Quotes to Live By

[Film dino]

"Stubbornness may win a battle, but lose the war"

David

 

[stefan_dinu]

Oscar Wilde: "Nothing worth knowing can be taught"

 

[Photog9001]

"i'm at war with the obvious"

 

[brachal]

You may not have everything you want, but always remember to be thankful for all the things you don't have that you don't want.

Bob Dylan

 

[chris000]

A signature line I use on another forum:


"The most beautiful thing under the Sun, is being under the Sun" Christa Wolfe

 

[f/stopblues]

This was in someone's sig line at APUG..

"Holga is to photography what Paris Hilton is to Humanity."

 

[lilin menyala]

I'm dramatically underexposed. I demand more attention!
- Morrissey

 

[lilin menyala]

although this, also by Moz, might be more useful for 'living by':

I lie a lot - it's really useful...

 

[Xmas]

'...When I'm bad I'm better'

Film star

Noel

 

[bob cole]

Quotes to Live By

"Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free, " John 8:32, and the words engraved on the main building of The University of Texas at Austin, my alma mater.


"Anger makes dull men witty but keeps them poor,'' old fortune cookie saying...

"He who doesn't like wine, women and song remains a fool all his life,'' another old fortune cookie saying...

And this from the early 1940 Navy days at the USO:

 

[Xmas]

anna

man(go) does not need that...

Noel

 

[Morca007]

“Landscape – a mainly wet place, that ducks fly over”

Oscar Wilde

Wilde is, without a doubt, my favorite person to quote.

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

 

[Stanton]

For photograhers:

"f8 and be there.'

Dave

 

[MartinP]

"Amateurs talk of strategy, professionals talk of logistics."

 

[ChrisPlatt]

Lather; rinse; repeat.

Chris

 

[fishric]

If all else fails, read the instructions.
Richard F.

 

[Steve Bellayr]

"In the end you're lucky to just to save yourself."

 

[MatthewThompson]

Don't take life too seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.

 

[lmd91343]

I love that quote. It is in large letters on the ceiling of our regional public library. Groucho's stuff is always the best. "I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member"

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." ~Groucho Marx

"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. ..." Herbert Hoover

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Franklin Roosevelt
"I have seen war... I hate war" Franklin Roosevelt

"Come now, let us reason together" Lyndon Johnson

"I hope you leave here and walk out and say, 'What did he say?'" George W. Bush (this one I remember for humor, not inspiration)

I guess I am more than a bit war weary,
Lance

 

[mr roberts]

One of my favorites...

One of my favorites...

"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

-Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects