Favorite Quotes?

**Like A Boxer** · 09-26-2008, 12:46 PM

I know a lot of you have quotes in your signatures but... I LOVE a good quote when I see one (or a few hundred..) Here are some of my faves!

"We live and die and anything else is just delusion." - from Choke by Chuck Palahniuk.

"We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are...Or we can decide for ourselves." - from Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown." - Chuck Palahniuk

"You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don't be an idiot. Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways." - Dr. House, 'Damned if You Do' from House M.D.

Nun: "Sister Augustine believes in things that aren't real."
House: "I thought that was a job requirement for you people." - 'Damned If You Do" from House M.D.

"You could throw a dart at all the adjectives between arrogant and unhinged and I'm sure you'd hit one that describes me." - 'Words & Deeds,' House M.D.

"People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all, and I fake them very well, that's my burden, I guess." - Dexter

I have loads more..but there's a start

**BlackandTans** · 09-26-2008, 01:01 PM

Good thread...

I have a couple that I can think of right now....

1. No points for Second Best. - Top Gun
2. Remember that no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Unkown
3. Life is short -Unknown
4. Ignorance is bliss - Cant remember who said this one
5. "You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My God, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!'" - Dave Barry
6."If your dog doesn't like someone you probably shouldn't either." - Unknown
7. "Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies." - Gene Hill

Ok that is a few....

**Jennifer01** · 09-26-2008, 01:02 PM

"People who think they know everything irritate those of us who do." -- I don't know where that is from.

"A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark." Chinese proverb

I have more too, but I just can't think of them.

Marvelgirldobe · 09-26-2008, 01:02 PM

Originality is the art of concealing your sources. -Ben Franklin

dillonsmom · 09-26-2008, 01:07 PM

MIne is

The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated.....Gandhi

miles · 09-26-2008, 01:11 PM

Ambition is the last resort of failure. By: Oscar Wilde

Good Better best never let it rest until your good is better and your better is your best. By Unknown.

Lexxsmom · 09-26-2008, 01:50 PM

" I'm a winner, I'm a sinner, do you want my autograph?" - Supertramp

" Either God doesn't exist or he is unimaginably cruel"- House

**dobermansrule** · 09-26-2008, 01:57 PM

"I had other priorities in the '60s than military service."
-Vice President Dick Cheney

A.J · 09-26-2008, 02:10 PM

here's a few of my favourites,

'Yes, Madam, I am drunk, but in the morning I shall be sober and you will still be ugly.' - Churchill

'You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind' - Irish saying

"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up." Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)

"Law and order in Ireland have given place to a bloody and brutal anarchy, in which the armed agents of the Crown violate every law in aimless and vindictive and insolent savagery." - General Sir Hubert Gough, Commander of the Fifth Army in France, after the use of the "Black and Tans" and the Auxilliaries in Ireland.

'We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English' Churchill

'Look at the dirt behind your ears!' - My Mother

KristenC · 09-26-2008, 02:49 PM

"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you." - Frank Lloyd Wright

"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
Frank Lloyd Wright