Fav quotes

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

mabon Beth ?

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

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

Comparison is the thief of joy.

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.

What goes around comes around

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

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

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.

‘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

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

Meet people where they are - St Ignatius of Loyola (and he was talking about the place they were in mentally not physically).

Life isn’t about waiting for the sun to shine, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.

"I love

"I love you" by my late husband!!

gma, I love that quote by Mother Julian of Norwich

All shall be well, all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well.

Also like Vintagegirl mentioned, it would be nice if someone could explain "all shall be well " being said twice.

My lovely friend at school had a quote that she told me came from her Asian origins..."When you say sorry say it from the bottom of your heart, not the tip of your tongue."

When one door closes another always opens. It may be a different door but there's always another door.

Women are like teabags, you don’t know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt.

Groucho Marks:

"Just because you're paranoid it doesn't mean they're not out to get you."

The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceeding small - gives me chills!

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
Mike Tyson.

I think the one about reconnaissance might have been Churchill?

It seems unlikely that Donald Trump ever read a proper book (Playboy doesn't count!), but it seems he saw this somewhere :- a shrewd guy called H L Mencken had a great quote, pre-war, said "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public". [it's a close relative of the "sucker" one, by Barnum].

And as has been said, Twain had loads :-
1) We have the best government that money can buy.

2) I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

3) There are lies, damned lies and statistics.