Favorite Quotes - Page 3

these are serious and really really pertinent in the USA today:

"THEY THAT CAN GIVE UP ESSENTIAL LIBERTY TO OBTAIN A LITTLE TEMPORARY SAFETY DESERVE NEITHER LIBERTY NOR SAFETY"  - Benjamin Franklin

'IT IS THE FIRST RESPONSIBILITY OF EVERY CITIZEN TO QUESTION AUTHORITY' - Benjamin Franklin

A good one for breeders, I took it to heart and NEVER forgot it:

"Your guarantee should be the least you are willing to do for your most disagreeable buyer"  - Janis Novak, a great person who gave lots of wonderful advice when I got involved in the breed.

Also:

"God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts" -on a bumper sticker

"Not all those who wander are lost" -Tolkien

"Those who mind don't really matter, those who matter don't really mind." Dr. Suess

"Ban the deed, not the breed"

"everything has beauty, but not everyone can see it"

"a mind can make heaven out of hell, and hell out of heaven"

just a few

Jennifer

"Meddle not in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger." Gildor Inglorn, in "The Fellowship of the Rings", by J.R.R. Tolkien.

"Meddle not in the affars of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup." Anonymous Tolkien fan, used as a slogan on T-shirts and buttons at Tolkien conferences.

[Tolkien geek mode]

(f you think you're good at Tolkien trivia, you might want to mosey over to these two thread here, and have a go at it with the experts. You'd better read The Silmarillion, History of Middle Earth and the Hobbit, as well as the Lord of the Rings trilogy before you try taking them on, though!)

http://www.board77.net/viewtopic.php?t=4541

http://www.board77.net/viewtopic.php?t=2364

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Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936)  "Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible."  This quote provided Dale Wasserman with the inspiration for the famous song "The Impossible Dream" (Man of La Mancha.)

Good judgement and the ability to make right choices comes with experience.  Experience comes from making wrong choices.... (unknown)

"Are you naturally this stupid?  Or do you take lessons at it?"

The movie, "The Long Kiss Goodnight" with Samuel L. Jackson and Ginna Davis(Spelling on the first name?)

All animals, except man, know that life is for enjoyng.        

Probably not exactly a quote, but

"People forget what you did and what you said, but they never forget how you made them feel".

I thought this long ago, but never put it into words until some smart so and so beat me to it!!

Margaret N-J

In my late teenage up til my late twenties, before I had laser surgery, my eyesight was defintely dicy, but my vanity overruled wearing glasses, I just recognised people by their shapes, if you were more than 6 feet away and went on a successful diet or had a haircut, you could get me confused  in an instant, but hey, I thought that was what the world looked like and everyone saw it that way!

So, here's an original.  "By the time I could see what anyone looked like, It was far too late"

Margaret N-J

 Politictions and prostatutes the only difference is the latter is more honest about there motives. Benjiman Franklin

Normal people worry me!  author unknown.

"If you lie down with dogs, you will rise up with fleas"

-Benjaman Franklin