“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.”
~ Billy Wilder

“You can’t solve problems by the same means the problems were created”
- Albert Einstein

“An eye for an eye…and the whole world goes blind”
- Gandhi

I could do a whole page from Steel Magnolias, but will just list one (the one my sister and i say to each other all the time):

“You are evil, and you must be destroyed. “

Another favorite of mine to quote is Mark Twain. A few of my favorites of his:

“Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.” (”What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us”)

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.” (Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar)

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”

“Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.” ~~ “Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar”

“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” ~~ Mark Twain

“Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.” – Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar

“…the common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn’t indicate or promise, and which the other kind couldn’t detect.” ~~Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

“The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships.”~~letter to Carlotte Welles, 30 Dec 1907

“I do not like work even when someone else does it.”

Some other favorite quotes:

“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”~~G. Randolf

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”~~Albert Einstein

“If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.” ~~ Stanley Garn

“Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?” ~~ Winnie the Pooh

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” ~~Anonymous

“If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn’t it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?”~~George Carlin

“Every generation needs a new revolution.”~~Thomas Jefferson

“Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.”~~Oliver Wendell Holmes

“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. ” ~~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” -Robert Frost

“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of seperation.” -Kahlil Gibran

“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”-Kahlil Gibran

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”-Benjamin Franklin

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”- Leo Tolstoy (opening sentence to Anna Karenina)

“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”-Alexander Pope

“We must learn together as brothers or perish together as fools.”-Martin Luther King

“I have never been hurt by anything I didn’t say.”-Calvin Coolidge

As far as favorites themselves, there are so many, I wouldn’t even know how to begin to list them. I use them as I need them and they just pop into my head or I go to a source. How about these to start?

“A lie is a lie no matter if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth no matter whether anyone believes it.” —Bishop Fulton J Sheen

“If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve your problem, then what is the use of worrying?” —Shantideva

“Truth is incontrovertible—ignorance may deride it, panic may resent it, malice may distort it, but there it is.” —Winston Churchill

“Prayer is not to change things for you; prayer is to change you for things.” —Unknown

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. —Winston Churchill