What's your favorite quote?

[Lord_Michael]

"Poker exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great."

-- Walter Matthau

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when something comes it’s no more than a gift on loan.
~ John McGahern

 

[Lord_Michael]

"Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself."

—Old Vaquero saying

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
~ Francois-Marie Voltaire

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

 

[Lord_Michael]

Lili Von Shtupp (Madeline Kahn): Why don't you... loosen your bullets?

-- Blazing Saddles

 

[Lord_Michael]

It's been a while since we've had an Ogden Nash, and considering that today's his birthday, here's one:

"To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
And whenever you're right, shut up."

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

~ Ogden Nash

 

[moaningmyrtle]

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[Curious_in_Cali]

You can’t make a place for yourself in the sun if you keep taking refuge under the family tree.
~ Helen Keller

 

[Lord_Michael]

"America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up."

-- Oscar Wilde

 

[dmetria]

.............

 

[flyer333]

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

Those who only have a hammer see every problem as a nail.

 

[dmetria]

"if I put aside my pessimistic rationality and believe I can do something amazing, well, I most certainly can and will. I love the idea that we are who we choose to be; that it is as simple as making that choice."

myself

 

[Lord_Michael]

"Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you."

-- Winston Churchill

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

~Pablo Picasso

 

[Lord_Michael]

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

-- unknown

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

"I believe you."

 

[Lord_Michael]

"I did not attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it. "

-- Mark Twain

 

[Lord_Michael]

"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do; and for those who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'"

-- Bob Newhart

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

~ Mark Twain

 

[Lord_Michael]

"In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these."
-- Paul Harvey

 

[gypsy*seer]

"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." - H. Jackson Browne

 

[Lord_Michael]

"I've been so busy I don't know if I found a rope or lost my horse."

-- Old Vaquero saying

 

[Lord_Michael]

"If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle."

—Rita Mae Brown