Favorite Quote

[cgronlund]

"'In the time of your life--live.' That time is short and it does not return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition."
- Tennessee Williams (from "The Catastrophe of Success")Sometimes this quote slips through my

Comments

[anonymous]

That's a great quote. I like it, too. I hope you get a lot of response to this; I love quotes.

I tend to like Thomas Paine quotes and one of my favorites of his is this:

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Another favorite, then I'll shut up, is this one by Longfellow. I probably appreciate it more now that I'm "of an age" than I would have in the past:

Age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Mary

[cgronlund]

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

That pretty much voids them all :)

I like the Longfellow quote--I've never heard that one.

[goth_poser_guy]

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

Louis D. Brandeis, US Supreme Court Justice

[cgronlund]

That's a great quote!

I'd say it applies to the current administration, but I don't think they are well meaning individuals...

[cgronlund]

Another quote I really like is a Thomas Jefferson quote:

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Kind of an actions speak louder than words thing.

[mfelps]

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.
--H.L. Mencken

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
--Bertrand Russell

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
--Christopher Morley

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
--Oscar Wilde

[cgronlund]

Those are all good quotes. The Morley quote is great, and I really love the Oscar Wilde quote. Of course, so much of Wilde's stuff is quotable; that's one of the better Wilde quotes out there.

[anonymous]

Bad will always hate good,because good reminds bad of it's condition.

I don't know if it's considered a quote-but it's something I think about.

Jeremy