Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[Connie Reader]

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[Becks19]

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
- Kahlil Gibran

[Haunted]

We could certainly slow the aging process down
if it had to work its way through Congress.
~Will Rogers

[blunthead]

We must use time creatively.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
- Nadia Boulanger

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
- Thomas Carlyle

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Too low they build who build below the skies.
- Edward Young

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
- Yogi Berra

[Becks19]

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
- Ernest Hemingway -

[Dav13Bh07]

Just want to say how much I love this thread !!!
Here are some of my favs

One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein

If you think you are too small too make a difference , try sleeping with a mosquito.
Dalai lama

Only those who will risk going too far will ever possibly know how far one can go.
T.S. Elliot

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther king jr.

The only thing necessary in the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
Edmund Burke

[randallFlaggfan1]

"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."

- Mahatma Gandhi

[blunthead]

I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.
- Virgil Thomson

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Thomas Fuller

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
- Robert Quillen

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
- Edouard Manet

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
- Don Herold

[J.T. Adams]

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

- William Shakespeare

[Ela]

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

- William Shakespeare

I needed to go to dictionary to understand the whole meaning of a 'fool' in order to get this quote's meaning. Sometimes it isn't easy to understand quotes.