What is the best quote you have ever heard?

Question

personally I think 'eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind'-?

and 'don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.-Dr. Seuss.

What about you?

Answer 1

Here's one of my favorites:

"Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed."

~ Lloyd Jones

Answer 2

Brotherhood of Man and Fatherhood of God.

Help ever, hurt never

Hands that help are holier than lips that pray

Answer 3

Easy, over a very exclusive club in Manhattan there is a small wooden plaque, upon which there is , in gold/bronze letters, on the exterior of the door is a sign saying.

"Always remember, that Money cannot buy you happiness."

On the interior, as you are leaving, is another sign in the same place above the door, in much smaller print, but on an identical plaque.

"It can however buy you , your choice of misery.".

Of course for personal all time favorites, I have to go with some unknown student in my high school algebra class, who took a quote from Dante's Inferno, and above the door to our math class, on the day of the final exam was

"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here"....

Answer 4

Here are a few of my favorites:

"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." - Mark Twain

"I sometimes go to my own little world, but that's okay, they know me there." - Joel Hodgson

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? George Carlin

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. - Lily Tomlin

Answer 5

The tongue is like a sharp knife, It Kills without drawing blood.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened, Happiness never decreases by being shared

Answer 6

"I am the author of my own life. Unfortunately I write in pen."

Answer 7

every lie contains truth and every truth contains lie

Answer 8

Dont Let Someone Become a Priority in Your Life, when You are just an Option in their Life!

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YES & NO are two short words that need a long thought.

most problems in life are the result of sayin a YES too soon or a NO too late!!!

Answer 9

I am going to hold a pistol to the head of Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him. Only to bring him to life." -G.K. Chesterton

I can imagine the day when all material things are pulled from me, and then the stronger my soul will be. -Jimi Hendrix

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. -Gerry Spence

At the primitive core of life's great grave highway did I seat myself. Beside the cadavers and vulture did visions collide, black and white clarity forever lost in a never ending ether. I laughed at the bygone era and its mellow decaying glory - for I am alive. -unknown

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. -Albert Einstein

Answer 10

Thing becomes wasted when you fail to take advantage of it.

No man is an island

a room without books is like body without a soul

Dreams can be reached when you do it step by step, doing it fast makes you fail

Life is fragile. Handle with prayers.

True friendship is like a circle. It goes round and round and does not end.

Answer 11

"People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."  - Abraham Lincoln