from dust thou art to dust returneth was not spoken of the soul
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from dust thou art to dust returneth was not spoken of the soul
That's wonderfull Mia.Quote:
Originally Posted by mia wallace
“Compassion costs. It is easy enough to argue, criticize and condemn, but redemption is costly, and comfort draws from the deep. Brains can argue, but It takes heart to comfort.”
Love is a committment with a beginning and has no end.
'' Don't deprive of somebody's hope,it may be the last thing he owns''
"Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odors, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken..."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"In their most inner thoughts, even the most devout Christians know that there is something illegitimate about belief. Underneath their profession of faith is a sleeping giant of doubt . . . In my experience, the best way to conquer doubt is to yield to it." - Dan Barker, pastor-turned-atheistQuote:
Originally Posted by mono
"Those who think they believe in God but not without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, not in God himself." - Madeleine L'Engle
"He’s a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue."
--Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673), French dramatist. Célimène, in Le Misanthrope, act 2, sc. 5.
"an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" - Gandhi (best quote ever)
"let not your left hand know what your right hand does" - Jesus (that doesn't work when taken out of context, but it illustrates a spectacular ideal.)
sorry if these are misworded - i don't have the books with me
"What a misfortune to be a woman! and yet the worst misfortune of all for a woman is not to understand that she is one." KierkegaardQuote:
Originally Posted by genoveva
The difficulty is not to die for a friend, but to find a friend worth dying for." Anonymous
Just read this one (am reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand righ tnow):
A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.
I have read this poem so many times, I have nearly committed it to memory. The second stanza, I also find amazing . . .Quote:
Originally Posted by ElizabethSewall
Lovely, lovely. :nod:Quote:
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heap'd for the belovèd's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.
I can’t think what made me think of this but it seems very suitable somehow.
“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”
Jonathan Swift
Poor is he who denies knowledge -James Johnson
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Unnamable
That's going up in the 'rebel corner' at work tomorrow! This one already has pride of place:
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw
“There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.”
Sir Edmund Hillary
that is great. Hi Jackyyyyy, hope you had a splendid time.
When I am no longer even a memory, just a name, I hope my voice may perpetuate the great work of my life. God bless my dear old comrades of Balaclava and bring them safe to shore. Florence Nightingale.
Oh, I always have a great time, sunny as heck here today. Hiya back to ya, hope everything is good in Fernie land.
"The balaclava is a great thing! I cover all suspecting criminals faces with one."
Jonathan Shapiro
great one Scher, though it also sounds amazingly like my daughter clearing her sinuses at night.
Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it." G.K. Chesterton
"Truth, Sir, is a cow, which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull."Quote:
Originally Posted by The Unnamable
Samuel Johnson
“sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
(usually translated as “who will guard the guards?”)
from the sixth Satire of Juvenal
"An honest man is always a child" Socrates,
Hullo you two, love you.
I've somehow been missing out on this thread. Hi all. :wave:
"Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can."
~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
....................Anais NinQuote:
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
ooh , pretty,
HULLO darling pretty Shakespearian babe above Virg. I have missed you
When the bell tolls three times, it will announce that I have been killed. If I am killed by common men, you and your children will rule Russia for centuries to come; if I am killed by one of your stock, you and your family will be killed by the Russian people! Pray Tsar of Russia pray Grigori Rasputin
A few from HL Mencken:
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose, for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.
For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
"For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true."
That caught my eye as a little ambiguous. Depends on how I look at it, I guess.
"
Genuine ignorance is profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, can't terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.
"
John Dewey
I am THICK, now everyone do my job for me???? I might not be being genuine and it might be profitable.
If only. This by Houseman is closer to my way of seeing things:Quote:
Originally Posted by jackyyyy
“Frailty of understanding is in itself no proper target for scorn and mockery. But the unintelligent forfeit their claim to compassion when they begin to indulge in self-complacent airs, and to call themselves sane critics, meaning that they are mechanics. And when, relying on their numbers, they pass from self-complacency to insolence, and reprove their betters for using the brains which God has not denied them, they dry up the fount of pity.”
A E Houseman
what different worlds each of our minds occupy.That two so different opinions came come from the same subject.
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten-thousand truths. -
Aleksandr Pushkin
Yes, indeed, and its so important its scary at times:Quote:
Originally Posted by rachel
"
ignorantia legis non excusat.
ignorance of the law is no excuse.
"
Unknown author.
Presumed knowledge of the law is the principle in jurisprudence that one is bound by a law even if one does not know of it. It has also been defined as the "prohibition of ignorance of the law".
Jackyyyy, did anyone besides all those who adore you over there tell you you are dear and a genious and so precise and know yourself so well you scare me sometimes. I always feel like a student with a guilty secret (didn't finish my homework) around you on this site. You always make me want to try harder. kisses This one is for you Jackyyyy, I can almost hear you telling it to me:
Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use. Pliny the elder.(love that guy)
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If you would like to share your favorite quotes, please visit 'What's Your Favorite Quote?' thread.
right, thanks Scher.
Arthur Rimbaud.Quote:
"Je ne parlerai pas, je ne penserai rien..."
Heh! If only we could manage the first part at times... The latter is not that much of a threat for most of us, anyway! :DQuote:
"Je ne parlerai pas, je ne penserai rien..."
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Unnamable
I think I adhere more strongly to Mencken's philosophy of the ignorant over Houseman's; he seems to provide some possibility other than pity. (That being work)
I appear to have transgressed the boundaries of correct categorisation elsewhere so I’ll have to post this one here instead:
“foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."
Woody Allen
"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."
Guildenstern; Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
One of my favorites...because it is so true.