Best Sayings Ever

Dedicated to Tracking Down the Best-Liked SAYINGS Ever... with your critical input

With hundreds of thousands of websites devoted to millions of "favorite" quotations, it's obviously impossible to find the "BEST EVER," right? Everybody has a different opinion and we are all affected in different ways. A quote that strikes one person as deeply profound can cause somebody else to say, "Who cares?" So I might as well give up on this wild idea...
"Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible."
-- Edwin H. Land, Inventor of the Instant Polaroid Land Camera

All right then, let's undertake this project... and to check out a great collection of terrific, entertaining quotes, sayings, amazing facts, and lots more, go to QuotableToiletPaper.com.

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Best FUNNY Sayings Ever
Best PROFOUND Sayings Ever
Best INSPIRATIONAL Sayings Ever
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Defining Our Terms

How is a "Saying" different from a "Quotation?"

According to dictionary.reference.com," a SAYING is "something said, esp. a proverb or apothegm." Synonyms are "maxim, adage, saw, aphorism." Wait, I never heard of "apothegm" before, either... What the heck is that?

According to "dictionary.reference.com," an APOTHEGM is "a short, pithy, instructive saying; a terse remark or aphorism." Also, apophthegm. Okay, I just learned an irrelevant new word...

And a QUOTATION, on the other hand, is "something that is quoted; a passage quoted from a book, speech, etc.: a speech full of quotations from Lincoln's letters." I get the point, but I am less than impressed that "dictionary.com" actually used the words "quotations" and "quotes" while defining "QUOTATION"... but let's move on.

For our purposes, let's say a QUOTATION is a statement attributed to a specific writer ("Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament." -- George Santayana), and a SAYING is an unattributed statement (Those who forget this sentence are condemned to reread it).

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I have offered my choices for BEST EVER -- But of course, not everyone will agree...

Please jump in with your votes and feel free to submit your own ideas. Eventually, the "BEST" will rise to the top and the "Less than Best" will drop down.

Here in Best Sayings Ever, you will find three categories of quotations: Funny, Profound, and Inspirational. You may contribute to some or all of these with your own choices for Best Ever Sayings.

ALSO, I hope you will contribute to these other pages:

Best ATTRIBUTED QUOTATIONS Ever
These are quotes by specific authors in categories for Funny, Profound, Inspirational and Stupid!

Best OXYMORONS Ever
Oxymorons are contradictory/paradoxical phrases, and there are three categories: Quotations (author-attributed quotes), Sayings (non-attributed quotes), and Goldwynisms (a separate group that cannot be ignored).

Best FUNNY Sayings Ever

Here's a start! You can vote for these and add your own

With your help, I hope we can discover the top Best FUNNY Sayings Ever

Best Sayings Ever

Dedicated to Tracking Down the Best-Liked SAYINGS Ever... with your critical input

Contents at a Glance

Contents at a Glance

Please Vote-For or Add-To the Sayings in the Lists Below. Thanks a bunch!

Defining Our Terms

How is a "Saying" different from a "Quotation?"

Here's my favorite link:

YOU are Cordially Invited to Participate!

I have offered my choices for BEST EVER -- But of course, not everyone will agree...

Best FUNNY Sayings Ever

Here's a start! You can vote for these and add your own

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REALITY is for people who can't face SCIENCE FICTION

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If Caesar were alive you would be chained to an oar.

3

Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it

4

Tradition was just a fad

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Never call a man a fool -- Borrow from him

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A closed mouth gathers no foot

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A fool and his money are soon parted... but they were lucky to get together in the first place

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Eat right, don't smoke, don't drink, exercise daily... Die anyway

9

There is never time to do it right, but always time to do it over

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To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer

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The only thing we have to fear is PHOBOPHOBIA

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Best PROFOUND Sayings Ever

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income

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The object of having an open mind, like an open mouth, is to shut it again on something solid

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It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.

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The FUTURE is beyond knowing, but the PRESENT is beyond belief.

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It has taken the planet earth 4.5 billion years to discover that it is 4.5 billion years old

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IMAGE is Everything -- Imagination is everything else

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When a man thinks he is thinking, he is merely rearranging his prejudices

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A man with a watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches isn't so sure

9

To finish sooner, take your time

10

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't

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Best INSPIRATIONAL Sayings Ever

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The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart, this you will build your life by, this you will become

2

Belief is the most powerful magic of all.

3

There's no elevator to SUCCESS. You have to take the stairs.

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Don't wait for your ship to come in -- Swim out to it

5

If you don't have a dream, it can't come true

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Links that prove the point

Among the thousands of quotation sites, which are "The Best?"

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