What's your favorite quote?

Fuck you & your fucking pretentious bullshit quotes. Me…just then :D

I don’t have a “favorite” anything. But some quotes or sayings resonate with me at certain times. This morning I reminded of the classic…

“Do not speak – unless it improves on silence.”

Right now, I like,

“A ship is safe in harbour, but that’s not what ships are for.”

GQ times two for the House reference!

“It didn’t seem particularly large, but it felt hard.”
– Donald O’Brien, describing the fist of the cyborg that punched him, in the movie “Hands of Steel”

” Just Do It ! ” Long before Nike.
It Sixty years ago from engineering supervisor. We did jet engine performance charting. He asked the group think “out of the box” for improving the durability and increased performance in the “hot section” of the jet engine. He ended the challenge with “Just Do IT !” We worked on it for a couple of weeks off and on, I went to a chemistry book and found Tantalum which we used for a test section of an engine. Currently Tantalum is used in nickel based superalloys where the principal applications are turbine blades for aircraft engines and land based gas turbines. We never applied for a patent, stupid in hindsight.

Practically anything by Woody Allen, but this one from “Manhattan” is one of my top favorites…

Party Guest: I finally had an orgasm, and my doctor said it was the wrong kind.
Isaac Davis: You had the wrong kind? I’ve never had the wrong kind, ever. My worst one was right on the money.

“Nuts”.

Because it has a historical reference preventing anyone from giving you grief about its often misinterpreted meaning.

“Love why you do and you’ll never work a day in your life.”

“d(life)/dt ≠ c.”
I mainly like it because I made it up lol.

1) Tell me, what do you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?…Mary Oliver, The Summer Day

2) Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes…Henry David Thoreau

3) Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.…Alice Roosevelt Longworth (TR’s daughter)

(The Harvard Business School Portrait Project… starting in 2002 and ongoing.

“Each year we ask our classmates a straightforward, simple question taken from the last lines of a poem by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Mary Oliver. We share with you intimate and candid responses to this question, “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”)

Runner-up:

If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

“If it doesn’t move, and it should, use WD40. If it moves and it shouldn’t, use duct tape.” Don’t remember from whom.

“Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.” Pliny

Stuck on my new discovery…Alice Roosevelt Longworth (a gold mine)

Father [Teddy] always wanted to be the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral, and the baby at every christening.

Everything in moderation.

While the enemies of the Emperor still draw breath, there can be no peace.

“We have arrived, and it is now that we perform our charge.
In fealty to the God-Emperor and by the grace of the Golden Throne, I declare Exterminatus upon the Imperial world of Typhon Primaris.
I hereby sign the death warrant of an entire world and consign a million souls to oblivion.
May Imperial Justice account in all balance.
The Emperor Protects.”

Two of my favorites by Dorothy Parker.

“What fresh new hell is this?” and….

” Leave it to me to put all of my eggs in one bastard.” lol

I also love Sam Clemens, aka: Mark Twain

” Get your facts first and then you can distort them as you please.”

“Be careful about reading health books, you may die of a misprint.”

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”

^ Copycat ~

^^ Two ships that crossed in the night?

Oh shit lol I didn’t read the thread. It’s just a good quote I guess!!

That quote helped me go forward with my surgeries when I probably could have avoided them by living at home and basically giving up on my dreams.

“Bite me” By Me.

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away”. —Philip K. Dick

When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk. -Toco
“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (1966)

Just read a good one:

“When all is said and done, we’re all just walking each other home.” Ram Dass

“No matter where you go, there you are.” Buckaroo Banzai

I also passed this on in an earlier thread:

“Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you’re going to burn in Hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on Earth and you should save it for someone you love”. Butch Hancock

@Mariah It is a good quote. Deserves to be mentioned twice!

I have a favorite pair from Homer J. Simpson:

“Just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I don’t understand.”

“Oh boy, dinner time! The perfect break between work and drunk.”

I’m also partial to this particular utterance from the Doctor:

“People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it’s more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . time-y wimey . . . stuff.”

(sorry but I couldn’t stop at one! so sue me!)

Best kiss off line: “I’d say go to hell but I never want to see you again.”-Sylvia Plath

Words to the wise: “Time is very slow for those who wait, very fast for those who are scared, very long for those who lament, very short for those who celebrate, but for those who love, time is eternal.”-William Shakespeare

Thought-provoking: “The more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.”-Nelson Mandela

On aesthetics: “I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect. They are much more interesting.”-Marc Jacobs, fashion designer

Genius quote: “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”-Albert Einstein

On creativity: “The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”-Pablo Picasso

On being open-minded: “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”-Aristotle

On the grand scheme of things: “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they shall never sit in.”-Greek proverb

On love: “In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.”-Robert Brault

On non-conformity: “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”-J.Krishnamurti

Last but not least (I couldn’t leave out Oscar): “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.”-Oscar Wilde

Frank Zappa- If you want to get laid, go to College. If you want a education, go to the Library.

@1TubeGuru But what if you want to get laid in the library?

@janbb That’s called multitasking.

“He who saves one life saves the world entire.”
“The world is cruel, but also very beautiful.”
“Sometimes it seems my blood spurts out in gobs, as if it were a fountain’s pulsing sobs. I clearly hear it mutter as it goes yet cannot find the wound from which it flows.”

@janbb ,Then go to a College Library.

@1TubeGuru I work in one. (nudge, nudge, wink, wink.)

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of.

Louis C.K.

^ love Louis CK. There’s also this…

The only time you look in your neighbor’s bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don’t look in your neighbor’s bowl to see if you have as much as them.

^It’s more fun to experience things when you don’t know what’s going to happen.

I could do this all night. :)

Right now I love:
When God says yes, he gives you what you want.
When God say no, he gives you something better
When God says wait, he gives you the best

Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.

—Groucho Marx

“The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive.
And particularly they studied the genius of each city & country, placing it under its mental deity.
Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of & enslav’d the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the mental deities from their objects; thus began Priesthood. Choosing forms of worship from poetic tales. And at length they pronounced that the gods had ordered such things. Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.”

- William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793)

“Life’s not about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.”

“The cure for everything is salt water, in one form or another: Sweat, tears, or the salt sea. There is nothing that one or all of those can’t fix.”

~Karen Blixen, aka Isak Denison

Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!

@David_Achilles

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they shall never sit in.”

As someone who planted a crepe myrtle sapling in his front yard when he was 61, I feel honored by that quote. Thanks for posting it.

” The joy that isn’t shared dies young. ”
― Anne Sexton

” I don’t care what they do — so long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses! ”

” The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue. ”

_Mrs. Patrick Campbell

“Theocracies are fine as long as it is their own religion” @ragingloli

Another favorite:

“The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.” – Michael Caine

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find of governing it well!

“It takes two flints to make a fire.”

”Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.”

“I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don’t think anyone will deny us.”

“Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.”

~Louisa May Alcott of Boston, 1832–1888, American Author.

Came across this one the other day by Richard Feynman the physicist that wn the 1965 Nobel prize.

” I’d hate to die twice, it’s so boring.” During his last days of a rare form of 2 different cancers.