What is your favourite quote?

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I love a good quote! Send me some inspiration!

There ain't no pockets in a shroud.

I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.

No idea who said those.

'What if I fall?'

'Oh but my darling, what if you fly?'

Erin Hanson. (I think)

'It won't always hurt like this. Oh it'll always hurt. But not like this.'

'It is better to seek forgiveness than ask for permission'

Grace Hopper.

My life is ruled by these quotes. I see it as take the risk, the pain will dull eventually and if it all goes tits up, ask for forgiveness.

When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time

Maya Angelou

When you die they say your life passes before your eyes.

Make sure it's worth watching.

Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining- Judge Judy

Always forgive your enemies , nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wild had some corkers.

"Courage calls to courage everywhere and its voice cannot be denied," Millicent Fawcett.

One I lifted from Mumsnet helped me during a time of agonising over decisions: 'You can only do what you feel is right at any given time.'

"We want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here and we want them now!"

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep the more I give to thee, the more I have for both are infinite - William Shakespeare

You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a drop - Rumi

Today me will live in the moment, unless it's unpleasant in which case me will eat cookie - Cookie monster

Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is looking.

It's not important in life to be strong but to feel strong - Christopher McCandlass

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves. V S Naipaul

If you don't like were you are, move, you are not a tree -Jim Rohn

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.- George Bernard Shaw, I think.

Fuck ‘em if they can’t take a joke. - Bette Midler.

Watch out for intellect,
because it knows so much it knows nothing
and leaves you hanging upside down,
mouthing knowledge as your heart
falls out of your mouth.

From Admonitions to a Special Person, by Anne Sexton

It will be alright in the end. If it's not alright yet, it's not the end yet

This!

I love this from Roald Dahl's The Twits. I've bolded the bit that I have engraved on a copper bangle

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely

The last of human freedoms - The ability to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, the ability to choose one's own way - Viktor Frankl

From the great Van Morrison:

You've got to fight every day to keep mediocrity away.

Carry on regardless.

‘Live every day like Elle Woods when Warner told her she wasn’t smart enough for Law School.’

.

My favourites are mainly Groucho Marx especially:

If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, I'd like to hear it again.

and

Those are my principals... if you don't like them, well, I have others.

and

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

Mark Twain:

I do not fear death,
I was dead for billions of years before i was born.

"Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces".

"A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.”

Both from the incomparable Terry Pratchett.

Aristotle:

It is during our darkest moments we must focus to see the light.

Everything will be alright in the end. If it's not alright, it's not the end.

If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.

There's a lot of worry wasted.

Every storm cloud passes. Every single one.

I read this thread title quickly and incorrectly as 'quiche'.

As you were bacon and cheese if anyone's interested

"Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy" Keats

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." Samuel Beckett

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer
Machiavelli