Our Favorite Quotes

Thank you all for keeping the thread on message and alive.
I like quotes and some of the one I read are great. And I learn things, that is the most interresting aspect of your contribution.
Daniel

 

Unfortunately, some one doesn't know how to read.
The thread is:

Steve war whoop, I watched you video, it has nothing to do with quotation, or favorite quote.
I flagged your post and I asked the moderator Jeff to delete your post.
Come back with a quote.
Much appreciate
Daniel

 

What are you crazy? Bent Bill Saying"I did not have sex with that woman" LOL

 

No I am not crazy, and in my thread you stay polite and civilized.
This is not a quote.
Come back with a real quote, not a political agenda.
Much obliged
Daniel

 

"I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
I want him to hold what he has earned and got.
I have all the rank I want"
- General of the Army William Tecumseh Sherman
in a letter to his brother in 1865

 

i told you i was ill- spike milligan

when asked what he wanted on his gravestone

 

"Solomon Peas.
Peas is not here,
Only the pod.
Peas shelled out,
Went home to God."
Epitaph in a cemetery near Wetumpka, Ala.

 

Beneath this stone, a lump of clay,
Lies stingy Jimmy Wyatt.
Who died one morning just at ten
And saved a dinner by it.

 

The mortal remains of Ethan Allen,
fighter, writer, statesman, and philosopher,
lie in this cemetery beneath the marble statue.
His spirit is in Vermont now.
Ethan Allen
(Greenmount Cemetery; Burlington, Vermont)

 

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Sigmund Freud

 

Now I know Freud was nuts:

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
Sigmund Freud

 

He did have moments of clarity, however:

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
Sigmund Freud

 

I agree about the nuts side.
It is the reason why I did my psychoanalyze following Jung school, not the Freudian one.
Freud is quite violent, Jung is permissive.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Carl Jung

 

This forum is my group therapy. No shrink is coming anywhere near my brain.

 

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