Be careful about reading health books, you may die of a misprint-Mark Twain
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Be careful about reading health books, you may die of a misprint-Mark Twain
My writing shall heal not hurt - Emily (from Emily Climbs)
"All these things I say, I say them because I want you to know; I don't ever want to regret afterwards that I didn't say enough, I would rather say too much." by Samuel Selvon in his short story 'My Girl and the City'.
I love this quote, because too often we break relationships due to not explaining oneself clearly, or to perhaps miscommunication.
What's so wrong in explaining what we truly feel and what we truly mean?
God, I will not give up, but promise me that u will not give up too...
Favourite quote, I can't begin to imagine. Quote I'm fond of? Many. I'll just quote the Moby
Dick:
"So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes
at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or
woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God."
Hamlet: '...Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is
nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes
it so. To me it is a prison...'
Hamlet: 'O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell
and count myself a king of infinite space, were it
not that I have bad dreams.'
'Be great in act, as you have been in thought' - Bastard from King John.
"The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an
inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness." - Joyce.
"the eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable goal"- Aleister Crowley.
"Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends" - Yeats
Some Woody Allen ones:
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.
Actually, I think my favorite quote for now is from a friend's history teacher. He said: "the only thing that keeps me from being happy is the universe".
and read my signature.
we are such stuff as dreams are made on- william shakespeare
"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."
-Mark Twain-
Its actually by Morrissey: "Takes strength to be gentle and kind."
an intellectual is one who finds something more interesting than sex - aldous huxley
where's your will to be weird? - Jim Morrison
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
'There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.'
-- Lord Henry
I love this quote. I was reading The Picture of Dorian Gray at work a few months ago, and when I read that line I had to tell people about it. It's so true. It made me think back to my first real relationship, all those years ago. We were together for about five years, but it was a slow death. I think the first two were good. After that I think both of us had had enough. We just didn't want anyone playing with our old toys.
Death can never hurt you until you die.
-William T. Vollmann
The Edge… There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others- the living- are those who pushed their luck as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between now and later.
-Hunter Thompson
i like secondone most :thumbsup:
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Philo (or Plato?)
"The infinitely small have a pride infinitely great."
— Voltaire
My favourite Quote
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. John Updike
Sex is like money; only too much is enough. Updike
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong
I have theory that the truth is never told during the 9 to 5 hours. Hunter Thompson
It's no wonder truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people who we personally dislike. Oscar Wilde
"...when it is enquired whether such person be a good man or no, the meaning is not, what does he believe, or what does he hope, but what he loves."
--Jeremy Taylor from
Holy Living and Holy Dying Chap 4,
Sect 3
Very good derivative of 1 Corinthians 13:13.
"And right action is the freedom
From past and future also.
For most of us, this is the aim
Never here to be realized;
Who are only undefeated
Because we have gone on trying;"
--T. S. Eliot from
"The Four Quartets," "The Dry Salvages," part V
" Praise be to God, Lord of the worlds ! The compassionate, the
merciful ! King on the day of judgment. Thee only do we worship and
to Thee do we cry for help. Guide Thou us on the right path, the path of
those to whom Thou art gracious, not of those with whom Thou art
angered, nor of those who go astray."
Al-Koran
translated by Rodwell.
" Annasu ala dini mulukihim." Arabic Prov.
" People follow the religion of their kings.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
"When the generous promise, they perform."
Sadi.
Hello, new to the forum. I would have to choose, as my favourite(s):
^ A plea from the soul for the existence of the spirit. And:Quote:
"It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organised dust - ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out, which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream."
Mary Wollstonecraft, Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.
^ Just heavy with atmosphere and dread.Quote:
“I have a notion that, at big fires, a moment of extreme suspense can sometimes occur, when the jets of water slacken off, the firemen no longer climb, no one moves a muscle. Without a sound, a high black wall of masonry cants over up above, the fire blazing behind it, and, without a sound, leans, about to topple. Everyone stands waiting, shoulders tensed, faces drawn in around their eyes, for the terrible crash. That is how the silence is here."
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
Today I caught myself smiling for no reason... then I realized I was thinking about you:banana:
What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that ‘walks in us.’ There are all sorts of dead ideas and lifeless old beliefs. They have no tangibility, but they haunt us all the same and we can not get rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. Ghosts must be all over the country, as thick as the sands of the sea.
Ghosts - Ibsen
That's an amazing Rilke quote above. It reminds me of the atmosphere of dread as today's economy crumbles under corporate avarice.
Do not pray for something so hard because it might actually happen, and you, getting into a stupid habit, might then begin to waste your time praying for a lot of things that could never happen.
"I am the president of Iraq and I'm willing to negotiate. Is this the mother of all peace?" ~ Ace in the hole.
"Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends" ~John 15:13, Jesus of Nazareth
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
~Charles Dickens, A tale of two cities
Know or listen to those who know. ~ Baltasar Gracian
Life is like a star that thrives on the fuel of ideals. If you let it estinguish, you are left like a piece of rotten human flesh. ~ Jose Enrique Rodo
All men are equal before fish. ~ Herbert Hoover
All fish are not equal before men. Haddock is best. Karen CurtisQuote:
Originally Posted by cafolini
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. ~ Mark Twain
I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~ Woody Allen
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. ~ Saint Augustine
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. ~ Laurence J. Peter
If you have no democracy and you can get the people to agree not to speak up, you have bought a bargain much better than repression. ~ C A Cafolini
The superfluous are a very necessary thing. ~ Voltaire