I am a quote collector and want to thank you all for contributing to my collection. What a wealth of diversity...
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I am a quote collector and want to thank you all for contributing to my collection. What a wealth of diversity...
"I know God won't ask more of me than He knows I am capable of. But I wish he didn't trust me so much." Paraphrasing Mother Theresa
On Imagination:
"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."
~Lewis Carroll
"Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy." - Leo Tolstoy, in War and Peace.
"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."
--Maxim Gorky [pseudonym meaning "Maxim the Bitter" of Aleksey Maximovich Pyeshkov] (1868-1936), Russian author considered the father of Soviet revolutionary literature and founder of the doctrine of socialist realism
"Let the high muse chant loves Olympian:
We are but mortals, and must sing of man."
(Theocrites, Idylls)
"Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand and take it easy" - Jackson Browne.........I think
"The day when you will say 'I love you less' will be the last day of my love, or the last of my life." - Napoleon Bonaparte.
'' The more things change, the more they stay they same''-Alphonse Karr
"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were."
Cherie Carter-Scott
Food, love, career, and mothers: the four guilt groups." :nod:
it takes a moment to change history, it takes love to change life
dear members of this forum this is my first time to post in ur forum . id' like to communictae with u all. share our thoughts n beliefs
talking about our dreams will be a great topic let's begin play the game
everyone post only one dream dat's he feels if he acheieves it his life will be changed
wat's ur opinion?
Hi lovecbangelife, it is a good idea but a topic very similar to this has already been started in the "General Chat"
http://www.online-literature.com/for...842#post191842
This part of the forum "Who Said That?" is for discussing quotations.
mine is " its not that life is too short, you've been dead for too long".
When I can look life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise
Life will have given me the truth,
And taken in exchange my youth - Sara Teasdale. (I love this quote)
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-Al Capone
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
de Voltaire
That one is a beautyQuote:
Originally Posted by Dickensian
Don't know about favourite, but I like it.
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
i have a firm belief on these two quotes:
"When sorrows come,they come not as single spies , but in battalions"
SHAKESPEARE
"Laugh and the world laughs with you,weep and you weep alone"
ELLA WILOCOX
4/29
"Children have never particularly interested me, but what interests me even less are paintings by children." ~Salvador Dali (1952)
'promise you'll never forget me, because if i thought you would i'd never leave'
-from winnie the pooh
'ay amor es una tortura'
-spanish roughly means 'love is torture' from the song 'la tortura' by shakira and alejandro sanz i love that song!
it changes for me lol therz so many good ones
Havent read every page, so I hope these aren't already in. My favourites are the following;
"Those who agree with us may not be right; but we admire their astuteness"
(Cullen Hightower)
"Some men see things as they are and ask why. I dream of things as they never were and ask, why not?"
(Robert F Kennedy)
Another less serious though,is "Ducking for apples; Change one word and its the story of my life" (Dorothy Parker)
JD
"I don't know" Luke Evans
"For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Joy is the feeling of grinning inside." -Melba Colgrove
"They say that even the champion has to sleep; but they don't know for sure, because he's always still working when they go to sleep." - T. Woods
"There will be snacks." - Andrew Bird
Ernest Hemingway "Never confuse movement with action".
May 9th
"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people...it is true that most stupid people are conservative" ~John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
My personal quote of the day, which I have read many times, but impacted me significantly relatively recently, written by Voltaire:
Quote:
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
5/11
"Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and becom lesbians." -Rev. Pat Robertson (1992)
the more I know man
the more I like dog
madam rolan
let life be beatiful like summer flower and death be autumn leaves-----Tagore
if a woman don't want to merry ,she can do everything.-----Gorge Song
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. ~George Elliot
Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help your angel has given you. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ~Luciano de Crescenzo
oh those are exquisite. thank you
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. JANE AUSTEN
"Some people think football is a matter of life and death...I can assure them it is much more serious than that."
"Heaven for climate. Hell for society." - Mark Twain
"If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress" ~ Milan Kundera