What is your most favorite quote

[erikahawkins]

"But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist."

- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

[dindindin]

"Man was not meant for defeat." Ernest Hemingway

[Maud Fitch]

"Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them" ~ Agatha Christie.

[dindindin]

Because there's a conflict in every human heart, between the rational and irrational, between good and evil.
And good does not always triumph. Sometimes the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. G.D. Spradlin in Apocalypse Now.

[Dontae]

thanks...for...sharing...

[Santanico]

thanks...for...sharing...

Well obviously this is your favourite quote seeing as it's the only contribution you've made to any thread......why exactly are you here?

Mine is "The grass isn't greener on the other side, it's greener where you water it"

[Fran]

I just came across this description of a row between a woman and her lover .... it's from The Wine of Solitude by Irene Nemirovsky

"They hurled the simplest words at each other as if each one were a hammer; they repeated what they said, looked for the most insignificant words and found some hidden, obscure meaning in them; they recalled things that had happened a year ago, five years ago; pitilessly, they searched for words that could best be misinterpreted".

[bobjc]

“The challenge is not in seeing new places but in having new eyes.” – Proust

[shoestringnell]

How about

"I started with nothing and have most of it left." (shoestringnell and all that!!!)



or "Good Morning let the stress begin" I keep that one over my Bread Bin in the Kitchen beside the Toaster!!!!

-- 26 Apr 2012, 17:42 --

I can resist everything except temptation.

OSCAR WILDE, Lady Windermere's Fan

[louisgeorge]

Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness.
Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

[Fran]

"I know you think you understand what I just said,
But I don't think you realise that what you heard is not what I meant"

I've no idea who came up with it .... but it certainly expalins a lot

[Bighuey]

It is said that nothing is impossible, but there are lots of people doing nothing every day.

Foolish Almanic of 1905

[StephenKingman]

Enjoy the little things in life, because one day you will realize they are the big things...

Unknown.

[Paige Turner]

Thank You so much Maud! I figured it was one of the classic greats, just wasnt for sure which one and didnt want to assume. Again, thank you for the name drop. I love that quote, I enjoy Oscar Wilde so now I enjoy it even more!

"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future" - Unknown

Paige, that's another Oscar Wilde quote.

And one of my favourites “All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy” ~ Spike Milligan.

[jendhancock23]

My favorite quote and quite appropriate for this forum

"There is more to life than books, you know but not much more." ~ Morrissey