unknown

Some people come into your life, leave footprints on your heart and you are never ever the same. Author Unknown

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. Author Unknown

In 100 years it won't matter what kind of car you drove, what house you lived in, or even what your clothes looked like. What wil matter is that you made a difference in the life of a child. Author Unknown

It's not about the house, it's about the people in the house. Author Unknown

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Author Unknown

If you wake up in a red room with no windows and doors, don't panic! You're just in my heart! Author Unknown

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that
others throw at him. David Brinkley

[Reverend Jim]

Originally Posted by Brad Russ

Awesome Reverend Jim, I love it. As usual, you put a big ole smile on my face. Thanks for being such an awesome guy, and thanks for making my day!! Enjoy your weekend my friend!!

[catlover79]

“We've had a Congress that's spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop.” - Mike Huckabee, 2007

[Janice]

"No good deed goes unpunished." ~ Clare Booth Luce

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." ~ Margaret Thatcher

"I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me, but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss." ~ Rita Mae Brown


Do not stand
at my grave and weep.
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds
that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight
on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awake in the
morning's hush
I am the soft uplifting rush
of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft star that
shines at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry
I am not there.
I did not die.

--- Anonymous

[Penny Lane]

Life is what happens while making other plans-John Lennon

Another of my favorites is in my signature.

[Liza]

"I don't care about money, I just want to be wonderful." - Marilyn Monroe

"A succesful man is one that can make more money than his wife can spend. A succesful woman is one that can find such a man." - Lana Turner

"Exileration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it." - Rex Harrison

"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." - Groucho Marx

"I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin." - Oscar Levant

"A nickel ain't worth a dime these days." -Yogi Berra