What is your favorite quote? And why?

[cafolini]

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ~ Mark Twain

[jajdude]

The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

[cafolini]

The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

That's a truth and it works in conjunction with Angelou's: "The talent of children to endure stems from their lack of alternatives."

[Crowskee]

Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I'll kiss you for it. To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. In the first case you are a man, in the second you're no better than a bird.

[cacian]

''he who speaks must think, he who thinks must write and he who sees must be''

[cafolini]

''he who speaks must think, he who thinks must write and he who sees must be''

He who speaks might think he thinks. He who thinks he thinks might write. He who sees might tell or think he tells. ~ C A Cafolini

[iamnobody]

Faith is believing what you know ain't so.-Mark Twain

[G L Wilson]

"The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh."
Ecclesiastes 4: 5

[cafolini]

:party:
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.-Mark Twain

Or believing, or disbelieving what is is. As long as it is believing or disbelieving, it is faith in the spirit and what comes from the spirit. But if it comes from what it is so, it is still faith in what it is so. No thing or action was ever born from a man for the latter to actually not have any faith involved in it.
Men are born faithful and reverend in whatever which way. This might be difficult to grasp. Don't ask around.:party:

[cafolini]

A contrast:

Serious, precise, realistic if you happen to be on the spot of a leader. Abe Lincolm:
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Romantic, vague, hypocritical anywhere, but extremely humorous. Albert Speer:
If Hitler had the capability for friendship, I would have been that friend.

[G L Wilson]

A contrast:

Serious, precise, realistic if you happen to be on the spot of a leader. Abe Lincolm:
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Romantic, vague, hypocritical anywhere, but extremely humorous. Albert Speer:
If Hitler had the capability for friendship, I would have been that friend.

"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy."
George Bernard Shaw

[Delta40]

"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy."
George Bernard Shaw

wow! I just read that quote this morning!

[cafolini]

"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy."
George Bernard Shaw

Poor Shaw. I might be an idiot in his final analysis, since I am so patriotic that I would burn our flag in public if it were to be used by those who never understood freedom.
But those were the blinded days of Foucault, also. He and Shaw farted well as they found it necessary.

[Prince Smiles]

Poor Shaw.

Yes, but how about this quote:

England and America are two countries
divided by a common language.
—George Bernard Shaw

[Alexander III]

But I have lived, and have not lived in vain:
My mind may lose its force, my blood its fire,
And my frame perish even in conquering pain;
But there is that within me which shall tire
Torture and Time, and breathe when I expire;
Something unearthly, which they deem not of,
Like the remember'd tone of a mute lyre,
Shall on their soften'd spirits sink, and move
In hearts all rocky now the late remorse of love.

- Child Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV

[cafolini]

Yes, but how about this quote:

England and America are two countries
divided by a common language.
—George Bernard Shaw

Well, yes. But he stayed Fabian. Never grasped Freemasons to end.
Besides, we'd have to have a talk with the Iron Lady about what side of the two countries is necessary to keep the armed forces, and have a good discussion about Gibraltar and Falklands(as a minimum).

[Veho]

"True love is always right, even when it is in the wrong." - Milan Kundera

[cafolini]

People believe or disbelieve in unconditional love. I know it doesn't occur. But there occurs a lot of love which keeps the best going against hate. Historically, love always wins this battle. What's missing in hate? Hope for the best.

[PrinceMyshkin]

“Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.” Mark Rothko

[cafolini]

“Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.” Mark Rothko

Isn't it a little too humble for the dedication? Would you try to convince Degas or Van Gogh about this one? I don't think so.

[PrinceMyshkin]

"An anecdote is a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person. It may be as brief as the setting and provocation of a bon mot. An anecdote is always presented as based on a real incident[1] involving actual persons, whether famous or not, usually in an identifiable place. However, over time, modification in reuse may convert a particular anecdote to a fictional piece, one that is retold but is "too good to be true". Sometimes humorous, anecdotes are not jokes, because their primary purpose is not simply to evoke laughter, but to reveal a truth more general than the brief tale itself, or to delineate a character trait in such a light that it strikes in a flash of insight to its very essence."

Your reply suggests that an anecdote is necessarily trivial, but that isn't the case. Perhaps it is better expressed as a "jeux d'esprit," a play of the mind or spirit.

[cafolini]

"An anecdote is a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person. It may be as brief as the setting and provocation of a bon mot. An anecdote is always presented as based on a real incident[1] involving actual persons, whether famous or not, usually in an identifiable place. However, over time, modification in reuse may convert a particular anecdote to a fictional piece, one that is retold but is "too good to be true". Sometimes humorous, anecdotes are not jokes, because their primary purpose is not simply to evoke laughter, but to reveal a truth more general than the brief tale itself, or to delineate a character trait in such a light that it strikes in a flash of insight to its very essence."

Your reply suggests that an anecdote is necessarily trivial, but that isn't the case. Perhaps it is better expressed as a "jeux d'esprit," a play of the mind or spirit.

No, I didn't mean trivial. Jeux d'esprit is better because of being more or less constant. However, as Degas pointed out, the only spontaneous behavior on the part of the artist might be Aristotelian flies as revealed by Turberville Needham.

[RicMisc]

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin

I believe I came across this one whilst playing a Total War game (how educative games are) and it just stuck with me because it is so true. Also sort of gloomy now that I think about it...

[PrinceMyshkin]

“By dint of railing at idiots we run the risk of becoming idiots ourselves.” Gustave Flaubert

[cafolini]

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. ~ Herodotus

[jajdude]

What is common to the greatest number gets the least amount of care. Men pay most attention to what is their own; they care less for what is common; or at any rate they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned. Even when there is no other cause for inattention, men are more prone to neglect their duty when they think that another is attending to it.

Aristotle

[cafolini]

What is common to the greatest number gets the least amount of care. Men pay most attention to what is their own; they care less for what is common; or at any rate they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned. Even when there is no other cause for inattention, men are more prone to neglect their duty when they think that another is attending to it.

Aristotle

This is no longer true in the United States of America and many other states. Aristotle's in the museum. If you think Aristotle is correct, you better research the actual state of affairs. I know there are lots of mongers making money from saying that the opposite is true. But they can't pull it. They try, though. They'll lose campaign after campaign, as things stand.

[PrinceMyshkin]

This is no longer true in the United States of America and many other states. Aristotle's in the museum. If you think Aristotle is correct, you better research the actual state of affairs. I know there are lots of mongers making money from saying that the opposite is true. But they can't pull it. They try, though. They'll lose campaign after campaign, as things stand.

This is a remarkable statement in view of the recent bursting of the mortgage bubble, owing to the sale of so many sub-prime mortgages! And are you aware of the difference in the income of the top 1% of the US population vs the average among the rest of the people?

[cafolini]

This is a remarkable statement in view of the recent bursting of the mortgage bubble, owing to the sale of so many sub-prime mortgages! And are you aware of the difference in the income of the top 1% of the US population vs the average among the rest of the people?

The mortgage bubble is just ONE buble. Money in America is fictitious. The important thing in America are the human resources. How much is a person worth that can be trained fast in 5000 different jobs as compared to one that, culturally inhibited in all respects, cannot be trained fast in more than 2 or 3 jobs.
I agree, my previous statement was quite remarkable. This is even more so. This is a CLUE of an even far more remarkable one. Have fun.
Not everyone saw what Napoleon thought about the use of statistics. They can be used very properly and extremely profitably, without confounding but the confused.

I want to add something important to this. Let's say the superrich make a billion when before that they made 900,000,000. Let's say that during the same period the middle class makes 5,000,000 when before that they made 4,000,000.
Increase superrich: about 10%. Increase middle class: about 20%.
If I am middle class, am I going to shoot myself in the foot on account of envy? Even more remarcable.

[PrinceMyshkin]

The mortgage bubble is just ONE buble. Money in America is fictitious.
I'd be grateful to hear your explanation of this second sentence.

[cafolini]

I'd be grateful to hear your explanation of this second sentence.

It would be too lenghty and will require a lot of international knowledge without cultural attachments. I'd prefer another humorous one of mine like, "We have become the best democratic firefighters in the world. Do you think for a minute that we'll let Don Quijote do the accounting for us?"

[cafolini]

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. ~ Herodotus

[PrinceMyshkin]

‟In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.” Thomas Szasz

[KCurtis]

And are you aware of the difference in the income of the top 1% of the US population vs the average among the rest of the people?

Yes. It's a good thing we have the top 1%, if we didn't, the country wouldn't have as much money, or jobs.

[cafolini]

‟In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.” Thomas Szasz

And be eaten by self definition? :rofl:
No doubt that more than half the world is stuck in that desperate identity shriek.

[PrinceMyshkin]

Yes. It's a good thing we have the top 1%, if we didn't, the country wouldn't have as much money, or jobs.

Current U.S. debt: 15.5 trillion.
Current unemployment rate: 8.3%

[cafolini]

Current U.S. debt: 15.5 trillion.
Current unemployment rate: 8.3%

I'd suggest that those who have a claim file for it.

[cafolini]

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change. ~ Herodotus

[cafolini]

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing. ~ Herodotus

[Gertrude73]

http://www.infoocean.info/avatar2.jpgI would have to admit I'm not all that good with quotes

[cacian]

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change. ~ Herodotus

how invigorating.

[cafolini]

how invigorating.

That one was always a funny one to me. There was a possibility that what he meant was diahrrea, the end of constipation. Pretty envigorating. Do you know if Milk of Magnesia was already available?

[cacian]

That one was always a funny one to me. There was a possibility that what he meant was diahrrea, the end of constipation. Pretty envigorating. Do you know if Milk of Magnesia was already available?

Hi cafolini, I have no idea about the milk haha.

[cafolini]

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing. ~ Herodotus

[PrinceMyshkin]

“What you suggest may be all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory.”

Apocryphal French philosopher.

[cafolini]

Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less. ~ Alvar Aalto

[cafolini]

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings. ~ Henri Bergson

[RicMisc]

"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality." - Jules de Gaultier

[cafolini]

After all is said and done, more is said than done. ~ Aesop

anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn't he danced his did

From anyone lived in a pretty how town ~ E. E. Cummigs

[cafolini]

A bird doesn't sing because he has an answer. He sings because he has a song. ~ Maya Angelou

[PrinceMyshkin]

"I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive or not."

Joan Didion

[cafolini]

Joan Didion is one of those rare people I could have been a loyal friend to in spite of us being marked antithesis in thought. Wherever she saw degeneration, loss of value, the waning of america, I saw progress, possibilities, and the outcome of the strongest America to ever be known. And it's getting better.

[cafolini]

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. ~ Albert Camus

[cafolini]

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. ~ Pierre Bayle

[PrinceMyshkin]

“A solitary pawn spreads gloom across the chessboard.”


Mikhail Tal

[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. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Sophia21]

Happiness is but an occasional episode in the general drama of pain. Thomas Hardy.

[cafolini]

Happiness is but an occasional episode in the general drama of pain. Thomas Hardy.

Personally, I considered Hardy one of the most insane thinkers the moment I read him. And as I grew older, even more so. I'm not going to say why. I would not waste my time with the freak.

[Snowqueen]

A town occupied by the enemy is like a maid who has lost her honour.

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

[cafolini]

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

[aliengirl]

Personally, I considered Hardy one of the most insane thinkers the moment I read him. And as I grew older, even more so. I'm not going to say why. I would not waste my time with the freak.

Agreed! With so much real life problems waiting to be tackled, the last thing I'd want is to go read someone who increases the depression manifold. A pessimist is not only a sad sight but a bad read too.

[aliengirl]

This is the kind of Friend You are-
Without making me realize
My soul’s anguished history,
You slip into my house at night,
And while I am sleeping,
You silently carry off
All my suffering and sordid past
In Your beautiful hands.
~ Hafiz

[cafolini]

Nice little poem. I'm glad you find meaning in it.

[cafolini]

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. ~ Albert Camus

One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough. ~ Hafiz of Persia

Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains. ~ Hafiz of Persia

A truce to your volumes, your studies, give o'er: for books cannot teach you love's marvelous lore. ~ Hafiz of Persia

[cafolini]

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. ~ John Steinbeck

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. ~ John Steinbeck

[cafolini]

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

[PrinceMyshkin]

“Art is the community’s medicine for the worst disease of the mind, corruption of consciousness.” R.G. Collingwood

[aniloverall]

"seeking to be more than man, we become less"

[cafolini]

God is a cleaning company with a detergent made of silence. ~ C A Cafolini

[aliengirl]

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. ~ Albert Camus

One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough. ~ Hafiz of Persia

Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains. ~ Hafiz of Persia

A truce to your volumes, your studies, give o'er: for books cannot teach you love's marvelous lore. ~ Hafiz of Persia


Do you know Hafiz is also referred to as Hafiz Shirazi? He was from Shiraz, Iran which is also the birthplace of Sa'di.

And that's a beautiful quote of Camus.

[aliengirl]

“Art is the community’s medicine for the worst disease of the mind, corruption of consciousness.” R.G. Collingwood

True! However, there are some people who hold art responsible for the corruption of consciousness. Deplorable and sad!

[aliengirl]

Character, not brain, will count at the crucial moment. ~ Tagore

[cafolini]

Every cause produces more than one effect. ~ Herbert Spencer

Every effect is a cause. ~ C A Cafolini

[PrinceMyshkin]

“I don't believe in God, but I miss him."

Julian Barnes

[cafolini]

If you shut the door to all errors, truths will be shut out. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

[cafolini]

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. ~ Woody Allen

[cafolini]

If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number? ~ Robin Williams

[cafolini]

One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. ~ Robert De Niro

[cafolini]

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. ~ Mel Brooks

[cafolini]

Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ~ John Wayne

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. ~ John Wayne

[cafolini]

My feeling about him is that the America that we have today, the freedoms we enjoy and the privileges we have, are really the reflection of Abe Lincoln's convictions, his vision, and his toughness. ~ Gregory Peck


Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember? ~ Gregory Peck

[cafolini]

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. ~ Clint Eastwood

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. ~ Clint Eastwood

[Alexander III]

“Mon coeur est à toi, mon sang à l'Empereur, ma vie à l'honneur” - Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle


Roughly translated - (my heart belongs to you, my blood for the Emperor, my life to honor)

[cafolini]

My dignity requires that I trust that people mean what they say. I'll defend with my life freedom of speech. I think that's a good limit before we must move on to judge what they do. ~ C A Cafolini

[Alexander III]

Maybe it is best that we keep the quotes here, from established talented writers and not oneself - it helps filter out a lot of crap.

[cafolini]

Many people want to carry the world on their shoulders; the little world they could gather and carry has no alternative but to lodge by force. They become very narrow-minded. ~ C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. ~ Ernest Hemingway

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. ~ Ernest Hemingway

[cafolini]

Grandparents, under somewhat normal circumstances if such occur, should have a major advantage over the education of their grandchildren. They have been able to visit the pillow and the toilet for a much longer time. C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

Ezra was right about half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it. ~ Ernest Hemingway

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. ~ Ernest Hemingway

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. ~ Ernest Hemingway

[cafolini]

“Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms”
~ Guy de Maupassant, Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques

[cafolini]

It seems that contemporary weapons would not be able to produce WWIII. They are so fast, devastating, so accurate, that they will never produce such tedious negotiations, such lengthy plans; not enough time. People that count in this matter will negotiate with supersonic speed. Too much power will save us from WW. ~ C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

It seems that contemporary weapons would not be able to produce WWIII. They are so fast, devastating, so accurate, that they will never produce such tedious negotiations, such lengthy plans; not enough time. People that count in this matter will negotiate with supersonic speed. Too much power will save us from WW. ~ C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

Since I became an adult, and it took a while, whenever I heard anyone say, "I wouldn't get involved in politics," I knew he or she was up to hers or his knees in it. ~ C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.~ Woody Allen

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have ~ Woody Allen

[cafolini]

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

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself. ~ Michel de Montaigne

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ~ Michel de Montaigne

[cafolini]

As I grow older, I can't help but feel I have the mind of a Marine with the power of an amoeaba. Earlier, as this transformation was taking place, I did not feel well. But I soon realized that it could be worse, much worse. I could have gained the mind of an amoeba with the power of a Marine. ~ C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in. ~ Gregory Peck

What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches. ~ Gregory Peck

[dark desire]

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. ~ Oscar Wilde

A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ~ Oscar Wilde

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. ~ Oscar Wilde

[cafolini]

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them. ~ Carlos Fuentes


Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror. ~ Carlos Fuentes

[cafolini]

I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ~ Paul M. Glaser

So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get. ~ Paul M. Glaser

So it eventually became a question of WHEN they were going to make a movie. ~ Paul M. Glaser

[cafolini]

I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ~ Paul M. Glaser

So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get. ~ Paul M. Glaser

So it eventually became a question of WHEN they were going to make a movie. ~ Paul M. Glaser

[cafolini]

I've seen a heap of trouble in my life, and most of it never came to pass. ~ Mark Twain

[cafolini]

Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam. ~ David Hackworth

We could have gone to Vietnam, pave all the roads, install parking meters all over the place, and be back home in time for Christmas. ~ Ronald Reagan

[cafolini]

You look just like you. Your cunning cannot hide you from actual eyes, except the ones cunning, apostolic, like yours, which cannot hide you from your own. ~ C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

Time travelling can only be done through the reading of history. I include astronomy in history since nobody can deny that we are looking at light years in the past. I see no other way to time travelling. ~ C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. ~ John Steinbeck

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play. ~ John Steinbeck

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. ~ John Steinbeck

[cafolini]

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other. ~ William Faulkner

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief. ~ William Faulkner

[cafolini]

We Americans become powerful foes when we don't understand something that happens inside the US. Many leaders (writers, dictators, etc.) from foreign cultures have claimed that we undestand each other excellently, but fail to understand other countries. After the events of 9/11/2001, we decided to prove that they were right. Still we don't understand. ~ C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

Reality is what you grasp right now, not earlier, not later. It is what it is to you, and from that there is no escape. It's irrelevant whether you are right or wrong. That's not going to change reality. It could only make it partial. ~ C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

Fascism at one of its best:

Death Is Nothing But To Live Defeated And Inglorious Is To Die Daily ~ Napoleon Buonaparte

[cafolini]

One paramount aspect of fascism is love of glory for the leaders at the expense of the sacrifice of the common man.

Fascism is very entangling. It degrades de poor and then buys their vote by promising salvation from the misery and degradation it instituted. It took centuries to deliniate it, estimate it and reveal it for keeps. It will never be back on a global basis.

Now that's progress in the struggle for liberty from the famous monster. ~ C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent. ~ Tennessee Williams

[cafolini]

The fascist were extremely brutal and ignorant. Take Napoleon, for example, an idiot that other fasscist cosidered genial. In looking at statistics, he didn't speak about the subject. His fly's attention took him to look at the interpretation of others while considering it an art and being so retarded in his assumptions.

"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts."
Napoléon Bonaparte

[cafolini]

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself. ~ Tennessee Williams

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. ~ Tennessee Williams

[cafolini]

There occur no nombelievers. People always find themselves in situations where they must make decisions fast enough to base then on belief. ~ C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it. ~ Dalai Lama

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. ~ Dalai Lama

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day. ~ Dalai Lama

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent. ~ Dalai Lama

[Buckthorn]

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them - Dalai Lama


The cannons of his adversary were thundering in the tattered morning when the Majesty of England drew himself up to meet the future with a peaceful heart - T.H. White

[Hawkman]

"I used to be an optimist, but I got tired of being proved wrong." - Hawkman

[cafolini]

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. ~ Oscar Wilde

[cafolini]

We are all mediators, translators. ~ Jacques Derrida

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides. ~ Jacques Derrida

[kita]

People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring . -haruki murakami

[cafolini]

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. ~ Jimmy Carter

[cafolini]

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.' ~ Jimmy Carter

[cafolini]

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market. ~ Barack Obama

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact. ~ Barack Obama

[cafolini]

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. ~ Mark Twain

[cafolini]

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough. ~ Audrey Hepburn

[cafolini]

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. ~ R. D. Laing

[cafolini]

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. ~ R. D. Laing

[cafolini]

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground. ~ Serge Lang

[cafolini]

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic. ~ Nicola Abbagnano

[cafolini]

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ~ Erich Fromm

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. ~ Erich Fromm

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. ~ Erich Fromm

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. ~ Erich Fromm

[cafolini]

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ~ Khalil Gibran

[Darcy88]

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. ~ R. D. Laing

I love this! Hahaha. So true. Thanks for sharing this quote. I want to go read some R. D. Laing now.

[cafolini]

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. ~ Khalil Gibran

[cafolini]

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need. ~ Richard Gere

[cafolini]

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters. ~ Richard Gere

Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful. ~ Richard Gere

[cafolini]

Beware of geeks bearing formulas. ~ Warren Buffett

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. ~ Warren Buffett

I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it. ~ Warren Buffett

[cafolini]

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. ~ Barack Obama

[cafolini]

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by. ~ Julia Roberts

[cafolini]

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. ~ John Steinbeck

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. ~ John Steinbeck

[cafolini]

You'll never find the light at the end of your tunnel until you find and clealy state the darkness at the beginning. C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

Beliefs have little to do with faith. For that matter, any belief suffices. So you better accept the faith of other people as important as your own. It is not the evidence of things unseen. It is the evidence of any belief. It is only thus that it is good for everyone. C A Cafolini

Every time I buy a more expensive suit, it looks cheaper on me. ~ Warren Buffet

[cafolini]

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. ~Jacques Derrida

[aliengirl]

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something. - Robert Browning

[cafolini]

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. ~ Woody Allen

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. ~ Woody Allen

[lilimarlene]

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.-johann wolfgang von goethe

To thine own self be true-Shakespeare

"Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."-Oscar Wilde

[cafolini]

Convictions are not necessarily true: a note for asses! ~ F. Nietszche.

The insanity of an individual is inconsequential compared to the insanity of political parties, systems of government and institutions. ~ F. Nietzsche

[heat4212]

"I’m going to stop pretending my life hasn’t started yet."

Roadwork by Richard Bachman/Stephen King

I read this for the first time as a young adult. I realized in that moment that all my activities and interests revolved around future goals and aspirations. I was not living in the moment or taking time to "smell the roses." Or even thinking about the consequences of my actions.

Now I am married with four kids and there are still moments my husband and I ask each other if we feel like grown-ups yet.

[Aurbierre]

I've got quite a few, but one of my favourite quotes that immediately comes to mind is...

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. - George Orwell.

[cafolini]

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. ~ George Orwell

What an amazing double agent was Orwell. There have been few as good as such. England never amazed me for what it lodged in order to fight for freedom. It always seemed quite normal to me: "To thyself be true." ~ C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

Lincoln was a most ignorant military man. But he was also a most lucky one in giving comand of the north to George Meade when he needed the best general he could find. Meade would not have fought Gettysburg without doing what Lincoln could have never done. He was the way to democracy when he submitted to a vote whether or not the north would go after Lee. The north voted yes and the war went on. Otherwise Meade would have resigned.
Lee decided to play a trick, a gamble, where he lost 18,000 men. Then he started apollogizing as he withdrew into the deep south. Lee knew that unless Meade went after his defeated army he could not hope to entrap him latter in territory unknown to Lincoln's general. But so did Meade and did not go after that challenge.
Lincoln, who missunderstood the military game masterfoolly, came down on Meade heavily. Meade ignored Lincoln's lack of grasp and kept going safely.
His actions caused Lincoln to eventually show his political extreme compentency. He wrote a 271-word address which became known as The Gettysburg Address and delivered with it, at Gettysburg, our country into everlasting democracy: The government of the people, for the people, and by the people. Not many of us understood this until much later. Many still don't ~ C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. ~ Khalil Gibran

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever. ~ Khalil Gibran

[Korero]

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes. - Henry David Thoreau

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies. - Diogenes

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. - Napoleon Bonaparte

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. - Benjamin Franklin

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. - Alexander Smith

[cafolini]

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. ~ Khalil Gibran

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' ~ Khalil Gibran

[Zobian]

'People won't hate you unless you give them a reason to'
I like this one because it's meaningful to the general population.

[cafolini]

There are actually five (or more) versions of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. This is the version that appears on the Lincoln Monument in Washington, D. C. and contains the words "under God." This term appears to be the most notable difference among the five versions. According to popular accounts Lincoln spoke those words.

The Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom— and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

[cafolini]

That all men are created equal is not born from an actual fact. It must be born from the spiritual reality that the human soul is incapable of recognizing any veritable rank. ~ E. A. Poe

All men are equal to fish. ~ Hoover.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

"The thing about quotes on the internet is that you can never trust them." -Abraham Lincoln

[cafolini]

"The thing about quotes on the internet is that you can never trust them." -Abraham Lincoln

It was Al Gore listening to the GOP.

[ShortStory]

“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”
By Tony Robbins
I like this quote, it gives me strength whenever i am loosing my strength to solve something.

[cafolini]

“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”
By Tony Robbins
I like this quote, it gives me strength whenever i am loosing my strength to solve something.

It is assuming quite a bit to have the solutions.

[Brielle92]

To thine own self be true - Hamlet

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love - The Brothers Karamazov

Become a sun and everyone will see you - Crime and Punishment

And then there's Sonnet 116,

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

And of course Captain Wentworth's letter to Anne in Persuasion, the best love letter of all time:

I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own, than when you broke it eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

[cafolini]

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. ~ Woody Allen

[aliengirl]

The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost. ~Arthur Schopenhauer

[aliengirl]

And of course Captain Wentworth's letter to Anne in Persuasion, the best love letter of all time:

I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own, than when you broke it eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

Great choice! If a man would write like this in real life and mean it too, then it would be worth to leave the entire world for him. The only problem in real life is that something like this happens in the middle of life and before long you realize that it is not an Austen novel.

[cafolini]

Great choice! If a man would write like this in real life and mean it too, then it would be worth to leave the entire world for him. The only problem in real life is that something like this happens in the middle of life and before long you realize that it is not an Austen novel.

Agree.

That Blake quote you carry is far away from Romantic. Love it.

[Alexander III]

Give me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy - F.Scott Fitzgerald

[cafolini]

As far as I go, this will be one of the funniest elections I've ever seen. So I'll give you a concert of what I'll do if that happens.
First, I stand upon my head till my ears are turning red. I would then petition so that the formula be changed to Ryan-Romney, instead of the way it is. Then, it would be okay to send Bidden to Central America, but it would be equally valid to send Rumney to Peru to deal with the issues he can deal with. This is already extreme fantasy. But there is a lot more. I would expect William James to send us a warning letter, saying that it is alright to be pragmatic, but you wouldn't need an atomic bomb to kill a fly.
Pritchard will come back galloping to anihilate the clanless societies discovered by Malinowsky. Someone would give Freudean Monkey a decoration for the name chosen for this forum.
Definitely Karl Popper will manage to make a genuine point about anarchy regardless of Feyerabend.
Could it happen? Could these freaks do it. And now we have to deal with Eastwood gone insane?
Till my ears are turning red.
:leaving:

[cafolini]

Once the fisherman goes beyond fishing and the cross becomes the meaninless symbol Togre explained, faith arrives fullforce through Jesus. Any belief is possible and can actually happen physically. This is why Romney could rescue USA from whatever he decides, whatever does or does not occur. This is what we are looking in the behaviour of these people. Whatever they wish will be true.

:leaving:

[cafolini]

The process by which any belief will be true regarless has to be understood in terms of social pressure. Actually, when a brother says something is true through the power of Jesus, he couldn't possibly find any opossition because the brother is speaking through the infallible power of Jesus. The other brother approving finds absolutely no motive to dispute the call. If a brother or sister makes it through the power of Jesus, it must be true, supporting the brother or the sister before time is even taken to judge. Whatever they wish will be true because Jesus told a brother or sister.
There is a final piece to this puzzle. Is Eastwood actually insane in what he's doing? Perhaps it is the logical thing to do for a desired effect? We could think about it.
:driving:
:leaving:

[aliengirl]

Let us be like
Two falling stars in the day sky.
Let no one know of our sublime beauty
As we hold hands with God and burn
Into a sacred existence that defies,
That surpasses
Every description of ecstasy
And love.
~ Hafiz Shirazi

[cafolini]

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Khalil Gibran

[cafolini]

Outstanding speech by actual Gov of M, supporting Barack Obama's position. Most important because he holds the same position Rumney held the prior term.

[cafolini]

"Michelle makes me feel misty." Obama commenting over his wife's speech.

[cafolini]

Not only Israel's right to exist is not in jeopardy, we democrats will also guarantee that Jerusalem is and will always be the capital.

[dodong]

"Do not criticize people. They are just what you would be under similar circumstances."

[cafolini]

"Do not criticize people. They are just what you would be under similar circumstances."

No, that's not the case. They should be careful about what they tell the media because we are listening. What if we go ahead and evaporate them when they start talking about closing the chanel, etc. This is not a joke.
"I'll not take any option off the table." ~ Barack Obama
Neither is it a critique.

[cafolini]

You know? I don't get it. I am old and white, and I like president Obama. ~ James Taylor, while performing at DNC 2012.

[cafolini]

just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

It is always the upper classes that must be taxed more. Otherwise, how is the people going to get the money?

Regarding cheaper things, my new suits are always it no matter how much I pay for them.

Warren Buffett

[cafolini]

Most important news of the day: Canada severs relationship with Iran. ~ CNN

[Leda]

“Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”
Mitch Albom

[cafolini]

“Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”
Mitch Albom

I don't think that's the case. If the stories were all one, that Ayatollah could never be called, as he will, Gadaffi II. Have fun and be careful with your story.

[Leda]

I'm sorry Cafolini, I must be off topic after 113 pages.
I was responding (as a newbie) to the title of the thread:

"What is your favorite quote?"

Kind regards

[cafolini]

So you must have been thinking about the first one, the big stick. Kind regards.

[cafolini]

Most important news of the day(9/7/2012): Canada severs relationship with Iran. ~ CNN

[cafolini]

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. ~ Jimmy Carter

[Pensive]

"If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate!"

[cafolini]

The Gettysburg Address (there are several versions but they address the same issue in the same succint manner.)

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom— and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

[cafolini]

So it goes by Kurt Vonnegut.
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Yes, but not a simple "so it goes" like the rest of "world gossip." This one went far and took hold. And as far as I see, we, the people, would fight for the people's liberty, and will do it by the civil command of the people in all respects. And that explains, among other things, why in America there will never be military takeovers.
There will be no going back to other days and times.

[cafolini]

The worst thing one can do is to be kind to obvious enemies. One must love them to death as soon as possible. ~ C A Cafolini

[aliengirl]

"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day."
~ David Foster Wallace, Kenyon College Commencement Speech

Do I really need to explain why is it a favorite?

[Dany Blue]

Its only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything - Fight Club
Poisoned by Civilization he flees and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild - Into The Wild

[cafolini]

"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day."
~ David Foster Wallace, Kenyon College Commencement Speech

Do I really need to explain why is it a favorite?

Aliengirl, you said? Definitely. We will negotiate you ET's "go home."

[cafolini]

Its only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything - Fight Club
Poisoned by Civilization he flees and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild - Into The Wild

Good stuff. We will negotiate to make it possible for them to exit in the wild. We'll make it as easy as possible.

[aliengirl]

There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox



Aliengirl, you said? Definitely. We will negotiate you ET's "go home."

Then who will give you company dear cafolini? You are prowling here alone and seemingly running out of quotes. Was trying to be helpful. :)

[cafolini]

There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox




Then who will give you company dear cafolini? You are prowling here alone and seemingly running out of quotes. Was trying to be helpful. :)

I did think you were intentionally alienating and tried to please you. But if you want a visa you can have it for another six months. After that, we'll need to make some inevitable decision. We'll never run out of quotes.

[aliengirl]

I did think you were intentionally alienating and tried to please you. But if you want a visa you can have it for another six months. After that, we'll need to make some inevitable decision. We'll never run out of quotes.

Thanks for the effort. Mission successful. :) I'm very comfortable in my shining blue-grey spaceship and thankfully I don't need any visa. I'll be leaving some quotes on your doorstep just for a change. :wave:

[cafolini]

Thanks for the effort. Mission successful. :) I'm very comfortable in my shining blue-grey spaceship and thankfully I don't need any visa. I'll be leaving some quotes on your doorstep just for a change. :wave:

Not fair. You don't want our fantastic, six-month visa, but you want us to take your fantastic spaceship. Not fair.:toetap05:

[cafolini]

There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

[cafolini]

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/ella_wheeler_wilcox.html#TEP56zjPeOKuW1OR.99

[cafolini]

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. ~ ella_wheeler_wilcox

[cafolini]

Every one of us is a commedian. And those who claim not to be are even more. ~ C A Cafolini

[Sydneysider]

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Denis Diderot


A bit combative, the above quote, but it remains my favorite. I am very fond of Diderot.

[cafolini]

"They wanted to pay me too much for that job. I couldn't afford it." ~ Woody Allen

[Yankee]

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. - Albert Einstein ;)

[aliengirl]

You'll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do. ~ D.F. Wallace

[cafolini]

You'll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do. ~ D.F. Wallace

That's why there has to be a profitable business motive. Romney is lying his head off.

[Umbreon]

Truth cannot contradict truth

[Ovidiu Bufnila]

All these fine words are angelic and magical!
:iagree:


Some of my favs are...

Speak softly and carry a big stick.
-Roosevelt I think

I regret not the things I've done but those I did not do.
-I forget, if anyone knows, tell me

I may disagree with what you have to say but I will fight to the death to defend your right to say it.
-Voltaire

Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed that he has grown so great?
-Shakespeare

The whole world sees me as just one person, I want just one person to see me as the whole world.
-I made this up. It was based on someone's signature link though, I just changed it so it sounded better. No idea where its from originally.

[aliengirl]

That's why there has to be a profitable business motive. Romney is lying his head off.

Someone should send that quote to Romney. Aliens don't care about elections anyway. :smilewinkgrin:

[cafolini]

Someone should send that quote to Romney. Aliens don't care about elections anyway. :smilewinkgrin:

Don't forget to vote before you leave on your next trip. ;)

[cafolini]

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third. ~ Muriel Spark about Jean-Paul II

[cafolini]

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. ~ Martin Luther

[cafolini]

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. ~ Martin Luther

[cafolini]

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying. ~ Martin Luther

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say. ~ Martin Luther

[cafolini]

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. ~ Martin Luther

[BienvenuJDC]

My name is for my friends...
~Lawrence of Arabia (Peter O'Toole)

"...for some men, nothing is written..."

[Dreamsqueen]

Prejudice is the child of ignorance

[cafolini]

Prejudice is the child of ignorance

There is no doubt about that. But it is precisely the point. We are very ignorant when we come to this context. Ultimately, the prejudice must be accepted as faith and hope.

Everything that is done in the world is done on hope. ~ Martin Luther

[BienvenuJDC]

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
~ C.S. Lewis

[cafolini]

We hold this truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal ... ~ Thomas Jefferson

The equality of men is necessary because the soul is incapable of recognizing an order of rank. ~ Edgar A. Poe

Others did not deny the need for equality, but added to what the equality was.
All men are equal to fish. ~ J. E. Hoover

[tonywalt]

The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates. The state is best in moderate dosage – Tacitus

[cafolini]

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. ~ Martin Luther

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen. ~ Martin Luther

[cafolini]

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men. ~ Martin Luther


I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self. ~ Martin Luther

[cafolini]

The fewer the words, the better the prayer. ~ Martin Luther

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else. ~ Martin Luther

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. ~ Martin Luther

[janeeyre88]

Well, I have a few.

My ultimate favorite is " Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

Also, “Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.”
― Mother Teresa

Then,

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." Jane Austen

[cafolini]

Well, I have a few.

My ultimate favorite is " Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

Also, “Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.”
― Mother Teresa

Then,

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." Jane Austen

It's most interesting how much of a Ltheran was Mother Teresa. The only important thing she lacked was the good husband. LMAO

[cafolini]

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. ~ Martin Luther

[aliengirl]

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. ~ Martin Luther

And let the husband make the wife glad to come home, and let her make him sorry to see her leave. :)

[cafolini]

And let the husband make the wife glad to come home, and let her make him sorry to see her leave. :)

Agree. Don't forget to vote before you take the next trip to outer space.:thumbs_up

[cafolini]

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning. ~ Colin Powell

[mjh]

This is by no means an all-time favourite but the most memorable line from my recent Bukowski binge is "In the morning it was morning and I was still alive."

[cafolini]

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. ~ Colin Powell

[cafolini]

It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it. ~ Spencer Tracy

[My2cents]

From the dread summit of this chalky bourne. ~ Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

[cafolini]

I have a hard time with the pitch of Romney for the campaign. To think that having a unified family is sufficient to win is not different than the unified penguins at the Marriot's residence in. What does having a unified family has to do with running a country like ours? And what mathematics are being presented to justify it? Is he going to do anything to change the women equal pay situation which is now a 70%? Is he going to try to push the supreme court to rule against abortion?
It is shameful that this man pretends to be valuable as the next president of the United States. Thanks God that most women clearly understand what this is about. And thanks God that the vote is secret. ~ C A Cafolini

[My2cents]

I have a hard time with the pitch of Romney for the campaign. To think that having a unified family is sufficient to win is not different than the unified penguins at the Marriot's residence in. What does having a unified family has to do with running a country like ours? And what mathematics are being presented to justify it? Is he going to do anything to change the women equal pay situation which is now a 70%? Is he going to try to push the supreme court to rule against abortion?
It is shameful that this man pretends to be valuable as the next president of the United States. Thanks God that most women clearly understand what this is about. And thanks God that the vote is secret. ~ C A Cafolini

How would you feel though when you're walking on a checkered street and you can only place your feet on the black squares? Checkers, playing checkers, that's what we'll be reduced to with President Barakobama. That's a game I've given up a long time ago along with War, that most infantile of infantile card games.

[cafolini]

How would you feel though when you're walking on a checkered street and you can only place your feet on the black squares? Checkers, playing checkers, that's what we'll be reduced to with President Barakobama. That's a game I've given up a long time ago along with War, that most infantile of infantile card games.

The war will keep going with Romney. That's what he's saying.
But I have a question for the Jarl. Are you sure you will manage both the marqueess and the viscount? Chalky, chalky, chalky. LMAO.

[cafolini]

When turkeys mate they think of swans. ~ Johnny Carson

[aliengirl]

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

~ Albert Camus

[cafolini]

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. ~ Albert Camus

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ~ Albert Camus

[cafolini]

To have faith in God is not only to think that He will be good for you. He could also be disastrous. He'll do as he pleases. That's the only genuine faith in God. My prayer is not my faith. ~ C A Cafolini

[cafolini]

Life is hard; if you are stupid, it is harder. ~ John Wayne

I tried reason. It didn't work for me. ~ Clint Eastwood

[cacian]

'' to write is to imagine a second different better life''

[cafolini]

There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein. ~ Gregory Peck

I loved the subtlety of this one. The retard was not of any further interest to Greg.

[cacian]

''how the reverence can turn is never you concern silhouette is what you could entertain if in need of where''

[cafolini]

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it. ~ Edgar Degas

[cafolini]

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters. ~ Edgar Degas

[cafolini]

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement. ~ Edgar Degas

[cafolini]

There are many ways of being insane, but one of the most general ones I have seen is doing the same thing over and over, expecting, each time, different results. ~ C A Cafolini