Here at Don’t Quote Me®, the number five is our favorite number, and the pentagon our favorite shape. On this fifth day of the fifth month of 2005, an extra special day for the number five, we are celebrating the best of “fives” in our special collection of 25 quotes grouped in five great themes.

Don’t succumb to “pentaphobia”! Don’t call them hexagons or polygons. Be brave, recognize the power of five – the Pentagon!

And enjoy our list ...

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"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is."

-- Ellen DeGeneres

"“I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did."

-- Jeff Foxworthy

"A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest."

-- Helen Rowland

"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."

-- Lee Iacocca

(On being the 23rd speaker at a political dinner) "I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's fifth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do but I don't know if I can make it interesting."

-- Al Gore Jr.

"There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home."

-- Mark Twain

"The secret of managing a club is to keep the five guys who hate you from the five who are undecided."

-- Casey Stengel

"The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves."

-- Boris Becker

"There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power."

-- Leo Durocher

"Golf is a game in which you yell ‘fore,’ shoot six, and write down five."

-- Paul Harvey

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."

-- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five."

-- Somerset Maugham

"There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition."

-- Rod Serling

"I can’t write five words but that I change seven."

-- Dorothy Parker

"I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five."

-- Steven Wright

"“Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die."

-- Bill Cosby

"How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven."

-- Spike Milligan

"At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote."

-- Emo Philips

"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."

-- Groucho Marx

"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."

-- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."

-- Warren Buffett

"To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."

-- Confucius

"The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication."

-- Harold S. Geneen

"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper."

-- Larry Flynt