Does anyone have a favorite quote?

whskyfan · Post by **whskyfan** » 07-04-2006 07:16 AM

Does anyone have a favorite quote they would like to share? I see them as signatures here, but if you're like me you have several. Here is one to get us going.

'Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

Mark Twain

SETIsLady · Post by **SETIsLady** » 07-04-2006 09:39 AM

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I have several but this I think is my favorite.

Bellisima · Post by **Bellisima** » 07-04-2006 10:55 AM

My favorite quote is basically the same, no matter how, when or by whom it is expressed.

"Love your neighbor as yourself" - Moses (ca. 1525-1405 BCE) in the Torah, Leviticus

"Hurt no one so that no one may hurt you" — Muhammad, The Farewell Sermon.

"What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others." -Confucius (ca. 551–479 BCE)

"What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man." - Hillel (ca. 50 BCE-10 CE)

"Do to others as you would have them do to you." - Jesus (ca. 5 BCE—33 CE) in the Gospels, Luke

SETIsLady · Post by **SETIsLady** » 07-04-2006 10:59 AM

and beautiful quotes they are Bell

Dynja · Post by **Dynja** » 07-04-2006 11:21 AM

"No good deed goes unpunished."

Anonymus

There is no truer quote.

moonchild2 · Post by **moonchild2** » 07-04-2006 11:34 AM

"A stitch in time, saves nine".

Jon-Marcus · Post by **Jon-Marcus** » 07-04-2006 11:52 AM

Only one of several.

" He who fights with monsters might take care,
lest he thereby become a monster.
And if you gaze for too long into an abyss,
The abyss gazes also into you. "
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche, Beyond Good and Evil

spaceprophet · Post by **spaceprophet** » 07-04-2006 12:11 PM

I believe that like sunshine and great sex, no day is bad that has barbecue in it. - Jason Sheehan

moonchild2 · Post by **moonchild2** » 07-04-2006 02:51 PM

spaceprophet wrote: I believe that like sunshine and great sex, no day is bad that has barbecue in it. - Jason Sheehan

Very cool! I like that one.

Dale O Sea · Post by **Dale O Sea** » 07-04-2006 03:22 PM

Just about anything said by Jefferson. (see my sig)

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. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.

Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

I cannot live without books.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

Health is worth more than learning.

If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

whskyfan · Post by **whskyfan** » 07-04-2006 03:27 PM

Thomas Jefferson, a great man.

Hope you don't mind if I borrow those.

moonchild2 · Post by **moonchild2** » 07-04-2006 03:29 PM

Dale, how appropriate for today, quotes by Jefferson.

Shirleypal · Post by **Shirleypal** » 07-04-2006 03:59 PM

The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always,
in every case without exception, consistent with the broadest
good of humanity at large.

Gandhi

Dale O Sea · Post by **Dale O Sea** » 07-04-2006 04:57 PM

Originally posted by Shirleypal
The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always,
in every case without exception, consistent with the broadest
good of humanity at large.

Gandhi

That's unAmerican!

:D

SETIsLady · Post by **SETIsLady** » 07-04-2006 05:39 PM

Dale, excellent choice