Favorite Quotations

Please post one of your favorite quotations from any human being. If you feel the quote deserves an explanation, please explain it, or if it is self-explanatory, let us soak up the goodness!

Please limit them to 3. Happy Posting! :sunglasses:

“I write by the light of the bridges I burn behind me.”
Richard Peck

Peck quit his job as a junior high teacher to write. Now, I mean, he quit, went home, and wrote the first page of his first book. The quote sums up the kind of writer Peck is.

“If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.”

“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”
Both Orson Scott Card

I just love Card, he’s one of my favorite authors evar!

A liberated woman is one who rises up and says to her menfolk, ‘I will not be dictated to,’ and proceeds to become a stenographer. - GK Chesterton

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic - Stalin

A wop bop a loo bop, a wop bam truth! - Future Man

  • Brian Andreas

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.” --Jimmy Carter

i just came across this rcently it doesnt have any meaning to me i just thought it was amusing when i read it. Something Kevconman putin in a reply to a topic.

“I see said the blind man to the deaf mute.”