More serious Quotes

[krimzin]

My vengeance-themed quotes of the day, Cuz I'm feeling vengeful.

 

“Revenge is sweet and not fattening”

-Alfred Hitchcock

 

"Revenge is a dish best served cold"

-Klingon Proverb

 

“The tree of revenge does not carry fruit”

-Dutch Proverb

 

“Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.”

-Mark Twain

 

"Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves."

-Proverb

 

and my favorite:

 

"My karma ran over your dogma"

-Unknown

[Surenas]

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

_ Dave Barry

[kieranfoy]

"If you are to truly understand, then you will need the contrast, not adherence to a single ideal."

 

-Jedi Master Kreia

 

Humanity follows two world-wide sects:

One, man intelligent without religion,

The second, religious without intellect.

 

-Abu Al-Ma'rri, medieval Arabic philosopher

 

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

 

-Socrates

 

The first sin was Faith. The first virtue, doubt.

 

-Unknown

[grannywils]

For those of us who sometimes stress over not having enough hours in the day:

 

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble are of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials" - Lin Yutang

[SilverDNA]

"Serpens, nisi serpentem comederit, non fit draco."

"A serpent, if it does not devour a serpent, does not become a dragon."

Francis Bacon

[myrmaad]

Very few know how much they must know in order to know how little they know. ~Unknown

 

Oh never by way of advice!

And she never sins by telling the tale

To the same person twice.

~ Robert Frost, A Girl's Garden

 

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. ~AnaÏs Nin

 

The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it. ~DaVinci

 

fear says "I want you to be safe"

love says, "You are safe"

 

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus

 

"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." ~William Butler Yeats

 

Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws ~Mr MoJoRisin

 

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks. ~Dorothy Parker

 

 

 

 

_{(for dead poets, artists, and musicians, she has a passion,}

_{for beauty, artistry, and grace never go out of fashion.)}

[grannywils]

I thought I'd put up this eclectic little grouping today:

 

"in each human heart are a tiger, a pit, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity" - Ambrose Bierce

 

"Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic" - Roslind Russell"

 

"Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example" - Mark Twain"

 

"Courage is fire and bullying is smoke" - Benjamin Disreli

[SilverDNA]

"Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

"But who shall guard the guardians?"

Juvenal

I hope Aurelius didn't come up with this quote before me.

[grannywils]

"Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

"But who shall guard the guardians?"

Juvenal

I hope Aurelius didn't come up with this quote before me.

 

 

:laugh: If he didn't he would have eventually. It's a good one.

[SilverDNA]

"My Mama always said, 'Life was like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get.'"

(Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump (1994))