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[QUOTE=Dyrwen"The believer is happy. The doubter is wise."
- Slavic Proverb
"The church is near, but the road is icy. The bar is far, but we will walk carefully."
- Russian Proverb
"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."
-A. Sachs[/QUOTE]
...amen.
heh, come to think of it, 90% of my quotes are all a/religious in nature, since I gathered them at a time when I used them often.
Amen indeed.
"We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the "superiority" of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things. Each has what the other has not: each completes the other, and is completed by the other: they are in nothing alike, and the happiness and perfection of both depends on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give."
Sesame & Lilies by John Ruskin
"To sing, to laugh, to dream,
To walk in my own way and be lone,
Free, with an eye to see things as they are,
A voice that means manhood--to cock my hat
Where I choose--At a word, a Yes, a No,
To fight--or write. To travel any road
Under the sun, under the stars, nor doubt
If fame or fortune lie beyond the bourne--
Never to make a line I have not heard
In my own heart; yet, with all modesty
To say: "My soul, be satisfied with flowers,
With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them
In the one garden you may call your own."
So, when I win some triumph, by some chance,
Rener no share to Caesar--in a word
I am too proud to be a parasite,
And if my nature wants the germ that grows
Towering to heaven like the mountain pine,
Or like the oak, sheltering multitudes--
I stand, not high it may be--but alone!"
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (translation by Brian Hooker)
(I bypassed the filter, considering the context I assume it's ok - hope...)
(the quote below is also from Cyrano de Bergerac)
Those two are very good.
"People who like quotations like meaningless generalizations."
- Graham Greene
As seen on another board:
"I highlighted my hair because only some of the strands are special"
and yes it was a hair bored
Hello,
this is one of my fav qouetsyou can fool all of the people some of the time;youu can fool some of the people all of the time ;but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" Abraham Lincon :D
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Oscar Wilde)
Now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (St. Paul)
I have one fav quote from Oscar Wilde
The Mystery of Love is Greater Than The Mystery of Death
My favourites are;
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely - (I cannot recollect author)
It was a very old North Country rhyme that, that when
land is gone and money spent then learning is most excellent. - Ford Madox Ford
Nature has given woman so much power that the Law has
wisely given her little. - Napoleon
War is the continuation of politics by other means. - Clausewitz
If the book of quotes I have is accurate, Lord Acton (John E. E. Dalberg) - English Historian said that in a letter to Creighton (1887): Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton.
"Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Thank you, Anselmus. I am certain it is Lord Acton.......I had forgotten.
My favourite quotes come from Fydor Dostoevsky:
"People sometimes talk about man's animal cruelty, but that is being terribly unjust and offensive to animals: no animal can ever be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel. The tiger simply gnaws and tears and that is all it can do. It would never occur to him to nail people by their ears overnight, even if he were able to do it"
"I think that if the Devil does not exist, and consequently man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness"
-Taken from the Brothers Karamazov
People often say "Money is the root of all evil" but the actual quote from one of the Epistles is "The LOVE of money is the root of all evil."
It seems to me that Lord Acton said "Power TENDS to corrupt..." but I am not certain about that.
"No generalization is worth a damn, including this one." (dont know who said that, but perhaps Lord Google does)
Lord Acton said: Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.