Quotable Quotes

A friend of mine was asking for a good quote today, which kinda got me thinking. The irony of a good quote's that it often gets so over-quoted or mis-used that it turns corny or becomes a cliche.

Take for instance, Maya Angelou when she says, 'Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away'. Simple, meaningful and quite beautiful actually, but if someone said that to me, I'll probably think his uber melodramatic.

Or how about Eleanor Roosevelt's "Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'." Ohhhhhhh, how VR Man (if you can actually remember that shite show) killed that one.

Army most defintely removed any liking I would have otherwise had for Friedrich Nietzsche's 'That which does not kill us makes us stronger".

But here are some wise words for you my friends, which considering my pathetic readership, should remain quite safe. May the force be with you (nope this isn't not one of them).

'Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.' - John Lennon.

Therefore.

'We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.' - Oscar Wilde

Thus,

'Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.' - Dr. Seuss.

Okay that didn't come off as brilliantly as I thought it would. I think I need a beeeeeeeeeerrrrrr.