Zepulon Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 (edited) A few that I like: "Happiness depends upon ourselves." - Aristotle "There is nothing to fear but fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt "We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." - Sir Winston Churchill "Every cloud has a silver lining." "Just do it." - Nike Edited July 20, 2009 by Zepulon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxie Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 My favorite quote is "Deal with it". Ironically from someone who I despised, but I've actually used this is trying situations, and (for me) it actually helps. Simple - yet effective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE FIRST LEDZEP Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 small things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BonzoLikeDrumer Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 Some good ones here.... http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Medieval_II:_....B2_Machiavelli Machiavelli and Milton have some good one's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan_S. Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 (edited) . double post Edited July 20, 2009 by Fan_S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan_S. Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 This a very sad one, for when there's a loss of life... "Fear no more the heat o' the sun Nor the furious winter's rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done. Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages" ~ Shakespeare from Cymbeline Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redeyedrichard Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 I love Shakespeare. How about some Oscar Wilde, his wit was unmatched by anyone of his time. One quote I constantly use from him when asked why I am single is: "By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation." - The Importance of Being Earnest I absolutely love that quote and that play. Here are a few more quotes from that great writer: "I could deny myself the pleasure of talking, but not to others the pleasure of listening." "Art is where immitation ends" "Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot!" "There is always more books than brains in an aristocracy" "Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face." "I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex." "There is no sin except stupidity" "A typical Englishman, always dull and usually violent." "If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite civilised." "I am told that pork-packing is the most lucrative profession in America, after politics." "Beer, the Bible, and the seven deadly virtues have made our England what she is." "American youths are pale and precocious, or sallow and supercilious, but American girls are pretty and charming - little oases of pretty unreasonableness in a vast desert of practical common-sense." That will do for now, it is hard copying out of a book. Hope you like them. ReR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virginia Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 I"m not sure whom to credit, but "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results" or similarly, "If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan_S. Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 (edited) How about some Oscar Wilde, his wit was unmatched by anyone of his time. ↑ haha! Those quotes are just "fine and dandy"! (sorry) ReR! Edited July 21, 2009 by Fan_S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el mago Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Who are you? he said I am the Happy Prince. Why are you weeping then? asked the Swalow; you have quite drenched me... The Happy Prince - Oscar Wilde =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarlaxle 56 Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something. - K. Vonnegut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan_S. Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 (edited) Who are you? he said I am the Happy Prince. Why are you weeping then? asked the Swalow; you have quite drenched me... The Happy Prince - Oscar Wilde =) ↑ Beautiful story, el mago! Thanks for the link. It reminds me of several wonderful pieces. This being one of them: (Dickinson's poem) --------❖--------- Not In Vain by Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. -------❖----------- Edited July 21, 2009 by Fan_S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zepulon Posted July 21, 2009 Author Share Posted July 21, 2009 Wow, these are great! Keep them coming. Now to share two of my favorite poems: Still I Rise by Maya Angelou You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful cries. Does my haughtiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard 'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines Diggin' in my own back yard. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise. And the classic: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redeyedrichard Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 ↑ haha! Those quotes are just "fine and dandy"! (sorry) ReR! haha no worries. Oscar Rocks! Some cool quotes coming along people...enjoyed reading them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hots on for nowhere Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 "Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple." ~Dr Seuss I love you Dr. Seuss "Even a brocken clock is right twice a day." ~Polish Proverb "I'd love to change the world, but i don't know what to do, so I'll leave it up to you" ~Alvin Lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan_S. Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 haha no worries. Oscar Rocks! Some cool quotes coming along people...enjoyed reading them. ↑ He certainly does! Hmmm...I wonder who he reminds me of in the chalkstripes. haha. A certain guitarist with presence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninelives Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 "I would never belong to a club that would have me as a member." Groucho Marx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babs Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain - do you know which philosopher said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits. David Brent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan_S. Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Two sayings... 1. "Those who can do, do. Those who can't, teach." ~ George Bernard Shaw 2. "Those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach, teach gym. And of course, those who couldn't do anything, I think were assigned to our school." ~ Woody Allen (from Annie Hall) --------❖-------- jk! no offense to gym teachers or any teachers of course! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el mago Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 (edited) Edgard Allan Poe Pomps of the marble, black anatomy that outraged the burial worms, of the triumph of death glacial symbols he join. Was not affraid. Was afraid the other shade, the loving, the joint venture of the people; Not blinded by glowing metal, pink marble, but the rose. Like as the other side of the mirror was delivered to his solitary destination of complex nightmares inventor. Perhaps, on the other side of death, continue building strong and lonely appalling and magnificent wonders. (Jorge Luis Borges) a blind man... I cannot find a translation in english, perhaps missing some he. =) Edited July 21, 2009 by el mago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el mago Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 (edited) Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark Illumin, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justifie the wayes of God to men. Paradise Lost - John Milton another blind man =/ Edited July 21, 2009 by el mago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bong-Man Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. ~ Frank Zappa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BonzoLikeDrumer Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain - do you know which philosopher said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits. David Brent The first famous pair I fell in love with when I was 13 year's old! Here is a classic .... "When in Rome, do as the Roman's do" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el mago Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 no man can contradict what has been written ale man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Dawg Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 "If you come to a fork in the road, take it." - Larry Yogi Berra #2 HOF '72 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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