Your favourite quotes?

[Nightbow]

I have an assignment of making a 10–20 second video and I want to hear your favourite quotes. They can be funny, profound, or whatever! Please share.

[kellyponyfeathers]

Time glides in secret, and his wings deceive
Nothing is swifter than the years.
--Ovid, Metamorphosis


Life's like a movie; write your own ending.
--Kermit the Frog, The Muppet Movie

[MoondancerMilkyWay]

oh goodness. I could be here all day.

“It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul — it is kindness" (Henri-Dominique Lacordaire)

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."
James Branch Cabell

""I am a hero. It is a trade, no more, like weaving or brewing, and like them it has its own tricks and knacks and small arts. There are ways of perceiving witches, and knowing of poison streams; there are certain weak spots that all dragons tend to have, and certain riddles that hooded strangers tend to set you. But the true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot already be wed to the princess when he embarks on his adventures, nor can the boy knock on the witch's door when she is already away on vacation. The wicked uncle cannot be found out and foiled before he does something wicked. Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story." Prince Lir

"There are no happy endings, because nothing ends." Schmendrick
- Peter S. Beagle

"It's a rare man who is taken for what he truly is...We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream."
(Are you happy, magician?) "Men don't always know when they are happy; but, I think so."

"I know you. If I were blind I would know what you are."

"It's a rare man who is taken for what he truly is … There is much misjudgment in the world. … We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream."

"She is a woman, Your Highness, and that's riddle enough."

"If I do not return, think of me. Farewell."

"Remember what I told you about time," it said. "When I was alive, I believed — as you do — that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said 'one o'clock' as though I could see it, and 'Monday' as though I could find it on the map; and I let myself be hurried along from minute to minute, day to day, year to year, as though I were actually moving from one place to another. Like everyone else, I lived in a house bricked up with seconds and minutes, weekends and New Year's Days, and I never went outside until I died, because there was no other door. Now I know that I could've walked through the walls.""

"I did not know that I was so empty, to be so full."

"As for you and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all, when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits."

"Your true task has just begun, and you may not know in your life if you have succeeded in it, but only if you fail."

"Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart.  I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name!"

"No sorrow will live in my heart as long as that joy — save one, and I thank you for that, too."

"I do not think that I will ever see you again, but I will try to do what would please you if you knew....""

^^^the above are all quotes from The Last Unicorn. I LOVE that book SO MUCH!!! *swoon*

"you do not get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate."

"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
- Emerson

I will have many, many more by the end of the day. if you'd like them. I live for literature...

[ladybastilla]

"It's better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for who you're not."
-- Van Zant

"Love is a flame neither timid nor tame."
-- Jewel

"It's better to think for yourself and of others than to think for others and of yourself."
-- Bernard Perry

"Don't waste your time or time will waste you."
-- Muse

[BlackCurtains]

"Turn the page, wash your hands."
- Filbert Turtle

[kaoskat]

The principle difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. - Mark Twain

[lunar_scythe]

Here's a classic for you, from Black Beauty:
'Do your best,
And leave the rest. 
'Twil come right,
Some day or night.'

It made a HUGE impression on me as a kid, and I still try to go by it today.

and another, from Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar books(it's in most of them)

"There is no One True Way" 
  -meaning everyone has the right to their own religion, and since we are all human, we owe each other respect, even if we believe something different.  It is the foundation for the country of Valdemar in her books, and it comes up a lot as one of the things anyone moving into the country has to agree to; as long as a persons' Religion causes no actual harm to another being, you can't persecute them. 
You can't get in their face, or force them away, or cause them harm, even if their religion believes in something *completely different* then yours.  (I really wish this was true in the real world!)

[Miniature Sheep]

The pettiest will be generous
And the most craven will be brave
Nothing improves a reputation
Like confinement to a grave!
- Jorge Luis Borges

It must've been a dream house, I was asleep when I bought it!
- Les Dawson

I am not what you think I should be
- Better Than Ezra

Every day should be a miracle instead of a machination
- Charles Bukowski

Those are the only one I can think of off the top of my head.

[Lore-Lei]

Quotes? Why quotes, out of all things?

[Beldarna]

Cogito ergo sum (I think, therefor I am) - René Descarte

A Home without books is like a body without a soul - Cicero

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing - Socrates

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take - Gandalf

Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? - Gandalf

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times - Paul Coelho

The fool do think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool - Sheakespear

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it - Maurice Switzer


And I have a ton of cat quotes;

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days - Bill Dana

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this - Terry Pratchett

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior - Hippolyte Taine

In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him. - Dereke Bruce

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience - Pam Brown

Those who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched - Miguel de Cervantes

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later - Mary Bly

As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat - Ellen Perry Berkeley

No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch - Leo Dworken

[Tigerlilyx]

"Rise and rise again until lambs become lions"

"There is no such thing as accident; only fate misnamed" — Napoleon Bonaparte

"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?" — Cicero, Orator, 46 BC

"How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard" — Winnie The Pooh

[mopthebunny]

"I can't go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then." Alice in Wonderland

"I'll have you know, my mom thinks I'm quite the catch" -- somewhere on the internet

[Skeen]

"People are fickle f----."  Kate Mulgrew as Red, OITNB

[Prideth]

"People are fickle f----."  Kate Mulgrew as Red, OITNB

I like it.   

This one has changed me as a person:

"We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour." -Stephen M.R. Covey

[Sweet_Stuff]

"It's good to be random." -me

"A champion in defeat is still a champion." -me LOL.. seriously..

"Take some time along the way to see what's nice about today." -Strawberry Shortcake

"Every story has an end. But in life, every ending is just a new beginning." -Uptown Girls

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." -Henry David Thoreau