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What's your all time favorite quote?

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I have several but the one that manages to stick out is the one by Winston Churchill on enemies;

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

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  1. "If you don't have what you like, you should like what you have"

    I think it's an Albanian proverb.

    "It's good to be brave, but it's better to be wise"

    - Christopher Paolini in Eragon


  2. Hey you stole mine that was the one I was going to write from Winston Churchill!

  3. "Do what U gotta do. 2 get what U gotta get done"! Or "Sometimes you'll have that!" Heres a good one.  Accept people for who they are and deal with accordingly

  4. The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated.   Gandhi

  5. I got 2 different quotes and put them together and added a conjunction:

    A picture is worth a thousand words. But nothing is worth your tears.

    I made this one up:

    A picture is worth a thousand words. Not a thousand dollars.

    I thought it was really good. I'm proud of myself.

    Thumbs up if you like it!

  6. Hard work spotlights the character of people:

    some turn up their sleeves,

    some turn up their noses,

    and some don't turn up at all.

    -- Sam Ewing

    I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.

    --Doug McLeod

    Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?

    -- Patrick Henry

    The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

    -- George Bernard Shaw

    Great minds..discuss ideas.

    Average minds... discuss events.

    Small minds... discuss people .

    -- Solly Ensczekroe

    Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

    -- C.S. Lewis

    Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality—to think, to work and keep the results—which means: the right of property.

    -- Ayn Rand

    Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

    --  Barry Switzer

    All of our days and ways are a fragile structure perched uneasily atop the hungry jaws of nature that will thoughtlessly devour us. A happy life is a daily reprieve from this knowledge.

    -- Roger Ebert

  7. better to have loved and lost then to have never loved at all.

  8. We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

    William James

  9. "It ain't all the things you don't know that get you into trouble, it's all the things you know that ain't so." - Artemus Ward

  10. Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets.

    So love the people who treat you right, and forget about the ones who don't and believe that everything happens for a reason.

    If you get a chance; take it.

    If it changes your life; let it

    Nobody said that it would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.

    composed by: Chelleann (me)

  11. never, never, never....................quit!

  12. "It is the journey which gives you happiness not the destination"

  13. Sometimes I think hate is the only real thing left in the world you can stop loving something but hate seems to go on forever.

  14. I do not know the key to success, but I know the key to failure is trying to please everyone.

    -Bill Cosby

  15. "The only time you should look down on someone is when your helping them up"   unknown

  16. When people show who they are believe them the first time.

    Maya Angelou

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