Quotes, quotes, quotes!

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Yep, this thread is all about quotes that you find, or one that you've come up with on your own! Post 'em here.
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"Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist." - David Ben-Gurion

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." - Judy Garland

"Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage." - Bart Starr

"The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me." - Wayne Gretzky

Two new ones from me:

Cry for me, and I will cry for you.

Hug me once..... cherish me forever.

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.” - Oscar Wilde

Science fiction is an existential metaphor. It allows us to tell stories about the human condition. Isaac Asimov once said...

"Work is the curse of the drinking class."

~Oscar Wilde

If you want something to quote, read Stray Birds, by Rabindranath Tagore. It is the single most awesomely quotable thing written. Gitanjali, same author, too.

"The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies." Stray Birds

"Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed." Gitanjali

"The price is wrong, b***h!" - Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore

"What's past is prologue." - William Shakespeare

"A word to the wise ain't necessary - its the stupid ones that need the advice" Bill Cosby
"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please" Mark Twain
"A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists" Don Marquis
"Don't let your mind wander; its too little to be let out alone" Unknown?
"Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly" Winston Churchill
"What would man be without women? Scarce sir... mighty scarce" Mark Twain
"Love your enemies. It makes them so damned mad" P.D East
"My doctor says that I have a malformed Public-Duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fiber, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes" Douglas Adams
"May those who love us love us
and those who do not loves us,
may God turn their hearts,
and if He cannot turn their hearts
may he turn their ankles,
that we may know them by their limping." Irish prayer, unknown?

Quotes are awesome!

I can't be sure who said this...

"A cynic is a person who when smelling flowers, looks around for a funeral."

Ambrose Bierce, maybe ??

Nope, from the Devil's Dictionary:

Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic’s eyes to improve his vision.

"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." The Princess Bride

"Talking about art is like dancing about architecture." David Bowie

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


Desiderata

Sunscreen Song

Here are a few interesting quotes from horrible people.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. - Joseph Stalin

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. - Joseph Stalin

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. - Mao Zedong.

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think. - Adolf Hitler

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed. -Adolf Hitler

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. - Vladimir Lenin


Why do I like quotes from awful people? Because everyone has something to teach you, even if that something is what you must never do.