More serious Quotes

[Genzel]

“It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.”

“Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.”

“Yesterday's answers has nothing to do with today's questions.”

- Dave Mustaine

[DarkNinja13]

"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."

- A. Sachs

 

"Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life."

- Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), The Mother, 1932

 

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

- Beverly Sills (1929 - )

 

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)

 

"Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about."

- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park

 

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."

- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )

[grannywils]

Ninja: I loved all of those, especially Beverly Sills. She was quite a woman and an incredible singer

 

"If we have not peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other" - Mother Teresa

"A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually" - Abba Eban

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

"I was born modest; not all over, but in spots" - Mark Twain

[Surenas]

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something

[Pseudo Plato]

 

The beginning of the words of [the fool's] mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness

[Qohelet (Ecclesiastes) 10.13]

 

 

A deigeh hob ich

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[gormonk]

"We fight knowing that a single spark of courage can ignite the fires of hope"

Starwars..... Knights of the old republick (the new one made by BioWere and Lucasarts)

[SilverDNA]

"Ubi libertas cecidit, audet libere nemo loqui. "

"When freedom has fallen, no one dares to speak freely."

Publilius Syrus, Sententiae V25

[Surenas]

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,

And the women come out to cut up what remains,

Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains,

An' go to your gawd like a soldier!

_ Rudyard Kipling (1890)

 

What did they expect when they enter a lion’s den?

_ Sheikh Ustadh Yasir, Afghanistan (2007)

 

 

A deigeh hob ich

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[Aurielius]

"Fas est et ab hoste doceri." - It's proper to learn even from an enemy.~ Ovid

 

" Difficile est saturam non scribere." - It is hard not to write satire.~Juvenal

 

' Carthago delenda est." - Carthage must be destroyed.~ Cato the Elder

 

"Iacta alea est' ~ The die is cast ~ Caesar

 

"Many a true word is spoken in jest" ~Proverbs

[SilverDNA]

"Nullius boni sine socio iucunda possessio est."

"No good thing is pleasing to possess without a friend to share it."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Epistulae Morales Liber I §VI (4)

 

"Quicquid dixi, soda pop recognito, mutis invideo."

"When I consider all my speeches, then I envy the mute."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

De Vita Beata 2

Edited August 24, 2010 by SilverDNA

[grannywils]

I was in the mood for Thomas Jefferson today, maybe because I'm reading about him:

 

"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation and freedom in all pursuits"

 

"I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past"

 

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it"

 

"We hold these thruths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.