I agree. that would not be a good idea! :)
"Twice the danger, twice the glory." Vietnamese proverb.
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I agree. that would not be a good idea! :)
"Twice the danger, twice the glory." Vietnamese proverb.
"If you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"
Winston Churchill
I don't know if I would agree with the second part of that. Sometimes a good run is required.
I quite agree, facing down a speeding truck can be messy. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
Running is definitely a good idea sometimes. Like when it suddenly starts to rain and you're carrying your dry cleaning back home.
"Excellent is Joy when quarrel and violence are far from it."
Menander.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
----Oprah Winfrey
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It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
---Woody Allen
"I came, I saw, I conquered."
Kaiser Julius.
veni..vedi..vici.. :D
"I can just see you, standing in front of the stove - but I can't see the stove!"
Groucho Marx
DUH!!! (sorry couldn't help not saying that!)
"When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a 'romance'" Oscar Wilde
"Romance should never begin with sentiment,
It should begin with science, and end with a settlement!" Oscar Wilde
"One cannot see the shine of his/her eyes himself/herself"
Udmurtian proverb
"Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate."
Saint Thomas Aquinas
"How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Can't think of any good quote or proverb this time. *thinking smile*
Life is a great experiment - Khalil Gibran
"Where there is great love, there are always wishes".
Willa Cather
"Can we fix it?"
Bob the Builder
"I have nothing to declare except my genius!" Oscar Wilde, going through customs at New York.
Mark Twain, upon being shown a bottle of hootch in a suitcase he had just said contained only clothes: " That, sir, is my nightcap!"
Good Ol' Samuel.Quote:
Mark Twain, upon being shown a bottle of hootch in a suitcase he had just said contained only clothes: " That, sir, is my nightcap!"
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. " ~ Lichtenberg
James Joyce (1882 - 1941)Quote:
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
--Marcel Proust
"It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong."Longfellow :thumbs_up
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Positive: Mistaken at the top of one's lungs Ambrose Bierce :thumbs_up
"Hakuna Matata." - Timon & Pumbaa
To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
Oscar Wilde
One of my favorites, attributed to Winston Churchhill "Yes, madam, I may be drunk. But you are ugly. And in the morning, I'll be sober!" :D
Oh, Pendragon! A good One!!!!! :D
"You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations"
Zig Ziglar
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Ray Bradbury
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
Yogi Berra
"Work is love made visible." - K. Gibran
Violence is the large refuge of the incompetent - Isaac Asimov.
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren Bacall
"That money talks
I'll not deny,
I heard it once;
It said, 'good-bye.'"
Richard Armour
Cares deny all rest to weary limbs. Virgil
Wow, good one, Virg. :nod:
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)Quote:
Were you to die, it would be a limb lopped off.
Wait a minute!!!
Next post:Quote:
Originally Posted by NNoah3
If I am not wrong the second quote doesn't have a word for the first or at last I can't see it.Quote:
Originally Posted by tn2743
We must to follow the rules, don't you agree?
My apologies; I shall abide by the rules from now on.
Do not feel too bad. In going back over my own posts, I have keep the rule only by accident at times, and at others completely forgotten it myself! :goof:Quote:
Originally Posted by tn2743
Now for a quote:
I die well paid, whist my expiring breath,
Smiles o're the tombs of foes made kin by death... Dutch Epigram
All I want is what's coming to me; all I want is my fair share!
Charles Schultz