Favorite Quotations

bluffcityguy's Avatar
William Shatner to Leonard Nimoy, about Nimoy's appearance in the 2009 Star Trek reboot film:

"You know you're old when you go back in time and you're still old."

Cheers,

bcg
  • MrGiz
  • 09-22-2018, 07:50 PM
>> "What is is plenty, but more is never enough.” <<

- Marty Rubin
g0lfnutt's Avatar
Well my favorite movie quote is in my signature but my favorite quote from the real world is probably this one- “Humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less.” CS Lewis
Merlin012's Avatar
"The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
WB Yeats,The Second Coming
Merlin012's Avatar
“They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.”
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
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“And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
― Salman Rushdie

“A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. C.S. Lewis
"You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life."


-- Sir Winston Churchill
"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours"


- Richard Bach

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. Richard Bach
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/richard_bach_103617
"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!"



- Walter Scott
"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!"



- Walter Scott Originally Posted by SpankyJ
A very timely quotation.
"King Kong ain't got shit on me! Man that guy can act 1 of my favs
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."

Stephen King, The Shining
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."

Stephen King, The Shining Originally Posted by arealone
FWIW PER WIKI

Though the spirit of the proverb had been expressed previously, the modern saying appeared first in James Howell's Proverbs in English, Italian, French and Spanish (1659),[1