What is your favorite quote? And why?

[Hurricane]

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

-President Theodore Roosevelt.


I would rather live a day as a lion than a hundred years as a dog

-Major Doug Zembiec.

[Taniya Sinha]

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power ... the world will know peace"- I came across this quote recently... can u tell me whose it iz???

[sadparadise]

No art is possible without a dance with death. Celine

[Niamh]

“Be Who You Are and Say What You Feel Because Those Who Mind Don't Matter and Those Who Matter Don't Mind.” Dr Suess

[jcondylis]

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings- Socrates (apparently).

All man could win in the conflict between plague and death was knowledge and memories- Albert Camus, The Plague.

Hell is other people- Sartre, No Exit (i think)

Mors Omnia Vincit;Death conquers all- from Alain de Bottons' 'Status Anxiety', i'm not sure who originally wrote it, might have been Seneca.

Books for everybody are always malodorous books: the smell of petty people clings to them- Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil.

Today it is bad, and day by day it will get worse-until the worst of all arrives- Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

[pagebypage]

“Hey, the offensive linemen are the biggest guys on the field, they're bigger than everybody else, and that's what makes them the biggest guys on the field.”--John Madden

[ESHQUIA]

the motto should not be: forgive one another; rather understand one another. /emma goldman

[sadparadise]

I have to add this as it is one of my favorite quotes. It was uttered by my son.
"I wish there was a cloud in the sky that never died and held all of our lives in it". February 16th, 2005. M.D.N. AGE 7

[mlw166]

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists."
- Charles Dickens


One of my favorites - believing without seeing is the ultimate form of love.

[sadparadise]

"The only paradise is a paradise lost". Marcel Proust....what about a Sadparadise? Surely I exist!!

[AlaskaDan]

"The man who builds a school,, Closes a prison"

Victor Hugo

[Snowqueen]

I like the whole essay but these lines are very touching and full of pathos.

"And while I stood gazing, both the children gradually grew fainter to my view, receding, and still receding till nothing at last but two mournful features were seen in the uttermost distance, which, without speech, strangely impressed upon me the effects of speech; "We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor are we children at all. The children of Alice called Bartrum father. We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of
ages before we have existence."

Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb ( DREAM CHILDREN)

[Ebonon]

It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.- Bohumil Hrabal

[MarkBastable]

It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.- Bohumil Hrabal

That's the kind of aphorism I like. Not necessarily true, but ought to be.


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"Don't exhort me to save time. You can't save time. You can only choose how to spend it."

Charles de Russon

[IceM]

I posted a couple of these in the "In Case you Become Famous Forum," but, because I love these quotes, I think I'll post a few here.

"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves." -Albert Einstein (apparently he knew more than just science).

"The day I discover why we exist is the day I won't." -IceM

"If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion." -Edmond de Goncourt.

Love these.

[angeldance5]

O lente, lente currite equis nocte

[ParisT]

anything from lord of the rings!!

[Red-Headed]

'Beauty is a war between god & the devil & the battlefield is the heart of man.'

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)

[Dinkleberry2010]

My all-time favorite quote from a writer: "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated." Mark Twain

[Scheherazade85]

"When all else fails, play dead."
-from-i'm-not-sure-where. Very reassuring.

[Scheherazade85]

“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
— Anaïs Nin

[MarkC]

Hi,

My favorite quote is:

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore

I like it because it inspires you to keep on dreaming.


MarkC

[MarkC]

One of my favourite quotes is:-
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do-
Freya Stark

Because,it inspires me to be happy in life.

[bleedlikeme]

Bütün renkler aynı hızda kirleniyordu. Birinciliği beyaza verdiler. Özdemir ASAF

all colours were getting dirty at the same speed, they gave the first place to white.

[bleedlikeme]

be like a river in generosity and help
be like the sun in tenderness and mercy
be like the night in covering the faults of others
be like the dead in anger and nervousness
be like the earth in modesty and humility
be like the sea in tolerance
be like your appearance (image), or appear like yourself.
mevlana

[Red-Headed]

'Beauty is a war between God & the Devil & the battleground is the heart of man.' ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)

Why? I don't know, it just kind of says it all. ;)

[Davo'o]

Hi everybody. It is my first post here. Could you please help me to know where this phrase is from? To be able to do everything by knowing nothing is dangerous

[Dr Jekyll]

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

"There are no facts, only interpretations." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"We have art to save ourselves from the truth." - also by Friedrich Nietzsche

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." - Sherlock Holmes

"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire

[LeEBy]

me being a teenager, i have to say one of my favorites is:

'I'm the president and i don't have to eat my broccoli'
-George Bush Sr.

[hack]

"Spend your money foolishly and your time wisely." -Sandy Koufax-

[toni]

“If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.”

- John Lennon

[Revolte]

"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution."

- Emma Goldman

[orinoco womble]

My personal favourite is from Chekov's "Uncle Vanya" in the translation used by Mamet and Malle. "What must human beings be, to destroy what we can never create?"

[DustBowlPoetry]

"Let them eat cake." -Maria Theresa of Spain

Conveys the ignorance of authority quite well.

[carino]

Here are some I have enjoyed:

"Physical strength is measured by what one can carry; spiritual strength, by what one can bear." Author unknown

"I learned much from my teachers, more from my books, and most from my troubles"---Isaac Kaminer

"Adversity may color life, but we have the privilege of choosing the color"--Unknown author

Why? Because it seems i keep getting into trouble.

[IceM]

"Let them eat cake." -Maria Theresa of Spain

Conveys the ignorance of authority quite well.

1) Maria Theresa was the Empress of Austria.
2) Marie Antoinette* made that statement.
3) She was the Queen of France prior to the French Revolution.

I pray you were being sarcastic.

[hack]

" I have never killed a man, but I have
read many obituaries with great pleasure."
-Clarence Darrow-

[teashi]

I like many, but here's one in particular:
"Experience: a comb life gives you after you lose your hair."-Judith Stern.

Pretty self-explanatory.:rolleyes5:

[chrissy613]

I like many, but here's one in particular:
"Experience: a comb life gives you after you lose your hair."-Judith Stern.

Pretty self-explanatory.:rolleyes5:

cute that made me giggle!

[teashi]

Haha, thanks. It's funny in a 'fact-of-life' kind of way.

[Joe Wright]

It ain't over 'till its over from Rocky 4.

[Dodo25]

"Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence; the gift of revulsion against its implications; the gift of foresight - something utterly foreign to the blundering short-term ways of natural selection - and the gift of internalizing the very cosmos."
- Richard Dawkins

Humbling, uplifting, and so damn true.

[JeffreyAdams]

These three are my favourites:

“There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.” - Johann Wolfgang

"You don’t need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence" - Jewish Proverb

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

[Cassidy Vitales]

The best thing to hold on to in life is each other. - Audrey Hepburn

[quasimodo1]

A tribute to the living? We are away beneath the sombre pines, amid a solitude that dreams to the ceaseless monotone of the west wind, the blue sky looking sleepily between the slowly bending boughs, and to, its veil of morning mist, uplifted by the morning breeze, white as pure thought, the monument of monuments. {from "A Monument to After-Thought Unveiled"}

[IzzaThePush]

The world is full of good people doing bad things.
hercule poirot by agatha christie:eek:

[Sirkka]

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

"Zwei Dinge sind unendlich, das Universum und die menschliche Dummheit, aber bei dem Universum bin ich mir noch nicht ganz sicher."

Albert Einstein

[quasimodo1]

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce

[quasimodo1]

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce

[Zhu]

Those who hold back rising anger like a rolling chariot are real charioteers. Others merely hold the reins.

from the Dhammapada, translated by Eknath Easwaran.

[PoeticPractice]

"But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."

[Skyfire]

"Andy Dufrene, who crawled through a river of **** and came out clean on the other side."

The Shawshank Redemption - Spoken by Red/Morgan Freeman

The humour in this one just gets me and makes me smile every time I read/hear it.

[Aragorn Elessar]

"He is richest who is content with the least." - Socrates

"Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching." - Unknown author

"Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Carl Sagan

"We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true." —Robert Wilensky

"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it." —Clarence Darrow

To name a few.

[MANICHAEAN]

I am quite prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared to meet me is another matter.

Winston Churchill.

[Lokasenna]

Heh, was reminded of this the other day:

"I'm the Bishop of Southwark; it's what I do!"
- The Bishop of Southwark

Google the quote if you don't know the story - I love that guy...

[bhamtya]

I dont know the creator of this one....bt its very close to my heart.


"respect is what you command. Its not what you demand."

[Scarlett O'Hara]

One of my favourite quotes from novels I have read is from 'Tale of Two Cities'
Honestly, I believe one of the greatest beginnings for a novel.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
I just love the series antitheses. Then, also, of course, the ending line:
"'It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.'"

[Scarlett O'Hara]

1) Maria Theresa was the Empress of Austria.
2) Marie Antoinette* made that statement.
3) She was the Queen of France prior to the French Revolution.

I pray you were being sarcastic.
That is not necessarily true. I used to believe that Marie Antoinette said that too, but there is no evidence to confirm it. Actually, it is more likely that Maria Theresa said it, about 100 years before Antoinette came along.
After studying the French Revolution, it shows how Marie Antoinette did not really realise the magnitude of the poverty and would not say that.
Regardless of who said it, it's a great quote.

[Scarlett O'Hara]

Also, I feel I have to add this quote due to my choice in name (first character who came to mind that was not taken):
"After all...tomorrow is another day"
How silly, yet so optimistic.

[iamnobody]

The maturity of man--that means, to have reaquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play. Friedrich Nietzsche

[.Kafka]

"We live as we dream, alone" - Joseph Conrad

[Captain Pike]

Didn't know where to put this, so I'll put it here since it was here that I recognized a problem.
I was in the Henry James database, on the other side of this website. I was looking for a quote to put in here. I tried using the search, the Boolean search feature which is offered. Supposedly you can scan the works of a particular author here. Not finding the quote I wanted, I tried searching for a quote that I can see right in front of me here in my book. Kind of like looking up your own name in the phone book. It never found the search string. Anyone ever had any luck with this? It is a powerful tool to boast having, where's the beef?

[hazelk]

Michael Pritchard

"You don't stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing".

[untroddenways]

"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer" -- Albert Camus

Speaks for itself, I believe.

[Zach J.]

My favorite quote is, "Heroes fight wars, have lots of sex and steal cattle." It was said by my Classical Epics professor last year.

[romeyblack]

"What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?"

[papayahed]

Heard it just now:

"Wow you are really uptight. It's like you have a piece of coal up your rear end. Turn it into a diamond and pull it out." - Tim Gunn, Project Runway

[littlelit]

"Your existence is an oxymoron."
Heard it in a movie I just saw. Loved it.

[hack]

"Now is the time on Sprockets, when we dance." -Dieter-

[abdultsitsopoul]

I like - "Dr Livingstone I presume"... just because it is soooo English!

[hoope]

“To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy - this is success!” Sasha Azevedo -Entertainer

[Jassy Melson]

My all-time favorite quote: The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated - Mark Twain

[Tallefred]

Sanity is not statistical -George Orwell

We shall all suffer for what the gods have given us -Oscar Wilde

You don't understand what friendship is...or what enmity is, for that matter. You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one. -Oscar Wilde

Hypotheses non fingo (I feign no hypothesis- I won't make up an answer to fill a gap in my knowledge) -Isaac Newton, on the cause of gravity

[Lord Macbeth]

By Work:

Hamlet
-Polonius' monologue to Laertes 1.3
-"Though this be madness, yet there is method in it" from 2.2
-"What a piece of work is man!" from 2.2
-"O! what a rogue and peasant slave am I!" from 2.2
-Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquoy 3.1
-"Hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature" from 3.2
-Ophelia's song from 4.5
-Hamlet's monologue about Yorick from 5.1

Macbeth
-"Fair is foul, and foul is fair" from 1.1
-Macbeth's monologue on the dagger from 2.1
-"Blood will have blood" from 3.4
-Macbeth's "I am in blood" monologue in he is 3.4
-The Witches' chant ("Double, double, toil and trouble..") from 4.1
-"Out, damned spot!" from 5.1
-Macbeth's "Told by an idiot" monologue from 5.5

The Merchant Of Venice
-Portia's "If to do were as easy as to know" monologue from 2.1
-"The devil can cite scripture for his purpose" from 1.3
-Portia's note ("All that glisters is not gold") from 2.7
-Shylock's "Hath not a Jew eyes?" monologue from 3.1
-Portia's "The quality of mercy is not strained" monologue from 4.1

Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead
-Rosencrantz's "Box" monologue
-The Player's "We're actors--we're the opposite of people!" monologue
-The Player (On the ironic nature of death) "Decides? It is written."
-Rosencrantz's "The moment where one first knew of death" monologue
-The Player (On his plays) "Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see."



And that's all for now, have to go, but I'll explain those and add to them (and start getting the philosophy quotes and explanations in) when I return... :)

[Rores28]

One of my favourite quotes from novels I have read is from 'Tale of Two Cities'
Honestly, I believe one of the greatest beginnings for a novel.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
I just love the series antitheses. Then, also, of course, the ending line:
"'It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.'"

I need to read some Dickens... that is a pretty incredible opener.

[Rores28]

"We live as we dream, alone" - Joseph Conrad

Debbie Downer alert

[cgrillo]

"Lawyers, I suppose, were children once." - Charles Lamb

[FROADS]

When I was a kid my pops would often tell me, "If you're gonna do something, do it right and be the best at it. Never half-*** it, never. Even criminals are distinguished; Compare bank-robbers to pickpockets. Who's braver? A pickpocket who snatches purses and runs away? Or the Bank-robber who faces the risk of shooting it out with cops?"



"If there be a single law governing the actions of men, free will cannot exist, for then man's will is subject to that law"- Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace.
Despite his fervent Anarchism, I always found that statement true to a certain extent. Especially among nations that are considered "3rd world". For instance, In the U.S, how easy is it for us to attain a Visa and travel abroad? To travel to Europe, Asia, and all those magnificent continents? Very easy, we wouldn't wait years like a citizen of an underdeveloped nation would...

[iamnobody]

Each small act of kindness reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one who was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed, and grows each time it is passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. Likewise each small meanness, each act of cruelty.

[Aragorn Elessar]

that is a pretty incredible opener.

That's what she said.

[bojangle]

Several of the many words i have collected written by emerson and rilke.

"If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is not poverty and no poor, indifferent place." - Rilke

"The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing." - Rilke

"Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights." - Rilke

"Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another" - Emerson

"Teach them to hold their tongues by holding your own. Say little; do not snarl; do not chide; but govern by the eye. See what they need, and that the right thing is done." - Emerson

"We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can." - Emerson

"The like force has the passion over all his nature. It expands the sentiment; it makes the clown gentle and gives the coward heart. Into the most pitiful and abject it will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world, so only it have the countenance of the beloved object. In giving him to another it still more gives him to himself. He is a new man, with new perceptions, new and keener purpoes, and a religious solemnity of character and aims. He does not longer appertain to his family and society; he is somewhat; he is a person; he is a soul." - Emerson

[Twilight*Lover]

"You are cold, because you are alone: no contact strikes the fire from you that is in you. You are sick; because the best of feelings, the highest and the sweetest given to man, keeps far away from you. You are silly, because, suffer as you may, you will not beckon it to approach; nor will you stir one step to meet it where it waits you."- Mr Rochester (Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte)

[hoope]

"You are cold, because you are alone: no contact strikes the fire from you that is in you. You are sick; because the best of feelings, the highest and the sweetest given to man, keeps far away from you. You are silly, because, suffer as you may, you will not beckon it to approach; nor will you stir one step to meet it where it waits you."- Mr Rochester (Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte)

I love this :)

" Time heals what reason cannot "

[clguerra]

I love this quote

"When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean" - Linji Yixuan

[Emil Miller]

"Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

[Roptat Lenz]

"The meek shall inherit the earth; the rest of us shall live amongst the stars." - Roptat Lenz

I just love the idea of space colonization; not only is it feasible, desireable, and economically useful, it ushers in a new age of adventure and discovery. I believe that I was born in between the two ages that would have satisfied me... The age of exploration, and the age of space exploration.

[Theunderground]

'He had the kind of determination where he would sooner suffer a thousand deaths than fail in his goal'.

Stendhal on Julien Sorel. The red and the black.

[Theunderground]

'You only need one person in life to love you and then you can achieve anything'.

Moi.

[faithosaurus]

"It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words."
-Anne Rice


This is so true.

[BeagScribhneoir]

"You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it."

From book ten of Darren Shans Demonata series, Hells Heros, said by the character Bec. It's just self explanatory in terms of why it's my favourite quote.

Another one I like is from a British drama series called Britannia High;

"Take a breath like the world is out of oxygen and use it just too laugh."

[Big Dante]

My signature.

[workaholic]

They do not love that do not show their love.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
-- William Shakespeare

Best of Shakespeare. :)

[Mr. Bungle]

Two of my favorite quotes are in my signature. :)

[workaholic]

If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price. -Rudyard Kipling

[Oniw17]

From the great Bizzy Bone:
"Some of need a memoir and some of us need a crowd"
Sht, some of us need both.

[janeeyre88]

"Life is not measured by the amount of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away." Author Unknown

I guess this quote was first published on a greeting card.

[howtowriteabook]

"Failure is not an option."

Because, as a writer, one must be prepared to face one rejection after another, time after time - and still consider oneself a 'success'... because failure is simply NOT an option! :)

Mani

[iamnobody]

If music be the food of love, play on. -Shakespeare

[Synderesis]

This scholastic maxim always struck me as good advice: "Never deny, rarely affirm, always distinguish."

[Stellar]

"I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things." Dorothy Parker

[chipper]

just one of my favorite quotes, not the absolute:

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had. - Eric Schmidt quotes

[Emil Miller]

Our enemies are motivated and resourceful - and so are we.
They never stop thinking about ways to harm our people - neither do we.

George W. Bush.

Nobody does it like George.

[twinsclassiclit]

Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

- Farragut

[Delta40]

Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

Anonymous

This is one quote which speaks for itself.

[Emil Miller]

Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

Anonymous

This is one quote which speaks for itself.

It's a pity that the author is anonymous, because it's an absolutely perfect description of the term. :nod:

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

"My own mind is my own church." Thomas Paine.

[jemiesranova]

Never play leapfrog with a unicorn...http://freeimagestocks.com/content/14/grey.png.!!

[chipper]

http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/PaleBlueDot.jpg

“Pale Blue Dot” was taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft, showing the earth against the backdrop of the Solar System. The photo also inspired Carl Sagan’s famous thoughts given at a commencement address on May 11, 1996

"....you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. ...every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. ... Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

Here is to hoping we are all being kind to our home to everyone living in it.

[iswarya]

devils rush in, where angels dread to enter or something like that
pope
a little knowledge is always dangerous

all the world's a stage
-shakepeare
heard melodies are sweet, those unheard are sweeter

[Lokasenna]

"No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist." - Borges

God knows, I get that feeling often enough these days.

[iamnobody]

Be careful about reading health books, you may die of a misprint-Mark Twain

[Pensive]

My writing shall heal not hurt - Emily (from Emily Climbs)

[Tournesol]

"All these things I say, I say them because I want you to know; I don't ever want to regret afterwards that I didn't say enough, I would rather say too much." by Samuel Selvon in his short story 'My Girl and the City'.

I love this quote, because too often we break relationships due to not explaining oneself clearly, or to perhaps miscommunication.

What's so wrong in explaining what we truly feel and what we truly mean?

[seva]

God, I will not give up, but promise me that u will not give up too...

[The Ol' Man]

Favourite quote, I can't begin to imagine. Quote I'm fond of? Many. I'll just quote the Moby
Dick:

"So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes
at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or
woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God."

Hamlet: '...Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is
nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes
it so. To me it is a prison...'

Hamlet: 'O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell
and count myself a king of infinite space, were it
not that I have bad dreams.'

'Be great in act, as you have been in thought' - Bastard from King John.

"The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an
inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness." - Joyce.

"the eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable goal"- Aleister Crowley.

"Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends" - Yeats

[LitNetIsGreat]

Some Woody Allen ones:

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.

[Sano]

Actually, I think my favorite quote for now is from a friend's history teacher. He said: "the only thing that keeps me from being happy is the universe".

[LadyGodiva]

and read my signature.

[endgame]

we are such stuff as dreams are made on- william shakespeare

[munkinhead]

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."
-Mark Twain-

[Crass the head]

Its actually by Morrissey: "Takes strength to be gentle and kind."

[Dr.reid_16]

an intellectual is one who finds something more interesting than sex - aldous huxley

where's your will to be weird? - Jim Morrison

[Dark Passenger]

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

'There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.'

-- Lord Henry


I love this quote. I was reading The Picture of Dorian Gray at work a few months ago, and when I read that line I had to tell people about it. It's so true. It made me think back to my first real relationship, all those years ago. We were together for about five years, but it was a slow death. I think the first two were good. After that I think both of us had had enough. We just didn't want anyone playing with our old toys.

[TheWildOne]

Death can never hurt you until you die.
-William T. Vollmann

The Edge… There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others- the living- are those who pushed their luck as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between now and later.
-Hunter Thompson

[Bessie11]

i like secondone most :thumbsup:

[jajdude]

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

- Philo (or Plato?)

[mazHur]

"The infinitely small have a pride infinitely great."
— Voltaire

[Bessie11]

My favourite Quote
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

[Melysnl]

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. John Updike

Sex is like money; only too much is enough. Updike

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong

I have theory that the truth is never told during the 9 to 5 hours. Hunter Thompson

It's no wonder truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. Oscar Wilde

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people who we personally dislike. Oscar Wilde

[Miss Floy]

"...when it is enquired whether such person be a good man or no, the meaning is not, what does he believe, or what does he hope, but what he loves."
--Jeremy Taylor from
Holy Living and Holy Dying Chap 4,
Sect 3
Very good derivative of 1 Corinthians 13:13.

"And right action is the freedom
From past and future also.
For most of us, this is the aim
Never here to be realized;
Who are only undefeated
Because we have gone on trying;"
--T. S. Eliot from
"The Four Quartets," "The Dry Salvages," part V

[mazHur]

" Praise be to God, Lord of the worlds ! The compassionate, the
merciful ! King on the day of judgment. Thee only do we worship and
to Thee do we cry for help. Guide Thou us on the right path, the path of
those to whom Thou art gracious, not of those with whom Thou art
angered, nor of those who go astray."
Al-Koran
translated by Rodwell.

[mazHur]

" Annasu ala dini mulukihim." Arabic Prov.

" People follow the religion of their kings.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


"When the generous promise, they perform."
Sadi.

[Valaquen]

Hello, new to the forum. I would have to choose, as my favourite(s):


"It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organised dust - ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out, which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream."
Mary Wollstonecraft, Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.

^ A plea from the soul for the existence of the spirit. And:


“I have a notion that, at big fires, a moment of extreme suspense can sometimes occur, when the jets of water slacken off, the firemen no longer climb, no one moves a muscle. Without a sound, a high black wall of masonry cants over up above, the fire blazing behind it, and, without a sound, leans, about to topple. Everyone stands waiting, shoulders tensed, faces drawn in around their eyes, for the terrible crash. That is how the silence is here."
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

^ Just heavy with atmosphere and dread.

[paulanderson114]

Today I caught myself smiling for no reason... then I realized I was thinking about you:banana:

[smerdyakov]

What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that ‘walks in us.’ There are all sorts of dead ideas and lifeless old beliefs. They have no tangibility, but they haunt us all the same and we can not get rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. Ghosts must be all over the country, as thick as the sands of the sea.

Ghosts - Ibsen

[Prairie]

That's an amazing Rilke quote above. It reminds me of the atmosphere of dread as today's economy crumbles under corporate avarice.

[cafolini]

Do not pray for something so hard because it might actually happen, and you, getting into a stupid habit, might then begin to waste your time praying for a lot of things that could never happen.

[cafolini]

"I am the president of Iraq and I'm willing to negotiate. Is this the mother of all peace?" ~ Ace in the hole.

[BlackCat]

"Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends" ~John 15:13, Jesus of Nazareth

[BlackCat]

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."

~Charles Dickens, A tale of two cities

[cafolini]

Know or listen to those who know. ~ Baltasar Gracian

[cafolini]

Life is like a star that thrives on the fuel of ideals. If you let it estinguish, you are left like a piece of rotten human flesh. ~ Jose Enrique Rodo

[cafolini]

All men are equal before fish. ~ Herbert Hoover

[KCurtis]

All men are equal before fish. ~ Herbert Hoover
All fish are not equal before men. Haddock is best. Karen Curtis

[cafolini]

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. ~ Mark Twain

[cafolini]

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~ Woody Allen

[cafolini]

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. ~ Saint Augustine

[cafolini]

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. ~ Laurence J. Peter

[cafolini]

If you have no democracy and you can get the people to agree not to speak up, you have bought a bargain much better than repression. ~ C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

The superfluous are a very necessary thing. ~ Voltaire

[KCurtis]

"You can observe a lot just by watching."

"You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours."

Yogi Berra

[cafolini]

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. ~ Henry David Thoreau

[KCurtis]

"Why don't you write books people can read?"
- Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941)

[cafolini]

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be. ~ Ken Venturi

[cafolini]

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. ~ Thomas Jefferson

[cafolini]

Do something stupid under control every so often. That way your ego will not feel so much competitive pressure from the ones that come for free. ~ C A Cafolini

[KCurtis]

I did something stupid. I looked for my car keys as I pulled out of my driveway-in my car. - Karen Curtis

[cafolini]

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ~ Albert Camus

[cafolini]

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them. ~ Michel de Montaigne

[cafolini]

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. ~ Michel de Montaigne

[KCurtis]

Do you have a feeling that you are the only one on thread? Karen Curtis

[Oxyster]

I go to god, and to my grave.
An honest soldier, true and brave.
-Goethe

Her nature is so vicious and malign, her greedy apetite is never sated
for when she eats, she is hungrier than ever.
-Dante's inferno

[cafolini]

Do you have a feeling that you are the only one on thread? Karen Curtis
No, you are also here. Wish there were many more.

[KCurtis]

No, you are also here. Wish there were many more.
Oxyster is here too!!

[MANICHAEAN]

She fell down a lift shaft on Ascension Day - so perverse of her.

Noel Coward.

[KCurtis]

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything." - Malcolm X

[MANICHAEAN]

Bugger Bognor.

King George V.

[cafolini]

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

[cafolini]

I am so much of a patriot that I would burn our flag in public if it were to fall in the hands of people that do not understand the dynamics of our freedom. ~ C A Cafolini

[MANICHAEAN]

Nobody can be truly English until he can say "really" in 17 different ways.

Paul Johnson.

[KCurtis]

I am so much of a patriot that I would burn our flag in public if it were to fall in the hands of people that do not understand the dynamics of our freedom. ~ C A Cafolini
I like it !!! :patriot:

[MANICHAEAN]

What I say is this, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

A.A.Milne.

[cafolini]

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. ~ Jim Rohn

[cafolini]

Heaven and Hell are two of the most entertaining places in the world. If they didn't exist, we would have had to invent them. ~ C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. ~ Miguel de Unamuno

[MANICHAEAN]

Have English class barriers broken down ?

Of course they have, otherwise I wouldn't be sitting here talking to someone like you.

Sandra Harris interviewing Dame Barbara Cartland.

[cafolini]

Wait a minute. What do you mean about your right to bear arms? Of course you have that. What about legs and everything else. ~ C A Cafolini

[KCurtis]

Wait a minute. What do you mean about your right to bear arms? Of course you have that. What about legs and everything else. ~ C A Cafolini
This is a witty one!

[QuentinL]

Favorite Bill Clinton quote:
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
:P

Lol, but my favorite quote is..
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of VALUE." ~Albert Einstein.
Great wisdom
My dad's favorite too.

[cafolini]

Favorite Bill Clinton quote:
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
:P



Clinton was claiming that one, and repeated it endlessly because technically the laws did not define oral sex as a form of sex. Actually, that's how he got away.

[QuentinL]

Yeah, you're right. I was posting that for a little joke, though, haha.

[cafolini]

Yeah, you're right. I was posting that for a little joke, though, haha.

Among the many, possibly Marilyn among them, she was the only one who became popular for sitting on the presidential staff.

[QuentinL]

"I have the intelligence of a hawk!" ~Skyler W. (A friend of mine)

Lol

[cafolini]

"I have the intelligence of a hawk!" ~Skyler W. (A friend of mine)

Lol

He could be betting his like on eyesight.
"We shall see," said a blind man, and he got runover by a deafmute.

[cafolini]

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. ~ Benjamin Franklin

[cafolini]

Forgive all the damage you feel has been done to you as fast as you can. You might not get a second chance. ~ C A Cafolini

[BienvenuJDC]

"Last night I shot an elephant in my pajamas. What he was doing in my pajamas? I don't know."

Groucho Marx

[cafolini]

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. ~ Abraham Lincoln

[cafolini]

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson

[cafolini]

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan

[BienvenuJDC]

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. ~ Abraham Lincoln


Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson


Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan

A wonderful theme of quotes...

[cafolini]

They sure fit together. Don't they? Thanks JDC.

[cafolini]

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. ~ Winston Churchill

[MANICHAEAN]

As God once said - and I think rightly........

Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery.

[cafolini]

A lie gets halfway around the world before one truth has a chance to get its pants on. ~ Winston Churchill

[Rognvald]

"Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis". - T. S. Eliot from 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

Here's the verse:

And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! 75
Smoothed by long fingers,
Asleep … tired … or it malingers,
Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? 80
But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet—and here’s no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, 85
And in short, I was afraid.

I love the line in question - in or out of context. For me it is evocative of will-power. As the saying goes, "If you will it to happen, it will happen!"

[cafolini]

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

[cafolini]

If God and nature were one, Spinoza would be correct, and science could settle the issues. We didn't need to kill Him 2011 years ago.

"We have killed Him. What are we going to do now?" F. Nietzsche.

[Oxyster]

age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young. -Homer : The iliad.

[cafolini]

I am one of the gratest cowards I have known. So now, if necessary, I would give my life for freedom because I grasp the most important kind of cowardice. ~ C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Change does not [necessarily] roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. ~ Martin Luther King

[KCurtis]

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Change does not [necessarily] roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. ~ Martin Luther King
:patriot:
Thankyou for remembering, Cafolini

[cafolini]

:patriot:
Thankyou for remembering, Cafolini

This guru of justice and freedom will never be forgotten. Thanks.

[tonywalt]

I became insane with long intervals of terrible sanity - Edgar Allan Poe

[cafolini]

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

[cafolini]

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world. ~ Muhammad Ali

[cafolini]

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. ~ John Lennon

[KCurtis]

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. ~ John Lennon
I hate that song.
Sorry

[cafolini]

I hate that song.
Sorry

Do not make the mistake of thinking that because I quote it I'm in love with it. There are some I do love, but there are many interpretations to quotes. It's a sad song. Probably one of regret for having forced plans. And then there is the other side of it, where if no thing is forced, the plans are what life is. We are constantly planning some thing or other.
I love Lennon, but I have no idols. Good response in your own way.

[cafolini]

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. ~ Mark Twain

[KCurtis]

Do not make the mistake of thinking that because I quote it I'm in love with it. There are some I do love, but there are many interpretations to quotes. It's a sad song. Probably one of regret for having forced plans. And then there is the other side of it, where if no thing is forced, the plans are what life is. We are constantly planning some thing or other.
I love Lennon, but I have no idols. Good response in your own way.
Well, It wasn't really a good response. I just have heard that phrase over-used so many times it has become a cliche.

[cafolini]

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we might catch excellence. ~ Vince Lombardi

[cafolini]

All guarded lookouts have a way to see outwards. But what most men want is to be seen and loved. That's why solitude never fulfilled men's need for happiness regardless of the discourses that they might have fenced rhetorically and consistently. ~ C A Cafolini

[ilmkidunya]

"love is not a difficult or complicated thing... but the people are"

its 100 % ture

[cafolini]

"love is not a difficult or complicated thing... but the people are"

its 100 % ture

You'll be surprised. Love is not difficult? Love is simple? Most show their want for it. Few can reach it. They preffer solitude because it's much easier. Maintaining good, rewarding relationships is not simple. It's just as complicated as life. The give and take requires growing, maturing and a certain amount of sacrifice. So does solitude, but the commander has little relationship to what complicates matters.

[cafolini]

If anyone thinks that the influence of the United States of America is waning, they don't know what they are talking about. ~ Barack Obama, State of the Union speech, 1/24/2012.
Regarding Iran: "I promise you I will not take away any options from the table." ~ Barack Obama, State of the Union speech, 1/24/2012.

[cafolini]

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. ~ Michel de Montaigne

[MANICHAEAN]

"Anybody who stands up and says total freedom might be a good thing is immediately swamped with appreciative letters from old ladies whose twin hobbies are prize cucumbers and the castration of sex offenders."

Alan Bennett.

[cafolini]

A philosopher was once a man who loved wisdom (sophistry). When the wisdom catalogs began to suffocate all different possibilities, a philosopher became a man who simply posed questions. But, as with wisdom, he had every answer. So in the last half of the 20th century, when all the answers were catalogued and had began to neosuffocate all different possibilities, he had to be placed in a museum as simply the proprietor of just a narrow way of life. That's how we got rid of the problem. And he is not coming back in any suffocating way. He now sells his books whenever he can. The people were smart to separate church and state, but it took a while longer to do it with the philosopher because the clever beast did not claim more than reason and clever, entangling arguments. ~ C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

Chaos is an ancient invention of being and existence. It lingered far too long in the conciences of men. In a postmodern point of view, Chaos is a forced indifference inference on orders we deem inconvenient. Like all products of wisdom, it's impossible as knowledge. ~ C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ~
Friedrich Nietzsche

[cafolini]

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. ~ Maya Angelou

[cafolini]

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. ~ Maya Angelou

[MeLiKeyClaSsIcS]

Who is there that knows me, that would not trust me—that does not? Ask anybody whether they have ever doubted me; whether I have ever wronged them of a farthing. ~ From Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop

It's my favorite quote because it reminds me of how much I trust my three best friends!

P.S: A late B-Day wish to my favorite novelist! Happy 200th Birthday!!! =)

[MeLiKeyClaSsIcS]

I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong. You can look at a painting for the first time, for example, and not like it at all, but after looking at it a little longer you may find it very pleasing. The first time you try Gorgonzola cheese you may find it too strong, but when you are older you may want to eat nothing but Gorgonzola cheese. ~ Lemony Snicket


P.S: Guys and gals: Don't sleep on children's literature!
For the love of God, will someone PLEASE tell my friends how wonderful a book Peter Pan is?!

[cafolini]

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. ~
Abraham Lincoln

[cafolini]

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. ~ Winston Churchill

[cafolini]

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. ~ John Lennon

[BienvenuJDC]

There was a fight in the candy store. Two suckers got licked.

[cafolini]

Those who will believe or disbelieve what they can fully comprehend must have very little knowledge and a lot of wisdom to commit biological suicide. ~ C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

[KCurtis]

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

This is absolutely true!! Growing old should be rewarded, just for putting up with it!

[cafolini]

People who consider themselves original are a dishonor to their teachers, be them parents or otherwise, or even nature. And others who agree with them are utterly naive or liars. ~ C A Cafolini

[Nilabh Sagar]

lord save the god from macbeth

[cafolini]

A person who says that a lie cannot live for too long is simply a person that does not know how to tell it. ~ C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~ Winston Churchill

[cafolini]

"This is Osama Bin Laden and this war has just started."

[cafolini]

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

[cafolini]

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. ~ Gaston Bachelard

[jajdude]

I enjoy a good quote. Here's one I found not long ago by someone who said a lot of interesting things - his quotes are quite engaging. I find some truth in this for sure.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/francois_de_la_rochefouca.html

[cafolini]

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.~ Maya Angelou

[cafolini]

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions. ~ Michel de Montaigne

[cafolini]

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. ~ Albert Camus

[cafolini]

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. ~
Charles de Montesquieu

[cafolini]

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ. ~ Charles de Montesquieu

[cafolini]

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. ~ Abraham Lincoln

[cafolini]

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live. ~
Marilyn Monroe

[cafolini]

It was a long time before I appreciated quotes that came in all-seriousness. That's because there is so much of our planet that must be treated with satire and humor. It was only when I realized that we could actually lose our rights to be humorous and satirical that I began to enjoy some very serious stuff. ~ C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truths than lies. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

[Buh4Bee]

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live. ~
Marilyn Monroe

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