What Is Your Favourite Quote?

[Spoonboy]

What is your favourite quote, or one you live by? Mine, a little biassed I suppose, is two of my own in third book I am currently writing: historic fiction set in the wake of Trajan's Roman Britain.

"Seldom is praise given due", and "Through the eyes of the oppresssed, the proclivities of the oppressor endure".

What is yours, and thanks in advance.

[Goodsoulette]

gah, its melon farmer for Die Hard and Goodfellas. That was how I got away with swearing as a kid.

[Arti]

'Treat me like a human, I'll work like a horse. Treat me like a dog, I'll be as lazy as one'.

[Spoonboy]

Chrisgel: I actually thought this was funny. True, but funny. But in answer to boxtops, think of the times you have praised someone and they have taken it as granted. But, seldom is praise given due when it is deserved, so you answered your own question methinks.

[Sir Alec]

The Readiness is All........Hamlet. On Sir Alec Guinnesses' grave............I Weep...

[emmie]

if brains were gunpowder, you wouldn't have enough to blow your hat off.

[heathfield]

One of my many favourites is the epigraph on the tombstone of an Italian waiter - "God caught his eye at last".

[Kiki-frog]

Many a mickle makes a muckle. No idea what it means, but my late mother was fond of saying it after a few G&Ts

[B00]

If I hadn't seen such riches, I could live with being poor.

[Goodsoulette]

Saw them recently B00bies

[rockyracoon]

I just love this quote from Snatch, the swear filter will kick in though,

Brick Top: Do you know what "nemesis" means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible Lady Veg... me.

[ChillDoubt]

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

[B00]

Did ya Goodsy? Can't say Im a massive fan of theirs, but I adore that song...and did you?

[bhg481]

Mark Twain: It's easy to give up smoking; I've done it hundreds of times.

[gness]

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.

[Sparkles62]

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
I write it in the front of my diary every year. X

[Traci66]

He lost the art of conversation, unfortunately not the power of speech.

[mushroom25]

at the end of the 1966 film "The Professionals", Ralph Bellamy's character turns to Lee Marvin's and calls him a b@stard.

To which the Lee Marvin Character replies "Yes, sir, in my case an accident of birth. But you, sir, you are a self-made man."

[Kiki-frog]

I like that one, Traci, where's it from? I can think of a couple of people I'd like to say that about