"Tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles": "In the best of all possible worlds"

[Grace Linda]

This is one of my favorite lines, said by the ultimate optimist Dr Pangloss in Voltaire's hilarious and pathetic book Candide.

Do you have a line from a book of movie, a quote or adage that inspires you?

[Whiny Old Bastard]

"Ain't you scared of nothing, boy ?"

"Just two things - women and the police !"

"Yeah, and you been runnin' from both of 'em all yer life, aintcha ?"

(from the Burt Reynolds movie "White Lightning")

[Kittycat]

MellyMel, I love that and will have to remember that the next time I can't change something. :)

[Jack Z]

"It's a [sane] man who has tragedy in his heart , and comedy in his head" ... Chesterton

"Dinners ready" ... Mom

[P.A.]

"You may all go to hell and I am going to Texas" David Crockett in his concession speach after losing his bid for re-election to Congress in 1834.

[Aggie]

I have that bumper sticker!

[kainsworth]

Be the change you want to see in the world. ~ Gandhi

[J Lee S]

" It all seems so stupid it makes me want to give up, but why should I give up when it all seems so stupid." Depeche Mode
And Bob Newhart- " Stop it or I will bury you alive in a box" talking with his patient that has a phobia of being buried alive.MadTV.

[larry kremis]

Most of us have 2 opportunitys at a good parent/child relationship. Your first, of course, is as a child. You get a second chance as a parent. Make the best of it. Dr. Laura Slesinger.

[Grace Linda]

"Be a man, there's such a few" My Granddaddy

[Westerly_2]

"Better to light a candle than curse the darkness." Who said that? Anyone know?

[Westerly_2]

thanks, Pru. (It wasn't really in "Blazing Saddles" was it?)

[larry kremis]

"Awwww, Mongo straight".

From the movie "Blazing Saddles"