Please share a favorite quote, saying, proverb...

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

"Your society values people by how much you have. Ours by how much we give away."

[Cirque du So-What]

1. John Kenneth Galbraith

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

[Flo Mingo]

2. Irish Proverb

May those who love us, love us
And those that don't, may God turn their hearts
And if He can't turn their hearts
May he turn their ankles so we'll know them by their limping.

[chia]

3. "You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do."

--Olin Miller

(Often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt)

[wryter2000]

4. Elwood P. Dowd

"In this life, you must be oh-so-clever or oh-so-pleasant. Well, I tried clever. I recommend pleasant."

May not be an exact quote.

[empedocles]

5. 'This time like any other, is a good time, if we know what to do with it' - R.W. Emerson

[ on my desk wall I modify that to my need, ' . . . if I can figure out what to do with it.'

[empedocles]

7. 'This too shall pass'

[widely quoted from King James bible, through Abe Lincoln, to Ann Landers, . . . ]

[DemoTex]

6. "It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks."

Acts 9:5 (KJV)

[empedocles]

9. [Had to look it up], KJV, new King James version

[MyOwnPeace]

8. Heard this once on an OLD TV show

starring Ben Gazzara - "Run For Your Life"............. (really rather apt for these days!)

"With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."

........William Lloyd Garrison

[LakeArenal]

10. Dylan:

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment I could be you
Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is to see you

[Arkansas Granny]

11. My maternal grandmother.

"Live and learn. Some people only live."

I don't know if that quote is original to her, but good advice, nonetheless.

[The Magistrate]

12. Kenneth Roberts

"They call war an art, but it's not. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends, and that's not art: That's business."

[yonder]

16. #1. A winner.

[Duncan Grant]

32. Thanks -- that's a keeper! (nt)

[RGinNJ]

13. NSFW but,

Fuck you, you fucking fuck.

[Laelth]

14. "I am not a member of any organized political party."

“I am a Democrat.”

- Will Rogers



-Laelth

[Different Drummer]

33. I'll throw in another Will Rogers quote I've always liked -- and believed.

The image of it below is my Twitter background photo.

[Laelth]

38. +1 n/t

-Laelth

[DBoon]

15. Two from the economist Keynes

"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."

"In the long run we are all dead."

[ItsjustMe]

17. World's Greatest Dad

I used to think the worst thing In life was to end up all alone, It's not. The worst thing In life Is ending up with people who make you feel all alone. - Robin Williams - From the film “World’s Greatest Dad”

[Laelth]

19. +1 n/t

-Laelth

[donkeypoofed]

18. "I can't make everybody happy; I'm not coffee"

[malchickiwick]

20. "Don't believe everything you read on the internet." -- Abraham Lincoln

More seriously: "The one thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history" -- W.F. Hegel

[SKKY]

21. Oscar Wilde

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars".

[IcyPeas]

40. I always thought that was a line from The Pretenders (Chrissie Hynde)

Message of Love song.

[SKKY]

46. It may very well be, but I know it from Wilde's...

....Lady Windermere's Fan.

[Glorfindel]

22. "A promise made is a debt unpaid"

Robert Service, The Cremation of Sam McGee

[Martin Eden]

23. Never argue with stupid people ...

... they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
- Mark Twain

[UTUSN]

24. This was a poster hanging on lots of walls of early '70s post-Hippies:

[SharonClark]

25. LOL! Mostly posted by lazy room/housemates

who didn't want to do their share of the dishes or take out the garbage.

[UTUSN]

27. I guess there's nothing left to say but this:

[Different Drummer]

35. Love that!

It expresses my views entirely. I was alive in 1969, so I can't understand why this is my first time seeing this.

[UTUSN]

36. It's handy for shutting down Flamers, but they mostly don't stop!1

[SharonClark]

26. If If there are no dogs in heaven,

then when I die I want to go where they went.

- Will Rogers

[quaint]

28. Edward Lear

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.

[marked50]

29. The man quoted is somewhat questionable in his politics but it is still pertinent

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”― Edmund Burke

[quaint]

31. John F. Kennedy? Edmund Burke? R. Murray Hyslop? Charles F. Aked? John Stuart Mill?

Quote Investigator

[marked50]

37. Sorry, I wasn't clear. I was referring to my selection in the

added text not to the OP's quote. My mistake.

[quaint]

39. Me, too.

[marked50]

42. Got it. Should of Clicked on your link. n/t

[demigoddess]

30. "Never Assume"

military brats motto, I usually want to say "Never Assume, it is a sign of stupidity"

[ailsagirl]

34. Three I can think of off the top of my head

Living well is the best revenge

Nobody has ever gone broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people

Lord, what fools these mortals be

[IcyPeas]

41. Alan Watts (I think)

Saying "let me help you out of the pond before you drown", the kindly monkey put the goldfish safely up the tree.

[July]

43. John Kenneth Galbraith:

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior justification for selfishness.”

[littlemissmartypants]

44. All great changes are preceeded by chaos. nt

[bluecollar2]

45. British Airways Pilot is alleged to have come up with

"Using the checklist is statistically safer than thinking"

My other phrase is "Quality is not an accident but the result of intelligent effort"

I don't recall who came up with that one.

Both of those were my go tos as an aircraft mechanic and inspector for almost 35 years.