Favorite Quotes, Etc...
"Life is like a Camera. Just focus on what's important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don't turn out, Just take another shot" - Ziad K. Abdelnour.
"...No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’
Winston S Churchill, 11 November 1947
“𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘈𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘭𝘺, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥, 𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯, 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 - 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭 - 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶.” - Anthony Bourdain
"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done" - Lucile Ball
"Once upon a time you dressed so fine
Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
People call say 'beware doll, you're bound to fall'
You thought they were all kidding you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hanging out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging your next meal
How does it feel, how does it feel?
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone"
Bob Dylan
"Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light." - Dylan Thomas.
This famous line is from the poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas, and it essentially means that one should not passively accept death, but instead fight fiercely against it, even in old age, by living life to the fullest until the very end.
Key points about the quote:
"Do not go gentle into that good night": This is a plea to not simply surrender to death, even when it seems peaceful.
"Old age should burn and rave at close of day": This emphasizes the idea of actively engaging with life and not letting old age diminish one's spirit.
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light": This powerful phrase represents the act of fighting against the inevitable darkness of death with all one's might.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain
Muhammad Ali is considered to be the greatest heavyweight boxer.
Here is a list of some of his best quotes (in no particular order):
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"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see. Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't.
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"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."
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"I'm young; I'm handsome; I'm fast. I can't possibly be beat."
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"Don’t count the days; make the days count."
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“If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it—then I can achieve it."
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“It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am."
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“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.”
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“If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
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“Braggin' is when a person says something and can’t do it. I do what I say.”
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"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."
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"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."
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"I'm so mean, I make medicine sick."
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"I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked."
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“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
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“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
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"A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”
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“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.”
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"I shook up the world. Me! Whee!"
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“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'”
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“At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.”
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"A man who has no imagination has no wings."
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"He’s (Sonny Liston) too ugly to be the world champ. The world champ should be pretty like me!"
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"I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own."
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“I’ve wrestled with alligators. I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning. And throw thunder in jail.”
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"Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."
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“It’s not bragging if you can back it up.”
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"I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them."
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"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."
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“I’m not the greatest, I’m the double greatest.”
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“Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.”
Borrowed from the Quotable file of Captain Chris Mathews:
These insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words.
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"He had delusions of adequacy.” Walter Kerr
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"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”- Winston Churchill
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"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” - Clarence Darrow
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"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”-William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
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"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
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"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it.” - Moses Hadas
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"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” - Mark Twain
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"He has no enemies but is intensely disliked by his friends.” - Oscar Wilde
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"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one.” -George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
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"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.” - Winston Churchill, in response
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"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here.” - Stephen Bishop
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"He is a self-made man and worships his creator.” - John Bright
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"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.” - Irvin S. Cobb
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"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others.” - Samuel Johnson
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"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.” - Paul Keating
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"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.” - Forrest Tucker
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"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?” - Mark Twain
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"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.” - Mae West
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” - Oscar Wilde
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"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.” - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
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"He has Van Gogh's ear for music.” - Billy Wilder
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"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But I'm afraid this wasn't it.” - Groucho Marx
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The exchange between Winston Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, "If you were my husband I'd give you poison." He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."
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"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln
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"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." -- Jack E. Leonard
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"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." -- Thomas Brackett Reed
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"He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them." -- James Reston (about Richard Nixon)