Favorite Quotes, Sayings, Aphorisms to Share

[minervaspirit]

It's hard to come up with a most favorite quote but one of mine is from Wayne Gretzky, the NHL player.
He said:

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."        I try to think of this whenever I'm afraid to give something a try - whether in my art or personal life.

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[Delphyne]

If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it. -- Oscar Wilde

[momoney555]

I remember one quote I heard about what it feels like to become a parent and I later found it to be so true.

" Deciding to have a child is like deciding to take your heart and let it go walking around outside your body."

[ktheodos]

All these are good...thanks for sharing!

[minkatrozic]

I like your quotes. They are all so true and make perfect sense, Thanks for sharing them.

[Delphyne]

"But there is no bargain, for here, what is, is what must be."  ~~ The Black Rabbit, Watership Down

[Liquidfire_43]

“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”- By George Carlin.... A nice weird farewell saying that people will remember you

[donnitab]

The only person you need to better than is the person you were yesterday.

[Delphyne]

"Na einai kalitero anthropo apo ton patera tou."

"Be a better man than your father."

Paraphrased from Homer's Iliad.

[Delphyne]

"Go then, there are other worlds than these."  - Jake Chambers to the Gunslinger, in Stephen King's Gunslinger.

[tin8604]

I like good quotes.  I write them on my big desk calendar at work every month.

[Delphyne]

"We're so powerful," Norma said, "and so frail."

"Us?"

"Everybody.  Powerful."

"I don't think that's the way most people feel," Harry said.

"That's because they can't feel the connections.  They think they're alone.  In their heads.  In the world.  I hear them all the time.  Spirits come through, carryin' on about how alone they feel, how terribly alone."

From Clive Barker's Everville.

[mrisha]

Do unto Others as you wish others to do unto you.

Never judge a book by its cover.

Never think you are better because you have more money than others.  Money doesn't buy kindness , morals , scruples or integrity.

[momoney555]

Citing the difference between book knowledge and common sense or "street smarts"

"An education teaches you how to make a living but wisdom teaches you how to make a life"....

[Delphyne]

"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'yes' uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."  ~~ Gandhi


"The danger is that the automatism of progress will depersonalize man further and withdraw more and more of his self-responsibility."  ~~A. Speer