Famous Quotes ( meaningful ones)

Question

I want some nice, meaningful life quotes, that make someone wonder, short, but effective.

thanks

Answer 1

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness - Chinese Proverb

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it - chinese proverb

with sufficient thrust pigs can fly just fine

My opinions may have changed but not the fact that I'm right



Live YOUR life - don't try to make someone live THEIR life your way. You probably screwed up yours anyhow

I am an optimist, but an optimist that wears a raincoat

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music

I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should've been more specific

Life may have no meaning or worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.

Answer 2

"Give what you have. To someone, it may be more than you dare think."

LOL, my college boyfriend wrote that quote on a card to me, and it still gives me chills, even though I haven't seen him in almost 30 years.

I think it was by Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Answer 3

fortune knocks at a mans door once in their lifetime

absence makes the heart grow fonder

Answer 4

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few

WINSTON S CHURCHILL

Answer 5

These are just TWO that spring to my mind:-

"PRAISE THE LORD, - AND PASS THE AMMUNITION!!!!!", - as uttered, by US Marine corps chaplain, - Major HOWELL G. FORGEY, - on that "DAY OF INFAMY", also, known as December 7, 1941, - as the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor!

"LIVE EACH DAY, AS IF IT WAS YOUR LAST, - BECAUSE, - ONE DAY, - IT WILL BE!", - THAT one, actually, came to ME, personally, from my late Father!

Answer 6

I ain't no physicist but I know what matters

Answer 7

Marriage is an institution are you ready to be certified yet ?

No means no, not yes if you nag enough !

One man's rubbish is another man's treasure !

Good luck. :-)

Answer 8

Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you

Answer 9

better give than have to give.

gift should be handed , not thrown.

carve your name on hearts, and not on marble.

as the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

easy street is a blind alley.

petty laws breed great crime.

one of these days is none of these days.

the best thing in life are fees.

to accept a favour is to sell one's freedom.

one man with courage makes a majority.

the less you bet, more you lose when you win.

Answer 10

" Passion, unattended is a flame that burns to its own destruction. " – Khalil Gubran

Answer 11

"if you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes." Source Unknown

"If you enjoy what you do, you'll never work another day in your life." Confucius

"When you know better you do better"

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." Lincoln

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." Winston Churchill

Answer 12

"Youth is wasted on the young".

Oscar Wilde

"William Shakespeare never wrote a single line in any of his plays which he intended to be uttered upon a stage by a woman".

CLIVE H

Answer 13

Better to remain silent and appear a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Love is temporary insanity cured by marriage.

I can resist anything but temptation.

There are 10 kinds of people that understand binary - those that do and those that don't.

Answer 14

What goes around, comes around.

Answer 15

The only certainty in life is death. Live with it!

Answer 16

"Education is a wonderful thing, but it is worth remembering from time to time, that anything worth learning cannot be taught" - Oscar Wilde