What's your favorite quote?

[Lord_Michael]

"The freedom to be an imbecile is one of our core values."

-- Nicholas D. Kristof

 

[digittwitch]

"Heaven is knowing who you are".

 

[Lord_Michael]

"Be who you are, and say what you feel. Because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

-- Dr. Suess

 

[Fierywhore]

The moving finger writes; and having writ moves on;

Omar Khayyam

 

[Lord_Michael]

"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger."

-- Franklin P. Jones

 

[DWW]

"Hell is the state in which we are barred from receiving what we truly need because of the value we give to what we merely want."

Jacob Needleman

 

[Lord_Michael]

In his 2011 year-end column, Dave Barry characterized Congress in a way which, if we didn't appreciate it then, we certainly do now, regardless which side we're on:

"relentlessly hyperpartisan gasbaggery"

 

[Rolando2]

I don't know who said this, but it's probably true!

Behind every successful man, there is a surprized woman!

 

[Lord_Michael]

"The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit..."

-- Michael Douglas (Gordon Gekko), Wall Street

 

[Lord_Michael]

"I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."

Yogi Berra

 

[RJMasters]

“Not only are you wrong, you’re wrong at the top of your voice”
~ Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo

(Thank you Sir may I have another)

 

[fluffygirl88]

In the words of my three year old, I'm sure he picked it up somewhere though... "You get what you get so don't throw a fit"

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

(Attributed to Confucius):

"Do not mock a man
in the locker room
Until you have walked a mile
in his Teen Titans boxers."

 

[Lord_Michael]

"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions."

-- Jessamyn West

 

[Pachet]

In the words of my three year old, I'm sure he picked it up somewhere though... "You get what you get so don't throw a fit"

Cute

Rewatched Moonstruck this morning, and I love this:

Ronnie: "Love don't make things nice. It ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and get in my bed!"

 

[Lord_Michael]

Man is the only animal that blushes.

Or needs to.

Mark Twain

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

Do not make jest at another's expense until you have walked a mile in their shoes. From that vantage jest away; you'll have a mile head start and possession of their shoes.

Don't judge a man until you walk a mile in his moccasins. But, what if they're water moccasins?

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

are we talking about snake skin stylin? or those flip flops in disguise that turn your feet into one giant blister?

If someone is actually wearing venomous snakes... well, golly gee willakers, I say withhold judgement. 'Cause man: swollen limbs and death.

 

[desertslave]

Saw this on FB today, and it struck a chord for me.

“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.” –James Madison, letter to William Bradford, April 1, 1774

 

[Lord_Michael]

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

-- Winston Churchill

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
~ Jelaluddin Rumi

 

[Lord_Michael]

"You can't make an omelet without breaking some legs."

-- Ziva David (Cote de Pablo), NCIS

 

[blu_caprice]

"Well-behaved women seldom make history..."

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

 

[Lord_Michael]

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."

-- Albert Einstein

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

“What words would I write

if you vanished from my life?

How does hollow sound?”

~ Tyler Knott Gregson