Quotable Quotes

[DarkRaven18599]

If you have something good, be it your own words or those of another, share a little wisdom here. (Just nothing from reality TV please.)

“I fear the day technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”
― Albert Einstein

 

[badbadboy]

My personal fav

Oscar Wilde

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”

 

[luvsdaty]

A bad day fishing is better than a good day at work.

 

[papillion]

"The cure for boredom is curiosity, there is no cure for curiosity" - Dorothy Parker

 

[green]

It is better to remain silent, and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. (attributed to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln and anonymous)

 

[Unpossible]

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."

George Burns

 

[blackcad]

Something I've found as an inescapable truth.....

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned," spoken by Zara in Act III, Scene VIII.

-William Congreve (The Mourning Bride 1697)

 

[OldMagpye]

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true
Or is it something worse
-Bruce Springsteen

 

[Lo-ki]

"Only the dead have seen the end of war"

Plato

 

[Robert Upndown]

"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change”. – Frank Lloyd Wright

 

[furball8]

"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin."
Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle

 

[uncleg]

 

[DarkRaven18599]

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

 

[Jethro Bodine]

"A good friend will help you move,
A really good friend will help you move a body."

 

[uncleg]

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

 

[zaig]

No one on their death bed ever said, I wish I spent more time in the office. Well maybe Hugh Hefner, but he's still alive. anon.

Everybody talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it. Mark Twain

My favorite by Mark Twain. When I was 16 my father was stupid, but by the time I turned 21, I couldn't believe how much he learned in 5 years. Poetic license as I am going from memory.

 

[uncleg]

 

[Man Mountain]

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
-Mahatma Gandhi

 

[PlayfulAlex]

Leaders are readers...

This guy has such an authentic style!

"I discovered that "I'm addicted to losing."