What is your favorite quote? And why?

[whereismymind]

"My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night
But oh my foes and oh my friends
It gives a lovely light."

I'm not sure where this originated, but it was quoted in a funny play that I was in, and I've always remembered it. Oh, the play was called Dear Ruth.

The quote is originally by Edna St. Vincent Millay

[Ulalle]

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



not sure who the human was beside the fact that he was french but i like the double entendre

[Cassiopeia]

Now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (St. Paul)

Oooo, that's Corinthians 13:13, one of my favorite verses.

I have quite a few...

" I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." - Agatha Christie

" I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind." - Emily Bronte

" Always there remains portions of our hearts into which no one is able to enter, invite them as we may." - Mary Dixon Thayer

And here are ones I cannot remember the author of...

" Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."

" Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

[mono]

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."

William Congreve wrote this one in The Mourning Bride.

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

And the admirable and witty Oscar Wilde wrote this one.

[Punc Rock On]

"Many men have thus a secret monster, a disease which thye feed, a dragon which gnaws them, a despair which inhabits their night. Such a man resmebles other poeple, goes, comes. Nobody knows that he has within him a fearful parasitic pain, with a thousand teeth, which lives in the miserable man, who is dying of it." ~Victor Hugo

"Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad." ~Jacob August Rus

"But as for me, I will trust in You." ~Psalm 55 (last verse, don't have my Bible handy)

"I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details." ~Albert Einstein

That's all for now!

PS--Hey guys, I'm new. Nice to meet ya.

[lukkiseven]

"In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - Oscar Wilde

[richardIII]

"Are we not here now", said the colonel, striking his stick to the floor, "And are we not", dropping his head upon the ground, "gone in a moment?"
Tristram Shandy
One of the most powerful quotations I've ever heard. Don't know any better about vanitas (lots of them are to pathetic, what is of course my personal oponion).
Greets

[Stanislaw]

And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. - Hebrews 9:22

[Helga]

Fashion is just another form of uglyness. And it is so ugly, it has to be changed every 6 months. -Oscar Wilde

[atiguhya padma]

Richard III,

Great quote from a brilliant novel. Welcome to the forum.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes. --Proust

[Monica]

Work like you don't need money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no-one is watching.

I wanted to play guitar very badly and I DO play guitar very badly.


Both by Paul Hewson (a.k.a. Bono )

[mono]

I cannot claim the below as my all-time favorite quote, but I read it today, and found it rather witty, and worth sharing.

There'll be two dates on your tombstone,
And all your friends will read 'em;
But all that's gonna matter
Is that little dash between 'em.

Kevin Welch

[Taliesin]

Two more:

"The most violent religion is stupidity"
"In time, the length of all ways is equal"

[Adelheid]

And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. - Hebrews 9:22

Another translation says, (just to make it clearer):

"By the law, without shedding of Blood, is no remission of sin." Hebrews 9:22

That's why you need the Blood of Jesus to cleanse you from your sins. soap can't...water can't...detergent can't...only the blood of Jesus can.

(Before Jesus came, people offered sacrifices, and used a scapegoat.)

[Punc Rock On]

That's the beautiful thing about life, Adelheid. It's what keeps me (and many, many others) going.

And, to add a quote from Abraham Lincoln, "I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day."