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"there are only two ways to live your life, one is as though nothing is a miracle, another is as though everything is a miracle"
---------my favorite quote from Albert Einstein !!! ;)
"So foul a sky clears not without a storm"
-- William Shakespeare, "King John"
"Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?"
-- John Fowles, "The Magus"
One of my favs is in my sigline... the Cocteau one.
cogito ergo sum - Descartes
errare humanum est - Cicero
exigua pars est vitae quam nos vivimus - Seneca
meminerunt omnia amantes - Ovid
semper flamma flummo proxima - Plautus
nihil tam absurdum quod non dictum sit ab aliquo - Cicero
nihil homini amico est opportuno amicius - Plautus
si post fata venit gloria non propero - Martial
O xein', aggellein Lakedaimoniois 'oti têde
keimetha, tois keinôn 'rêmasi peithomenoi. - Simonides
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. Fred Allen
It is easier to fight for one's priciples than to live up to them. Alfred Adler
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. Marcus Aurelius
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!. Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
All I want is a warm bed, a kind word and unlimited power. Ashleigh Brilliant
The love you take is equal to the love you make. The Beatles
Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made. Bismark
One can outwit a scoundrel or foil a thief, but against a fool even the gods are helpless. Sir Francis Bacon
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and fresh air. Jack Benny
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Caron de Beaumarchais
{in memorium} One function the TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. David Brinkley
I can't see the point in the theatre. All that sex and violence. I get enough of that at home, apart from the sex of course. Baldrick (Sense and Senility)
Never moon a werewolf. Mike Bender
First you forget names. Then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up. And finally you forget to pull it down. George Burns
Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken. Book of Chan
I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore.
Paddy Chayevsky
There are only 2 lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. Hodding Carter
Sometimes I think we are alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. Arthur C. Clarke
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. Dom Helder Camera
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Beware the fury of a patient man. John Dryden
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Ralph Waldo Emerson
He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.
Now he's miserable and depressed. David Frost
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in 2 small jumps. David LLoyd George
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and and wonder what else you can do while you're down there. Fred & Gerry
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. John Andrew Holmes
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. Sir Robert Hutchinson
What is true is what I can't help believing. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson
People demand freedom of speech to make up for freedom of thought, which they avoid. Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
The female of the species is more deadly than the male. Rudyard Kipling
Critics say that Andy Warhol's portraits of Campbell's soup cans were a brilliant satire of culture, in much the same way that Campbell's Soup is a brilliant satire of food. Craig Kilborn
"Shut up," he explained. Ring Lardner
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime. G. Gordon Liddy
Murder is a crime. Describing murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is. Gershon Legman
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics. Though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. H. L. Mencken
Tradition is a guide, not a jailer. W. Somerset Maugham
................and thank you for your attention and patience. Lorenzo
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Ah! Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water. I'm Ba-ack.
One monkey don't stop no show. Sticks McGhee
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. John Maxwell
'Strategy' is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. 'Tactics' is getting her to drink it. Frank Muir
The trouble with eating Italian food is that 5 or 6 days later, you're hungry again. George Miller
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid. But most stupid people are conservatives. John Stuart Mill
If I have seen more than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. Sir Isaac Newton
Of those who say nothing, few are silent. Thomas Neill
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. John Nuveen
If people destroy something replaceable, made by mankind, they are called vandals. If they destroy something irreplaceable, made by God, they are called developers. Gaylord Nelson
Just because everthing is different doesn't mean that anything has changed. from The San Francisco Oracle
If an infinite number of rednecks, driving an infinite number of pickup trucks, fire an infinite number of shotgun rounds at an infinite number of highway signs, they will eventually re-produce all the world's great literary works, in Braille. Omni Magazine
In the field of observation, chance favors the pepared mind. Louis Pasteur
If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end-to-end-- I wouldn't be surprised. Dorothy Parker
All you touch and all you see, Is all your life will ever be.
Pink Floyd, 'Breathe.'
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. Michael Pritchard
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Ellen Parr
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Eden Phillpotts.
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Make no mistake, the weeds will win. Nature bats last. Robert Pyle
A man on a date wonders if he'll get lucky. The woman already knows. Monica Piper
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized the Lord doesn't work that way. So I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. Emo Philips
A healthy adult male bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. John Updike
'The 50-50-90 Rule' : Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Andy Rooney
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Bertrand Russell
An intellectual snob is one who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. Dan Rather
I never cease to be dumbfounded by the unbelieveable things people believe. Leo Rosten
I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine. Rita Rudner
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
The pain passes; the beauty remains. Auguste Renoir
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another. Jonathan Swift
When a blind man carries a lame man, both go forward. Swedish Proverb
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. Jean-Paul Sartre
'Criminal' : A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. Howard Scott
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel. But they do not suffer less because they have no words. Anna Sewell
My doctor gave me 2 weeks to live. I hope they're in August. Ronnie Shakes
The only winner of the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky. Solomon Short
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates
When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats. Claude Swanson
Good answers come from good questions, not from esoteric analysis.
Schoolman
I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then. Bob Seeger
If triangles had a god, he would have 3 sides. Charles de Secondat
The right to do something, does not mean that doing it is right. William Safire
What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? Dr. Robert Schuller
It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla's tired. Robert Strauss
...................until we meet again, thank you and good night. Lorenzo
"Lack of money is the root of all evil."
- George Bernard Shaw
i love just about anything written by shakespeare. i also favour lewis carroll's 'alice in wonderland and through the looking glass' but my favourite quote is this
" the last act is bloody, no matter how fine the play"
i believe that is by pascal. in possibly a different variation.
also these
You are you and i am i . You do your thing and i do mine. and in the end if we end up together, it's beautiful.- Boy meets World
If you take a bird's wings, it will still find a way to soar.- ??
I do not look at the glass as half empty, but merely half full- my mum
I prefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. when someone is telling me the truth, that is when i give my heart- Shakira
It's quite simple. He proves by algebra that Hamlet's grandson is Shakespeare's grandfather and that he himself is the ghost of his own father. --James Joyce, 'Ulysses'.
"hell is other people"
-Sartre
One of my favorites:
God is a comedian playing to an audience who is afraid to laugh.
--Voltaire.
Also:
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
--Oscar Wilde.
Something to the effect of: "Adults are obsolete children," written by Dr. Seuss in an essay on why he wrote for children. Not my all-time favorite, but the one I have in mind at the moment.
Who propst, thou ask'st, in these bad days my mind?
Answer: Congealed Ectoplasm
-[very early] Salvador Dali
It's probably the worst line of poetry I've ever read, but it remains one of my favorites just due to the crappyness.
This one really isn't a quote per say as probably the best opening paragraph I've ever read in my life. It sets the stage for one of the most cynical novels I've ever read, and I love it (Evelyn Waugh - A Handful of Dust):
"Was anyone hurt?"
"No one I am thankful to say," said Mrs Beaver, "except two housemaids who lost their heads and jumped through a glass roof into the paved court. They were in no danger. The fire never reached the bedrooms I am afraid. Still, they are bound to need doing up, everything black with smoke and drenched in water and luckily they had that old-fashioned sort of extinguisher that ruins everything. One really cannot complain. The chief rooms were completely gutted and everything was insured. Sylvia Newport knows the people. I must get on to them this morning before that ghoul Mrs Shutter snaps them up."
The only possible heaven is the one where I wouldnt know I'd once existed.-John Fowles
It's a vicious circle. People are going deaf because
music is played louder and louder. But because they're going deaf,
it has to be played louder still.
We can never know what to want, because, living only one life,
we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in
our lives to come. - Milan Kundera.
Wherever you go, there you are.
Depressed? Oh horse sh!t. A man can only love as much as he allows himself to love. He can only be as happy as he allows himself to be. We've all been dying since the day we were born and there ain't a damned thing we can do about it. You live hard, work hard and play hard.
Depressed. Whose got time for it anyway?
I was wondering very long if I should write it, because I am not good in translations :), but I'll try:
Beside gift of brightness is mercy of shadow and beside gift of feelings, gift of oblivion. (Jan Sztaudynger)
Ginger: I love your first quote. :-D its great.
"The only possible heaven is the one where I wouldnt know I'd once existed"-John Fowles
absolutely great... thanks.
They were the white boy, marked forever, and the old dark man sired on both sides by savage kings, who had marked him, whose bloody hands had merely formally consecrated him to that which, under the man's tutelage, he had already accepted, humbly and joyfully, with abnegation and with pride too; the hands, the touch, the first worthy blood which he had been found at last worthy to draw, joining him and the man forever, so that the man would continue to live past the boy's seventy years and then eighty years, long after the man himself had entered the earth as chiefs and kings entered it...--William Faulkner, Go Down, Moses
There is only
Process, which is one name for history. Often
Pitiful. But, sometimes, under
The scrutinizing prism of Time,
Triumphant.
--Robert Penn Warren, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce
I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,
Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man...--Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
And see my signature!
When did you start reading Faulkner, KLO?
I started Faulkner in the 10th grade, so I was about 16. My class was divided into groups of 5 and each group had to analyze "The Bear." Each person in the group had to take one chapter, and because I was the one who read all of the time, my group decided I should get Chapter 4 with all of the stream of consciousness stuff. I was fascinated by the emotional struggle of Ike and his reaction to his own history, so from that moment on, I was hooked. :)
Mine is
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"Two if by land one if by sea" Paul Reveere on the Midnight ride
For future reference it was 'one if by land, two if by sea.'
lol
confuscious said the 'i hear ..' thingy. i like that last one, but i don't know who that's by.Quote:
Originally posted by Zorrinea
I forgot to mention: My fav quotes (If anyone really cares) are:
'I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.'
'Against overwhelming odds, you will lose!'
I don't know who said any of these...............so please don't ask! :P
i know the first two, but can someone translate the rest?Quote:
Originally posted by alatar
cogito ergo sum - Descartes
errare humanum est - Cicero
exigua pars est vitae quam nos vivimus - Seneca
meminerunt omnia amantes - Ovid
semper flamma flummo proxima - Plautus
nihil tam absurdum quod non dictum sit ab aliquo - Cicero
nihil homini amico est opportuno amicius - Plautus
si post fata venit gloria non propero - Martial
O xein', aggellein Lakedaimoniois 'oti têde
keimetha, tois keinôn 'rêmasi peithomenoi. - Simonides
okay, will look at it, but just the Latin ones
thanks, jay.
thanks admin for bringing this back!
yeah-this is a great thread!
but we need some new quotes here... come on forum members! I need to have SOMETHING to mock... :-D
I'm sure this one is mockable....Quote:
Originally posted by imthefoolonthehill
but we need some new quotes here... come on forum members! I need to have SOMETHING to mock... :-D
"Life happens and doesn't always go the way we want it to." ~ Karma
This is one from a very dear friend regarding the passing of her fiance....
"the only way through pain is heart first" ~ Mrs Kevin Wynne
A quote from which I know none of you will understand the fourth line, lol.
"cry, because you need to
smile, because you deserve it
laugh, because its music to his ears
and smack your *** and yell knockstar" ~ Mrs Kevin Wynne
doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected.
And my sig.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
-- Samuel Adams
Jonus
Have patience Faye, will hopefully be able to post the translations on Thursday... sorry
Don't be sorry. :) Oh, I was rifling through old posts and found this:
'Bad things are not something that happens to Other People.
They will happen to you. They will happen to the ones you love.
It will hurt. You will make it.
There is so much strength in a human being. There is so much strength in you. All of you. First to survive, and then to live.
Personally I think that life gets better. Good things happen too. Sometimes by chance. Sometimes by the help of others. Most of it you create. All your work now, all your hard studies are you creating better things for yourself. '
It's actually by Isaqel. I thought I'd stick it up here.
thanks fayefaye... that is so great I am going to put it in my aim info.
Thank you Faye! You made my day (now I need that blushing emoticon). I´m being quoted! How cool is that?
My favorite quote today is :
"You searched for a flower
and found a fruit
You searched for a well,
and found an ocean
You searched for a woman
and found a soul,
you´re disapointed"
Edith Södergran
ok, I've got some that have been floating around in my head the last few days:
-Bite off more than you can chew, then chew like buggery
-all chances are 50/50. All you have to lose is inexperience
-When monster meets monster, one monster has to give way, AND IT WILL NEVER BE ME. (Alexandra Del Lago, Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth)
Something I've taken out of context to give the words broader meaning:
-'Everyone sees what you seem to be, few touch upon what you are, and those few do not dare to contradict the opinion of the many who have the majesty of the state to defend them;' (Machiavelli's The Prince)
I need to apologise once more Faye, the teacher I was "comparing notes" of the translation leaft earlier than I thought and I haven't managed to post it yet as it needs correction (still not that good in Latin after all)... but I'm still on it :o. It's funny, translating from Latin to Czech and then from Czech to English ;). Should be able to post it hopefully on Monday :o.