" I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book."
-Groucho Marx-
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" I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book."
-Groucho Marx-
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Here are few of my favorites:
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -Eleanore Roosevelt
"If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise." -Johann Wolfgang VonGoethe
"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not." -Andre Gide
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Never To Suffer, would mean never to have been blessed"
_Edgar Allen Poe_
well i could just start today and never finish to enumerate my favorite quotes but at the moment i feel one of the best is probably the following:
"As a woman i have no country. As a woman i want no country.As a woman my country is the whole world". Virginia Woolf
Anyway there's another one that i really love...
"Minds are like parachutes...they only function when they're open" Sir James Dewar
Ah and the last one...which is funny
"thank God i wasn't born before the coming of tea"
Poor Virginia had tunnel vision. She didn't understand that a lot of men feel the same way.Quote:
Originally Posted by michela
The one quote that has stuck in my mind recently is the following:
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."
Those sound like words that George W. bush could have said (in fact he did under different formulations) but those words were spoken by JFK in 1961. These words stick in my mind because I find a defeatest attitude in at least half this country. JFK, along with Truman and FDR, was a great Democrat who knew that one has to fight and have guts if one is to preserve Liberty. I had to get political, but those Democrats don't exist any longer.
What you say is true -- we no longer have inspirational leaders like the ones you mentioned -- but I still want to see the mess in Iraq end as soon as possible because it's not about liberty, ours or theirs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
My favorite quote is:
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." -HDT.
Some other quotes I like are:
"Our greatest glory in life is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -Confucius.
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." -Helen Keller.
"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done." -Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
And most all quotes from Don Marquis, the humerous and brutally honest. For example: "Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth", "Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday", and "If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you."
I have an endless list of quotes that I particularly enjoy, and these make less than a fraction!
"Everyone is in the gutter, but a few are looking up at the stars." -- (Can't recall who said that.)Quote:
Originally Posted by CrashCourse08
"If the meek inherit the earth, they can have it. I don't want any part of it." -- "The War Lover," a novel by John Hershey.Quote:
Originally Posted by CrashCourse08
Oscar Wilde.Quote:
Originally Posted by starrwriter
The original quote is: "We are all lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
well darling you probably don't know very much about the female history...anyway let me suggest you a book "A room of one's own". read it and we could speak again about it. Ignorance is always a bad thing are you agree with me? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by starrwriter
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." jrr tolkien
"When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalcuable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale." G.K. Chesterton
"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish." jrr tolkien
"The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurridly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper he gets a divorce." G.K. Chesterton
Don't have to read it. Men are pigs, women are long-suffering victims. Doesn't that pretty much sum it up?Quote:
Originally Posted by michela
I have a long history with women. I was actually married to one for years. Some were worth knowing, others not -- just like the men I've known.
In modern countries women have things better today than ever before in history. They should be grateful instead of looking for faults in men or whining about the past.
Hello everyone
Here are a few sentences that I read from a book. they touched me deeply. I felt it a few days ago when a friend of mine lost a loved one... I was by her side, and truly sad for her, but I couldnt really connect. It hurt me not to feel her pain and that's when I remembered this quote.
"Your country can be my country and your God mine. Where you live I can live and there can I be buried. but your Pain cannot be my pain, and because it cannot I too am in pain."
The book is (one of my faves): Green Dolphin Street by Elizabeth Goudge.
I'll come again with a few more quotes from this book some other time isA.
I haven't read the book, but the movie version was fascinating. I assume the quote is from a Maori in New Zealand.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jannah
The outlaw Josey Wales after shooting a bounty hunter, the boy he's with says, "don't you think we otta bury them fellas?" Josey replies,
"the hell with them fellas, buzzards gotta eat, same as the worm."
somehow this quote has made it into everyday conversation around my house, not like we are killing people, but if someone fails to pick up dropped food,(I have kids)and the pug eats it....
There's a movie version? I'll try to watch it. thanks!
another bit from Green Dolphin Street: This one's about a 'different' kind of loneliness. Take a look :)
"But it was a pleasant kind of loneliness, not the sort when one has been pushed out by somebody else, but when one has chosen, one's self, to be alone, the kind when one is less concious of human creatures having gone away than of listening for the voices and footsteps of faerie creatures trooping in."
"only fools fight in a burning house" Karg. Klingon captain from Star Trek
"Go for the tail of the potato" Iron chef kenji
"If I have seen far it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Newton
" may fortune favour the foolish" JT Kirk
" A Elbereth Gilthoniel..." Sam Gamgee in the Morgul Vale
"I don't want to do good things, I want to do great things."
-Lex Luthor (Smallville)
"Do you know what the two most important things in the world are? Money, and power. Because, with those two things, you can secure anything else in the world."
-Lex Luthor (Smallville)
You can tell that I watch Smallville, and find some of the fictional character that is Lex Luthor's quotes excellent.
"I am being treated as evil by those who believe they are oppressed, because they can not make me believe as they do."
-D. Dan Gulledge
This quote helped me greatly, for when I first became an Atheist I was hurredly bashed for it at school. It's tough, shirking all your traditional values and handing them in for Secular emptiness...
"Let us live, so that when we die, the Undertaker will be sorry."
-Mark Twain
It's aggressive, and I like it. ;)
"There's nothing noble about dying. Not even if you die for honor. Not even if you die the greatest hero the world ever saw. Not even if you're so great your name will never be forgotten and who's that great? The most important thing is your life little guys. You're worth nothing dead except for speeches. Don't let them kid you any more. Pay no attention when they tap you on the shoulder and say come along we've got to fight for liberty or whatever their word is there's always a word.
Just say mister I'm sorry I got no time to die I'm too busy and then turn and run like hell. If they say coward why don't pay any attention because it's your job to live not to die. If they talk about dying for principles that are bigger than life you say mister you're a liar Nothing is bigger than life There's nothing noble in death. What s noble about lying in the ground and rotting. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead. Because when you're dead mister it's all over. It's the end. You're less than a dog less than a rat less than a bee or an ant less than a white maggot crawling around on a dungheap. You're dead mister and you died for nothing.
You're dead mister. Dead."
-Dalton Trumbo: Johnny Got His Gun
"It will be you-you who urge us on to battle you who incite us against ourselves you who would have one cobbler kill another cobbler you who would have one man who works kill another man who works you who would have one human being who wants only to live kill another human being who wants only to live. Remember this. Remember this well you people who plan for war. Remember this you patriots you fierce ones you spawners of hate you inventors of slogans. Remember this as you have never remembered anything else in your lives."
-Dalton Trumbo: Johnny Got His Gun
"I can take any amount of criticism, so long as it is unqualified praise."
Noel Coward in an undated UK Press report.
Its not Shakespear, its Aristotle... I thinkQuote:
Originally Posted by Eric, son of Chuck
'The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man
knows himself to be a fool.'
-William Shakespeare
As You Like It, Act V, Scene I
my favorite quote of all times is
'Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.' - Virginia Woolf
I'm sorry to trail off the subject, but this has upset me because I am a whining feminist.Quote:
Originally Posted by starrwriter
See it is people like you who form the passive feminism that sits inside women who have been discriminated against. The reason why they don't speak out about being abused, and mistreated.
Feminism does not aim at the annihilation of the male gender, but rather equality between men and women. The fact that you seem to think that feministic values insult you, just goes to show how much you really know about the concept of feminism.
Furthermore, I'd really like to know what you think about racism against Native people, Black people, Jews, gays etc. Since the objective of fighting all these cases of discrimination have never been rightfully solved, I was wondering if you think that they should just stop 'whining' about their past because the statistics of racism have gone down in many countries - or is it only feminism that you think should quiet down. Keep into consideration that you do not see many women these days speaking out about discrimination against their gender, because they are ASHAMED.
I admire your spunk for admitting it.Quote:
Originally Posted by charming_melind
I don't feel insulted at all, I'm just tired of hearing it all the time. You're preaching to the choir. I believe women should be paid as much as men for doing the same work, that the sexes should be treated as equals under the law, that women have the right to an abortion if they want it. But let's not pretend that men and women are carbon copies of each other. We are different in certain important ways and those differences should be respected and not ignored for the sake of feminism.Quote:
Originally Posted by charming_melind
Yes. They should stop whining, take advantage of the legal gains they have made and get on with their lives. The main purpose of life is not to endlessly try to redress grievances, but to live as well as you can.Quote:
Originally Posted by charming_melind
Nonsense on both counts. More women speak out about descrimination today than ever before. And no woman who has a legitimate complaint is ashamed to speak out unless they have allowed themselves to be silenced.Quote:
Originally Posted by charming_melind
"Stagger onward, rejoicing" - W.H. Auden
"Am I not destroying my enimies when I befriend them?"
Lincoln
"A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing." -Dr. Johnson
My favorite quotation:
"On errands of death, these letters speed to death."
--Bartleby, The Scriviner by H. Melville
How about a quote from the most important historical person of the 20th century. I used to hang it up at work:
"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense." -Sir Winston Churchill
"Flattery is like chewing gum, enjoy it but dont swallow it"
cant rember
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"Flattery is like chewing gum, enjoy it but dont swallow it"
cant rember
:D
this is one of my favorite quotes :
Quote:
The Only Thing That Comes To A Sleeping Man Is Dreams --- Tupac Amaru Shakur
'It's better to misquote than not to quote at all; but don't quote me on that' :brow:
i have 2 --
"green jars and white magnolias" F. Scott Fitzgerald
the imagery struck me twenty years ago when i read it in his Notebooks
and
the quote below...
Time for a new quote. How about one to celebrate the New Year?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o'kindness yet
For auld lang syne!
-Robert Burns, "Auld Lang Syne"
From Enchantment, by Orson Scott Card.Quote:
"Like running the hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the air. And then, when the race is over, you're dripping with sweat, either they beat you or you beat them ... and then a couple of guys come out and move the hurdles out of the way. Turns out they were nothing. All that work to jump over them, but now they're gone."
Quotes from Jerry Seinfeld:
1. Jerry Seinfeld: Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV. (Edit)
2. Jerry Seinfeld: Dogs have no money. Isn't that amazing? They're broke their entire lives. But they get through. You know why dogs have no money? No pockets. (Edit)
3. Jerry Seinfeld: I had a parakeet that used to fly around the house and crash into these huge mirrors my mother put in. Ever heard of this interior design principle, that a mirror makes it seem like you have an entire other room? What kind of jerk walks up to a mirror and goes, "Hey look, there's a whole other room in there. There's a guy that looks just like me in there." (Edit)
4. Jerry Seinfeld: The Chalk Outline guy's got a good job. Not too dangerous, the criminals are long gone. I guess these are people who wanted to be sketch artists but they couldn't draw very well. "Uh, listen, Jon, forget the sketches, do you think if we left the dead body right there on the sidewalk you could manage to trace around it?" (Edit)
5. Jerry Seinfeld: You can measure distance by time. "How far away is it?" "Oh about 20 minutes." But it doesn't work the other way. "When do you get off work?" "Around 3 miles." (Edit)
6. Jerry Seinfeld: You know what I never get with the limo? The tinted windows. Is that so people don't see you? Yeah, what a better way not to have people notice you than taking a thirty foot Cadillac with a TV antenna and a uniformed driver. How discreet. Nobody cares who's in the limo. You see a limo go by, you know it's either some rich jerk or fifty prom kids with $1.75 each. (Edit)
7. Jerry Seinfeld: I was in front of an ambulance the other day, and I noticed that the word "ambulance" was spelled in reverse print on the hood of the ambulance. And I thought, "Well, isn't that clever." I look in the rear-view mirror, I can read the word "ambulance" behind me. Of course while you're reading, you don't see where you're going, you crash, you need an ambulance. I think they're trying to drum up some business on the way back from lunch. (Edit)
8. Jerry Seinfeld: I once had a leather jacket that got ruined in the rain. Why does moisture ruin leather? Aren't cows outside a lot of the time? When it's raining, do cows go up to the farmhouse, "Let us in! We're all wearing leather! Open the door! We're going to ruin the whole outfit here!" (Edit)
9. Jerry Seinfeld: The idea behind the tuxedo is the woman's point of view that men are all the same, so we might as well dress them that way. That's why a wedding is like the joining together of a beautiful, glowing bride and some guy. The tuxedo is a wedding safety device, created by women because they know that men are undependable. So in case the groom chickens out, everybody just takes one step over, and she marries the next guy. (Edit)
10. Jerry Seinfeld: Men and women all in all, behave just like our basic sexual elements. If you watch single men on a weekend night they really act very much like sperm - all disorganized, bumping into their friends, swimming in the wrong direction. "I was first." "Let me through." "You're on my tail." "That's my spot." They're like the Three Billion Stooges. But the egg is very cool: "Well, who's it going to be? I can divide. I can wait a month. I'm not swimming anywhere." (Edit)
11. Jerry Seinfeld: Seems to me the basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To men, sex is an emergency, and no matter what we're doing we can be ready in two minutes. Women, on the other hand, are like fire. They're very exciting, but the conditions have to be exactly right for it to occur. (Edit)
12. Jerry Seinfeld: What would the world be like if people said whatever they were thinking, all the time, whenever it came to them? How long would a blind date last? About 13 seconds, I think. "Oh, sorry, your rear end is too big." "That's ok, your breath stinks anyway. See you later." (Edit)
13. Jerry Seinfeld: Dating is pressure and tension. What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night? The only difference between a date and a job interview is that in not many job interviews is there a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it. (Edit)
14. Jerry Seinfeld: Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom. (Edit)
15. Jerry Seinfeld: There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men think, I know what I'm doing. Just show me somebody naked. (Edit)
16. Jerry Seinfeld: There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family." (Edit)
17. Jerry Seinfeld: You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, "See if you can blow this out." (Edit)
18. Jerry Seinfeld: Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end. (Edit)
19. Jerry Seinfeld: There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, "I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked." (Edit)
20. Jerry Seinfeld: The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want! (Edit)
21. Jerry Seinfeld: The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun. (Edit)
22. Jerry Seinfeld: Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem.Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash. (Edit)
23. Jerry Seinfeld: It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. (Edit)
24. Jerry Seinfeld: I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive. (Edit)
25. Jerry Seinfeld: I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything. (Edit)
26. Jerry Seinfeld: A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
I copy/pasted them from a site thus the (Edit) button. Also, that was made from different people, so that's why 1 or 2 may be repeated.
Time for a new quote from me. How about a little poem from Gwendolyn Brooks. This is the entire poem:
We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
Great Poem, Virgil. I like her poetry.
This is a poem, not a quote, but along the same lines, clean and simple, and packs a punch.
Sadie and Maud by Gwendolyn Brooks
Maud went to college.
Sadie stayed at home.
Sadie scraped life with a fine-tooth comb.
She didn't leave a tangle in.
Her comb found every strand.
Sadie was one of the livingest chits
In all the land.
Sadie bore two babies
Under her maiden name.
Maud and Ma and Papa
Nearly died of shame.
When Sadie said her last so-long
Her girls struck out from home.
(Sadie had left as heritage
Her fine-tooth comb)
Maud, who went to college,
Is a thin brown mouse.
She is living all alone
In this old house.