What are your three favorate quotes?

Here are mine:

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Emerson

I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which he is totally unfit.Cannot we let people be themselves and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough. Emerson

Strike The Root

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Thoreau

“The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world.” - Harry S. Truman

“The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world
of nuclear giants and ethical infants.” - Gen. Omar Bradley

"These are the conclusions upon which my facts are based." - Adlai Stevenson

Had to add this one:

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." - Mark Twain

"don't allow the limitations of others to limit you"

my Mom

They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security. Benjamin Frankin

"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-- Benjamin Franklin

General Eisenhower said:

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better
than not to think at all. To teach superstitions as truth is a most
terrible thing."
-Hypatia, Librarian of Alexandria (circa 400 AD)


"You can never change things by resisting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model
that makes the old model obsolete." -Buckminster Fuller

Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us
get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation." -- Johnny Hart

and Statistics." (Mark Twain) -- very useful at deflating "management by objectives" types.

"This is our time." President Bill Clinton, January 20, 1993.

"I think that's some kind of a preevert uniform. I think you're in there planning some sort of rebellion of the preeverts. . . . And if you don't get the President of the United States on that telephone, you'll have to answer to the Coca Cola Company." (Major Bat Guano (played by Keenan Wynn) to Group Captain Mandrake (played by Peter Sellers), in "Dr. Strangelove.")

This too, will pass.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. (Or something like that.)

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

- Isaac Asimov

"They've lost the initiative, which means they've lost the war."

- Frank Herbert

"If he is there, it will be because he is anxious that we should attack him -- a good reason in my judgment for not doing so."

- Gen. James Longstreet

"Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and in our world. Politics is about doing well for people."

"We should never seperate the lives we live from the words we speak."

"I'm short, I'm Jewish, and I'm a liberal!"

among three very different quotes that reflected many aspects of my beliefs.

This is the one I finally chose, since I felt it was closest to my heart:

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
Mahatma Gandhi

The other one I liked was by Lincoln:

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."
Abraham Lincoln

And I also loved this one by Teddy Roosevelt:

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
Theodore Roosevelt

I like yours, as well.:-)

"I don't hate people, I just seem to feel better when they aren't around"- Bukowski

""Today, a young man on acid realised that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with The weather." - Bill Hicks

"The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question, is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey - don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride..." And we... kill those people."

"We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real." Just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter because: It's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defences each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace."- Bill Hicks

... the less intelligent you are. -- Repo Man

Art is a luxury for which the artist pays --- Journey to the End of the Night

I put my eyes on a diet, my tears are gaining too much weight --- Bob Kaufman

"There is no more important duty one has than the duty to be happy."

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it." Yogi Berra

Practically anything Will Rogers ever said. He is one of my all-time favorites.


Funniest and true quote? Look at my sig line below.

One from Harry:

"If you want to live like a Republican, you'd better vote for the Democrats."

...and two from Bill:

"If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit."

"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America."

"I don't trust a man unless I have his pecker in my pocket." Lyndon Baines Johnson

"I think, therefore I am. But I'm pink, therefore I'm SPAM." Who knows

"Our hopes that one day we'll be able to communicate with dolphins.....our fears that they will cuss like sailors." Jack Handy

Also...

"America is just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable." - Hunter S Thompson

"Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has." - William S Burroughs

(that's for right now. It will be different tomorrow, probably. Or later today. I have too many favourites to limit them to some arbitrary number.)

"When Adam ate the apple in the Garden and learned how to multiply and replenish, the other animals learned the Art, too, by watching Adam. It was cunning of them, it was neat; for they got all that was worth having out of the apple without tasting it and afflicting themselves with the disastrous Moral Sense, the parent of all the immoralities.
- Letters from the Earth