Cool Quotes....
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"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" - Mahatma Gandhi
That is one of my favourite quotes. Simply beautiful.
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung" - Voltaire
Think of how much effort a credible Hip Hop artist puts into their lyrics & then think of the nonsense you hear on pop records....
"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do" - Voltaire
Does this ring a bell? 'Somebody' said something quite similar to this....
"Lack of money is the root of all evil" - George Bernard Shaw
Shaw has made so many witty, nonetheless true, comments it isn't even funny....(pun intended - what can I say? I ain't as quick as him)
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it" - George Bernard Shaw
Where's those pesky Americans at?
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier that a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw.
Reinforcing my first comment on him.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
I'll leave it here - for the moment. Can you imagine posting this in Life. 'They' would still claim Tupac could be quoted to a more effective extent. The men I've quoted are true scholars of life & I take my hat off to them.
That is one of my favourite quotes. Simply beautiful.
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung" - Voltaire
Think of how much effort a credible Hip Hop artist puts into their lyrics & then think of the nonsense you hear on pop records....
"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do" - Voltaire
Does this ring a bell? 'Somebody' said something quite similar to this....
"Lack of money is the root of all evil" - George Bernard Shaw
Shaw has made so many witty, nonetheless true, comments it isn't even funny....(pun intended - what can I say? I ain't as quick as him)
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it" - George Bernard Shaw
Where's those pesky Americans at?
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier that a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw.
Reinforcing my first comment on him.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
I'll leave it here - for the moment. Can you imagine posting this in Life. 'They' would still claim Tupac could be quoted to a more effective extent. The men I've quoted are true scholars of life & I take my hat off to them.
"Iza atat laka madammatia min nakisen fa'innaha'l shahadato lia annani kamilo"
(arabic, mutanabi)
ie: being criticized by a fool is the best compliment
"vanity is definitely my favorite sin"
(Al Pacino playing the devil in "the devil's advocate")
"Audace Fortuna Juva" (Caesar i think)
fortune smiles upon the audacious (literal translation)
"in vino veritas"
"opportunities multiply as they are ceased" (Sun Tzu)
"it's easy to spot a smart person, he always has the same opinions as you"
"How do you make a million $ in the stock market?
you start with ten million and you loose nine"
pac could be quoted as a poet, not as a wise guy
(arabic, mutanabi)
ie: being criticized by a fool is the best compliment
"vanity is definitely my favorite sin"
(Al Pacino playing the devil in "the devil's advocate")
"Audace Fortuna Juva" (Caesar i think)
fortune smiles upon the audacious (literal translation)
"in vino veritas"
"opportunities multiply as they are ceased" (Sun Tzu)
"it's easy to spot a smart person, he always has the same opinions as you"
"How do you make a million $ in the stock market?
you start with ten million and you loose nine"
pac could be quoted as a poet, not as a wise guy
Oscar Wilde and Dorothy Parker, two of my favourites.
America is the first country to have gone from barbarism to decadence without the usual intervening period of civilization.
-- Oscar Wilde
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
-- Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
-- Oscar Wilde
True friends stab you in the front.
-- Oscar Wilde
I don't care what is written about me, so long as it isn't true."
-- Dorothy Parker
f you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
-- Dorothy Parker
This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.
-- Dorothy Parker
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker
Love is like quick-silver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away
-- Dorothy Parker
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
-- Dorothy Parker
That woman speaks eighteen languages and she can't say 'no' in any one of them.
-- Dorothy Parker
America is the first country to have gone from barbarism to decadence without the usual intervening period of civilization.
-- Oscar Wilde
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
-- Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
-- Oscar Wilde
True friends stab you in the front.
-- Oscar Wilde
I don't care what is written about me, so long as it isn't true."
-- Dorothy Parker
f you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
-- Dorothy Parker
This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.
-- Dorothy Parker
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker
Love is like quick-silver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away
-- Dorothy Parker
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
-- Dorothy Parker
That woman speaks eighteen languages and she can't say 'no' in any one of them.
-- Dorothy Parker
That's my man right there :thumb: Some more classic quotations from Herr von Bismarck:
"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth"
"When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice"
"Politics is the art of the possible"
"A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success"
"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth"
"When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice"
"Politics is the art of the possible"
"A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success"
"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion." -Abraham Lincoln
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."-Albert Einstein
"There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity"-Douglas MacArthur
and one of my favorites-
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift"-Albert Einstein
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."-Albert Einstein
"There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity"-Douglas MacArthur
and one of my favorites-
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift"-Albert Einstein
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