What's your favorite quote?

Quotes are used everywhere these days. I am just curious as to what are some of people's favorite quotes and why they are favorites. Is it that it inspired you in some way or that it was just really oppropiate to your life at the time ?

Oh, the last line is ...When He Quits"

I also really like, "Things Fall Apart"

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"The word 'now' is like a bomb through the window.,, and it ticks."
-Arthur Miller

Ok I have two fave quotes, not sure who said them or where they came from but I like them...

1st "good friends are always there to bail you out of jail, best friends are sat there next to you saying THAT WAS FUCKIN AWSOME!!!"

2nd "I may not go down in history, but I’ll go down on your little sister"

"Yo she bitch, Come get some" -Ash

Sometimes bad new is brought by good friends that have the best of intentions...

well its kinda says it even though your firneds may have bad news, and it may hurt its often ment in the best of ways... with your betterment in mind...

'To have heard an echo, ragardless of wether the eyes are opne or closed, is to already have 'seen' a sizeable space'

- Mark Z. Danielewski


Comes from a bloody mad book... but a good one none the less

We dont make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents. We want happy, happy paintings. If you want sad things, watch the news. Everything is possible here. This is your little universe.
-Bob Ross

"Sumus quod sumus."
We are what we are.

and

"Work is hard and stealing's no good."
I can't remember where I heard it, just that when I did it was in french. I've also forgotten how it was said in french, though I guess it is something along the lines of "Le travail est dur et le vol n'est aucun bon."

I've also always had a liking for "I'll bet those golden tickets make the chocolate taste terrible" by, of course, Charlie Bucket.

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"I am all the day with my cock up"

I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains. Holden Caulfield, Catcher in the Rye

His name is Ron Silver. Like me, a
former astronaut, but also a gifted
actor...and a cold blooded killer.

"the important thing is to not stop questioning." ~ Albert Einstein

I like this one because I hate it when people just believe what others tell them to believe. We all need to think for ourselves.

"Before you've finished your breakfast this morning, you'll have relied on half the world." - MLK Jr.

"Christie, get down on your knees, so Sabrina can see your
asshole."

Bateman, American Psycho

"Le coeur connait les raisons, qui la raison ne connait pas." Blaise Pascal

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." George Eliott

Not a quote, but definitely the best correspondence ever:

June 25, 1745


MY DEAR FRIEND:-

I know of no Medicine fit to diminish the violent natural inclination you mention; and if I did, I think I should not communicate it to you. Marriage is the proper Remedy. It is the most natural State of Man, and therefore the State in which you will find solid Happiness. Your Reason against entering into it at present appears to be not well founded. The Circumstantial Advantages you have in View by Postponing it, are not only uncertain, but they are small in comparison with the Thing itself, the being married and settled. It is the Man and Woman united that makes the complete Being. Separate she wants his force of Body and Strength of Reason; he her Softness, Sensibility and acute Discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the World. A single Man has not nearly the Value he would have in that State of Union. He is an incomplete Animal. He resembles the odd Half of a Pair of Scissors.

If you get a prudent, healthy wife, your Industry in your Profession, with her good Economy, will be a Fortune sufficient.

But if you will not take this Counsel, and persist in thinking that Commerce with the Sex is inevitable, then I repeat my former Advice that in your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. This you call a Paradox, and demand my reasons. They are these:

1. Because they have more Knowledge of the world, and their Minds are better stored with Observations; their conversation is more improving, and more lastingly agreeable.

2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Man, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do a thousand Services, small and great, and are the most tender and useful of Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence there is hardly such a thing to be found as an Old Woman who is not a good Woman.

3. Because there is no hazard of children, which irregularly produced may be attended with much inconvenience.

4. Because through more Experience they are more prudent and discreet in conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion. The Commerce with them is therefore safer with regard to your reputation; and regard to theirs, if the Affair should happen to be known, considerate People might be inclined to excuse an old Woman, who would kindly take care of a young Man, form his manners by her good Councils, and prevent his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Prostitutes.

5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part. The Face first grows lank and Wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old one from a young one. And as in the Dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of Corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal and frequently superior; every Knack being by Practice capable by improvement.

6. Because the sin is less. The Debauching of a Virgin may be her Ruin, and make her Life unhappy.

7. Because the Compunction is less. The having made a young Girl miserable may give you frequent bitter Reflections; none of which can attend making an old Woman happy.

8. 8th & lastly. They are so grateful!!!

Thus much for my Paradox. But still I advise you to marry immediately; being sincerely

Your Affectionate Friend,

Benj. Franklin

“So we bore on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The sleeper has awakened! " - dune

"I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours. " Bob Dylan

Hell is other people - Jean-Paul Sartre

I don't know if it can be called a quote anymore...I paraphrased to fit my need, but the idea is still there

"Only through trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened,
ambition inspired
and success achieved."

-Helen Keller

Well I've just fallen in love with Aeon Flux so I'm going to go with this piece of dialogue from the opening credits:

"Your skating the edge."

"I am the edge."

"Bad artists copy. Great artists steal." (Picasso)

only the most naive artists pretend that imitation is not at the core of their activity, but the best ones go beyond to the source of their vision

"It is no sign of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Krishnamurti

"Like Adam we name our beasts, but not well, and we find they do not come when called." - Jeanette Winterson