Favorite Quotes!!

[dargelos]

Queen Gertrude in Hamlet (Shakespeare)

"One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
So fast they follow"

Written four hundred years ago in anticipation of the year 2016

 

[W!nston]

 

[haiducii]

There is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky. And you ask "What if I fall?" Oh but my darling, what if you fly?

- Erin Hanson, a young writer from Australia

 

[Frasier]

"You’re gonna need a bigger boat,"

 

[trencherman]

"We’ll try to stay cynical, but it’ll be hard to keep up." Lily Tomlin

 

[trencherman]

Or, as Steven Keats says in The Friends of Eddie Coyle, "This life's hard, man, but it's harder if you're stupid."

 

[karlo2648]

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt....... Abraham Lincoln

 

[Shelter]

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt....... Abraham Lincoln

That should be made as guiding principle for a special GREAT politician. Politician?:thinking:

 

[Arctictwin]

Work hard; play harder.

 

[haiducii]

 

[sammyyummy]

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”​

 

[Shelter]

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”​

And the Statue of Liberty is crying just in this moment! Orwell's novel should be renamed in 2017!

 

[saManWikus]

"I don't know. [People] believe that it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I've found it is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love. Why [this child]? Perhaps it is because I am afraid, and he gives me courage."
- Gandalf, The Hobbit
Altered to reflect imagery sought by Tolkien in that children are the bravest of us all.

 

[Shelter]

"I don't know. [People] believe that it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I've found it is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love. Why [this child]? Perhaps it is because I am afraid, and he gives me courage."
- Gandalf, The Hobbit
Altered to reflect imagery sought by Tolkien in that children are the bravest of us all.

This is great!!!!! :thumbs up::thumbs up::thumbs up:

 

[Shelter]

"When I was a young boy, someone told me, each one could be President, slowly I'll start to believe it!"

Accredited to Mark Twain

 

[trencherman]

“Act in Haste, Repent at Leisure" would seem to have been almost custom-designed for the case of tattoos.” ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

 

[W!nston]

 

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