explain a quote

[smilingtearz]

Try explaining the quote that the person above u has quoted...and write a quote for others to explain...

lemme start..

"Forget the brother, and resume the man."
-Alexander Pope
Any explanations to this one??

[geetanjali]

Alexander Pope was a humanist & here he is just defying the truth that Blood is thicker than water. We have to learn to look upon the world in universal oneness - universal fraternity.
Jean Jacques Rousseau began his book 'The Social Contact' with the immortal line - " MAN IS BORN FREE BUT ALAS EVERYWHERE HE IS IN CHAINS ! "
How relevant is this today ?

[yellowfeverlime]

We are born free, but we are restricted so much that in actuality, we are being controlled by the government.

"You can't runaway from yourself."

[starrwriter]

"You can't runaway from yourself."
Too easy: wherever you go, there you are.

Which reminds me of a buzz quote from a few years ago. Does anyone really know what this means? --

"There is no there there."

[subterranean]

Getrude Stein's "There is no there there". When Stein returned to California on her lecture tour to the United States in the 1930s, she wanted to visit her childhood home in Oakland, CA. She records that she could not find the house. Hence, "there is no there there." –Sonja Streuber (http://www.tenderbuttons.com/gsonline/alice.html)


"When I go forward you go backward and somewhere we will meet"

[starrwriter]

Getrude Stein's "There is no there there". When Stein returned to California on her lecture tour to the United States in the 1930s, she wanted to visit her childhood home in Oakland, CA. She records that she could not find the house. Hence, "there is no there there." –Sonja Streuber (http://www.tenderbuttons.com/gsonline/alice.html)
I should have known. Miss Stein did more to butcher the American language than any three other writers.

[smilingtearz]

"When I go forward you go backward and somewhere we will meet"

Is that actually a quote??...i'd too wud like to know what that means

[applepie]

"When I go forward you go backward and somewhere we will meet"

Think in the sense of a circle. If I go foward, you go backward we'll meet eventually. We may be moving apart now, but we will meet again somewhere.
Meg

New Quote
"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man."
Henry David Thoreau

[mike-eustace]

Historically...those who told the truth about a particular regime have been exiled, jailed, or killed by those in power whose fury has been aroused. To be sure, the obvious explanation is that they were dangerous to their respective establishments, and that killing them seemed the best way to protect the status quo.

"If everything from the furthest planet to the smallest atom of our brain acts according to Newton's law of motion, then what becomes of free will? Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

[starrwriter]

"If everything from the furthest planet to the smallest atom of our brain acts according to Newton's law of motion, then what becomes of free will? Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
What Stoppard refers to is not just Newton's law of motion, but the concept that reality functions like a machine -- an idea Newton borrowed from Cartesian philosophy. In this super-deterministic paradigm human free will cannot exist since every decision and action is part of a chain of cause and effect.

"To be truthful means using the customary metaphors -- in moral terms, the obligation to lie according to a fixed convention." -- Nietzsche

[smilingtearz]

"To be truthful means using the customary metaphors -- in moral terms, the obligation to lie according to a fixed convention." -- Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche known for his works and researches on truth, while trying to explain what truth is...goes on to say that, truth is what society defines a particular belief to be...it isn't something that already exists...it might even be sourced on something absolutely baseless and merely "believed" to be true b'coz it has been the way through generations for centuries...
Truth merely exists b'coz society demands its existence(okay...im confusing myself now!)...and respects anyone who follows and believes those 'truths'...which have been followed through ages...Nietzsche also refers to a man's "illusion of possessing a 'truth'..."

this is the best i cud manage...anyone willing to add please do so...

Next Quote:"An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." --Jane Austen

[geetanjali]

HA HA All that what Jane Austen says above was relevant in her times. Now its different. Engagements are en-guage-ments & matrimony is a-matter-of-money & alimony on divorce means all-your-money. This is an age of materialism. Womens' cares are never over today.
Next Quote: Mans work is done by set of sun
Womans chores are never done !!!
Anyone refuting me ?

[smilingtearz]

lol...
@`Engagements are en-guage-ments & matrimony is a-matter-of-money & alimony on divorce means all-your-money
i juz love that!...@geetanjali...& im in complete agreement!...quote passed on...if anyone wishes to comment

Quote: Mans work is done by set of sun
Womans chores are never done !!!

[starrwriter]

"An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over ..."
A woman's cares are over when she traps a man into marriage? I just love Jane Austen.


Engagements are en-guage-ments & matrimony is a-matter-of-money & alimony on divorce means all-your-money.
Very similar to what an old Florida cracker once told me:
"Women! First, they want the matrimony. Then they up and leave and want the alimony. In the end they get all the mony."

[Scheherazade]

A woman's cares are over when she traps a man into marriage? I just love Jane Austen.Yes, women 'trap' men but when/if they realise that the catch is not good enough, they release them into the wild again.

[starrwriter]

Yes, women 'trap' men but when/if they realise that the catch is not good enough, they release them into the wild again.
Why, Sher, you talk about men as if we were raised by wolves. My father was only half wolf.

[Scheherazade]

Tempted to ask what the other half was but I am feeling too good right now so I won't!

:p

[starrwriter]

Tempted to ask what the other half was but I am feeling too good right now so I won't!
Goat. I worship the ancient Greek god Pan, who made women swoon.

[applepie]

lol...
i juz love that!...@geetanjali...& im in complete agreement!...quote passed on...if anyone wishes to comment

Quote: Mans work is done by set of sun
Womans chores are never done !!!

I love the quote. It can always be a reference to the traditional patriarchal society. Women stay home and raise childeren while men go out an find a job. Considering that I'm a stay at home mom and student right now I can really relate. My husband comes home from work and he is done for the day. Mine, it is never done. I am a mom from the time I wake up till my son goes to bed, then it is clean up from dinner and do school work. I turn around and do it every single day and I'm still behind :brickwall
Meg

As for a new quote I figure here is a favorite of mine
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph Campbell

[starrwriter]

I love the quote. It can always be a reference to the traditional patriarchal society. Women stay home and raise childeren while men go out an find a job. Considering that I'm a stay at home mom and student right now I can really relate. My husband comes home from work and he is done for the day. Mine, it is never done. I am a mom from the time I wake up till my son goes to bed, then it is clean up from dinner and do school work. I turn around and do it every single day and I'm still behind :brickwall
You talk like that is a bad thing.;)

[smilingtearz]

You talk like that is a bad thing.;)


you think that'd be fun??
quote passed on:
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. --Joseph Campbell

[applepie]

You talk like that is a bad thing.;)
No complaints here... not really anyway. It just gets exhausting. I have a blast doing it all. Being home with my son is the best part :)

[smilingtearz]

where's the next quote??

Want of love is a degree of callousness; for love is the perfection of consciousness. We do not love because we do not comprehend, or rather we do not comprehend because we do not love. For love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is not a mere sentiment; it is truth; it is the joy that is at the root of all creation.
--Rabindranath Tagore

[starrwriter]

No complaints here... not really anyway. It just gets exhausting. I have a blast doing it all. Being home with my son is the best part.
I was only teasing. I played Mr. Mom for a time when my two kids were growing up and I enjoyed every day of it in spite of the exhaustion. I felt like I was their big brother teaching them the ropes. I think my wife got jealous.

[smilingtearz]

next quote??

Want of love is a degree of callousness; for love is the perfection of consciousness. We do not love because we do not comprehend, or rather we do not comprehend because we do not love. For love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is not a mere sentiment; it is truth; it is the joy that is at the root of all creation.
--Rabindranath Tagore

[applepie]

[QUOTE=starrwriter]I was only teasing. I played Mr. Mom for a time when my two kids were growing up and I enjoyed every day of it in spite of the exhaustion. I felt like I was their big brother teaching them the ropes. I think my wife got jealous.[/QU

I think that must be a mom thing. I get a little jealous when my son chooses someone over me. Can't blame him though. He has me all day everyday. :p

[geetanjali]

Hey Did`nt anybody tell all these jealous dad`s & mom`s that when your spouse loves your young one he/she loves a part of you. Where is this jealousy from & why at home.
About the quote by Rabindranath Tagore: I think he is just as great as his love. But otherwise love has long been replaced in the world by so many other things- its a material heaven now. love is history in reality ! that`s what I think. Love is in the past & we hanker for it in our future. It is hardly anything about the present.
Next Quote: We look before & after & pine for what is not

[smilingtearz]

the quote u gave reminded me of another quote...
As a rule
Man's a fool
When it's hot, he wants it cool
when its cool he wants it hot
Always wanting What is not!

this true...ain't it...how we cri abt things that have happened in the past n worry abt the things to happen in future...we so often get so lost in this cribbing that we forget to see what we have and instead of being satisfied we express dissatisfaction and forget to be thankful to God.

next Quote :"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages."
--(shakespeare)From As You Like It (II, vii, 139-143)
...we're doing this in class

[geetanjali]

Smilingtearz .. I am staunchly Indian & this secret of life being a stage play & reincarnation or rebirth that Shakespeare is telling you at your classes is told to us foolish Indians 5000 years ago by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita. But sadly for India our generation today demands a foreign authentication of domestic truth.( No offense intended to you).
Next quote: Sweet is the pleasure after pain- John Dryden

[smilingtearz]

No offence taken geetanjali...yea im an indian...but inever had a chance to read the Bhagvad Gita...Im a christian girl...and these lines from shakespeare is something im doing in class...i'll for sure try askin more abt this to some hindu friend...but yea Indian scriptures have got loads of lovely philosophies!

quote passed on: Sweet is the pleasure after pain- John Dryden

[yellowfeverlime]

some people feel pain, but then it is over come by a simple pleasure. It is what is used in understanding the mindset of cutters and serial killers.

quote passed on:

"never close the door on the one you hate, they'll only knock the door down."

-yellowfeverlime(me)

[applepie]

"never close the door on the one you hate, they'll only knock the door down."

-yellowfeverlime(me)

I figure there isn't any point on locking out the people who hate you. They will find some way to get at you if they really do. It just causes much more trouble than what it is worth.

Meg

New Quote:
"A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong."
Edgar Allen Poe- The Cask of Amontillado

[smilingtearz]

New Quote:
"A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong."
Edgar Allen Poe- The Cask of Amontillado

in regard with the context of these lines, the meaning comes out clearly
let me put it the best way i can
A person planning to do something, should think before doing it, whether the "action" he's about to do is right or wrong...If the result of doing the "action" is not "satisfaction" but "guilt"... that is when the done "action" was wrong!


next quote:
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
--Charles Dickens

Please Explain this one!

[Virgil]

next quote:
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
--Charles Dickens

Please Explain this one!

That's a variation of my motto: Vincit Qui Se Vincit. He conquers who conquers himself. Success comes as a result of self discipline.

"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" - T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

[The Unnamable]

"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" - T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

My life has been a succession of utterly trivial and meaningless moments comprised of aimless distractions to fill up the boredom. It’s a similar idea to Philip Larkin’s “Time torn off unused.”

PS This is my attempt at an answer and not a statement of my personal views.

[smilingtearz]

please give a quote to be explained, the idea is for readers to get familiar with more quotes and their meanings ...

next quote: Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.--Samuel Johnson

[Virgil]

next quote: Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.--Samuel Johnson

I guess Mr. Johnson wasn't too fond of the opposite sex, at least not as much as the liquor bottle.


"Alas! Poor Yorick. I knew him Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abored in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it."
--Shakespeare, Hamlet

[Scheherazade]

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. Moderation is the key.
"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" - T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"I have lived my life with careful consideration; without giving in to extremeties (passions, indulgence??).

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.--Samuel JohnsonIt is easier not to do something than try to do it in moderation. Like I can NOT eat KitKats for days but once I have one, I want to have another and another and another...

Next quote:

'I love mankind! It's people I can't stand!' - Linus from Peanuts

[starrwriter]

It is easier not to do something than try to do it in moderation. Like I can NOT eat KitKats for days but once I have one, I want to have another and another and another...
What's with you and KitKats? When you were a little girl, did you eat so many they made you sick to your stomach? Get over it, Scher.


Next quote:
'I love mankind! It's people I can't stand!' - Linus from Peanuts
Hey! He stole that from my "Handbook of Curmudgeon Philosophy." (And I stole it from Mark Twain, who said writers are lovers of mankind, but they don't like most of the people they know personally.)

[Scheherazade]

What's with you and KitKats? When you were a little girl, did you eat so many they made you sick to your stomach? Get over it, Scher.Now that you said it, Starr...

*gets over it!
Hey! He stole that from my "Handbook of Curmudgeon Philosophy." (And I stole it from Mark Twain, who said writers are lovers of mankind, but they don't like most of the people they know personally.)You are supposed to explain the quote not give a soppy speech on it as to why it is precious to you...

[UrbanLegendz]

'I love mankind! It's people I can't stand!' - Linus from Peanuts

hmm ... i don't really get it , but i'll give it a shot.
i think he means that he loves what god has created (mankind)
but despises people <--- whom are sinful
???? please explain it urself , because i couldn't understand it.
oh well i tried. =/

uhhh ........ here's mine.


The Only Thing That Comes To A Sleeping Man Is Dreams - Tupac Amaru Shakur

[starrwriter]

You are supposed to explain the quote not give a soppy speech on it as to why it is precious to you...
Okay, just remember you asked for it:

Mankind is an idea, not a reality. The human population is composed of 6 billions individuals who are all different than each other (or like to think so.) It's much easier to love one idea than a mass of individuals. Plus ideas don't stab you in the back, emit foul odors, turn greedy and selfish, grow warts or smile condescendingly while you are in misery. Ideas are clean and comfortable to contemplate. Most people aren't.

Thus, it is more pleasant to cozy up to an idea than to real human beings. All writers understand this sad fact (whether they admit it publicly or not.) Which is why so many writers are curmudgeons, hermits, misanthropes, eccentrics, etc. It comes with the mental territory.

[Scheherazade]

Well done, Starr! You are getting the idea... Now, next step:

Post another quote for the next person to explain!

*is NOT smiling condescendingly!

:p

[starrwriter]

Well done, Starr! You are getting the idea... Now, next step: Post another quote for the next person to explain!
Oops, I forgot the rules of the game. Must be due to all the beer I have consumed this ayem. Or Alzheimer's disease.

Here goes:

“When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.” -- Oscar Wilde

[The Unnamable]

“When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.” -- Oscar Wilde

An amusingly cynical comment on the limitations of observing standards of moral rectitude: When we are happy in our own lives it’s easy to do what is right and good. However, doing what is right and good is unlikely to bring any joy. The suggestion is that being ‘naughty’ is more enjoyable than doing what is right.

Here’s the one I was going to post earlier but was waiting for Virgil to say I was close enough:

“and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.”
Referring to Darcy and Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice.

[Virgil]

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" - T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"


My life has been a succession of utterly trivial and meaningless moments comprised of aimless distractions to fill up the boredom. It’s a similar idea to Philip Larkin’s “Time torn off unused.”



I have lived my life with careful consideration; without giving in to extremeties (passions, indulgence??).

Eliot's intention was much closer to Unnambale. Actually I would consider Scher's interpretation, given the context of the quote, wrong. Eliot was trying to say that Prufrock has tediously programmed his life like measuring spoons of coffee, so that his life has essentially been passionless.

[Scheherazade]

Eliot's intention was much closer to Unnambale. Actually I would consider Scher's interpretation, given the context of the quote, wrong. Eliot was trying to say that Prufrock has tediously programmed his life like measuring spoons of coffee, so that his life has essentially been passionless.Not that it matters but (in a literary interpretation, the term 'wrong' always rubs me the 'wrong' way! ;)) that is what I said as well... That he lived his life without giving in to any sort of extreme feelings such as passions.

[Virgil]

Scher, you're exact quote.

I have lived my life with careful consideration; without giving in to extremeties (passions, indulgence??).

And your lates post:

Not that it matters but (in a literary interpretation, the term 'wrong' always rubs me the 'wrong' way! ) that is what I said as well... That he lived his life without giving in to any sort of extreme feelings such as passions.

I apologize. I misconstrued your sentence: I took "without giving in to extemeties" as living a life of moderation, a positve attribute. Eliot is clearly characterizing Profrock's life in a negative way. I think you're saying that. Sorry if I rubbed you the wrong way. However, not all literary interpretations are correct. While we can have a broad understanding of a reading, some interpretations are clearly wrong. Ask people who get F's on papers.

[Scheherazade]

Scher, you're exact quote.I am not an exact quote (I think you mean 'your') ;)
I apologize. I misconstrued your sentence: I took "without giving in to extemeties" as living a life of moderation, a positve attribute. Eliot is clearly characterizing Profrock's life in a negative way. I think you're saying that. Sorry if I rubbed you the wrong way. However, not all literary interpretations are correct. While we can have a broad understanding of a reading, some interpretations are clearly wrong. Ask people who get F's on papers.Maybe I should have been clearer in my first post or it is possible that my interpretation does not go along with the general flow (I can't remember the poem very well to be honest... Haven't read it in the past 10 years) but I am not comfortable with the tendency to disregard interpretations because they are different. I used to have a professor at university who said he would accept any interpretation as long as they offered enough support from the text to make the reader stop and think about it. I really like his attitude and as a teacher, I try to be as accomodating as he was in my classes.

Incidentally, students rarely got As in his classes but they rarely got Fs as well.


I think both UrbanLegendz' and The Unnamable's quotes are waiting for interpretation:

The Only Thing That Comes To A Sleeping Man Is Dreams - Tupac Amaru Shakur

“and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.”
Referring to Darcy and Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice.

[smilingtearz]

The Only Thing That Comes To A Sleeping Man Is Dreams - Tupac Amaru Shakur

Wake up and start working!!
You have to work for Results, dreaming high isn't enough. Any one who aims high and doesn't work towards his goal is compared to a sleeping man, who can claim nothing but his dreams....I think!...

:D
Unnamable's Quote still remains
“and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.”
Referring to Darcy and Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice.

[Scheherazade]

“and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.”
Referring to Darcy and Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice. We tend to like those better who, we know, like us! :D (*waits to be told off*)

Next quote:

"It is only in defeat that we become Christian."

Henry from A Farewell to Arms

[The Unnamable]

We tend to like those better who, we know, like us! :D (*waits to be told off*)

You know, there’s a strange pleasure to be had in reading that the moderator is waiting to be told off by one of the contributors. ;)
I wouldn’t disagree with your interpretation, although I wonder why you said ‘tend to’. I chose the comment because I think it’s a good example of where Austen is not the romantic writer many people suppose her to be. Does anyone think I’d like her if she was? It could be seen as very cynical – that love is based on personal vanity but I think it’s just well observed.

I could offer an interpretation for your quotation but I’ll leave it. You seem to be less intimidating than me and more people will respond to you. :lol:




Next quote:

"It is only in defeat that we become Christian."

Henry from A Farewell to Arms

[Scheherazade]

I said 'tend to' because I hope that sometimes we can go past that 'personal vanity' and like others because they are truly 'likeable'... Not only as a result of some kind of 'tit for tat'.
You know, there’s a strange pleasure to be had in reading that the moderator is waiting to be told off by one of the contributors. ;) I am a just another member of this Forum like others (and love it) and don't don the moderator's hat unless it is unavoidable.
I could offer an interpretation for your quotation but I’ll leave it. You seem to be less intimidating than me and more people will respond to you. :lol:Yeah, I take my time to show my fangs! ;)

Still the next quote:

"It is only in defeat that we become Christian."

Henry from A Farewell to Arms

[applepie]

"It is only in defeat that we become Christian."

Henry from A Farewell to Arms

I think you can easily substitute any religin in for Christian, but the overall point is that you only find God, or religion, when things are at their worst. It takes defeat not sucess to make a religious person.

Next quote:
"Into each life some rain must fall."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[chmpman]

I think here he is speaking of an idea that a complete life must include moments of grief, the rain, and this could be considered a natural state of human affairs, and should be recognized as such, so that one's life is not lamented to an exteme degree.
(Side note: this interpretation is using the quote only as it is pasted in the forum, I am not familiar with the actual context in which it was written)
New quote: I know my nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And I know and love my own people too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man. -- Edward Abbey

[chmpman]

Bump??????

[summer grace]

Explain this one-it's my favourite quote- '' Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again''-Willa Cather, I love this thread!

An interpretation of the last quote-posted by chmpman- I think it means that this person knows he shoudn't be a patriot, because his country is perhaps unworthy of it, and he may not embrace the ideals of his country fully, but that he is a patriot, even knowing this, and his countries faults. He is well aware his country isn't perfect, and perhaps not even worthy of him, but he feels called to patriotism. It's a love/hate thing.

[optimisticnad]

ok, there seems to be no new quote up at the moment so I'll put a really easy one:

'Is there no way out of the mind?' Sylvia Plath

or

'We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!' Tennessee Williams.

[Momus]

"I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me." - woody allen

what does this quote mean ?

[littlelit]

lemme try. i think it means that because i could not explain the universe i had begun to think " i am the universe"

next:
"In married life, three is company and two is none"
- Oscar Wilde

[Momus]

well it's a witty distortion of the old adage: "When two is company, three is none."

wilde meant to say that after marriage the husband and wife will not communicate much... so they need a third person ...

thanx.. i love oscar wilde... i know all his quotes by heart.

next: "It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune."

[packersfan]

I think it means that you can't keep being totally happy while really focusing on a death and focusing on all the changes the death will bring to you.

Here's one:
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Saint Augustine

[mansoor alam]

Hi,Smiling Tears,
I would like to explain the first one by Pope. In this quotation Pope emphasises the idea of ''objective goodwill''.Forgeting your brother does not mean to abandon your brother.It means to extend love,care and attention to all the people without keeping in mind ethnic,religious and other differences.

[applepie]

Here's one:
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Saint Augustine

I liked this quote. To me it means that you can not seek to believe in something simply by trying to understand it, but through belief you can understand. Given the person who said it, and the religious background it makes perfect sense. You can not believe in Him by seeking to understand his plans and working. All this will do is pull you further away from believing. Rather, if you believe in God, then you can understand everything else. Even if you only understanding is that it is part of His plan for us there is still understanding.

Next Quote:

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil Machiavelli

[Pretty^Athens]

I think it means that when you suffer, struggle and work hard to achive some goals or dreams, and achieve them after, the feeling of success will be very sweet and pleasent!
next: everyone has the authoroty of an official when he or she is absolutely convinced of what he or she is doing

[bazarov]

When you are sure in what you're doing, others will recognize it and respect it.

Put mountain on your left, so your right can hold a sword.

[Pretty^Athens]

When you are sure in what you're doing, others will recognize it and respect it.

Put mountain on your left, so your right can hold a sword.

This quote seems to be familiar bas difficult at the same time.. i like it, i think i understand it, but i find it difficvult to explain it...

[Baiross]

Hi can anyone explain the quote below:

"I'm a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser."
Robert Paul

Why does he say a little bit wiser but still none the wiser?

Many thanks