OK, let's have a "Quotes" thread!

"I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion, and that there is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

Lord Byron, in a letter to Thomas Moore, 5 July 1821

Change before you have to. ~ Jack Welch

Next time a stranger talks to me when I'm alone I will act shocked and wisber, "You can see me?!"

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer " Present " or " Not Guilty." -Theodore Roosevelt

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Even the best-intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them: there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do. -La Bruyere

The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.– Sir William Francis Butler

Fortune befriends the bold. ~ Emily Dickinson

Wisdom outweighs any wealth. ~ Sophocles

„Erfahrung heißt gar nichts. Man kann seine Sache auch 35 Jahre schlecht machen.“

“Experience means nothing. You can do your job the wrong way for 35 years.” (Kurt Tucholsky)

“For four years, there were whole square miles of land where murder was obligatory, while it was strictly forbidden half an hour away. Did I say: murder? Of course murder. Soldiers are murderers.” (Kurt Tucholsky)

Kurti is my friend.

The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment. ~ Buddha

"I don't reflect much, unless I'm talking to the media. I have more of a 'Forward, march!' kind of attitude."
--Kerry King (Slayer)

You exist only in what you do. ~ Federico Fellini

I can live for two months on a good compliment. ~ Mark Twain

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slip of the tongue (or not) by an animator in a French holiday village.