What is Your Favorite Quote?

[JoeRobertJr]

Quotes that help me push my comfort boundaries:

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of man as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had a life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?
- Henry James

Some people die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.
- Benjamin Franklin

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation.
- Sir Walter Scott

The years thunder by, the dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed. Where then lies the answer? In choice. Which shall it be – bankruptcy of purse or bankruptcy of life?
- Sterling Hayden

[sjrider]

Two of my favorites.

"Life begins when you realize you only have one"
I was told this by an older gentleman years ago, not sure if he was quoting someone.

"The adventure begins when everything goes to hell"
I have been saying this for years when things are not going as planned.

[boatpoker]

Old Chinese curse .... May you live an interesting life.

[WingRyder]

"Six score and 7 years from now, everything you read on the internet will be true.

- Abraham Lincoln

[david samuelson]

Sometimes you're the dog, sometimes you're the tree

[mabowers]

"Don't put any footballs on the chart"

"Sail where the tree's ain't"

"Leave the paint on the buoy!"


Anonymous to protect the guilty

[Sir_Crabs_A_Lot]

"He who does two things at once, does neither." -- Publilius Syrus (85–43 BC)

[jkindredpdx]

I can't miss you... If you won't go away.

[Group9]

Man saying thing cannot be done, should not interupt man doing it. Confucious

[jr_spyder]

The darkest hour is just before dawn, so if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper that's the time to do it.

- Warren Miller

[contrail]

If conditions were too bad to go, five days ago, and they haven't changed, they are still too bad to go.

[Nautica96]

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss

[LakeSuperior]

Beige, l think I’ll paint the ceiling beige.

[Tayana42]

Originally Posted by LakeSuperior

Beige, l think I’ll paint the ceiling beige.

Was that Michelangelo?

[dfelsent]

Originally Posted by Tayana42

Was that Michelangelo?

Oh man someone needs to put that one in the new joke thread! (Context is everything)