Favourite quote?
A few minutes ago I was on Facebook and was idling through my profile feeling smug at how little information I had put there. It asked me for my favourite quote. That's one of those questions like "Favourite book?" or "What do you want to do today?" where the answer is not always the same. However the two quotes that usually contend for favouritism with me are "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" and "As flies to wanton boys so are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport".
I like
"Good sense is the most evenly distributed commodity in the world, as no one complains of their lack of it",
Descartes
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. - John Greenleaf Whittier
My current favorite quote "When you're going through hell, keep going"
Oooo! Oooo! Voltaire and King Lear quotes...I like.
Appropo for Trump times.
"Let me out of this straight jacket I want to play with my mushrooms"
"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny."--Carl Schurz,
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.” Kahlil Gibran