It is a fair even-handed noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection and disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistably contagious as laughter and good humor.
Charles Dickens
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It is a fair even-handed noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection and disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistably contagious as laughter and good humor.
Charles Dickens
Sleep and love are very sweet, song and dance with trippling feet, yet a time comes when they pall, you can have enough of all.
Homer, The Iliad (W.H.D. Rouse translation)
Marvelous is that history that outlasts its future.
Matthew Keaton
whatever they say they will make money at it. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by beer good
oh and one other thing Beer dear. Did you notice that Umberto himself ended up by mentioning....the templars! :lol: :banana: :lol:
Oh it's not FAIR!
*grin*
"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."
J.M. Barrie
I love that one(i love you more though)
"The best place a person can die is where they die for others." J.M. Barrie
I love this one too and it is so much like you... That's why I love you so. And the party is doing great!
It is and the moon is waxing beautiful and the stars are singing and clapping their hands right over us and all is becoming still and quiet.
"They say that even the champion has to sleep; but they do not know for sure, because he is always working when they go to sleep." - T. Woods
"Oh Baby! How about this shot I just hit!" T. Woods
"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears" Edgar Allan Poe
Tis love tis love that makes the world goes around
by Lewis Carrol
L'homme qui se relève est plus fort que celui qui n'est jamais tombé
It means: The man who raises himself again is greater than those who have never fell down
You must write everything down. You've got to do it to get ahold of yourself.
Louise Bourgeois
"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five." Groucho Marx.
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Aldous Huxley.
"What fresh hell is this?" ~Dorothy Parker
"Most people are about as happy as they allow themselves to be." ~ Abraham Lincoln
"Promote individualism. Stamp out harems." ~ me
"Had Cleopatra’s nose been shorter, the face of the world would have been changed."
Blaise Pascal, Pensées (1670)
The most random quote I found when researching my Cleopatra essay.
Quote:
Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--'Wait and hope'. - Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Too true...
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery,The Little Prince
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare,Troilus and Cressida
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"Success is not enough; others must fail." :D - Can't remember who said it.
"My master has no feeling and that master is the nature of things." Napoleon Bonaparte
"To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness." :lol:
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest .
Fool:
If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'ld have thee beaten
for being old before thy time.
King Lear:
How's that?
Fool:
Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst
been wise.
~ Shakespeare - King Lear, Act 1 Scene 5
Alway do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ~ Ernest Hemingway :brow:
1) Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
2) There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
3) The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
All Lois McMaster Bujold
(Sorry, couldn't choose just one.)
The bad end unhappily, the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
(Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead)
I hold not with the optimist, that all is well; nor with the pessimist, that all is not well. All is not well, but all will be well, because this is God's world.
Robert Browning
Incredible movie. Watched it for the first time only a couple of weeks ago and fell in love with it immediately. (Yes, I know it was a play first, but...)Quote:
Originally Posted by mycatis
Rosencrantz: Do you think Death could possibly be a boat?
Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is "not." Death isn't. Take my meaning? Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not be on a boat.
Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats.
Guildenstern: No, no... What you've been is not on boats.
Quote:
Originally Posted by ElizabethSewall
Thanks! Those made me laugh.Quote:
Alway do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ~ Ernest Hemingway
i love this line from macbeth: "so foul and fair a day i have not seen"
Favorite "negative" quote:
Richard II's "Cry woe, destruction, ruin and decay.
The worst is death, and death will have his day."
Favorite positive quote may be the entire song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" found worthy by recent singers like Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Faith Hill, Eva Cassidy, Tori Amos, Pattie Labelle and Jewel.
"What's the difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." ---- Tom Clancy
and then my signature, of course, though it's shortened a little bit
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well-tried before you them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." - George Washington.
"A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life."
- Jorge Luis Borges
These aren't ranked in any particular order:
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." -Voltaire
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." -Winston Churchill
"It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life, when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity--two of the best qualities Heaven gives them--and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments." -Charles Dickens
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
"Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success."
"There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution." -Oscar Wilde
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." -Martin Luther King Jr.
"If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights." -Victor Hugo
"We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse."
"If we could just get everyone to close their eyes and visualize world peace for an hour, imagine how serene and quiet it would be until the looting started. "
"History repeats itself. It has to, no one listens."
"I wish I was as great as my dog thinks I am."
-I don't know who came up with these.
"It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (or Sherlock Holmes, rather)
"At age 50, every man has the face he deserves." -George Orwell
"I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in." -Henry David Thoreau
"When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." -Mark Twain
"If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments." -Earl Wilson
"The cruelest lies are often told in silence." -Robert Louis Stevenson
"If my career fails there is always alcoholism to fall back on." -Frank Skinner
"My father loved the idea of America. It was living in America that gave him an ulcer." -from The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." -Bertrand Russell
"It seems to me that man has engaged in a blind and fearful struggle out of a past he can't remember, into a future he can't foresee nor understand. And man has met and defeated every obstacle, every enemy except one. He cannot win over himself." -John Steinbeck
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?" -Mahatma Gandhi
"You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was." -Irish Proverb