These are two quotes I like:
"Man is the only creature on earth that will shorten its life by working hard to acquire things that will further shorten its life." Unknown author
"Life is to important to take seriously"--Unknown author
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These are two quotes I like:
"Man is the only creature on earth that will shorten its life by working hard to acquire things that will further shorten its life." Unknown author
"Life is to important to take seriously"--Unknown author
I recently read a transcript of the last speech Kurt Vonnegut wrote before his death. The speech is included in Armageddon in Retrospect, a collection of some of Vonnegut's posthumously published writings. My favorite quote from the speech is Vonnegut's advice to writers just starting out:
Quote:
Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college.
- A memo to crew of the Royal Yacht Britannia instructs them in how to nod to members of the Royal Family.Quote:
"Lower your head forward until your chin touches your chest momentarily and then raise your head to an upright position"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...te_of_the_day/
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Thomas Jefferson
:lol: Scary but true.Quote:
Originally Posted by carino
Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a "war on terrorism". You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary? Terry Jones, former Python
I think this one is quite good, funny at least.
“Read in order to live.”
- Gustave Flaubert
“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”
- A C Grayling, Financial Times (in a review of A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel)
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
- W. Fusselman
Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.”
- Voltaire
“So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
- Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“I was born with a reading list I will never finish.”
- Maud Casey
“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
- Logan Pearsall Smith
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
- Joseph Brodsky
“Some people will lie, cheat, steal and back-stab to get ahead... and to think, all they have to do is READ.”
- Fortune
“If you can read this, thank a teacher.”
- Anonymous teacher
:D
"Wisdom Is Love" ~ The Bible
Once one knows enough valuable facts about History,
It allows One to Enjoy the time we have , easier
to contend with...:nod:
I should think the two go together in many cases.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
Quote:
Originally Posted by Admin
mark twain?
'I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes'- Vladimir Nabokov
...because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember as certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps 4 and 5 times more. Perhaps not even. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless...
i originally heard this from Brandon Lee in an interview but i think it`s from a book called The Sheltering Sky.
That's quite thought-provoking.
Are you serious?
It should speak for its self
And the trully horrifying thing is its really really true! :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
It is absurd for the evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything. ~ G.K. Chesterton, St. Thomas Aquinas
Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a piece of blank paper until a drop of blood forms on your forehead. ~ Douglas Adams
Well-behaved women seldom make history!
Its my signature, but I love this quote from an amazing martial artist. I don't know it word for word but it goes something along the lines of...
"The Past and future are only illusions. They only exist in the present."
I write it EVERYWHERE.
This is probably my favorite quote from my favorite TV showQuote:
"We're not the only ones who destroy trees. What about beavers? You call yourself an environmentalist? Why don't you go out and club some beavers?"
-Lindsay Bluth from Arrested Development
Well said!!! I like your sig line too! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Sunflower
My fav quotes:
* Everything in life is down to two things: a) your mindset and attitude and, b) skills. ~~ unknown
* Always do right -- this will gratify some and astonish the rest. ~~ Mark Twain
* "If you want to find out what is behind these cold eyes, you will just have to claw your way through the disguise." ~~ Pink Floyd
* Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ~~ Seneca
Ich beschloss aber Politiker zu werden.
Adolf Hitler
Mein Kampf
....l’indécent galimatias judiciaire, honte d'une nation civilisée...
Henry de Montherlant
Les célibataires
Great show, eh? One of my favorites, too. It is brilliant!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by djy78usa
''Women are definitely lacking in intelligence. If you want proof, you shouldQuote:
Originally Posted by mazHur
look at some of the men they get married to.''
''Hur-rah!!!'' (George from ''The Black Adder'')
A joke
I can do everything through Christ who strengthens me.
-Philippians 4:13
-this quote enabled me to battle my pride and weaknesses... it inspired me to have more faith in myself and improve in some ways...
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
Einstein himself said:
"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
He was an interesting man, old Albert.
- I like this Sunflower :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sunflower
[QUOTE=Miss March;608502]"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
Einstein himself said:
"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
He was an interesting man, old Albert.
I like Einstein too,;)
Here are a few from him too.
• "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
• "If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
Awesome!:thumbs_upQuote:
Originally Posted by Guinivere
My favourite Einstein quote is this:
"The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this."
(Albert Einstein, in a recently discovered letter, reported in the Guardian)
I like this quote because the fundies and happy clappers continue to pedal Einstein as a believer, largely thanks to their inability to recognise metaphors. In fact, it is largely due to their plain ignorance of the power and use of metaphor that they are fundies and happy clappers in the first place.
Describing the disinclination of ancient philosophers to wrangle about religion, Gibbon writes: "It was indifferent to them what shape the folly of the multitude might choose to assume".
(A memorable rebuff, I think.)
Just about anything by Wilde.
"we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Just one that popped into my head that I like.
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face - Basil Hallward to Dorian Gray
"If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog."
-Harry Truman
"Never leave the person you love for the person you like, because the person you like will leave you for the person they love."
-I'm not sure, but if anyone knows, please tell me.
"If all else perished and he remained, I should still continue to be. And if all else remained, and he were anihalated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."
-Cathie Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the decision that something else is more important than fear."
-Anonymous
I like the quote except that it is a contradiction.Quote:
Originally Posted by apstudent
I suppose, "The only absolute truth is that there are no OTHER absolute truths" might do. Then again, I exist; that qualifies as an absolute truth for me. And I suppose "You exist" qualifies as an absolute truth for you. &ct.
So we might have billions of absolute truths. Then again, you might not exist, so I am back to two. How about, "The only absolute truths are that I exist and there are no other absolute truths". This is getting out of hand, it is starting to sound like the 2nd commandment (or is it the first?); anyway it's one of them I haven't broken (yet).
I am going to stop here before I make an absolute fool of myself. Replying to 5 year old posts is dangerous stuff.
Ensign Vic
"Everything happens for a reason"
because I strongly believe that everything that happens to us has a reason... I do not believe in coincidence... :)
"Life is too important to be taken seriously"
"If you would lift me, you must be on higher ground"--Emerson
"He that pryeth into every cloud may be struck with a thunderbolt"--John Clarke
Here r quotes for Helen Keller , a person who was able to make us struggle hard for life..& know that , its sometimes by losing that we find ourselves.
I admire her greatly.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
My favourite quote is:
"Always forgive your enemies:nothing annoys them so much"--Oscar Wilde:D
"To love ones self is the beginning of a lifelong romance"~Oscar Wilde
(Two in a row for the genius!)
''If you want to be loved, be lovable.
''When love is not madness, it is not love.