Favourite Quotes

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  1. calpol25 profile image60
    calpol25posted 14 years ago

    Post your favourite quote

    For me its: Life is for living and livings for life.

    1. mountainmama profile image59
      mountainmamaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I like this one-  "Life is not measured by the amount of breath's we take, but aboutthe moments that take our breath away."

      1. mountainmama profile image59
        mountainmamaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

        here is another great one! 
        "POLITICIANS & DIAPERS BOTH NEED TO BE CHANGED, AND FOR THE SAME REASON"

    2. shabarigirish profile image61
      shabarigirishposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Don't Go the Way Life takes you, Take the Life the Way you Go.

    3. John B Badd profile image60
      John B Baddposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin

  2. pddm67 profile image59
    pddm67posted 14 years ago

    From the great George Carlin:

    "Anyone who drives slower than me is an idiot and anyone who drives faster than me is just plain crazy."

    As a New Yorker, I totally relate and live by his words big_smile

    1. calpol25 profile image60
      calpol25posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Thats a good one lol

      1. pddm67 profile image59
        pddm67posted 14 years agoin reply to this

        big_smile

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    Denno66posted 14 years ago

    A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Winston Churchill

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    sophsposted 14 years ago

    There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all :-)

    1. calpol25 profile image60
      calpol25posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I love that quote very much my mum says it all the time xxxx smile

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        sophsposted 14 years agoin reply to this

        smile xoxo

  5. Rayalternately profile image59
    Rayalternatelyposted 14 years ago

    I speak Esperanto like a native.
    - Spike Milligan

    1. calpol25 profile image60
      calpol25posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      That one is good

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    theawwwbutmumposted 14 years ago

    I'm a quote addict so one is hard! - BUT -  currently feeling Michael Jordan!
    "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career.  I've lost almost 300 games.  26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed.  I've failed over and over and over again in my life.  And that is why I succeed."

    1. calpol25 profile image60
      calpol25posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I like that one too, I havent heard that one before. good one.

  7. ddsurfsca profile image71
    ddsurfscaposted 14 years ago

    Out of the mouths of babes comes wisdom.

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    khmohsinposted 14 years ago

    "Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it."

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    Ghost32posted 14 years ago

    "Live Free or Die"

    The New Hampshire state motto and also one half of the tattoo on my left forearm.  Below the banner that houses that motto is a very sharp copy of the cracked Liberty Bell.

  10. pooja0908 profile image60
    pooja0908posted 14 years ago

    Where there is a will there is a way

  11. Sanarya profile image59
    Sanaryaposted 14 years ago

    knowing what everyone knows is no knowelge. the real knowelge start the world begin...

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    logic,commonsenseposted 14 years ago

    If you are happy and you know it then your life will surely show it.

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    logic,commonsenseposted 14 years ago

    You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd, but you can be happy if you've a mind to!

  14. Friendlyword profile image59
    Friendlywordposted 14 years ago

    From Thunderdome;
    No matter where u go, there u are!

  15. samboiam profile image60
    samboiamposted 14 years ago

    Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
    Patrick Henry

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    LegendaryHeroposted 14 years ago

    None of you seem to understand, I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me!
    -Walter Kovacs/Rorschach

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    Twenty One Daysposted 14 years ago

    "sorry, your answer must be in the form of a question" - my former philosophy professor.

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    logic,commonsenseposted 14 years ago

    If the van is rocking, don't bother knocking!

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    logic,commonsenseposted 14 years ago

    Let go of my ears lady, I know what I'm doing down here!

  20. shoppingcartsplus profile image60
    shoppingcartsplusposted 14 years ago

    If you want to be remembered, borrow some money. If you want to be forgotten, lend some.

    1. earnestshub profile image73
      earnestshubposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      So true. smile

  21. blondepoet profile image72
    blondepoetposted 14 years ago

    'Sex relieves tension - love causes it'.

    1. profile image58
      logic,commonsenseposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      so what happens if you love to have sex?

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    logic,commonsenseposted 14 years ago

    i know a girl that lives down the hill, she won't do it but her sister will........

  23. ddsurfsca profile image71
    ddsurfscaposted 14 years ago

    To err is human, to forgive is divine

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    logic,commonsenseposted 14 years ago

    Harder, faster

  25. Preethi Anusha profile image69
    Preethi Anushaposted 14 years ago

    This one s a grt one by Gautam Buddha

    "A man who conquers himself is far more superior  than a king   who conquers the whole world ."

  26. defenestratethis profile image61
    defenestratethisposted 14 years ago

    "You were once wild here, dont let them tame you..."-(Isadaora Duncan)

  27. defenestratethis profile image61
    defenestratethisposted 14 years ago

    "There is no bigger fool than the man who knows everything."

  28. Hokey profile image61
    Hokeyposted 14 years ago

    The only way to possession is through dispossession

  29. earnestshub profile image73
    earnestshubposted 14 years ago

    What you think of me is none of my business.

  30. Hokey profile image61
    Hokeyposted 14 years ago

    To know what I know is to Know what I do not know

  31. Ohma profile image60
    Ohmaposted 14 years ago

    What part of NO don't you understand!

  32. Hokey profile image61
    Hokeyposted 14 years ago

    No means NO

  33. janejordan profile image71
    janejordanposted 14 years ago

    You are exactly where you're supposed to be.

  34. Hokey profile image61
    Hokeyposted 14 years ago

    blah blah blah     (unknown)

  35. Ohma profile image60
    Ohmaposted 14 years ago

    Some days you are a bird and somedays you are a statue!

  36. Alya rose profile image61
    Alya roseposted 14 years ago

    you are unique in all of the history of the world,there has never been anyone exactly like you.

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    zampanoposted 14 years ago

    an apple a day, keeps the doctor away

  38. dyonder profile image72
    dyonderposted 14 years ago

    Would you eat spaghetti with a skateboard?

  39. ddsurfsca profile image71
    ddsurfscaposted 14 years ago

    Can't we all just get along?

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    moonphlowerposted 14 years ago

    An apple a day keeps anyone away if thrown hard enough!

    lol

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    phoenix86posted 14 years ago

    I am getting a phoenix tattoo from my shoulder down to my elbow, i want some words to be wrote around my tattoo. Ive always liked the Ghandi quote, "learn as if you'll live forever, Live as though you'll die tomorrow" and will get it in latin. Do you think this quote relates to the phoenix?????!!!! I hope it does but im not sure?!

    1. rebekahELLE profile image85
      rebekahELLEposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      yes, I think it does. a beautiful quote. immortality, rebirth. it fits.

  42. rebekahELLE profile image85
    rebekahELLEposted 14 years ago

    I love quotes. hmm, here's one.

    what you seek is seeking you.

  43. Jayne Lancer profile image83
    Jayne Lancerposted 14 years ago

    'The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.'
    Joan Collins

  44. ddsurfsca profile image71
    ddsurfscaposted 14 years ago

    I might be fat, but you are ugly and I can go on a diet...

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    khmohsinposted 14 years ago

    William Osler - "We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."

  46. pisean282311 profile image62
    pisean282311posted 14 years ago

    get married , happiness is not only thing in the world...

  47. Origin profile image61
    Originposted 14 years ago

    "Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey - reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. After all, Number One, we're only mortal." - Picard

  48. Jayne Lancer profile image83
    Jayne Lancerposted 14 years ago

    'I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.'
    Winston Churchill

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    logic,commonsenseposted 14 years ago

    You can beat a dead horse, but you can't make him drink the Kool Aid!

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    kimberlyslyricsposted 14 years ago

    If you don't want to be a horse thief, stop stealing horses

 
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