What is your favorite quote?

Question

Mine would have to be:

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power."

What about yours?

Thanks!

Answer 1

"False hope is better than no hope"

another one from Sun Tzu I think, but Im not sure how to translate to English accurately- "know your own strength and enemy's, you'll win 100 out of 100 battles"

Answer 2

In 5 year's time only two things are going to change about you: the type of people you associate with and the type of books you read. - Khalil Jibran

its the most beautiful thing ever... and its so very true too!

Answer 3

suspicious events doesnt make a person suspicious, suspicious people make suspicious events.

Answer 4

This is a list of my favourites:

"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. "

- Adolf Hitler

"so we're missing intelligence? how do you know we're missing inteligence? "all you have to do is look at this administration and know we're missing intelligence"

- Keith Olbermann

"I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

-- Albert Einstein

(just before takeoff of an airplane flight, a stewardess reminded Muhammad Ali to fasten his seat belt)

Ali replied "Superman don't need no seat belt"

"Superman don't need no airplane either" responded the stewerdess.

"One death is a tragedy, but one million is a statistic."

-- Joseph Stalin

"We should listen to the voice of conscience. It does not take nearly as much courage as one might think to admit to our mistakes and learn from them. Human beings are in this world to learn and to change themselves in learning."

-- Traudl Junge

"Long live sacred Germany"

-- Claus von Stauffenberg (His last words before he was shot to death for trying to kill Hitler)

"I must study politics and war so that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy"

--John Adams

"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress"

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets."

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need"

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."

-- Jean-Paul Sartre

"Let us be French, Let us be English, but most of all, let us be Canadian"

-- Sir John A. McDonald

"If all Hitler had done was kill people in vast numbers more efficiently than anyone else ever did, the debate over his lasting importance might end there. But Hitler's impact went beyond his willingness to kill without mercy. He did something civilization had not seen before. Genghis Khan operated in the context of the nomadic steppe, where pillaging villages was the norm. Hitler came out of the most civilized society on Earth, the land of Beethoven and Goethe and Schiller. He set out to kill people not for what they did but for who they were. Even Mao and Stalin were killing their "class enemies." Hitler killed a million Jewish babies just for existing."

-- Nancy Gibbs in TIME magazine

"Before Hitler, we thought we had sounded the depths of human nature. He showed how much lower we could go, and that's what was so horrifying. It gets us wondering not just at the depths he showed us but whether there is worse to come."

-- Ron Rosenbaum in TIME magazine

"As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were n***s. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right."

-- Isaac Bashevis Singer

Answer 5

"Learn as if you were to live forever,

  live as if you were to die tomorrow."

Answer 6

' Give me a hero and i'll write you a tragedy.'

can't remember who said it

Kind of a sad one, but i've always liked it =]

Answer 7

Marx Bros discussing the terms of a contract

"There ain't no Sanity Clause".

Answer 8

Ok, this is from Dorothy Parker, from an article she wrote for the New York Times announcing a benefit for the American Humane Society.

"If at any time you grow wearied of humanity in general and long for the life of a hermit, try selling tickets for a benefit. Either that or let the word get around that your leprosy is doing as well as can be expected"

"When is a Benefit?

Dorothy Parker, New York Times, February 24, 1924

Answer 9

"It's a long way down whe your hopes are high as mountains"

"Life is a carousel...I get the horse with splinters"

Answer 10

I have quite a few (I'm the person that never makes up my mind).

-Do unto others before they have the chance to do unto you.

Anon

-Forgive your enemies, but never forget their namess.

John F. Kennedy

-When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.

  Mark Twain

(a serious one)

-Stop playing the fool. When you have seen something die,    call it dead.

Catallus