What's your favorite saying or poem?

[Almost all here]

What's your favorite saying or poem?
Mines-
Children of Today, listen to what I say, for if you want a better place to live in, you must spread the words today. You must show the world that love is still alive, You must be brave. 'Cause if you don't, you Children of Today are Children of the Grave.

[Fulghum]

If you gotta be an ass... you're better off being a smartass than a dumbass.

[fairjess]

I used to reach for the stars, but I fell off the damn roof too many times to care anymore.

[TillToutatis]

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

[Shane G.]

'The mark of an immature man is to die nobly for a cause. The mark of a mature man is to live humbly for it.'

[Wing'd Icarus]

"I don't believe in The Beatles
I just believe in me."

[Shane G.]

Transport, motorways and tramlines,
starting and then stopping,
taking off and landing,
the emptiest of feelings,
disappointed people, clinging on to bottles,
and when it comes it's so, so, disappointing.

Let down and hanging around,
crushed like a bug in the ground.
Let down and hanging around.

Shell smashed, juices flowing
wings twitch, legs are going,
don't get sentimental, it always ends up drivel.
One day, I'm gonna grow wings,
a chemical reaction,
hysterical and useless
hysterical and

let down and hanging around,
crushed like a bug in the ground.
Let down and hanging around.

Let down,
Let down,
Let down.

You know, you know where you are with,
you know where you are with,
floor collapsing, falling, bouncing back
and one day, I'm gonna grow wings,
a chemical reaction, [You know where you are,]
hysterical and useless [you know where you are,]
hysterical and [you know where you are,]

let down and hanging around,
crushed like a bug in the ground.
Let down and hanging around.

-"Let Down", Radiohead

[GeraldTheMouse]

The Hour and What Is Dead
Li-Young Lee

Tonight my brother, in heavy boots, is walking
through bare rooms over my head,
opening and closing doors.
What could he be looking for in an empty house?
What could he possibly need there in heaven?
Does he remember his earth, his birthplace set to torches?
His love for me feels like spilled water
running back to its vessel.

At this hour, what is dead is restless
and what is living is burning.

Someone tell him he should sleep now.

My father keeps a light on by our bed
and readies for our journey.
He mends ten holes in the knees
of five pairs of boy's pants.
His love for me is like sewing:
various colors and too much thread,
the stitching uneven. But the needle pierces
clean through with each stroke of his hand.

At this hour, what is dead is worried
and what is living is fugitive.

Someone tell him he should sleep now.

God, that old furnace, keeps talking
with his mouth of teeth,
a beard stained at feasts, and his breath
of gasoline, airplane, human ash.
His love for me feels like fire,
feels like doves, feels like river-water.

At this hour, what is dead is helpless, kind
and helpless. While the Lord lives.

Someone tell the Lord to leave me alone.
I've had enough of his love
that feels like burning and flight and running away.

[SpaceCadetGlo]

Mine's kinda like Fulghum's:

"Every smart-ass has a wise crack!"

[Simon]

It's been done before mates

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[mad yannis]

"What the hell are you doing in the bathroom all day and night? Why don't you get out of there and give someone else a chance?"

[Sydney]

God there are soooo many...

"I'm gonna buy a gun and start a war, if you can tell me something worth fighting for"

"People have the right to fly
And will when it gets compromised
Their hearts say "move along"
Their minds say "gotcha heart"
Let's move it along

And airports, see it all the time
When someone's last goodbye
Blend's in with someone's sigh
Cos someone's coming home
In hand a single rose"

and my new favourite..

"you know when you get that feeling when your brain says yes, but your heart says no. And your brain's like 'come on heart' and your heart's 'like come on make your brain shut up' and so you go 'just stop it, both of you' and then you all get in a huge argument"

cheers

[fairjess]

The 'Cloudless everyday...' part of Echoes is a favourite of mine.


As well as, 'Don't mess with the Captain. Captain Lou Albano!'

[stratman]

"He who robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on getting Paul's vote"

[Simon]

Isn't this a DDT ?