Although though that's a bit longer than a quote, anything Monty Python is A-Okay by me. I see your Knights of the Round Table and raise you A Knight's Tale:
From a movie, song, person, whatever!
Mine is from Monty Python's Knights of the Round table:
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you.
If I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away.
Last edited by bbuilder; 10-06-2017 at 10:00 PM.
Although though that's a bit longer than a quote, anything Monty Python is A-Okay by me. I see your Knights of the Round Table and raise you A Knight's Tale:
"One of the happiest moments in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you can't change." - Unknown
Kind of corny, but it has helped me a lot this year.
My old boss used to tell us "Don't worry about the shit you can't control. You're all going to disappoint me either way". Some of the best words I've ever lived by
Teal (10-07-2017)
"doesn't matter how big the fucker is, everybody has a throat"
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." Buddha
"Some mothaf----s is always tryina ice skate up hill." -Blade
"I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes." -Daniel Day-Lewis
"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." - Alexander Pope
I apply it to my life daily.