There are some quotations which stick in my mind.

Einstein said I have no special talents, I am just passionately curious. Read this as a teenager, and it inspired me to be always curious. Hasn't made me another Einstein, but provided me with good brain food.

Lucius Anneus Seneca's [circa 5 bc-65 ad] qotation that Malice drinks half it's own poison has also influenced my attitude to my fellow man, though there have been occasions when anger has made me temporarily forget his words.

Dear worldwatcher,

Here's a couple of my favourites:

Along a straight road you will travel faster
but you will see less.
(Old Lithuanian saying).

To hear is God's gift. To listen must be learnt.
(Old Lithuanian saying).

You cannot demand the same from a sparrow as
from an eagle.
(Old Lithuanian saying).

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds you plant.
(Robert Louis Stevenson).

...A book by itself is nothing - a film shown in
an empty cinema: one can only assess its value
by the light it brings to a child's eye.
(Elaine Moss).

Every one of those is a pearl Lexi, but particularly like the one written by Elaine Moss.

I've noticed that you can be relied upon always to have kind thoughts for everyone who posts on the Forum.

Your personality shines through in your posts.

Early wishes to you for a happy new year.

Two that I first saw put together by Robert Fulghum
(I knew them individually but seeing them together was the key point)

- The unexamined life is not worth living
- Ignorance is bliss

Fulghum is an author who has put a bunch of things together in ways that have given me cause to think a little differently about things. That particular combination is the pearl of wisdom that comes to mind when I think of favourite quotes that have influenced my life.

R0bert

Dear worldwatcher,

Thank You for your kind words.

Here's a couple of funny ones that I found
on the web and enjoyed:

When you're down by the sea
and an eel bites your knee,
that's a moray.

Hokey Pokey anonymous:
A place to turn yourself around.

I always liked one saying that I can't remember who wrote it...
It's not the size of the ocean that counts, but the motion of the ocean.

If can have many meanings, and some are quite ... naughty :) !