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"Better is a dinnerof herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith."
-Solomon
"The world is a comedy,to those who think; a tragedy to those who feel."
-Horace Walpole
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Originally Posted by Admin
"Better is a dinnerof herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith."
-Solomon
"The world is a comedy,to those who think; a tragedy to those who feel."
-Horace Walpole
Sorry, long list (I simply cannot pick just one)... None of these will get me far in life, LOL, but I truly love them, and return to them when I'm feeling a little lost in life. I've collected them throughout my life thus far, and these are some of the ones that have stuck with me most (I do have more, of course). Most of them are about stories, some of them make me smile, others, thoughtful, and... I suspect all of them reflect little pieces of myself.
"In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faery lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal."
- L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
"I'M SIGNIFICANT,'
...screamed the dust speck." - Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
"I think... that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt."
-Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things
"It was in fairy-stories that I first divined the potency of words, and the wonder of things, such as stone, and wood, and iron, tree and grass, house and fire; bread and wine."
-J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy-Stories (essay)
"The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords. In that realm a man may, perhaps, count himself fortunate to have wandered, but its very richness and strangeness tie the tongue of a traveller who would report them. And while he is there it is dangerous for him to ask too many questions, lest the gates should be shut and the keys be lost."
- J.R.R Tolkien, On Fairy-Stories (essay)
"'What do you fear, lady?'" he asked.
"'A cage,'" she said. "'To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.'"
- Eowyn/ J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
“Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the Fox from The Little Prince
"There has never been a world in which I was not known."
"I know exactly how you feel," Schmendrick said eagerly. The unicorn looked at him out of dark, endless eyes, and he smiled nervously and looked at his hands. "It's a rare man who is taken for what he truly is," he said. "There is much misjudgment in the world. Now I knew you for a unicorn when I first saw you, and I know that I am your friend. Yet you take me for a clown, or a clod, or a betrayer, and so must I be if you see me so. The magic on you is only magic and will vanish as soon as you are free, but the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes. We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream."
-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn.
Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.
"Outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's to dark to read."
A .45 beats a Royal Flush every time!
"Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws." ~ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skill is their capacity to escalate." ~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
My top ten quotes includes one from Barack Obama, which is:
"My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success."
curiousity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect
blank verse is like a tennis match with no net, freer
If you "Google" the quotation "Either that wallpaper goes or I do," you find scores of links attributing it to Oscar Wilde. Nevertheless, Robert Byrne's 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (Fawcett, 1988), states on p. 250: that the quotation is "Almost certainly not the last words of Oscar Wilde." (Boldface mine.)
But I do believe that these were the last words of Ronald Firbank, the flamboyant British novelist. Does anyone know the correct speaker for sure? You really can't trust the Web for absolute accuracy. For instance, an article about poetry on Slate a few months ago misattributed a line to Ezra Pound when it in fact had been written by Auden. Also the Wikipedia entry for Saul Bellow has his date of birth a full month early.
One of my favorite quotes is from Ceaser,
"Veni, vidi, vici!" -"I came, I saw, I conquared!"
It has such a powerful meaning towards it.
"I Came," Is just beautiful to me.
"I saw," Is the lead up to...
"I Conquared!" The powerfulness to the whole saying.
And the Quote from Eldest, "Thorn is my dragon and a thorn he shall be to all our enemies." Just Rocks!
There is a nice task to make a choice of numerous quotations.It happens to have on my desk a book by Italian Author Francesco Guicciardini XV century.The most precious attribute of him was brilliant mind.
"The revenge doesn't come from hate or bad nature each time,then sometimes there is e need of that in order to be an example, by which others to be learned not to offend anyone.It is all right for a man to get revenge on one by not cherishing hate against that person"
"Indeed,people to whom the same opportunity has been given by the second time are really happy.For the first time man possibly missis it or makes bad use of that as much as wise to be;but, who doesn't understand it and is not able to take advantage of it by second time,that one is very unreasonable."
"People gifted by Spirit to be above the average have that gift to be suffering and calamity of their,for of that,they have nothing more but pain and efforts that are unknown of ordinary people"
It is translation from a book written by Ivo Andric Serbian author and awarded Nobel prize, who translated it from Italian.
Feel free to make some corrections /if it allowed /in my translation to English.
Sorry not relevant to this thread but - :eek: - rima you've stolen my nickname! :lol::lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by rima
O.K.Thought this Author is more than respected to be quoted here;his mind is brilliant and saying beautiful, and maybe not widely enough recognized.And yes,it is from a book compiled by Serbian Nobel awarded prize Author Ivo Andric.Quote:
Originally Posted by optimisticnad
Quotations are partly a literature feature.
If you like one of my, favorite is
"What you meet in your dreams you can achieve in reality,for in the reality is everything possible."
"All my life i have been trying to live up to my good intentions,which are my real and genuine inside being;but i met wrong answers."
rima, I don't know why optimisticnad said those quotes weren't relevant to the thread. Maybe optimisticnad thought they were your OWN quotes (that you created yourself)...? They were pretty difficult to understand, though. I imagine they're pretty difficult to translate.
I think the two quotes in your second post are good ones, (and easier to understand)!
The quote that I always think of first for lists like these is from Yogi Berra. He was talking about a restaurant or a nightclub or something:
"No one goes there anymore--it's too crowded."
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And another funny one by Mark Twain, describing a rival's book:
"Once I put it down, I couldn't pick it back up."
You are right,i don't know why they are not relevant to the thread.They are written by Italian Author,i have no translation in English/needed to translate them myself/.I wanted you to meet this Author because i believe many don't know about him.Francesco Guicciardini XV century.It would be great,one day someone to find and read his sayings,and put English translation.Why not?Probably this forum is imagined to all members be active and innovative.Quote:
Originally Posted by billl
If you like the two last quotes i am glad for they are mine.
Dance as though no one is watching you, love as though you have never been hurt before, sing as though no one can hear you, live as though heaven is on earth.
- Souza
"That part of ourself which we suppress in youth, for the achievement of some given ambition, will return many years later, knife in hand, determined to destroy its destroyer." - Carl Jung
Because I saw it come true so many times.
I think that it was her own comments that she was saying weren't relevant. Well in truth I virtually know that.Quote:
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I have a copy of 'The Bridge on the Drina' on my shelf, unread, as yet.
I thought Andric was a Bosnian Croat?
"This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays." Douglas Adams
The great actor and confirmed athiest W.C. Fields when caught thumbing through the bible on his deathbed pronounced '' I was looking for loopholes ''
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." -Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho
Beckett always makes my skin crawl. In that quote he expresses the only consolation of living he found. Fail better, do it again, paradoxically win at something: at failure. "I can´t go on. I´ll go on." (from The Unnamable)
And this victory-through-failure is seen in a passage from John Barth´s Title (quite direct):
"Self-defeat implies a victor, and who do you suppose it is, if not blank? That's the only victory left. Right? Forward! Eyes open."
...Suppose I happen to know a unique flower, one that exists nowhere in the world except on my planet, one that a little sheep can wipe out in a single bite one morning, just like that, even without realizing what he's doing - that isn't important? If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself, 'My flower's up there somewhere...
Antoine de Saint Exupery
For all we take we must pay, but the price is crule high. Rudyard Kipling
"Religion is the opiote of the people"
- Karl Marx
opiates are the religion of the masses, aldous huxley
Mark Twain - "Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for."
This great evil. Where does it come from? How'd it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who's doin' this? Who's killin' us? Robbing us of life and light. Mockin' us with the sight of what we might've known. Does our ruin benefit the earth? Does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you, too? Have you passed to this night?"
Explosions in the Sky used that in a song. Great quote.Quote:
Originally Posted by limajean
solitary, solar, bristling with lashes, it gazed from the lunette of a guillotine. the drawing was named eternal recurrence, and its horrible machine was the cross-beam, gymnastic gallows, portico. coming from the horizon, the road to eternity passed through it. a parodic verse, heard in a sketch at the concert mayol, supplied the caption:
god, how the corpse's blood is sad in the depth of sound. (bataille <3)
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Simone de Beauvoir
"Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed.
He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your appendix. He's making sure your attention is always filled.
And this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world."
- from Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk; because it is so true.
"Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close."
- from Invisible Monsters, also, by Chuck Palahniuk; because once again, it's true and this quotation just spoke to me.. I'm not entirely sure why.
"This is not an exit."
- from American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis; this is my favourite BEE quote. It doesn't mean a lot out of context, but it's the last line of the novel and, in it's entirety, it pretty much summed up the whole concept of the novel.
And, finally...
"Disappear Here"
- from Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis; this novel changed my life and this quotation is the motif for it.
i like this one very much, it's the true meaning of what success is all aboutQuote:
When there's a will there's a way
thank you
I've just spent ages reading through a good many pages of this thread and thought I'd add my own. It's one of the Shakespeare quotations Huxley uses in Brave New World:
Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice,
Handlest in thy discourse, O, that her hand,
In whose comparison all whites are ink,
Writing their own reproach, to whose soft seizure
The cygnet's down is harsh…
Louis L'Amour's Education of a Wandering Man reads like a book of quotes. I got a lot of wisdom out of that book.
"I remember the decks of ships where I have walked, the feel of the wheel in my hands, the drip of water from yellow oilskins, and I have heard the crash of great trees coming down in the forest. One does not have to live among these things to remember them, and I do. They were and are a part of me."
"A writer is bound by no earthly ties; what he is and what he sees he creates in his mind, or his subconscious creates it for him. Thanks to the lands I have seen and the books I have read, I know what it was like. The world of which I write is my world always. It is a claim I have staked and continue to stake, and each writer has his own way of telling a story."
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain."
Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray).
I always enjoyed this from Beowulf
“Unless he is already doomed Wyrd is apt to favour him who keeps his nerve”
and Anearin’s
“I wish I had been the first to shed my blood at Cattraeth, to pay for the blue mead and the feasting”
Currently, it's The Glimmer Man's 'We gotta have sympathy for the dead, the dying, the could-be-dying and the soon-to-be-dead.'
"It was an extremely beautiful place and was very green."
Japan's first lady-in-waiting on her trip to Venus
One of my favourite is: "She was a phantom of delight/ when first she gleamed upon my sight" William Wordsworth
Blessed are the idiots because they are the happiest people on the earth.
It's the subtitle of the novel "The White Shroud" by A. Skema, lithuanian writer.