Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[Noods]

.....we call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember.........From Duma Key.
I liked it so much I put it on my Facebook Profile! LOL

[Noods]

another of my all time favorite quotes (non SK) is as follows:

"Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming".

[castlelady]

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."-J.R.R. Tolkien
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."-Edgar Allen Poe
"War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you"-Ted Nugent

[Haunted]

When Fear comes knocking on the door
Let Faith answer.

[themadone06]

"Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

[kingricefan]

I have a postcard of a picture of an older Bette Davis taken by Roddy McDowell. In it she is seated in a chair holding up a pillow on which is stitched "Old age ain't no place for sissies." This has become my mantra now!!

[Sigmund]

"No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee."
John Donne

[Tery]

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~ Berthold Auerbach

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. ~Jim Rohn

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. ~Leo Aikman

Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. ~ Colonel Potter, M*A*S*H

and one of my favorites....

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. ~Elbert Hubbard

[Haunted]

> 'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to
> our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow
> private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by
> deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people
> of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers
> conquered.'
Thomas Jefferson-- 1802

[AngelZ]

Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs,
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes,
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet. -- Romeo from Romeo and Juliet