Favorite Quotes and Poetry

[Lizzy Bennet]

I *may*, indeed, be the only one to post on this topic , but there's quite a few quotes I enjoy as well as poetry I like to read. I wondered if anyone else felt the same and/or has any good quotes or poems they would like to share. I'll start off with some of mine:


"Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight,
Make me a child again just for to-night!"
~ from "Rock Me to Sleep" by Elizabeth Allen

"Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend as you will always find me yours."
~ Beethoven

"Work like you don't need money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like no one's watching."
~ Author Unknown

"She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that 's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies."
~ from the poem "She Walks In Beauty" by Lord Byron


Hope you enjoyed those! Feel free to add quotes from Harry Potter as well, from songs, or wherever. I'm sure I'll add more in this thread eventually. What are some of your favorite quotes and/or poems? Don't leave me all alone on my own thread!

[Neo]

Great quotes, I really like the one of Lord Byron.

I like Nike's one "Just do it"

[Boycey]

Good quotes, em this is a tough one, I can't say I know many, but there was one once which I read from someone adevar, that I thought was pretty good and somthing that the person said was his own quote, and this quote was something I agreed with as well. The quote went something like,

"Its is better to do something that you regret, and to regret something you did'nt do"

[Boycey]

Oh I wish you could edit what you write on this forum the quote was im sorry,

It is better to do somthing you regret THEN to regret somthing you did'nt do.

Thats better.

[Holly Golightly]

Ooh, I have one...

GO CHICKEN WIZARD, GO!!!


tee-hee-hee!!!

Why do I have this feeling that tomorrow, that's not going to seem as funny as it does in my head right now???

*Hrmmm, maybe Holly needs to get some sleep...>? NAH!!!*

[Shadow]

"The grass may look greener on the other side, but it still has to be mowed." -Little Richard

"Sorrow looks back. Worry looks around. Faith looks up." -Unknown

"Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see." -J.R.R. Tolkein

"If at first you don't succeed, don't try to sky dive." -Unknown

[Blaise Zabini]

I'll start off with a poem, and add some more later.

Fire and Ice
-Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I?ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

[Wilwizard]

i can't seem to find my list of quotes, but here is one i got from the end of a movie.

The only thing necessarie for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing

And just for a laugh i could thorw in

Dude your getting a dell!

[Holly Golightly]

Wilwizard, what movie is that from, because I've heard it before, but, naturally, cannot remember and it's driving me crazy!!!

[Neo]

I also know, but can't remember...................

[powerpetal]

I don't know who worte/said this but it is often quoted in the biographies of Roald Dahl and I hope I can say this of my life when i'm old and gery!

My candle burns at both ends,
It will not last the night,
But Ah my foes and Oh my friends,
It gives a lovely light.

And now just for fun
The early bird gets the worm but look what happens to early worm! Alfred E Neuman 8)

~powerpetal~

[HuffleDuck]

[quote]There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods
Big words are always punished
And proud men in old age learn to be wise.[/qutoe]

Go home and write
a page tonight
ANd then let that page come out of you
Then, it will be true -Langston Hughes

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright got our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lighting to the Children eased
With Explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
OR every man be blind -- Emily Dickinson

[hoopsmaster88]

that quote that wiliwizard posted sounds really familiar to me too, but i can't remember what movie it's from. man this is gonna bug me until i find out it seems like i just saw it a couple days ago. hmmmmmm i'll go look for it.

[hoopsmaster88]

ha! i found it, it's from tears of the sun with bruce willis.

and here are some funny quotes from edgar allan poe:


I have great faith in fools; my friends call it self-confidence.

Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called "Living" is conquered at last.

- Edgar Allan Poe, In Death

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

- Edgar Allan Poe, In Science

I don't suffer from insanity but enjoy every minute of it

[Kaizer]

"The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country."
- George W. Bush

"My karma ran over your dogma. "

There are only two places in the world where I feel uninhibited. One is the bathroom, and [the other is] the stage.
- Shakira

Damn, I want THAT pirate's booty!
--Me to my friend about Pirates of the Carribean