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what is your favorite quote?

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the
moments that take our breath away.
george carlin
 
Along the same lines...


-Kids in back seats cause accidents.

-Accidents in back seats cause kids.
 
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Joseph Roux
:confused:
 
Mine are simple:

Do only to others as you would like them to do to you.

Live and let live.

This one is translated, but the foundation of Buddhism, "Think pure thoughts, Say only good things, do only good deeds; that is the greatest favor, blessing, and purification you can do for your soul.

This saying is engraved in my restaurant to remind me and my employees.
 
Warren Zevon

The man could turn a phrase. R.I.P

I agree. The man was something else.

"Love. You can't start it like a car. You can't stop it with a gun."
 
"When I, the People, learn to remember, when I, the People, use the lessons of yesterday and no longer forget who robbed me last year, who played me for a fool--then there will be no speaker in all the world say the name: 'The People,' with any fleck of a sneer in his voice or any far-off smile of derision.

"The mob--the crowd--the mass--will arrive then."


Carl Sandburg
 
:biggrin: awaken

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989)
 
'it's not the blowing of the wind, but the set of the sail" - jim rohn
 
Re: Racing quotes

Stole these from my other favorite forum:

A famous engine builder at the SCCA Runoffs said this after a young and very fast hotshoe launched his Formula Atlantic into the Mid-Ohio catch fencing damaging 6 fence poles:

"Well I guess he's the only guy with a chance at 7 poles this week."
Mario being interviewed after he beat Michael " I taught him everything he knows, just not everything I know"
"Which one of you sumbitches is gonna finish second?"
"Handles better than a cat on the carpet"
Racing: turning money into noise.
 
"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."
- Warren Buffett

"The Juice was Worth the Squeeze!"
 
This one is from elementry school, but still makes me laugh "Girls are like rocks, the flat ones are easier to skip." :biggrin: Fernbank Science Center 7th grade sex education class.
 
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
 
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