What is your favourite quote?

[isitisitwicked]

I love a good quote! Send me some inspiration!

Bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Joanna Weaver

this too shall pass

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run
Yours is the earth and everything that's in it....

Rudyard Kipling, If.

I say it to myself when I need to be reminded to stop procrastinating and wasting time, because you only get one life and you need to get on and do something with it.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you'll be right.

'Relax: nothing is under control.'

From a box of Booja Booja chocolates.

Also just about every line from Withnail and I and Black Books. From the latter I find 'You can expect away' particularly useful and 'Would you look at these... breasts' particularly amusing.

Also 'Before enlightenment –the laundry. After enlightenment –the laundry.', which is a Zen proverb, I think.

Never regret growing old, it is a privilege denied to many.

Let us never speak of this again.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Been tempted to drop that on the Relationship board many times 🐠

Pretty words aren't always true and true words aren't always pretty.

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Man plans. God laughs.

If you can't look on the bright side, I will sit with you in the dark. (Alice in Wonderland)

Though she he but little she is fierce (Midsummer night's dream, I think)

One of my favourite quotes:

"Common sense is not so common."

[Voltaire]

This too shall pass. It may pass like a kidney stone but it shall pass!

Comparison is the thief of joy

@MiceSqueakCatsMeow If I remember correctly from my A level Govt and Politics days, it was by Lord Acton. It was one of many key quotes that I memorized for Political Idealogies and the only one that I still remember

The only ones for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. - Jack Kerouac.

All of us are in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde.

"You laugh at me you bastard and I'll shoot you where you stand."

Tyne Daly, The Enforcer

(Might not be inspirational, but I love it )

I heard this one the other day and it took me a minute to get it. It's a great comeback if you are always the one who arrives late and dishev elled, like me: The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

The role of logic as a motivation for human behaviour is largely ornamental. by Rochefoucauld

Maybe Christmas....-he thought- doesn't come from a store...
Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?

'A chocolate a day keeps the hunger pangs away'

(colleague at work this morning)

"Isn't it pretty to think so?", from The Sun Also Rises.

"Never eat anything bigger than your head", Wayne Hussey, from a Melody Maker interview when he was sick in a bin, IIRC 😂.

Chuck it in the fuckit bucket and move on