No, I don't think so. It sounds familiar. I'll look it up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pensive
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No, I don't think so. It sounds familiar. I'll look it up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pensive
"Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes". Jim Rohn
Literature----the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions - John Morley
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon
"A friend is one who sticks closer than a brother." Proverbs, Holy Bible.
"But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail." --Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear... not absence of fear". Mark Twain
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. - FDR
"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed". Michael Pritchard
Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)Quote:
The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and movement.
"Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical." Yogi Berra
"Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it thirty-six years and I'm used to it."
Casey Stengel
A stitch in time saves nine. (Proverb)
Time waits for no man. [Old English]
A closed mouth catches no fly. (Proverb)
"A mind is like a parachute--only function when open!"--Charlie Chan
"A true friend stabs you in the front."
Oscar Wilde
Gore Vidal (1925 - )Quote:
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends".
Japanese Proverb
"Man who lives in glass house should get dressed in the basement"
-another quote attributed to Confucius but i'm sligthly skeptical
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation - Henry David Thoreau
"Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange".
Robin Morgan
If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?
~ Steven Wright
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)Quote:
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
I bet everyone's quote dictionaries are getting a good airing in this thread. :D
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man - Thoreau
Weird, almost the same quote.
I bet you are right!!!! :lol: :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Xamonas Chegwe
Edwin SchlossbergQuote:
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
"A bore is a person who talks when you wish him to listen." Ambrose Bierce
"A bore is a person who deprives you of solitude, without providing you with company" ~ Gian Vincenzo Gravina
James E. Burke:
We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks. --Anonymous
Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.
-Ronald Reagan
Damn those hirajuku girls have some wicked style!!
-Some guy I know
OK, if we're going into friends, how about:
Marriage isn't as bad as people say it is; but it's not as good as people say it either.
OK, I fudged on the game rules.
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Originally Posted by Ryduce
aw Ry, a hug for you. you are irrepressable, sweet and well basically adorable. :D :banana: :nod:
"My father told me all about the birds and the bees-the liar, I went steady with a woodpecker until I was twenty one." Bob Hope
"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds".
Aesop
love is always chatter, it is your friends that matter
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead."
- Chinese Proverb
"Do not employ handsome servants." :lol:
Chinese proverb.