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RE: Famous quotes worth living by - 6/5/2008 2:28:05 PM

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"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others."

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RE: Famous quotes worth living by - 6/5/2008 3:20:31 PM

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Prepare to fail; fail to prepare.

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RE: Famous quotes worth living by - 6/5/2008 7:46:10 PM

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To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to share it with.
Mark Twain

As a man grows wiser he talks less and says more.
Euripides

Without a hurt the heart is hollow.
T. Jones

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RE: Famous quotes worth living by - 6/5/2008 7:47:59 PM

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love your enemies, it'll drive 'em nuts .....

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RE: Famous quotes worth living by - 6/5/2008 8:08:29 PM

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"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a certain relief denied even to prayer" - Mark Twain

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RE: Famous quotes worth living by - 6/5/2008 11:03:56 PM

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Mark Twain is one of the kings of witty quotes...

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

When in doubt tell the truth.

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RE: Famous quotes worth living by - 6/5/2008 11:08:12 PM

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Two great quotes from two great generals

"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning."
-Erwin Rommel

"If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking."
-George S. Patton

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RE: Famous quotes worth living by - 6/6/2008 8:32:43 AM

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RE: Famous quotes worth living by - 6/6/2008 3:26:43 PM

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quote:

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Mark Twain is one of the kings of witty quotes...

He was a true wordsmith.

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RE: Famous quotes worth living by - 6/6/2008 3:44:13 PM

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RE: Famous quotes worth living by - 6/6/2008 4:02:02 PM

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RE: Famous quotes worth living by - 6/6/2008 6:27:03 PM

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I wanted to teach you - oh,
everything the earth is full of.
Everything on it that's ours for
a wink and then gone, and, what
we are on it. The light we bring
to it and leave behind us ... words.
Why, you can see five thousand years
back in a light of words. Everything
we feel, think, know and share in words.
So, not a soul is in darkness, or done
with, even in the grave.
And, I know, I know, that one word
will put the world in your hands ...
And whatever it is to me,
I won't take less.

Ann Sullivan, Act III
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RE: Famous quotes worth living by - 6/6/2008 7:17:42 PM

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RE: Famous quotes worth living by - 6/6/2008 9:00:14 PM

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quote:

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Ever read or hear something that just strikes home and you find yourself jotting it down so you never forget it?

The 'signature' at the bottom of my posts was stated by a college English professor. Jotted it in my notebook and have never forgotten it.

Share your favorite quotations here. Doesn't have to be from Albert Einstein or Aristotle. Can be from anyone.

An example to start that seems appropriate here...

"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
Elbert Hubbard

Excellent post!

My favorite:

When approached by a reporter from the national newspaper at the time (The Saturday Evening Post)...the USA Today of it's time, P T Barnum was asked "Mr Barnum...does it bother you to be packaged with pickpockets and streetwalkers in the news? It's often said you hire people to leaden the milkbottles in the baseball toss...that the bearded lady is nothing more than a man who shaves one side....and that you mislead people from one end of the gantry to the other?"....

And he said....

"Madame, it matters not a whit to me what they say, why they say it, to whom, or under what circumstances.....

So long as they spell my name correctly".

(I love that man

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RE: Famous quotes worth living by - 6/6/2008 9:35:45 PM

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"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints." Billy Joel

"Religion is a source of strength in a world torn apart by religion." Jon Stewart,, The Daily Show

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RE: Famous quotes worth living by - 6/6/2008 9:47:34 PM

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my grandmother... use to tell us kids all the time ..... Yours is not to ask why ... Yours is just to do or die..... always made us stop asking questions...

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RE: Famous quotes worth living by - 6/6/2008 11:14:09 PM

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RE: Famous quotes worth living by - 6/6/2008 11:17:22 PM

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Live by the foma that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.

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RE: Famous quotes worth living by - 6/7/2008 12:01:11 AM

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Ok, this is a poem, slightly a little off track, but i started this, so i'm invoking OP creative license. It's a gem.

Flight

Like a glum cricket
the refrigerator is singing
and just as i am convinced

that it is the only noise
in the building, a pot falls
in 2B. The neighbors on

both sides of me suddenly
realize they have not
made love to their wives

since 1987. The racket
multiplies. The man down the hall
is teaching his dog to fly.

The fish are disgusted
and beat their heads blue
against a cold aquarium. I too

lose control and consider
the dust huddled in the corner
a threat to my endurance.

Were you here, we would not
tolerate mongrels in the air,
nor the conspiracies of dust.

We would drive all night,
your head tilted on my shoulder.
At dawn, i would nudge you

with my anxious fingers and say,
Already we are in Idaho.

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RE: Famous quotes worth living by - 6/7/2008 12:19:41 AM

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my grandmother... use to tell us kids all the time ..... Yours is not to ask why ... Yours is just to do or die..... always made us stop asking questions...

angelicbitch,

I remember an English teacher say this to a group of us in high school.
I immediately spoke up. "You know what happened to those guys,
don't you?" I still remember the stunned look on her face. She could
not make up her mind whether to be angry I had been a smart ass or
to congratulate me for knowing the poem.

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