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"In 1981, I was walking Saint-Denis Street, there I meet a superb prostitute, I ask her name - Socialism. I go up to the room with her, and I realise it's a foul transsexual! He then tells me - take me by the communism!"
-Serge Gainsbourg, translated and slightly adapted by myself
You don't find a friend in the desert
"Better to light a candle than curse the darkness"
Hmm? What is the source of this quote? No dialogue between Plato and Aristotle have come down to us, a quick research on the web led me to no result for such a quote... my guess it's that it's very apocryphal :pQuote:
Originally Posted by bazarov
You can imprison a [wo]man but not an idea. You can exile a [wo]man but not an idea. You can kill a [wo]man but not an idea. — Benazir Bhutto
Mine would have to be, "Immediatly after the monsters, die the heroes." -Roberto Calasso. The sacrificial meaning gets me the most. Even though the hero endured great pain to kill the monster, it still saved the person, or thing, that was worth saving. The sacrifice of a true hero lies in the hands of the situation.
I don't believe I've had the pleasure of welcoming you to the forum yet. Welcome, huihuffaker. :)
I don't think this topic belongs in this particular forum. It's probably better suited for the "Who Said That?" forum. In fact, there is a similar thread to that which you started, located here: "What's your fav quote?". This thread will most likely be merged onto that one.
As for your initial question, I haven't the time to decide which quote I like over another; I have several favorites.
EDIT: I just realized that this topic was moved to the appropriate forum.
"I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be." John Betjeman
"To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,
But life without meaning is the torture
Of restlessness and vague desire--
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid."
Edgar Lee Masters
'Do a thing very well and you will stand before kings.' it is an ancient word of wisdom from I think proverbs in the bible. I like that. It could be the most humble thing, but if you work and work at it and excel people start noticing and sure enough you will find yourself being consulted by those in high places.
Look at Mother Teresa of Calcutta, even that creep Rasputin. He was so good at calming down the little heir to the throne when he had his horrifying attacks of hemophelia that he gained the complete trust of the the Tzarina and ended up interfering through her in politics to the ruin of the Romanov family.
I have a friend who lives a very quiet life. But she bought one rose bush for her garden, it needed something she told me. She knew nothing about roses but she kept looking things up and experimenting and wht not and in about five years she began to win awards for her yard and finally became a consultant on radio and newspaper about the growing and care of roses.
There is no such thing as "attack of hemophilia"...Quote:
Originally Posted by Jane Jane
There are several that are my 'favorite' but two are dear to me.
They are both from the tiny dynamo Mother Theresa of Calcutta:
"I know that God will never give me more than I can handle,I just wish He didn't trust me so much." I believe that is the same feeling for both an intimate relationship with God and with someone mortal that one loves. There is joy unspeakable, also great pain and hardship on the seas of relationships.
The second is:
"The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved."
I was on my own in a city of millions years before I became an adult. Being very shy and an interior person I mainly went to my job each morning, came home each evening and was completely alone. Having spent all my school years but three with the same two girls as best friends and now having no family, this was devestating.
I managed finally to put myself out there, to smile at people, listen carefully and before I knew it I had many friends. But I never forgot the pain of such emotional poverty and each day I look for a way to share my love with someone that I either know doesn't have any from others, or take a chance to smile and be kind to strangers and those I talk to at the shops, etc. This Christmas I gave gifts to strangers as I felt in my heart and was overwhelmed at how some of them opened up with great emotion and I saw they in fact, though looking put together and happy, were broken and alone. It shook me up.
Call me wrong, call me right.
but i bring my better angels to every fight.
you may not like where i'm going,
but you sure know where i stand.
love me if you can
i dont remember it fully but when captain jack says
Me, i'm dishonest , & a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you want to watch out for because you...
i forget
...can never trust an honest man to be honest
lol
its not my favourite but it makes me chuckle
Jane Jane, I love your signature! "The Lady of Shalott" is amazing! One of my favourites!
As for my favourite quotes...they are all in my signature!
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." ~Timothy Leary
I'm sorry for the rude words,,,i am truly am,,but everyone has their limits,,,but break a big promise to me twice,,,,
I prepared everything and just one text, sorry i could not make it,,,,that's it?
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never met an automatic weapon.
-General MacArthur.
It is in the darkest of times that heroes are born, every generation has one, you just need to figure out what kind of hero is he?
-Unknown
Haha, Love it!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by mazHur
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transitions thats troublesome."
-Isaac Asimov
"You mice, that ate the crumbs of my freedom, lo!" Charles Reznikoff, Epitaphs,2
I will not tiptoe through life, only to arrive safely at death
-- author unknown
If you want success you better get comfortable with rejection. The most successful people in life are also the world's most biggest failures.
-- Clint Borgen, Geneva Nights
Consider the successes that resulted from tired, discouraged people who decided to give it just one more try.
-- Life Little Instructions calender Volume X, March 14th 2006
When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses (John. F. Kennedy, US president).
"When I read about the hazards of drinking, I gave up reading."--Youngman
My life will became full of gloom without you
I self destruct every relationship for you
If u will leave me you will destruct my life!!!!!
(written by me)
Gilda: Got a light?
Uncle Pio: Yes, Mrs. Mundson. It is so crowded here and yet so lonely.
Gilda: How did you know?
Uncle Pio: You smoke too much. I noticed only frustrated people smoke too much and only the lonely people are frustrated.
- Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth
"And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of."
-W. Shakespeare
"When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind oppresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress."
"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none."
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form."
-Albert Einstein
just a few but i believe it enough for now. I'll leave yall be for a bit. lol
"life is made of ever so many greetings and partings" charles dickens
"the boy is ignorance and the girl is want. beware them both, but of the two beware the boy" charles dickens
"I don't think i'm surrounded my idiots. i think lightning is improperly distributed" Mark Twain
I have a rock garden,last week three of them died.
I exist as I am, that is enough. If no other in the world be aware I sit content. And if each and all be aware I sit content.
- Walt Whitman
Love is strong yet delicate.
It can be broken.
To truly love is to understand this.
To be in love is to respect this.
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability
oscar wilde
"We pass we pass since all must pass
Often I'll be returning."
-Apollinaire
This translation catches the beautiful sound and poetry of the French original, but I'm posting a more direct translation just for the little changes in meaning (nothing too serious, although there is a difference), if anyone is interested:
"Let's pass let's pass since all passes
Often I will turn around."
Another one:
"...but the small children will laugh at you!" -Diderot (pretty funny expression he used -his own character in Rameau's nephew - to tell someone he was ridiculous)
"... and I, seeing them, put my hands on my ribs, and burst in laughter; because the mad and the fool make fun of one another." -Diderot (same book, Rameau's nephew tells of an embarrassing circumstance where everyone around started laughing at him)
"The death of dogma is the birth of morality." - Kant
"We all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists. But all I neeed is sleep, a constructive attitude, and a little good luck." ---Sylvia Plath
My fav qoute is " c'mon now, c'mon, you aint' serious?"
either my signature, or this;
we let you go,
with gifts of plectrums for your journey,
and melodies to help you on your way,
on and on, although you're gone,
candles burn without a flame on,
our final call to you, i know you're listening;
how could you leave us that way?
- - Bullet For My Valentine. :]
if you can't tell, they're my favorite band.
this song is very sad, though. but very good. [only recommended to metal lovers.]
True !