quotes

[AJWARPED]

hey

At my school we are expected to give quotes to go beside our pictures in the yearbook and I was wondering if you have any good quotes. Better if it's insperational or serious for my grade twelve one, any ideas, I'm stumped.

thanx

[bobbytheveg]

Douglas Adams:
Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with
the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

[bobbytheveg]

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one
wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde

"If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little
point in writing." - Kingsley Amis

"I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me." - Pooh

[bobbytheveg]

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
--Moliere

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
--Charles A. Beard

Don’t get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.
--Kathryn Carpenter

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
--Anna Freud

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
--Dr. Seuss

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
--W. C. Fields

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
--Elbert Hubbard

I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
--Mark Twain

"Not all who wander are lost."
--J.R.R Tolkein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
--Albert Einstein

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
--Oscar Wilde

[bobbytheveg]

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off
the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
--Mark Twain

(I try to live my life by that one)

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he
hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however
measured or far away."
-- Henry David Thoreau


I love quotes...those were some of my favorites, maybe you will like one...maybe not...either way it was nice to share.

[Head Mutant]

Too bad we don't list any quotes under the movies we review, otherwise you'd be set.

[jenfrazer]

I've used both these quotes, one on my college application, and the other in my college yearbook:

"Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas — only I don't exactly know what they are!"
— Alice, in "Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

Jen
(Not very profound, but meaningful to me.)

[PoolMan]

Head said:

Too bad we don't list any quotes under the movies we review, otherwise you'd be set.

I hate to use the dreaded acronym, but...

LOL!

Hahaha... this is why we feed him.

[ThePickleMan]

Did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
-William S. Gilbert

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
-Henry Ward Beecher

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
-Gandhi

[HeyCreepy]

I love Stephen Wright quotes.

- The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese

- All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand

- When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane

- Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now

- Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?

- Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it

- If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before

- I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize

- My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted

- It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it

- If you write the word "monkey" a million times, do you start to think you're Shakespeare?

- I went to San Francisco. I found someone's heart

- I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance


I have many more!!! I don't know if these help or inspire you, but they sure make me laugh.

[Lissa]

My current favorite is actually from Bruce Almighty.

"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes."

So true.

[DARTHMADLER]

"A pessimist is what an optomist calls a realist"

"An optomist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist worries that this is true."

"There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who divide people into two kinds and those who don't"

On a bathroom wall:
"God is dead" - Nietzsche (and underneath that:)
"Nietzsche is dead" - God

"In the beginnig God created the universe. This made a lot of people very angry and was considered a bad move." - Douglas Adams

"I spend too much time collecting quotes" - Me

[Kitsune]

"I cannot tell a lie."
George W. Bush

[AJWARPED]

thanx for all the great quotes. I'm sure that they will be usefull. and by the by I do realize the abudence of quotes found on MRFH, in fact it was by looking for quotes that I stumbled across this little site. so there. feel free to keep writing favorite quotes here.

[FiveMileSmile]

As anyone who has seen me on MSN Messenger over the last month will be able to attest to, this is one of my all time favourite quotes:

"I have of late, though where I know not, lost all my mirth, forsaken all practices, and indeed it goes so heavily with me that this goodly frame the earth seems nothing more than a sterile promentary. And this wonder of the air, this brave o'erhanging firmament fretted with golden fire? Why it seem naught to me but a foul and pestilential collection of vapours. What a peice of work is man; how noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable; in action how like an Angel; in apprehension how like a God. The wonder of the world, the paragon of animals; yet to me...what is this quintessence of dust?"

Quoted from memory, so I'm sure there are some inaccuracies in there. You'll get top kudos if you manage to get that next to your yearbook photo though.

- Rich
See also my sig below