This game is quite easy and simple. Write a quote or a proverb containing a word from previous quote or proverb. :D
Any fool can know, the point is to understand - Einstein
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This game is quite easy and simple. Write a quote or a proverb containing a word from previous quote or proverb. :D
Any fool can know, the point is to understand - Einstein
Sounds like fun, Pensive. :D
Quote:
“The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.” Albert Camus
"Ignorance of one’s misfortunes is clear gain." Euripides
Pen is stronger than sword. (English Proverb)
"That which does not kill me makes me stronger." Nietchez
Miguel Cervantes (1547-1616)Quote:
Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword.
Lol, well Xamonous, it is a matter of opinions.
Make hay while the sun shines - English Proverb
~ If anyone of you think that your quote or proverb needs explanation, you are welcome to explain it to make it more clear.
If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because, man, they're gone.-Jack Handy
It's so true.
Man who eats many beans has brown spots on his jeans - I heard that attributed to Confucius but I don't think thats quite right.
Instead of having "answers" on a math test, they should just call them "impressions," and if you got a different "impression," so what, can't we all be brothers?
Jack Handley
“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.”
Robert A. Schumann
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
--Rabindranath Tagore
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details - Einstein
The devil is in the details.
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.
Milan KunderaQuote:
Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.
"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal"
Oscar Wilde
"Mad, bad, and dangerous to know" - Lady Caroline Lamb referring to Lord Byron.
Hey, are we playing correctly? Aren't we supposed to take a word from the previous quote and use it in your own? I'm not sure I see everyone doing that.
A little learning is a dang'rous Thing - Alexander Pope
I think you'll find that most have got 'it' or 'the' in them somewhere Virg. :nod:
The letter of the law perhaps, if not the spirit.
Maurice Edelman (1911-1975)Quote:
I dislike censorship. Like an appendix it is useless when inert and dangerous when active.
"When anger rises, think of the consequences" Confucius
That definitely didn't have any words from the last post - read the rules please NNoah!Quote:
Originally Posted by NNoah3
I am wondering if the word "When" doesn't count....
Humble apologies - I must have gone through that 5 times! :lol:
It's OK, I was looking for another quote with the word "dangerous, or dislike" but I didn't find it. Or maybe is because I am hungry. Time to leave for my lunch....:D
See you in a little while. :wave:
I think, therefore I am - Descartes
"I hate definitions." -Benjamin Disreali
I have no idea of the context, but it does sound like something a politician would say in a private moment.
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it? .
Doctor Who
Hope is the thing with feathers,
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without words,
And never stops at all. :nod:
~ Emily Dickinson
Hope springs eternal in the human breast - Alexander Pope
Or something like that, I may be forgetting an apostrophe.
When by my solitary hearth, I sit
and hateful thoughts unwrap my soul in gloom;
When no fair dreams before my mind's eye flit,
And the bare hearth of life presents no bloom;
Sweet hope, ethereal balm upon me shed,
And wave thy silver pinions over my head
~John Keats
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
George Bernard Shaw
Hope is hope for infinite hope - Tolikien
Alas! Poor Yorick. I knew him Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy - William Shakespeare
"If you call a sheep's tail a leg, it still only has four legs. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one" Abraham Lincoln
Proud people breed sorrows for themselves. (English Proverb)
Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son,
Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking, and breeding,
No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them,
No more modest than immodest.
Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself
To have great poets, then there must be great audiences too - Walt Whitman.
(Have you by any chance, Virgil, read Dialogue? It was a magazine. My grandpa brought the edition Volume:9 published in 1976 from USA and he has given it to me now. It is great)