Fav quotes

I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not. Curt Cobain

Bonnybanko

I’m not afraid of dying I just don’t want to be there when it happens - Woody Allan

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‘I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.’
(Jesus speaking of his followers.)
John 10.28

Greyduster

The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.
Omar Khayyam

I love that one.

Common Sense is a flower that doesn't grow in everyone's garden.

An educated man knows a tomato is a fruit,
A wise man knows not to put it in a fruit salad

Where there's a will - there are relatives

I’m not afraid of dying I just don’t want to be there when it happens - Woody Allan

What goes around comes around

JackyB

Any of Dorothy Parker's.

You can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

Dorothy Parker's version when challenged to make up a sentence using the word horticulture.

You can take a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

The only people you think are‘normal’ are those you don’t know very well

"All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds" Pangloss ending Candide by Voltaire.

mabon Beth ?

my mother used to say creaking carts last the longest,I find i'm saying it too.

Forgiving is not forgetting.
It's remembering and letting go.

From a poster on the wall of the waiting area at a therapy centre for abused children.

I want to be
What I was
When I wanted to be
What I am now

Graffiti, London 1980

I'm not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens
Woody Allen

Babs03
That lovely, brought a tear to my eye.

Fool me once, shame on you…
Fool me twice, shame on me.

With my luck, when my boat comes in I'll be at the airport

i don't know if you can call this a quote if it's for you it won't go by you, my gran always said this and i have used it all my life, i said it to the irish surgeon when he told me i had cancer, no tears, anger or why me, he said his old granny always said this.

I like the Julian of Norwich quote but can someone explain the repetition of the first phrase? "All shall be well...."

It’s never too late to be what you might have been. George Elliot

'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach' Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
John Milton

Just because you believe something, doesn’t make it true