What is your favorite quote by a historical person?
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.\n- Ralph Waldo Emerson\n\nI do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.\n- Galileo Galilei\n\nBlessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.\n- Jonathan Swift
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My quote is " When wealth is lost, nothing is lost. When health is lost, something is lost. When character is lost, all is lost!"
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"If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible." --  Bernard Mannes Baruch\n\n\n"Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective." -  Martin Luther King, Jr.
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if one does not know history, it is doomed to repeat itself....can't think of who said that quote.
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I like these two together, \n\n"If you know both yourself and your enemy, you will come out of one hundred battles with one hundred victories. "\n\n"One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful. Seizing the enemy without fighting is the most skillful. "
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"Be careful what you pretend to be, because you are what you pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut\n\n"Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why." - Kurt Vonnegut\n\n"If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind."  Kurt Vonnegut\n\n"For an educated man, Mark, you repeat yourself quite a bit. Are you aware of that?" - Prot, K-PAX
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"Hard work has a future payoff, but laziness pays off now"\n\nThat's that best quote because it's so damn true and funny.
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"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he can never lose."\n\n--Jim Elliot, Christian missionary to South America, in Through Gates of Splendor, by Elisabeth Elliot
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This is a common sentiment echoed throughout history but my favourite quote on the subject is from a Bob Dylan song and he wrote,"You don't know what you got 'til its gone."
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Some personal favorites are:\n\n"Suppose the prisoners were able to talk together, don't you think that when they named the shadows which they saw passing they would believe they were naming things?"\n\n"The world of our sight is like the habitation in prison, the firelight there to the sunlight here, the ascent and the view of the upper world is the rising of the soul into the world of the mind..."
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"The course of true love never did run smooth."\n~ William Shakespeare.
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Benjamin Franklin, and so very,very true.\nhe also said:All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
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"The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is for Good Men to do Nothing." \n-Edmund Burke
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I have a several personally-relevant favourites and can't choose between them, so here they all are:\n\n“Why do writers write? Because it isn’t there.” \n- Thomas Berger.\n\nBe an individual. Don’t make it easy to be dismissed in a sentence.\n\n“O God, if I worship you in fear of Hell, burn me there; and if I worship you in hope of Paradise, shut its gates to me...”  \n- Sufic saying.\n\nAlways remember you’re unique, just like everyone else.\n\nWhy should a person suffer in silence when they can moan, cry, whimper and complain?\n\nI don’t suffer from stress. I’m a carrier.
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) said 'England has neither eternal friends nor eternal enemies. She has only eternal interests,'  Winston Churchill once said\n\n' Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal"\n\nNot sure who said it first...
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I keep six honest serving-men\n(They taught me all I know);\nTheir names are What and Why and When,\nAnd How and Where and Who.\n\n– Rudyard Kipling.
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"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first." \n\n- Ronald Reagan \n\nHillary fits in both