What Is Your Favourite Quote?

[Spoonboy]

What is your favourite quote, or one you live by? Mine, a little biassed I suppose, is two of my own in third book I am currently writing: historic fiction set in the wake of Trajan's Roman Britain.

"Seldom is praise given due", and "Through the eyes of the oppresssed, the proclivities of the oppressor endure".

What is yours, and thanks in advance.

[Sipowicz]

The pen is mightier than the sword.......but no match for the gun!

[ChillDoubt]

...but I also like this one:

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

[Traci66]

Kiki, I really can't remember, I heard it years ago and it stuck with me.

[emmie]

you can lead a *** to culture, but you can't make her think....

Dorothy Parker..

[Traci66]

Just googled, it was George Bernard Shaw.

[emmie]

that bleeped out w h o r e, absurd...

[Kiki-frog]

Cheers, Traci, I thought it had to be someone like Shaw. Will trot it out next time someone's boring the pants off me!

[baza]

Keep your friends close
And your enemies closer!

[Pooka1950]

..“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust"
Lawrence Krauss

[The Builder]

Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful,
Nooses give,
Gas smells awful.
You might as well live.

............ Dorothy Parker

[Pooka1950]

I also like "We must face tomorrow, whatever it may hold, with determination, joy and bravery -- "

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)

[carrust]

A saying you'll never here a Yorkshireman utter;"It's my round"! :-)

[j0nb0y]

.....Virtue never tested......... is no virtue at all.....!!!

[doctordb]

When the wise man cannot have what he wants the wiseman learns to want what he has.

Epicurus.

[DTCwordfan]

Just remember Colleen McCullough' words, spoonboy, "My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth."

[Sharingan]

The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese :)

[chrisgel]

The chicken supports breakfast the pig is committed to it.

[silka]

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane Austen

[Spoonboy]

I wish I could give everyone who replied this post best answer, you all deserve the award. It is strange, though: when I was on yahoo, I asked this same question and got reported for causing offence and/or chatting. I suppose one could say on The Answer Bank, and quoting a song title by Enigma, that Silence Must Be Heard, if at times (the latter is my part, btw). Thank you all again for replying. A big thumbs-up to you all.

[pdust]

mines ... ak47, when you absolutely positively gotta kill every (bleepbleepbleep) in the room....

from pulp fiction i think lol