I have lots of favourite quotations, just can’t remember them all at once. Here are a few to start off…
“He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt; he has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him a spinal cord would suffice.” – Albert Einstein
“You sir, are drunk!” “Yes Madam, and you are ugly, but in the morning I shall be sober” – Winston Churchill
“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.” – Richard Dawkins
“We think boys are rude, insensitive animals but it is not so in all cases. Each boy has one or two sensitive spots, and if you can find out where they are located you have only to touch them and you can scorch him as with fire.” - Mark Twain’s Autobiography
“Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,
And saw, within the moonlight in his room,
Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom,
An Angel writing in a book of gold:
Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold,
And to the Presence in the room he said,
“What writest thou?” The Vision raised it’s head,
And with a look made of all sweet accord
Answered, “The names of those who love the Lord.”
“And is mine one?” said Abou. “Nay, not so,”
Replied the Angel. Abou spoke more low,
But cheerly still; and said, “I pray thee, then,
Write me as one who loves his fellow-men.”
The Angel wrote, and vanished. The next night
It came again with a great wakening light,
And showed the names whom love of God had blessed,
And lo! Ben Adhem’s name led all the rest!”
– James Leigh Hunt
But lets not be pedantic about it. the differnce between quotes and quotation is not the same as…