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my fav is "Well behaved women seldom make history."
by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
“See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.”
-Robin Williams
'I think it is all a matter of love- the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes'
Vladimir Nabokov
To be or no to be that is the question..
William shakespeare
Oh my Romeo, Why thou for Romeo....
"Pay attention not only to the cultivation of knowledge but to the cultivation of qualities of the heart, so that at the end of education, not only will you be knowledgeable, but also you will be a warm-hearted and compassionate person."
- Dalai Lama
not my favorite overall but one from one of my favorite books, watership down, that came to mind when i saw the thread: "All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first, they must catch you..."
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun. ~ Al Capone :D
Seriously thought: The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived. ~ Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), A Woman of No Importance, Act 3
"Do not mistake genius for lack of talent"
"Better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for who you are not"
I forgot who said them but I know they were used by a band called Type O Negative in the back covers of a couple of their CD's...
"If I were married to you, I'd drink it" - Winston Churchill's alleged response to Lady Astor's suggestion that, if they were married, she'd put poison in his coffee.
:lol: That's funny. Churchill was a great man.Quote:
Originally Posted by djy78usa
"J'ai toujours pensait que tu me tuerais. La premiée fois que je t'ai vu, je venais de rencontrer un prétre à la porte de ma maison. Et cette nuit, En sortant de Cordoue, n'as tu rien vu? Un liévre a passé entre les pieds de ton cheval. C'est écrit." Carmen by Prosper Mérimée.
It was said by Carmen to Don José.
"...je suis las de tuer tout tes amants, c'est toi que je tuerai." Carmen by Prosper mérimée.
Don josé was tired of his life and was trying to convince Carmen to go away with him but she wouldn't because she was interested in another guy: Lucas.
Since I don't ever recall who may have said it...
'He died penniless. Right on schedule, hell of a budget.'
I have just always found that amusing.
i liked this one from Barbara Cartland's book:
"ce que j'ais, je le garde" = i keep what i have
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker
I have seen the eternal footman hold my coat and snicker
And, in short, I was afraid
TS Eliot
"Persistence! Persistence is deciding to either achieve your goal, or die trying!". -Author: Unknown at the moment (I don't remember his name). If any one know this quote please do tell the author name. :)
“Knowing that we don’t know it’s humble; thinking that we know what we don’t know, is sickness”. -Lao-Tse.
Wisdom and Love must balance mutually. Wisdom without Love it’s a destructive element. Love without Wisdom can leads us to error: “LOVE IS LAW, BUT CONSCIOUS LOVE”. -Samael Aun Weor
“The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself”. Galileo Galilei.
Amazing poem, blp.
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A good additude may not solve everything, but it will piss off enough people to make it worth your while.
He kept babbling, "Help me." Me help him? How does one drowning man...help another drowning man?
"be the change you want to see in the world"
- gandhi
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
--Mark Twain
A quote appropriate for these forums if I do say so myself :)
" Between grief and nothing, I will take grief"
-William Faulkner
" I don't know who invented high heels, but women owe him a lot"
-Marilyn Monroe
ahh there are so manny i like
"The past is a reality that exists just beyond our reach"
--??
"Fasion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months
-- oscar wilde
"be kind to unkind people they probably need it the most"
--Ashleigh brilliant
"Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand"
--??
"Religion is the opium of the masses"
--Karl marx
"Relality bites with a variety of sizes of teeth"
--Tony follari
"Time passes by bur persistant demons still clutch on to me"
--??
"there is no right or wrong just seperate beliefs and oppinions"
-- i thought that one up when i was arguing with my freshman geography teacher on the first day of highschool... it was a horrable way to start lol.
This reminded me. I once thought this up, "There is no right and wrong outside the society."Quote:
Originally Posted by AsILay
I love this thread people, I could surf it all day...
Here's a few of my favs:
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
According to my calculations, the problem doesn’t exist.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. - Shakespeare
Of course it’s all in your head, Harry, but why should that mean it isn’t real?
~ Albus Dumbledore
PP
Love witnessing sexy
Henry Fonda in ''The Rounders''.
''Needs a hard man to eat boiled Owl.''
I wonder what it means.
''If only God were alive to see this.'' Homer Simpson.
''I colllect sea-shells.
I keep 'em on beaches all around the World.''
"God gave me two feet. That's why I take one step at a time"--Glen Campbell in "True Grit"
"Curiosity salted the snail"--Spongebob
"there is no there there" - Gertrude Stein
"You can say anything you want, yes sir, but it's the words that sing, they soar and descend. ... I bow to them. ... I love them, I cling to them, I run them down, I bite them, I melt them. ... I love words so much. Everything exists in words."
--from Chilean poet Pablo Neruda's Memoirs.
I like that :nod: Ill have to add that one to my door art.Quote:
Originally Posted by Logos
"To study music we must learn the rules.
To create music, we must forget them."
--Nadia Boulanger
"When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.”
- Dom Helder Camara
I especially like this quote because of its simplicity and deep meaning (through analysis). I imagine "they" to be those in power or those with money (the capitalists). "They" do not mind short term and immediate donation, because it does not affect them and by congratulating him they imagine themselves as humanitarians. "They" do, however, mind his suggestion of social reformation because of its results in their power and material possessions. "They" brand him as the unmentionable "commie" and make the listener assume the negative connotations (Soviet, evil, terrorist, whatever) of "commie" while ignoring the positive.
You have sinned like a man, do not persevere on it like a devil-- Christopher Marlowe
This sentence changed my life; I've never read sth more touching.
"Crying is the refuge of plain women not the pretty ones"
Bernard Shaw(I guess in his play CANDIDA)
Bush senior commented on Clinton-Lewinsky affair:
"God has given man both brain and penis but not enough blood to run both of them at the same time"
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."" ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I love these quotes, maybe above all others. My initial training was in journalism, and the ability to ask pertinent, pointed, interesting questions is the foundation to any story one would then write; now I'm a teacher, and I think that all learning stems from the questions we ask ourselves. And besides, I am always curious.
As to the second one, to survive, we must face the unthinkable sometimes...and well, you get the rest.
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee."--from John Donne's Meditation XVII (which inspired Ernest Hemingway's novel title For Whom The Bell Tolls)
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Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.--from Donne's The Sun Rising
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Not my favorites but I like these:
God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas. - Pablo Picasso
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. - Antoine de Saint Exupery
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating. - O. Henry