Here's mine:

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. "
Mark Twain

"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools."

Napolean

"When faced with a choice between two evils, I always pick the one I've never tried before.." May West

LOL! That IS a good one.

Since the topic said quote/poem, here's my favorite Poe:

[IF]

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!


--Rudyard Kipling

Heard this one today, lol,


"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

“Each New Season Grows From The Leftovers Of The Past. That Is The Essence Of Change, And Change Is The Essence Of Life.”

My favorite, but I don't know who originally coined it:

In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

Hmmm...hard to pick just one. I'll have to think about that...

Okay, one more for me...from one of my all time favorite shows:

"Well ya see, Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo
can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when
the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones
at the back that are killed first This natural selection is
good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the
regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the
slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we
know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers."

-Cliff Clavin, Cheers :rofl:

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened."

Douglas Adams, The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy


:popcorn:

"Cause most people think, 'Life sucks, and then you die.' I disagree. I think life sucks. Then you get cancer. Then you go into chemotherapy. You lose all your hair, you feel bad about yourself. Then all of the sudden the cancer goes into remission, you come out, youre lookin good, you feel good, everything is going great and then all of the sudden you have a stroke, you can't move your right side. And one day you step off the curb at 68th by Lincon Center and BANG you get hit by a bus and then, maybe, you die. "
Denis Leary