re: What's your favorite quote?

Kurt Vonnegut - 'Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.”'

Thomas Jefferson – ‘In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock’

"The Gods were cruel that hung a man's weakness between his legs and placed a woman's strength between hers"

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
? Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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Motivational, leadership, educational, or just interesting.

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A couple of motivational ones from Steve Prefontaine:

- To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift

- Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.

- I run to see who has the most guts.




Some from Abraham Lincoln:

- Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

- Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

- You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.




Richard Feynman quotes:

- It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with the experiment, it's wrong.

- The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and YOU are the easiest person to fool.




Mark Twain quotes:

- If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

- A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

- The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.




Bradford Brown quotes:

- My greatest success is attained when I am willing to let myself be perfectly fallible.

- That I seldom live up to my expectations is the excuse waiting for me not to try.

- Success starts in the imagination, but ends in sweat.


and finally...my favorite quote:

- I drank what? ~ Socrates

I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque.

"And I quote"

“We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.”~ Albert Einstein on Human Existance

If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, if you insist on leaving your fate to the gods, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked. - Tom Robbins

"Play stupid games, win stupid prizes"

"Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it."

Theodore Roosevelt

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”