Time for a new quote. How about one to celebrate the New Year?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o'kindness yet
For auld lang syne!
-Robert Burns, "Auld Lang Syne"
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Time for a new quote. How about one to celebrate the New Year?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o'kindness yet
For auld lang syne!
-Robert Burns, "Auld Lang Syne"
From Enchantment, by Orson Scott Card.Quote:
"Like running the hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the air. And then, when the race is over, you're dripping with sweat, either they beat you or you beat them ... and then a couple of guys come out and move the hurdles out of the way. Turns out they were nothing. All that work to jump over them, but now they're gone."
Quotes from Jerry Seinfeld:
1. Jerry Seinfeld: Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV. (Edit)
2. Jerry Seinfeld: Dogs have no money. Isn't that amazing? They're broke their entire lives. But they get through. You know why dogs have no money? No pockets. (Edit)
3. Jerry Seinfeld: I had a parakeet that used to fly around the house and crash into these huge mirrors my mother put in. Ever heard of this interior design principle, that a mirror makes it seem like you have an entire other room? What kind of jerk walks up to a mirror and goes, "Hey look, there's a whole other room in there. There's a guy that looks just like me in there." (Edit)
4. Jerry Seinfeld: The Chalk Outline guy's got a good job. Not too dangerous, the criminals are long gone. I guess these are people who wanted to be sketch artists but they couldn't draw very well. "Uh, listen, Jon, forget the sketches, do you think if we left the dead body right there on the sidewalk you could manage to trace around it?" (Edit)
5. Jerry Seinfeld: You can measure distance by time. "How far away is it?" "Oh about 20 minutes." But it doesn't work the other way. "When do you get off work?" "Around 3 miles." (Edit)
6. Jerry Seinfeld: You know what I never get with the limo? The tinted windows. Is that so people don't see you? Yeah, what a better way not to have people notice you than taking a thirty foot Cadillac with a TV antenna and a uniformed driver. How discreet. Nobody cares who's in the limo. You see a limo go by, you know it's either some rich jerk or fifty prom kids with $1.75 each. (Edit)
7. Jerry Seinfeld: I was in front of an ambulance the other day, and I noticed that the word "ambulance" was spelled in reverse print on the hood of the ambulance. And I thought, "Well, isn't that clever." I look in the rear-view mirror, I can read the word "ambulance" behind me. Of course while you're reading, you don't see where you're going, you crash, you need an ambulance. I think they're trying to drum up some business on the way back from lunch. (Edit)
8. Jerry Seinfeld: I once had a leather jacket that got ruined in the rain. Why does moisture ruin leather? Aren't cows outside a lot of the time? When it's raining, do cows go up to the farmhouse, "Let us in! We're all wearing leather! Open the door! We're going to ruin the whole outfit here!" (Edit)
9. Jerry Seinfeld: The idea behind the tuxedo is the woman's point of view that men are all the same, so we might as well dress them that way. That's why a wedding is like the joining together of a beautiful, glowing bride and some guy. The tuxedo is a wedding safety device, created by women because they know that men are undependable. So in case the groom chickens out, everybody just takes one step over, and she marries the next guy. (Edit)
10. Jerry Seinfeld: Men and women all in all, behave just like our basic sexual elements. If you watch single men on a weekend night they really act very much like sperm - all disorganized, bumping into their friends, swimming in the wrong direction. "I was first." "Let me through." "You're on my tail." "That's my spot." They're like the Three Billion Stooges. But the egg is very cool: "Well, who's it going to be? I can divide. I can wait a month. I'm not swimming anywhere." (Edit)
11. Jerry Seinfeld: Seems to me the basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To men, sex is an emergency, and no matter what we're doing we can be ready in two minutes. Women, on the other hand, are like fire. They're very exciting, but the conditions have to be exactly right for it to occur. (Edit)
12. Jerry Seinfeld: What would the world be like if people said whatever they were thinking, all the time, whenever it came to them? How long would a blind date last? About 13 seconds, I think. "Oh, sorry, your rear end is too big." "That's ok, your breath stinks anyway. See you later." (Edit)
13. Jerry Seinfeld: Dating is pressure and tension. What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night? The only difference between a date and a job interview is that in not many job interviews is there a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it. (Edit)
14. Jerry Seinfeld: Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom. (Edit)
15. Jerry Seinfeld: There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men think, I know what I'm doing. Just show me somebody naked. (Edit)
16. Jerry Seinfeld: There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family." (Edit)
17. Jerry Seinfeld: You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, "See if you can blow this out." (Edit)
18. Jerry Seinfeld: Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end. (Edit)
19. Jerry Seinfeld: There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, "I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked." (Edit)
20. Jerry Seinfeld: The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want! (Edit)
21. Jerry Seinfeld: The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun. (Edit)
22. Jerry Seinfeld: Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem.Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash. (Edit)
23. Jerry Seinfeld: It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. (Edit)
24. Jerry Seinfeld: I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive. (Edit)
25. Jerry Seinfeld: I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything. (Edit)
26. Jerry Seinfeld: A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
I copy/pasted them from a site thus the (Edit) button. Also, that was made from different people, so that's why 1 or 2 may be repeated.
Time for a new quote from me. How about a little poem from Gwendolyn Brooks. This is the entire poem:
We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
Great Poem, Virgil. I like her poetry.
This is a poem, not a quote, but along the same lines, clean and simple, and packs a punch.
Sadie and Maud by Gwendolyn Brooks
Maud went to college.
Sadie stayed at home.
Sadie scraped life with a fine-tooth comb.
She didn't leave a tangle in.
Her comb found every strand.
Sadie was one of the livingest chits
In all the land.
Sadie bore two babies
Under her maiden name.
Maud and Ma and Papa
Nearly died of shame.
When Sadie said her last so-long
Her girls struck out from home.
(Sadie had left as heritage
Her fine-tooth comb)
Maud, who went to college,
Is a thin brown mouse.
She is living all alone
In this old house.
Wonderful. I wonder if I've read it before. I don't remember it, but it would be in my anthology of her work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Riesa
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." - Winston Churchill
'He is so unpopular, if he became a funeral director, people would stop dying.'
-Late MP Tony Banks on ex PM John Major
The never-ending and very tiresome debate (on another site I frequent) about the "The TRUTH revealed by Dan Brown in 'The Da Vinci Code'!!!!11!!" today made me look up this quote from "Foucault's Pendulum". I take comfort in it. As I do in most things written by Eco.
Quote:
"A lunatic is easily recognized. He is a moron who doesn't know the ropes. The moron proves his thesis; he has a logic, however twisted it may be. The lunatic, on the other hand, doesn't concern himself at all with logic; he works by short circuits. For him, everything proves everything else. The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars."
(Umberto Eco)
But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.
-- Lord Byron, Don Juan
'I have nothing to declare but my genius.'
Oscar Wilde (Irish Dramatist) at New York Custom House
Everett Hale (1822-1909), American author and Unitarian minister:
"I am only one, but I am still one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), American Poet-Doctor wrote:
"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
That is what I believe in with all my heart. Must be why I always feel tired.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
Digital I love the Seinfeld ones about the mirror and the dogs. The best.
Nelson Mandella:
a good head and a good heart are a formidable combination
If you want to make peace with your enemy then you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
As we are liberated from our own fears our presence automatically liberates others.
I found a site with quotes, they're basically quotes on virtues:
"Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith."
Adel Bestavros
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."
Albert Schweitzer
"Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo."
Winnie the Pooh (By Milne)
"Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice." "
Woodrow T. Wilson
"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
Thomas Paine
"Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion."
Pythagoras
"None is richer than he who simply has peace of mind"
Maj Wambebe
"The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them."
Camillo Benso Conte Di Cavour 1810-1861, Piedmontese Statesman, Premier
"Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail."
Lao-tzu
"Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury."
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
"When we pray with a heart full of devotion, God accepts it and we receive blessings in return."
St. Gregorious Geevarghese
"Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king."
Horace
"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world. "
Wayne Dyer
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking. It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails."
The Bible-I Corinthians 13:4-8
"We need not think alike to love alike."
Francis David
"The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in."
Aesop
"The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly."
Henry David Thoreau
"Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more."
Henri Frederic Amiel
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
Albert Einstein
"The wise man then followed a simple way of life—which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can."
Seneca
"Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated."
Jacob Bronowski
"As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery… we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness."
Dalai Lama
"Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order."
Francis Bacon
"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."
Albert Camus
"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."
Henry Ward Beeche
and vices:
"Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature."
Sivananda
"Behold the vain man, and observe the arrogant; he clotheth himself in rich attire, he walketh in the public street, he casteth round his eyes, and courteth observation. He tosseth up his head, and overlooketh the poor; he treateth his inferiors with insolence, his superiors in return look down on his pride and folly with laughter."
Akhnaton
"A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe fruit at length falls into his lap."
Abraham Lincoln
"One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you deal with technology, everything happens at the touch of a button. This conditions you to become so impatient that when you have an emotional or personal crisis, you don't allow time for the solution to take effect. This leads to all sorts of rash responses, like quarrels, fights and so on."
Dalai Lama
"One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life."
Chinese Proverb
"Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point - that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you. There is only one alternative - self-value. If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved. You will always think it's a mistake or luck. Take your eyes off others and turn the scanner within. Find the seeds of your jealousy, clear the old voices and experiences. Put all the energy into building your personal and emotional security. Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them."
Jennifer James
"If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly."
Eugene O'Neill
"Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, and don't put up with people who are reckless with yours."
Mary Schmich
"Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has."
Elizabeth O'Connor
and here's a little something from me:
"How sad it can be when a man picks out the most wonderful rose he's ever seen for his marvelous wife, one that he believes summarizes her beauty thoroughly, yet, when looking at itself in the mirror, it thinks itself to be the ugliest of them all"- Me :)