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I ran across this quote a few years ago and it has stuck in my mind. I think the essence of Shaw's words strike me as so simply, and perfectly authentic and noble.

"This is the true joy of life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy."
Man and Superman [1903].
Epistle Dedicatory
George Bernard Shaw

I would like to know what quotes you other RFFers like. Let's hear (read) them.

Ron
 
'Go, for thy stay, not free, absents thee more'

That's from Adam in John Milton's Paradise Lost

Clarence
 
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" -Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is my favorite photography related quote. Whenever I read about a photographer who only uses one focal length lens, or won't shoot flash with his Leica, or never shoots color, or won't consider digital, or all the other hair shirts people wear and I'm tempted to do the same I always remember this quote and realize that there's nothing inherently virtuous in consistency.

EDIT: Of course, I relate it to photography not R. W. E.
 
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"When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened."

Winston Churchill.
 
Your Favorite Quotation...

Your Favorite Quotation...

I have several but I framed this one a long time ago:

"Never invest in anything that eats or needs repairing," Billy Rose, Broadway theatrical producer...

regards, bob cole
 
Nick, Andy et al,

Those are all great. Sometimes the best quotations are simple, pithy statements we can all be left to interpret as we desire.

R
 
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know. Groucho Marx
 
"There but for the grace of God, go I."

"Treat others always with kindness, you may be in the presence of angles." (or something like that)

"Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and the stupidity of mankind, and I'm not too sure about the universe."
 
"Outside a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read anyway." -- Groucho.

"Run away, run away." -- Monty Python's "Holy Grail."
 
Nick, Andy et al,

Those are all great. Sometimes the best quotations are simple, pithy statements we can all be left to interpret as we desire.

R
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"There is no human problem that could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise."
Gore Vidal
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"Bugger Bogner"
George V
 
"There is no solution because there is no problem."
---- Marcel Duchamp
 
"you can get more with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone." Al Capone


"If they can't take a joke, nuke them until they glow then you can shoot them after dark." me
 
Live for the moment whenever the possible consequences are not too severe!

A man has nothing in this world but his honour.

(I made these up/adapted them myself.)

from Johnny (Jack Nicholson): You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!
 
"Old age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill"

"If you are not cheating, you are not trying hard enough"

8 Squadron "unofficial" mottos
 
I like this one, it's as actual today as it was then.

"The way I see it, unless we each conform, unless we obey orders, unless we follow our leaders blindly, there is no possible way we can remain free."
-Major Frank Burns, 4077th
 
"It is me what!"

Title of an article about non-native English speakers (and in particular Dutch people) causing havoc with the English language..
 
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