# What is your favorite inspiring or funny quote? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 9, 2009, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-inspiring-or-funny-quote/499204 "2009-06-09T13:45:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-inspiring-or-funny-quote/499204/141 "2009-06-18T16:55:43Z")
The only thing to fear it FEAR ITSELF and spiders - Snorg Tees ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-inspiring-or-funny-quote/499204/142 "2009-06-18T17:32:27Z")
“Today we might here any many say, ‘Life is not worth living.’ We regard it as we regard the statement that it is a fine day; nobody thinks that it can possibly have any serious effect on the man or on the world. And yet if that utterance were really believed, murderers would be given medals for saving men from life; firemen would be denounced for keeping men from death; poisons would be used as medicines; doctors would be called in when people were well; the Royal Humane Society would be rooted out like a horde of assassins.” -G. K. Chesterton I note in passing that the quote posted by **Bam boo gut** is also from Chesterton, with modifications. The original quote was: “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.” ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-inspiring-or-funny-quote/499204/143 "2009-06-18T17:44:48Z")
“If you want to run with the football, expect to have the shit knocked out of you. But never, ever, forget how much fun it is to be able to run with the ball.” –Jimmy Buffett (and badly quoted) ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-inspiring-or-funny-quote/499204/144 "2009-06-19T02:51:30Z")
“If you want something done right … just forget it.” – Neil Peart ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-inspiring-or-funny-quote/499204/145 "2009-06-19T04:41:41Z")
Be humble in the face of facts and proud in the face of opinions.–George Bernard Shaw Never steal more than you need, for the possession of surplus money leads to extravagance, foppish attire, frivolous thought.–Dalton Trumbo God will forgive me. It’s his job.–last words of Heinrich Heine Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing, and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.–Thomas de Quincy The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversatrion with the average voter.–Sir Winston Churchill ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-inspiring-or-funny-quote/499204/146 "2009-06-19T12:53:29Z")
It’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. ---
**Author:** ![MunkaMike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@MunkaMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MunkaMike)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-inspiring-or-funny-quote/499204/147 "2009-06-19T18:13:29Z")
I treat my body like a temple, you treat yours’ like a tent…- J Buffet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-inspiring-or-funny-quote/499204.md?page=7)