"Promote individualism. Stamp out harems." ~ me
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"Promote individualism. Stamp out harems." ~ me
"Had Cleopatra’s nose been shorter, the face of the world would have been changed."
Blaise Pascal, Pensées (1670)
The most random quote I found when researching my Cleopatra essay.
Quote:
Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--'Wait and hope'. - Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Too true...
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery,The Little Prince
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare,Troilus and Cressida
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"Success is not enough; others must fail." :D - Can't remember who said it.
"My master has no feeling and that master is the nature of things." Napoleon Bonaparte
"To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness." :lol:
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest .
Fool:
If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'ld have thee beaten
for being old before thy time.
King Lear:
How's that?
Fool:
Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst
been wise.
~ Shakespeare - King Lear, Act 1 Scene 5
Alway do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ~ Ernest Hemingway :brow:
1) Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
2) There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
3) The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
All Lois McMaster Bujold
(Sorry, couldn't choose just one.)
The bad end unhappily, the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
(Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead)
I hold not with the optimist, that all is well; nor with the pessimist, that all is not well. All is not well, but all will be well, because this is God's world.
Robert Browning
Incredible movie. Watched it for the first time only a couple of weeks ago and fell in love with it immediately. (Yes, I know it was a play first, but...)Quote:
Originally Posted by mycatis
Rosencrantz: Do you think Death could possibly be a boat?
Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is "not." Death isn't. Take my meaning? Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not be on a boat.
Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats.
Guildenstern: No, no... What you've been is not on boats.
Quote:
Originally Posted by ElizabethSewall
Thanks! Those made me laugh.Quote:
Alway do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ~ Ernest Hemingway
i love this line from macbeth: "so foul and fair a day i have not seen"