What are some long quotes that I can put on my facebook profile?

[Semper Fidel]

Well...I suppose we could share:

"Man are haunted by the vastness of eternity,
and so we ask ourselves:
will our actions echo across the centuries?
Will stranger hear our names, long after we're gone?
and wonder who were?
how bravely we fought, or how fiercely we loved?"
- Odysseous in Homer's The Iliad

" 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
'I don't much care where --' said Alice.
'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
'--so long as I get somewhere,' Alice added as an explanation."
-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"It is always the best policy to speak the
truth--unless, of course, you are an
exceptionally good liar."
- Jerome K. Jerome

"I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me."
- Dave Barry

"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves."
- August Strindberg


"A conductor and a violist are standing in the middle of the road. which one do you run over first, and why? "
-The conductor. Business before pleasure.

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream."
-Mark Twain

"In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love."
-Diego Marchi

" Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"
-Richard Bach

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
-Mark Twain

"The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold."
-Kahlil Gibran

"The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do."
-Harold Coffin

"The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense."
- Thomas Edison

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
- John Wooden

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."
- George Bernard Shaw

"We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."
- Jacob Bronowski

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
-William Faulkner


"I don't have to tell you things are bad, everybody knows things are bad. The dollar buys a nickel's worth. Banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter, punks are running wild on the streets, and there's nobody anywhere seems to know what to do, there's
no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. We sit watching our TV while some local newscaster tells us that today we had 15 homicides, 63 violent crimes, as if that's the way is supposed to be. We know things are bad, worse than bad! They're crazy, it's like everything everywhere it's going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house and slowly the world we live in is getting smaller, and all we say is 'please, at least leave us along in our living room, let me have my toaster, my tv, my steel belted radio and I won't say anything… just leave us alone!' Well I'm not going to leave you alone… I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest, I don't want you write to your Congress members because I don't know what to tell you to write, I don't know what to do about the depression, the inflation, and the Russians and the crime on the streets, all I know is that first, you gotta get mad! You've gotta say, 'I'm a human being GOD DAMMIT. MY LIFE HAS VALUE!'"
-The Network, 1976