Famous Quotes

by evan » Fri Mar 16, 2007 09:22 am
Posts: 1276
Joined: 01 May 2005

Hi guys,
Lets share some of the famous quotes under this thread.
Thanks,
Evan

Total Comments: 80

Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 02:38 am Post Subject:

Its the nature of a man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected from him.

Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 12:32 pm Post Subject:

Always loved her quotes, so I thought I would share a few with you all.
Quote:

A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt


Enjoy

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 06:21 am Post Subject:

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
- Mel Brooks

What you risk reveals what you value.
- Jeanette Winterson

Fortune favors the bold.
- Final Fantasy 7

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 01:03 pm Post Subject:

Thanks for coming in and joining us on the lighter side of life here Quenlin, enjoy having some company.

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 01:08 pm Post Subject:

Quote:

Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy.
Aristotle

He who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth Kenny

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas a Kempis

Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.
William Arthur Ward

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 04:48 am Post Subject:

Thanks for the welcome goodnatured. Good to see that some people still welcome newbies like me. ^_^ Heres a few quotes I found.


"Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students." - Robin Williams

"The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on." - Robert Bloch

"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures." -George W. Bush

Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 12:41 am Post Subject:

Oooo, quotes! One of my favorite things to collect. Thanks for starting this thread! :D


“A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid straggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.” ~ Erma Louise Bombeck


"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." ~ Anais Nin


“Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.” ~ Author Unknown


Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.~ Guillaume Apollinaire


“Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.” ~ Woody Allen


“When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.” ~Author Unknown



“Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.” ~ George Burton Adams


“One day one of my little nephews came up to me and asked me if the equator was a real line that went around the Earth, or just an imaginary one. I had to laugh. Laugh and laugh. Because I didn't know, and I thought that maybe by laughing he would forget what he asked me.” ~ Jack Handey :D

Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 01:09 pm Post Subject:

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple

Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 01:15 pm Post Subject:

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This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.
Heather Armstrong


We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
Anna Sewell


People who are 'ready' give off a different vibe than people who aren't. Animals can smell fear; maybe that's it.
The minute you become ready is the the minute you stop dreaming. Suddenly it's no longer about 'becoming'. Suddenly it's about 'doing'.
Hugh Macleod

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
Rudyard Kipling

Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 01:18 pm Post Subject:

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Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
Plato

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.
H. L. Mencken


We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
Arnold Toynbee

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