What's your favourite quote?

knowledge88888

Anything from oscar wilde

Ghost Train

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone - Alan Watts


If you don't like where you are, move. You are not a tree - Jim Rohn


The most beautiful thing in the world, is of course, the world itself - Wallace Stephens & the movie Cast Away


Never ignore a person who cares for you. Because someday you'll realize you've lost a diamond, while you were busy collecting stones.


the thing with broken clocks is
you can always tell
exactly
when they stopped ticking

with people it isn't so easy
and sometimes
you can't even tell

they're broken.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Churchill's take on Communism.

"A philosphy of failure, the creed of ignorence and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."

enfant terrible

Shakespeare "He basically said something about how there are more things there than there are actual things that you can see with your eyes"

That's not the exact quote

housetypeb

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
- Hamlet

Baybay

No idea who said it but I've seen it attributed to John Lennon, amongst others & it was used in Slumdog Millionaire.

It'll be ok in the end. If it's not ok, it's not the end.

Found this surprisingly comforting at various times.

corner of hells

"No to foreign games"

Anto , 25th February 2007.

DEFTLEFTHAND

The last words of Eugene O'Neill.

"Born in a hotel room, and God Dammit died in a hotel room'

davo10

"I drink to make other people more interesting"

Ernest Hemingway

Malayalam

Surreptitious wrote: »

I quite like this one by Patrick Kavanagh.

'We have tested and tasted too much, lover –
Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder.'

One of my favourite lines in poetry, regularly reverberates through my head, a poem from school. Another line that does the same, and is extraordinarily hopeful somehow...the hidden glory within surprising places

''and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.'' (Gerard Manley Hopkins)

But anyways my favourite quote is a 'spiritual' one, from a 10th century Indian tantric called Tilopa. It is the most useful advice I have ever encountered and I try to practice it as often as possible. (Emphasis on try!)

''No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; Let it settle itself.''

This has been translated less succinctly as..
''Let go of what has passed.
Let go of what may come.
Let go of what is happening now.
Don’t try to figure anything out.
Don’t try to make anything happen.
Relax, right now, and rest.'' ~ Tilopa

Sam Hain

commuterbelt wrote: »

“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” ― Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is such a bellend.

arayess

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing" - Socrates

I'd never heard the socrates one but like this one of similar vein:


"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt" - betrand russell

shoegal1

Sure if they're not talking about you, they'll be talking about someone else....Me ma said this

rodders999

JFK quoting Shaw in the Dail is always one that stuck with me -


"George Bernard Shaw, speaking as an Irishman, summed up an approach to life: Other people, he said, "see things and... say: 'Why?' ... But I dream things that never were -and I say: 'Why not?'"

JimmyMcGill

I remember the cook in my boarding school stirring a huge pot of cabbage with her left foot on the kitchen floor when I was about 13.
She looked and saw me and said " that'll be grand for the lads".

Always stuck with me, "that'll be grand for the lads". She was right, they still ate it even when I told them there had been an old nuns hairy smelly foot stirring their cabbage. She wouldve made a great politician.

rodders999

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon allegedly.....

rodders999

The legend that is Mr. David Brent -

"Life is just a series of peaks and troughs, and you don't whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're coming down. And that's it, you know, you never know what's round the corner. But it's all good. "If you want the rainbow you've got to put up with the rain". Do you know which "philosopher" said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits."

jaffusmax

Harry Callahan: When a naked man is chasing a woman through a dark alley with a butcher knife and a hard on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.

jaffusmax

“Now remember, things look bad and it looks like you’re not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. ‘Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That’s just the way it is.” (The Outlaw Josey Wales)

rizzodun

Canis Lupus wrote: »

ROMANES EUNT DOMUS!!

Now, you know that's not right.

Write it out 100 times, correctly.

el_gaucho

rizzodun wrote: »

Now, you know that's not right.

Write it out 100 times, correctly.

“People called Romanes they go the house'?!"


“Know what you know and don’t know what you don’t know.”
Not sure of the origin, but I heard it from the Wiseman on MTV.

“If three people walk by, there must be one who can be my teacher.”
Confucius

the_pen_turner

Even the stupidest of thoughts from the dumbest if people can spark the most genius if ideas in the intelligent

Tiercel Dave

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king"

robbiezero

It is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles,
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly; who errs,
who comes short again and again,
because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
but who does actually strive to do the deeds;
who knows great enthusiasms,
the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst,
if he fails,
at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.


Teddy Roosevelt

Solomon Pleasant

“If you really want to grow trees, pray for rain but do not neglect to water your seeds”

It’s an extremely powerful message that I try to never forget.

Kyle More

'People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis, you can’t trust people'.

Jimbob1977

My milk shake brings all the boys to the yard,
And they're like,
Its better than yours,
Damn right its better than yours, 
I can teach you, 
But I have to charge

Ulysses Gaze

"I beleve the common demoninator of the universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder" - Werner Herzog

From the mind of that great modern philosopher, Adrian Mole:

"There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems."

"I have a problem. I am an intellectual, but at the same time I am not very clever."

"Just measured my thing. It has grown one centimetre. I might be needing it soon."

Have re-read a couple of the books lately, I'd forgotten how funny they were.

7 Seconds...

“Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worthwhile. So, when you are lonely remember it's true: somebody, somewhere is thinking of you.” - Atul Purohit