What's your favorite quote?

[LearningSub]

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves."- John Muir



.. i have the first sentence built into a tattoo of mine One of my absolute favs

 

[Lord_Michael]

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves."- John Muir

Word! Living in the Rockies myself, I can certainly identify with that. Thanks, LearningSub!

 

[Lord_Michael]

Joseph Kinsey Howard

Another in the vein of LearningSub's Muir quote:

"The sunset holds infinite promise. Fire sweeps up from behind the Rockies to consume the universe, kindles the whole horizon, and all the great sky is flame; then suddenly it falters and fades atop the distant peaks and lonely buttes, ebbs and is lost in secret coulees. The Montanan is both humbled and exalted by this blazing glory filling his world, yet so quickly dead; he cannot but marvel that such a puny creature as he should be privileged to stand there unharmed, and watch."

 

[LearningSub]

Awesome Lord Michael! I've been to the Rockies, they are incredible. I'm over in the Appalachian Mountains myself

 

[Chiara_searches]

"It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before, to test your limits, to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." Anais Nin

 

[the captians wench]

"One swallow doesn't make a summer" ~ Duke (can't remember hsi name) to Thomas (the footman)

From Downton Abby.

 

[Allyourbase]

Ooh, nice thread! Lemme share some too:

You don't need eyes to see, you need vision - Faithless

Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane - Nietzsche

 

[Allyourbase]

And one from, if I'm not mistaken, Richard Dawkins in the TV-series 'The root of all evil' (yeah, even Dawkins hated that title, or so i'm told):

"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones."


And Dawkins again, quoting a former editor of New Scientist Magazine:

"Science is interesting, and if you don't agree, you can just fuck off."

Cracks me up every time...

 

[Allyourbase]

Aaand i keep thinking of more

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

George Carlin

Ghehehe. Brilliant.

 

[Lord_Michael]

Alfred Adler

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."

 

[chy_girl]

I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.

 

[vegetablelamb]

"Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?* I'm halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh my God.* I could be eating a slow learner." - Lynda Montgomery

 

[chy_girl]

“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”
-Winnie the Pooh

 

[Lord_Michael]

Clarence Darrow

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

 

[Stella_Omega]

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

Or by the first half of our lives.

 

[chy_girl]

“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me! ”
-Dr. Seuss

And for the *cough*legal*cough* record, I've absolutely no intention of problem solving any current or perspective future problems with a bat of any sort.

 

[Lord_Michael]

Ambrose Bierce

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

 

[Lord_Michael]

Dick Cavett

"If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either."

 

[justnoldfriend]

"A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't."

This.

 

[midwestyankee]

"It's all about dominance and submission. I know all about that. I'm married." David Feherty, CBS Golf Analyst.

 

[Lord_Michael]

midwestyankee: "It's all about dominance and submission. I know all about that. I'm married." David Feherty, CBS Golf Analyst.

LOL! But then, there are those of us who choose it quite affirmatively.

 

[chy_girl]

"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."
-Dr. Seuss

 

[Lord_Michael]

LOL! Mutual weirdness indeed!

 

[Lord_Michael]

Mark Twain

Man is the only animal.........

that blushes..........

or needs to.

 

[JamieJ424]

Everyone has a plan, until they get hit.

-Mike Tyson