Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[Becks19]

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestions, the raw material of possible poems and histories.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Haunted]

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestions, the raw material of possible poems and histories.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson*

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

*that's us!! that's us!!

[DwayneHoover]

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes." Unknown addage

[blunthead]

Will Rogers vol 1...

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

[Haunted]

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
~Joseph P. Thompson

[blunthead]

Will Rogers vol 2...

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

[TBL]

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

[blunthead]

Will Rogers vol 3...

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

[Haunted]

"By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying."
— Dorothy Parker

[blunthead]

Stupid Quotes vol 1...

He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is. --Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regime of heavyweight Andrew Golota.

I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing, if the price is right. --Marlon Starling

Pitching is 80% of the game. The other half is hitting and fielding. --Mickey Rivers, baseball player

We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite. --Murray Walker, Sportscaster

That's just the tip of the ice cube. --Neil Hamilton, BBC2

Guys aren't able to get $15 or $20 million anymore, so you have to play for the love of the game. --Penny Hardaway, NBA Basketball Player

The FA are still optimistic about England's bid to stage the World Cup in twenty thousand and six. --Peter Snow, BBC2 anchorman

I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes. --Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh

I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to. --Shaquille O'Neal, basketball player, on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece.

I don't think we learned a lesson; I think it was a learning experience for us. --Shaquille O'Neal, basketball player, after game 4 of the 2001 NBA finals, on being asked by NBC reporter Jim Gray if LA had learned a lesson from what happened the previous year in Indiana.