What’s a Quote That Stuck With You?

Jane43

“Holding onto anger is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die.”

This had a profound effect on me the first time I heard it and I think it has changed me as I tended to hold a grudge.

This is a great one.

It will all be alright in the end, if it's not alright, it's not the end.

The future is not what it used to be.

“Holding onto anger is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die.”

This had a profound effect on me the first time I heard it and I think it has changed me as I tended to hold a grudge.

You're only as happy as your least happiest child.

'From quiet homes, and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter, and the love of friends'.

Hilaire Belloc - probaably my favourite quote among many.

"Be kind, others are facing a hard battle."

In order for evil to flourish,the good should do nothing.

It’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

My headmistress used to quote "Facepowder catches a man, baking powder keeps him" - this in a very forward thinking, Third World grammer school, offering both Domestic Science and "real" sciences to girls of all sorts of backgrounds!

watermeadow

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Very witty, somebody will be along to have a go at you any minute now.

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JamesandJon33

Luckygirl

Love that quotation Hurt people, hurt people. Apparently it is much older than Lemn Sissy, and was reborn in the 1950s in Texas

Similar to damaged people are dangerous.

H L Mencken (the 'Sage of Baltimore', probably between WW1 & 2) :- "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public".

He also (in a real moment of clairvoyance) stated "On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.".

People don’t care what they know until they know that you cate

"Success can't be measured by how much money you have, but by whether you have inner peace in your heart".

The Dalai Lama.

Hope for the best, expect the worse, and take what comes

Blowing out someone else’s candle will never make your own shine more brightly.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. I think of it every time someone - often a politician - feels they have to apologise for things that happened many years ago when totally different norms and values applied.

My grandma used to say
As one door closes another opens - I’ve found through life it has proven true on several occasions

A friend in need is someone to be avoided.

I got a million of em! My top 3 are:
‘You are the author of your own life’
‘We see the world not as it is but as we are’
‘Nobody can patronise you without your consent’

Life’s too short to stuff a mushroom.

Buy cheap and you buy twice.

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans ". John Lennon.