What's your favorite quote?

[Lord_Michael]

Something my father always used to say, but never hit home till just recently.

One who does nothing but wait for his ship to come has already missed the boat.

good one, redslady

 

[Lord_Michael]

George Bernard Shaw

The thing that is wrong with the world is that the ignorant are so cock-sure and the wise are so full of doubt.

 

[chy_girl]

Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject.

 

[Lord_Michael]

Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject.

No doubt!

 

[Lord_Michael]

Benjamin Disraeli

Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease". Disraeli replied, "That all depends, sir, upon whether I embrace your principles or your mistress."

 

[Miss Diva]

sorry changed my mind

 

[chy_girl]

“You say 'erbs, and we say Herbs. Why? Because there's a fucking H in it!” -Eddie Izzard

 

[hungdavid]

"It's better to burn out.. than to just fade away..."


Neil Young...

 

[Lizzie_Borden]

“You say 'erbs, and we say Herbs. Why? Because there's a fucking H in it!” -Eddie Izzard

Like.

Both the quote *and* Eddie.

 

[chy_girl]

Like.

Both the quote *and* Eddie.

Agreed.

And can I just say that he's fucking HOT in drag!

 

[Lord_Michael]

Winston Churchill

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

 

[Lord_Michael]

How could we have gotten this far...

...without some Yogi Berra-isms?

"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

 

[graceanne]

" Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual."
Mark Twain

 

[chy_girl]

“A deceitful peace is more hurtful than open war”

 

[Lord_Michael]

Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen)

Life has a way of making the foreseeable that which never happens, and the unforeseeable that which your life becomes.
(Appaloosa)

 

[BiBunny]

" Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual."
Mark Twain

This one is about to go up on my Facebook status!

 

[midwestyankee]

In this world, there are more idiots than people.

 

[chy_girl]

"If you can't fuck on, then I guess you'll just have to fuck off."

 

[Stella_Omega]

“A deceitful peace is more hurtful than open war”

I'm wondering what "a deceitful peace" is supposed to mean?

 

[chy_girl]

I'm wondering what "a deceitful peace" is supposed to mean?

At this point I'm reading it as "bitch me out in private, but smile and coo and be normal in a room full of people where one must conduct themselves with dignity and grace."

My interpretation might be slightly colored though.

 

[graceanne]

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. ~Bill Vaughn


An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan

 

[chy_girl]

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan

Nice! And I'm borrowing ^that one for a battle of the quotes... Thank you!

 

[Lord_Michael]

Jebediah Nightlinger (Roscoe Lee Brown)

I regret trifling with married women, I'm thoroughly ashamed of cheating at cards, I deplore my occasional departures from the truth, Forgive me for taking your name in vain, my Saturday drunkenness, my Sunday Sloth. Above all, forgive me for the men I've killed in anger, and those I am about to.

"The Cowboys"

 

[Felix_Jones]

My signature..it's the zek's motto from The Gulag Archipelago.

 

[graceanne]

Nice! And I'm borrowing ^that one for a battle of the quotes... Thank you!

Yay!