Post details: Quotable Quotes

02/07/08

Permalink 03:04:48 pm, by Jody Email , 547 words, 376 views   English (CA)
Categories: Thoughts on Life in General, Misc. Stuff

Quotable Quotes

Today, I thought I'd share some of my favourite famous quotes:

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.-Robert Graves

"Be who you are and say what you like. Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Theodore Guisel

"Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly." -Albert Einstein, March 13th, 1940

"Do or do not. There is no 'try'." - Master Yoda

“Boys, I may not know much, but I know the difference between chicken shit and chicken salad”.- Lyndon Johnson

"The truth is more important than the facts." - Frank Lloyd Wright

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been
in.
-Dennis Potter

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.- T.S. Eliot

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now. -Cameron Diaz

Maturity is knowing that just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean he's a horse's ass. - Harry S. Truman

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

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. - Peter De Vries

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none- William Shakespeare

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.- Mae West

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.- Margaret Mead

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.- H.E. Luccock

”It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”- John Wooden

"I have three things I'd like to say to you tonight. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don't give a s--t. What's worse is that you're more upset with the fact that I said s--t than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night."- Tony Campolo

”If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”- Thomas Edison

”We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit. ”- Aristotle

”Regardless of the changes in technology, the market for well-crafted messages will always have an audience.”- Steve Burnett

"To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things."- Lee Iacocca

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. - Sigmund Freud

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

'I may have not got where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.'-Douglas Adams

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. - Thornton Niven Wilder

Avoid popularity if you would have peace. - Abraham Lincoln

Is Chickens Birds?- My Bro, 2 1/2 years old

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Comment from: Paul [Visitor] Email · http://Germany
I love your selection. I think Shakespeare said it best....
PermalinkPermalink 02/12/08 @ 14:24

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