More serious Quotes

[grannywils]

"Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice" - Miguel de Cervantes

 

"America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system" - Walter Cronkite

 

"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks" - Marcus Aurielius

[SilverDNA]

Great quotes Grannywils! I applaud you for these.

"A kissed mouth doesn't lose its freshness, for like the moon it always renews itself."

Giovanni Boccaccio

[grannywils]

"We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them" - Cato the Elder

[SilverDNA]

Dream

O dream on your black wings

you come when I am sleeping.

Sweet is the god but still I am

in agony and far from my strength.

for I had hope (none now) to share

something of the blessed gods,

nor was I so foolish

as to scorn pleasant toys.

Now may I have

Sappho

[SilverDNA]

But this trial has shown that under the stress of a national crisis, men — even able and extraordinary men — can delude themselves into the commission of crimes and atrocities so vast and heinous as to stagger the imagination. No one who has sat through this trial can ever forget. The sterilization of men because of their political beliefs... The murder of children... How easily that can happen! There are those in our country today, too, who speak of the 'protection' of the country. Of 'survival'. The answer to that is: 'survival as what?' A country isn't a rock. And it isn't an extension of one's self. It's what it stands for, when standing for something is the most difficult! Before the people of the world — let it now be noted in our decision here that this is what we stand for: justice, truth... and the value of a single human being!

Judgment at Nuremberg - Judge Dan Haywood AKA Spencer Tracy

[Surenas]

For the networked Napoleons of today Animal Farm:

 

Nobody is perfect. And only the perfect one is always right.

 

 

Take your protein pills, boys

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[gormonk]

the importance in chose is that your given one

perhapps death may not be the end but is the end of all life

blood is life...with no blood there is no life

 

 

all mine again

[grannywils]

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives" - Abba Eban

 

"Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat,.it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat" - Mark Twain

 

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others" - Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Note: Silver, I could just read your quotes all day. You have remarkable taste in readings. Please keep them coming.

 

 

[SilverDNA]

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

George Bernard Shaw

Thank you Grannywils.

Good ones of Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain.

I like the classical literature and in most things I dwell I'm an autodidact because education isn't what it should be here. The only good teacher I had was the first who raised my interests to read the good stuff.

 

Some people

Take drugs,

I read books.

 

Sometimes a book can be better in bed than a partner.

Edited July 31, 2010 by SilverDNA

[grannywils]

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

George Bernard Shaw

Thank you Grannywils.

Good ones of Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain.

I like the classical literature and in most things I dwell I'm an autodidact because education isn't what it should be here. The only good teacher I had was the first who raised my interests to read the good stuff.

 

Some people

Take drugs,

I read books.

 

Sometimes a book can be better in bed than a partner. - Ditto