Favourite Quotes?
by
Numberz_
March 16, 2016 at 12:03 AM UTC
Not to be confused with the "Avicus Quotes" topic. This topic will be just for quotes made by famous authors, poets, politicians, musicians, actors, etc. Found in books, speeches, songs and other media.
Some of my favourites-
"He who defends everything defends nothing." - Frederick II King of Prussia
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." -Lao Tzu
"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."-Sun Tzu
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." -Theodore Roosevelt
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."-Theodore Roosevelt
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." -Edgar Allan Poe
"Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best." -John C. Maxwell
"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth." -Adolf Hitler
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."- George Orwell
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
"Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone
can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few
really know what you are." -Niccolo Machiavelli
"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains." -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire
Those are some of my favourite quotes. What are yours?
This actually makes you think differently. A prisoner was getting executed for killing someone. His last words were "Remember, the death penalty is murder" - Robert drew
“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!” - Cave Johnson
“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!” - Cave Johnson
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade wings in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Unknown
"It doesn't matter what you have if you can't protect it." - Eric Walters
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss
Some great quotes by American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." "What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say." "Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
"Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!" -Sir Walter Scott
"Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." -Alexander Graham Bell
"Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected." - Sophocles
"In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins." -Ulysses S. Grant
"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body." C. S. Lewis"
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." - Charles M. Schultz
"Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved" - Mark Twain "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." - Archimedes "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates
"I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Woody Allen
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