Quotes and Proverbs

[Pensive]

This game is quite easy and simple. Write a quote or a proverb containing a word from previous quote or proverb. :D

Any fool can know, the point is to understand - Einstein

[Riesa]

Sounds like fun, Pensive. :D



“The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.” Albert Camus

[ElizabethSewall]

"Ignorance of one’s misfortunes is clear gain." Euripides

[Pensive]

Pen is stronger than sword. (English Proverb)

[Pendragon]

"That which does not kill me makes me stronger." Nietchez

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword. Miguel Cervantes (1547-1616)

[Pensive]

Lol, well Xamonous, it is a matter of opinions.

Make hay while the sun shines - English Proverb

~ If anyone of you think that your quote or proverb needs explanation, you are welcome to explain it to make it more clear.

[Ryduce]

If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because, man, they're gone.-Jack Handy





It's so true.

[papayahed]

Man who eats many beans has brown spots on his jeans - I heard that attributed to Confucius but I don't think thats quite right.

[Dixie Chick]

Instead of having "answers" on a math test, they should just call them "impressions," and if you got a different "impression," so what, can't we all be brothers?

Jack Handley

[Eva Marina]

“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.”
Robert A. Schumann

[Dixie Chick]

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

--Rabindranath Tagore

[Basil]

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

[Pensive]

I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details - Einstein

[Basil]

The devil is in the details.

[Scheherazade]

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

Milan Kundera

[NNoah3]

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal"

Oscar Wilde

[Virgil]

"Mad, bad, and dangerous to know" - Lady Caroline Lamb referring to Lord Byron.

Hey, are we playing correctly? Aren't we supposed to take a word from the previous quote and use it in your own? I'm not sure I see everyone doing that.

[Basil]

A little learning is a dang'rous Thing - Alexander Pope

[Xamonas Chegwe]

I think you'll find that most have got 'it' or 'the' in them somewhere Virg. :nod:

The letter of the law perhaps, if not the spirit.


I dislike censorship. Like an appendix it is useless when inert and dangerous when active. Maurice Edelman (1911-1975)

[NNoah3]

"When anger rises, think of the consequences" Confucius

[Xamonas Chegwe]

"When anger rises, think of the consequences" Confucius

That definitely didn't have any words from the last post - read the rules please NNoah!

[NNoah3]

I am wondering if the word "When" doesn't count....

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Humble apologies - I must have gone through that 5 times! :lol:

[NNoah3]

It's OK, I was looking for another quote with the word "dangerous, or dislike" but I didn't find it. Or maybe is because I am hungry. Time to leave for my lunch....:D
See you in a little while. :wave:

[chmpman]

I think, therefore I am - Descartes

[Virgil]

"I hate definitions." -Benjamin Disreali

I have no idea of the context, but it does sound like something a politician would say in a private moment.

[Riesa]

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

[NNoah3]

"What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it? .
Doctor Who

[Pensive]

Hope is the thing with feathers,
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without words,
And never stops at all. :nod:

~ Emily Dickinson

[chmpman]

Hope springs eternal in the human breast - Alexander Pope

Or something like that, I may be forgetting an apostrophe.

[Pensive]

When by my solitary hearth, I sit
and hateful thoughts unwrap my soul in gloom;
When no fair dreams before my mind's eye flit,
And the bare hearth of life presents no bloom;
Sweet hope, ethereal balm upon me shed,
And wave thy silver pinions over my head

~John Keats

[Scheherazade]

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."

George Bernard Shaw

[Pensive]

Hope is hope for infinite hope - Tolikien

[Virgil]

Alas! Poor Yorick. I knew him Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy - William Shakespeare

[Pendragon]

"If you call a sheep's tail a leg, it still only has four legs. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one" Abraham Lincoln

[Pensive]

Proud people breed sorrows for themselves. (English Proverb)

[Virgil]

Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son,
Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking, and breeding,
No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them,
No more modest than immodest.

Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself

[Pensive]

To have great poets, then there must be great audiences too - Walt Whitman.

(Have you by any chance, Virgil, read Dialogue? It was a magazine. My grandpa brought the edition Volume:9 published in 1976 from USA and he has given it to me now. It is great)

[Virgil]

To have great poets, then there must be great audiences too - Walt Whitman.

(Have you by any chance, Virgil, read Dialogue? It was a magazine. My grandpa brought the edition Colume:9 in 1976 from USA and he has given it to me now. It is great)
No, I don't think so. It sounds familiar. I'll look it up.

[NNoah3]

"Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes". Jim Rohn

[Pensive]

Literature----the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions - John Morley

[NNoah3]

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon

[rachel]

"A friend is one who sticks closer than a brother." Proverbs, Holy Bible.

[Eva Marina]

"But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail." --Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare

[NNoah3]

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear... not absence of fear". Mark Twain

[chmpman]

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. - FDR

[NNoah3]

"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed". Michael Pritchard

[Xamonas Chegwe]

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and movement. Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)

[Basil]

"Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical." Yogi Berra

[Virgil]

"Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it thirty-six years and I'm used to it."
Casey Stengel

[Pensive]

A stitch in time saves nine. (Proverb)

[Mililalil XXIV]

Time waits for no man. [Old English]

[Pensive]

A closed mouth catches no fly. (Proverb)

[Pendragon]

"A mind is like a parachute--only function when open!"--Charlie Chan

[Scheherazade]

"A true friend stabs you in the front."

Oscar Wilde

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. Gore Vidal (1925 - )

[NNoah3]

"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends".
Japanese Proverb

[papayahed]

"Man who lives in glass house should get dressed in the basement"

-another quote attributed to Confucius but i'm sligthly skeptical

[Basil]

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation - Henry David Thoreau

[NNoah3]

"Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange".
Robin Morgan

[Riesa]

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?
~ Steven Wright

[Xamonas Chegwe]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)

I bet everyone's quote dictionaries are getting a good airing in this thread. :D

[Scheherazade]

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

George Bernard Shaw

[chmpman]

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man - Thoreau

Weird, almost the same quote.

[NNoah3]

I bet everyone's quote dictionaries are getting a good airing in this thread. :D
I bet you are right!!!! :lol: :lol:


The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
Edwin Schlossberg

[Pendragon]

"A bore is a person who talks when you wish him to listen." Ambrose Bierce

[kilted exile]

"A bore is a person who deprives you of solitude, without providing you with company" ~ Gian Vincenzo Gravina

[Mililalil XXIV]

James E. Burke:
We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

[Eva Marina]

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks. --Anonymous

[Virgil]

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.

-Ronald Reagan

[Ryduce]

Damn those hirajuku girls have some wicked style!!
-Some guy I know

[Virgil]

OK, if we're going into friends, how about:

Marriage isn't as bad as people say it is; but it's not as good as people say it either.

OK, I fudged on the game rules.

[rachel]

Damn those hirajuku girls have some wicked style!!
-Some guy I know


aw Ry, a hug for you. you are irrepressable, sweet and well basically adorable. :D :banana: :nod:

[rachel]

"My father told me all about the birds and the bees-the liar, I went steady with a woodpecker until I was twenty one." Bob Hope

[NNoah3]

"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds".
Aesop

[myself]

love is always chatter, it is your friends that matter

[Riesa]

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead."
- Chinese Proverb

[ElizabethSewall]

"Do not employ handsome servants." :lol:

Chinese proverb.

[tn2743]

I agree. that would not be a good idea! :)

"Twice the danger, twice the glory." Vietnamese proverb.

[Virgil]

"If you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"
Winston Churchill


I don't know if I would agree with the second part of that. Sometimes a good run is required.

[Xamonas Chegwe]

"If you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"
Winston Churchill


I don't know if I would agree with the second part of that. Sometimes a good run is required.

I quite agree, facing down a speeding truck can be messy. :D

[tn2743]

Running is definitely a good idea sometimes. Like when it suddenly starts to rain and you're carrying your dry cleaning back home.

[Mililalil XXIV]

"Excellent is Joy when quarrel and violence are far from it."

Menander.

[smilingtearz]

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
----Oprah Winfrey

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It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
---Woody Allen

[Mililalil XXIV]

"I came, I saw, I conquered."

Kaiser Julius.

[smilingtearz]

veni..vedi..vici.. :D

[Mililalil XXIV]

"I can just see you, standing in front of the stove - but I can't see the stove!"

Groucho Marx

[smilingtearz]

DUH!!! (sorry couldn't help not saying that!)

[Pendragon]

"When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a 'romance'" Oscar Wilde

"Romance should never begin with sentiment,
It should begin with science, and end with a settlement!" Oscar Wilde

[Taliesin]

"One cannot see the shine of his/her eyes himself/herself"

Udmurtian proverb

[Virgil]

"Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate."
Saint Thomas Aquinas

[Riesa]

"How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life."
Alfred Lord Tennyson

[Pensive]

Can't think of any good quote or proverb this time. *thinking smile*

Life is a great experiment - Khalil Gibran

[NNoah3]

"Where there is great love, there are always wishes".
Willa Cather

[Mililalil XXIV]

"Can we fix it?"

Bob the Builder

[Pendragon]

"I have nothing to declare except my genius!" Oscar Wilde, going through customs at New York.

Mark Twain, upon being shown a bottle of hootch in a suitcase he had just said contained only clothes: " That, sir, is my nightcap!"

[Riesa]

Mark Twain, upon being shown a bottle of hootch in a suitcase he had just said contained only clothes: " That, sir, is my nightcap!"
Good Ol' Samuel.
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. " ~ Lichtenberg

[Xamonas Chegwe]

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. James Joyce (1882 - 1941)

[Eva Marina]

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
--Marcel Proust

[Pendragon]

"It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong."Longfellow :thumbs_up

[NNoah3]

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
Johann Sebastian Bach

[Pendragon]

Positive: Mistaken at the top of one's lungs Ambrose Bierce :thumbs_up

[tn2743]

"Hakuna Matata." - Timon & Pumbaa

[Riesa]

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
Oscar Wilde

[Pendragon]

One of my favorites, attributed to Winston Churchhill "Yes, madam, I may be drunk. But you are ugly. And in the morning, I'll be sober!" :D

[NNoah3]

Oh, Pendragon! A good One!!!!! :D

"You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations"
Zig Ziglar

[Riesa]

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Ray Bradbury

[NNoah3]

You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
Yogi Berra

[tn2743]

"Work is love made visible." - K. Gibran

[Pensive]

Violence is the large refuge of the incompetent - Isaac Asimov.

[NNoah3]

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren Bacall

[tn2743]

"That money talks
I'll not deny,
I heard it once;
It said, 'good-bye.'"

Richard Armour

[Riesa]

Cares deny all rest to weary limbs. Virgil

Wow, good one, Virg. :nod:

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Were you to die, it would be a limb lopped off.

Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

[NNoah3]

Wait a minute!!!


Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren Bacall

Next post:


"That money talks
I'll not deny,
I heard it once;
It said, 'good-bye.'"

Richard Armour

If I am not wrong the second quote doesn't have a word for the first or at last I can't see it.
We must to follow the rules, don't you agree?

[tn2743]

My apologies; I shall abide by the rules from now on.

[Pendragon]

My apologies; I shall abide by the rules from now on.Do not feel too bad. In going back over my own posts, I have keep the rule only by accident at times, and at others completely forgotten it myself! :goof:

Now for a quote:

I die well paid, whist my expiring breath,
Smiles o're the tombs of foes made kin by death... Dutch Epigram

[Mililalil XXIV]

All I want is what's coming to me; all I want is my fair share!
Charles Schultz

[rabid reader]

"Maybe I'll be there to take you hand. Maybe I'll be their to share they land. Then we'll give it away when we all live together"- The Guess Who

[Pendragon]

"Punishment of a miser--to pay the drafts of his heirs in his tomb." Hawthorne

[Xamonas Chegwe]

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)

[rabid reader]

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Leon Trotsky

[kilted exile]

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Lord Chesterfield

[rabid reader]

The roots of education are better, but the friut is sweet- Aristotle

[ElizabethSewall]

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." Mark Twain :D

[Pendragon]

"A person who sets in to carry a cat home by the tail is getting an education that will last him a lifetime!" Mark Twain :lol:

[Virgil]

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
Jesse Owens

[Riesa]

"They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' *****es of Paris. "[on Andre Breton and the European surrealists ]- Frida Kahlo

[Pensive]

Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms
They will not be
Coming back to

- Donald Justice

[NNoah3]

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools".
Martin Luther King Jr.

[Pensive]

To be or not to be, that's the real question - Hamlet (Shakespeare)

[Pendragon]

"The only way to get the best of an arguement is to avoid it." Dale Carnegie

[Pensive]

Life is that what you might not regret right now, but it can be something in a matter of even an hour that you will regret severely - Pensive

[NNoah3]

"People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you'll know exactly what to do".
Michelle Ventor

[ElizabethSewall]

"Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you."
W.F. Amos

[NNoah3]

"Success on the outside begins with success on the inside".
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

[Pensive]

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves - Bill Vaughan

[NNoah3]

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Rooselvet

[optimisticnad]

'I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.' Soren Kierkegaard.

(Endgame by Beckett is good for this kind of idea-if you're interested)

[NNoah3]

"Say only what you mean.
The word is the most powerful tool we have as humans".

Don Miguel Ruiz - From the book The Four Agreements

[rachel]

hullo dearest NNoah, little country girl. miss you.

We believe fishermen, not dialecticians.--Saint Ambrose

[NNoah3]

Hullo dear Rachel!!!!!! I just wrote down a message for you in the Live Chat.

"Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it".
Dalai Lama

[TBtheG]

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
Frank Zappa

[rachel]

this is so true, that is why I have my own country, just keep the proof in the fridge and I don't even drink.I am beginning to think you should run for president or something, that is when we get back from camping!

[blondeatheart]

lol my parents are polish poland has heaps of their own beers its prty cool

"A moment in time is like a kiss given in thought"

i dont quite get it and i dont kno who its by but the more it think about it the less i understand - its mysterious thats why i like it!

[Pensive]

I think that it means that a moment in time is not worth much....that's what I can get but I am not sure that I am right.

A friend in need is a friend indeed - Unknown

[Riesa]

You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose. ~ some joker. :D

[NNoah3]

"And speaking of friendships, make sure you keep them in constant repair. A person with three solid friends is very wealthy indeed".
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

[NNoah3]

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
Muhammad Alí

[NNoah3]

"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."
Kahlil Gibran

[rabid reader]

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[Pensive]

Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war.
~ Carl von Clausewitz

[Pensive]

REVIVED THREAD!

See here (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20998)