Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
This is absolutely true!! Growing old should be rewarded, just for putting up with it!Quote:
Originally Posted by cafolini
People who consider themselves original are a dishonor to their teachers, be them parents or otherwise, or even nature. And others who agree with them are utterly naive or liars. ~ C A Cafolini
lord save the god from macbeth
A person who says that a lie cannot live for too long is simply a person that does not know how to tell it. ~ C A Cafolini
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~ Winston Churchill
"This is Osama Bin Laden and this war has just started."
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. ~ Gaston Bachelard
I enjoy a good quote. Here's one I found not long ago by someone who said a lot of interesting things - his quotes are quite engaging. I find some truth in this for sure.
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/au...ochefouca.html
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.~ Maya Angelou
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions. ~ Michel de Montaigne
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. ~ Albert Camus
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. ~
Charles de Montesquieu
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ. ~ Charles de Montesquieu
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live. ~
Marilyn Monroe
It was a long time before I appreciated quotes that came in all-seriousness. That's because there is so much of our planet that must be treated with satire and humor. It was only when I realized that we could actually lose our rights to be humorous and satirical that I began to enjoy some very serious stuff. ~ C A Cafolini
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truths than lies. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Originally Posted by cafolini
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ~ Mark Twain
The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
That's a truth and it works in conjunction with Angelou's: "The talent of children to endure stems from their lack of alternatives."Quote:
Originally Posted by jajdude
Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I'll kiss you for it. To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. In the first case you are a man, in the second you're no better than a bird.
''he who speaks must think, he who thinks must write and he who sees must be''
He who speaks might think he thinks. He who thinks he thinks might write. He who sees might tell or think he tells. ~ C A CafoliniQuote:
Originally Posted by cacian
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.-Mark Twain
"The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh."
Ecclesiastes 4: 5
:party:Or believing, or disbelieving what is is. As long as it is believing or disbelieving, it is faith in the spirit and what comes from the spirit. But if it comes from what it is so, it is still faith in what it is so. No thing or action was ever born from a man for the latter to actually not have any faith involved in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by iamnobody
Men are born faithful and reverend in whatever which way. This might be difficult to grasp. Don't ask around.:party:
A contrast:
Serious, precise, realistic if you happen to be on the spot of a leader. Abe Lincolm:
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Romantic, vague, hypocritical anywhere, but extremely humorous. Albert Speer:
If Hitler had the capability for friendship, I would have been that friend.
"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy."Quote:
Originally Posted by cafolini
George Bernard Shaw
wow! I just read that quote this morning!Quote:
Originally Posted by G L Wilson
Poor Shaw. I might be an idiot in his final analysis, since I am so patriotic that I would burn our flag in public if it were to be used by those who never understood freedom.Quote:
Originally Posted by G L Wilson
But those were the blinded days of Foucault, also. He and Shaw farted well as they found it necessary.
Yes, but how about this quote:Quote:
Poor Shaw.
England and America are two countries
divided by a common language.
—George Bernard Shaw
But I have lived, and have not lived in vain:
My mind may lose its force, my blood its fire,
And my frame perish even in conquering pain;
But there is that within me which shall tire
Torture and Time, and breathe when I expire;
Something unearthly, which they deem not of,
Like the remember'd tone of a mute lyre,
Shall on their soften'd spirits sink, and move
In hearts all rocky now the late remorse of love.
- Child Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV
Well, yes. But he stayed Fabian. Never grasped Freemasons to end.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prince Smiles
Besides, we'd have to have a talk with the Iron Lady about what side of the two countries is necessary to keep the armed forces, and have a good discussion about Gibraltar and Falklands(as a minimum).
"True love is always right, even when it is in the wrong." - Milan Kundera
People believe or disbelieve in unconditional love. I know it doesn't occur. But there occurs a lot of love which keeps the best going against hate. Historically, love always wins this battle. What's missing in hate? Hope for the best.
“Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.” Mark Rothko
Isn't it a little too humble for the dedication? Would you try to convince Degas or Van Gogh about this one? I don't think so.Quote:
Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin