What are some of your favorite sayings?

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"Revenge is a dish best served cold." - Old Klingon Proverb.

"You should never compare yourself to anybody else". CockneyRebel

"Man is born to live, not to prepare for life."
- Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960)

"Iron Within, Iron Without!"

"This world moves sooooooo slowly"

"Hallowed are the Ori!! !"

"There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt"

Rememberance, like a candle burns brightest at Christmas time.
~Charles Dickens

You only pass throught this life once; you don't come back for an encore.
~ Elvis Presley

"[Spring is] a true reconstructionist."
- Henry Timrod

We never get what we want,
We never want what we get,
We never have what we like,
We never like what we have,
and still we live... so that's just life.

God may be dead, but sometimes I wish I were him.

"You're never too old to become younger."
- Mae West (1892 - 1980)

"My work is a game, a very serious game."
- M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972)

a few

(my email sig):
Ask not what your age wants, but what it needs; not what it will reward, but what without which, it cannot be saved; and that go and do; and find your reward in consciousness of having done your duty, and above all in the reflection that you have been accounted to suffer somewhat for mankind.
-Orestes Brownson


My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last forever.
-Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War

Civis Romanus sum (I am a Roman citizen)
-Cicero

Galba seemed greater than just a private citizen as long as he was a private citizen, and everyone agreed that he was capable of being emperor -- if he had not become emperor.
-Taticus, Histories

I pray to you, go to the nearest church, and bring me the cross, and hold it up level with my eyes until I am dead. I would have the cross on which God hung before my eyes while life lasts in me.
Jesu, Jesus!
-Joan of Arc, 30 May 1431, at the stake (last words)

"I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience."
- Shelley Winters (1922 - 2006)

"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed."
- Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)

don't mask the truth, because it will come out, sooner or later. CockneyRebel, late 2006

"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep
delight of the blood."
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)