Favorite quotations

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Do you have a favorite quotation or quotations?

Here is one of mine:

'It is never too late to be what you might have been."

---- George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans, 1819 – 1880, better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era).

Heard it on an episode of The Benny Hill Show- "Live every day as though it was your last-because one day you will be right" and "He who laughs when things go wrong-just thought of someone he can blame it on"

My signature, though it is paraphrased to fit.

I have several including the one on my sig

the other ones are
"anyone can turn the sun into a yellow dot, but it takes an artist to turn a yellow dot into a sun"-Picasso

You must be your own before you can be another's -Emerson

The past is just a memory, The future is just imagination. Life is just in the moment you are in. - Thich Knat Hanh

i have a bunch! here is a really great one:

“My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different from the other dads. “Why don’t you have a straight job like everyone else?” they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, “Look at me…I’m tall, and I’m straight, and I’m handsome. Look at you…you’re all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you.” And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, “Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest.” So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.”

Tom Waits

#1. Groovy Baby!

#2. My signature

#3. Save the Routemaster

#4. Maple Leaf Forever!

"I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for what I'm not" -Kurt Cobain (I believe) even though I'm not a huge Nirvana fan but I loved that quote!

"Great sex is great, but bad sex is like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich" -Billy Idol
"Punk isn't dead, it just smells really bad"-Billy Idol

"Never attribute to malice that which can be more easily attributed to sheer stupidity."
"The definition of stress: the mind overriding the body's desire to choke the living sh** out of some a**hole who deeply deserves it."
" It's unfair to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person."
" Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." --Dr. Seuss

Here's a few of my favorites:

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
Nikola Tesla

When people tell me I should be working harder I'm reminded of this:

If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.
Nikola Tesla

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein

I have dozens of others, but these are my top 3.

The quotes from Buffy the Vampire Slayer are hilarious and priceless, and also very moving and inspirational!