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"I have a new philosophy. From now on I am only going to dread one day at a time" (Charles Shultz)
" The quickest way to a man's heart is to saw through his breast plate" ( Dorothy Parker)
""There are people who think that football is a matter of life or death. It's not. It's much more important than that" (Bill Shankly)
and from me......." Never eat anything that's bigger than your head"
God Bless!
JD
PS wish I'd thought about using a quirky and catchy nom-de-plume like all you guys, but I didn't. Maybe that's bad, but hey, why are you all hiding behind that stuff anyway? Tell us your real names! What's the big secret?
JD
"What we don't know keeps tha contracts alive an movin'
They don't gotta burn tha books they just remove 'em"
- Zack de la Rocha
-Britney Spears on driving with her son on her lap.Quote:
I did it with my dad. I'd sit on his lap and I'd drive. We're country.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/default.stm
Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw wherever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a living breathing thing which belonged to everybody, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall - it's wet.
-Banksy
A good-riddance rimed couplet by some unknown wag:
Don't let the screen door hit ya
Where the Good Lord split ya.
I do not want my house to be walled in on sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
--Mahatma Gandhi
I do not want my house to be walled in on sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
--Mahatma Gandhi
My advice; take off your pants and slide on the ice.
MASH
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Lana Turner
Suki: What kind of a name is Igby?
Igby: The kind of a name that someone named Suki is in no position to question.
Igby Goes Down
We have so much time, and so little to do! Strike that, reverse it.
Gene Wilder
:lol: i found this to be funny :)Quote:
" Only two things are infinite, the universe, and human stupidity... I am not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein
death is nothing to us,since when we are, death hasn't come, and when death has come, we are not.
Epicurus "letter for Menoeceus"
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - Ben Franklin
"The coming of the house painter" - Contemptuous phrase for the rise of Hitler by Bertolt Brecht
When choosing between two evils l always like to take one l've never tried before.
- Mae West
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
Life is more than your to do list.
Desperation drives
Harder than Inspiration
Its culmination lies
In glory or damnation
- Me
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a meleody of extemporanea; and love is a thing that can never go wrong; and I am Marie of Roumania.
-Dorothy Parker
Ewww, I can't quote it directly because my book is in storage, but here it is:
"Once you stop to consider whether or not you love someone, you have stopped loving that person for the rest of your life."
-The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It went something like that.
"Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?" ~Confucius
-Instructions on a recently-purchased iron.Quote:
Take off clothes before ironing to avoid burning.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...iron_quote.gif
"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand."
A quote by the great Homar, Simpson that is.
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad on a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight. He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time. He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars and over the face of dead matter that did not move.
Jack London-The Call of the Wild
An eye for an eye would leave the world blind.
Ghandi
... :lol: ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations."
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill [1874-1965]
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it"- Karl Marx
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher"- Ambrose Bierce
Ok that one is awesomeQuote:
Originally Posted by Danika_Valin
My favorite bits of wisdom have come from Voltaire
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
"Anything too stupid to be said is sung."
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."
"Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes."
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
"The secret of being boring is to say everything."
(Well, if we have Eco, why not one of his best friends, Borges? ;) )
"Mirrors and procreation are abominable, for they multiply the image of man."
- Tlon, Uqbar, Orbus Tertius (Jorge L. Borges, Garden of Forking Paths)
If this seems a bit obscure, it's actually a reference to the way many religious texts, or even Plato's Republic, discourage creating an image of a living entity. Either the text itself or Umberto Eco's caricature of Borges (Jorge of Burgos) in The Name of The Rose (the conversation on illustrations early in the book) can shed more light on this.
OOOH I love quotes; I have a Word document just for my collection. Here are a few:
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." Virginia Woolf
"You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants." Stephen King
"If you asked me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud." Emile Zola
"A counted number of pulses is given to us of a variegated dramatic life." Walter Pater
"I suppose it is in the nature of the poet, beginning in childhood, to love the sounds of language. Others may swim in Webster Lake, but poets swim in Lake Chauggogagogmanchauggagogchabunagungamaugg." Stanley Kunitz
... I have a million more. It was difficult not to submit them. But I think it's a good start!
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly"-Richard Bach
HSD
"The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden; it ends with Revelations." - Oscar Wilde
Life is about pursuing the truth, showing kindness and being altruistic. Do it.
There's nothing like a good joke... and that was nothing like a good joke.
"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted and used against you" :D
"There is a light at the end of every tunnel....just pray it's not a train!"
"If you dont like my driving stay off the sidewalk"
"Tradgedy is when i cut my finger, Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die"- Mel Brooks
"You look like Helen of Troy after a good facial."-P.G. Wodehouse
if you are not living on the edge ,you are taking up too much space
Thank you for the quote from Mel Brooks. Sometimes, we can be so unkind at the misfortune of others. We need to be more concious of our outlook and be more altrustic and therefore more empathetic towards others.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Shakira
hello! since am a bigggg fan of austen here's some from her---->
this are from jane austen's letters
"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
-- letter of December 24, 1798
"Your silence on the subject of our ball makes me suppose your curiosity too great for words."
-- letter of January 24, 1809
[Jane Austen had a running joke with her family about her marrying the poet Crabbe, whose poetry she admired:]
"No, I have never seen [news of] the death of Mrs. Crabbe. I have only just been making out from one of his prefaces that he probably was married. ... Poor woman! I will comfort him as well as I can, but I do not undertake to be good to her children. She had better not leave any."
-- letter of October 18, 1813
"I will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not alive."
-- letter of May 31 1811
woah! these are a few but you can find more on this site
http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/br...html#letterqot
other quote:
words are the most powerful drug used by mankind
-rudyard kipling
there's a luxury in self-reproach. when we blame ourselves we feel no one else should blame us. it's the confession, not the priest that gives us absolution.
-oscar wilde