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May 14, 2006 21:19:28 GMT
Post by wilderbeest on May 14, 2006 21:19:28 GMT
I'm sure we had a quotes thread. But I can't find it, so maybe we didn't. I know there's a song quotes page, maybe that's why I'm confused... Anyway, I found this quote and think it's great.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
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May 15, 2006 12:54:58 GMT
Post by terfle on May 15, 2006 12:54:58 GMT
too many good ones to name.......i'll collect some and post them when i have time
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May 15, 2006 20:00:19 GMT
Post by terfle on May 15, 2006 20:00:19 GMT
a selection of quotes from golda meir
'Being seventy is not a sin.'
'Don't be humble... you're not that great.'
'I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.'
'It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.'
'Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!'
'Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.'
'One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.'
'Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.'
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May 22, 2006 11:26:15 GMT
Post by terfle on May 22, 2006 11:26:15 GMT
now from oscar wilde
'A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.'
'Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.'
'Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.'
'Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.'
'Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.'
'Genius is born--not paid.'
'I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.'
'Illusion is the first of all pleasures.'
'It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.'
'Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.'
'Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.'
'Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.'
'One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.'
'Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.'
'Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.'
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May 22, 2006 11:29:50 GMT
Post by terfle on May 22, 2006 11:29:50 GMT
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
'There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. ' To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
'We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. '
'We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.'
'Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.'
'One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. '
'The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived. '
'When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. '
'Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.' 'One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. '
'My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. ' 'I can resist anything but temptation. '
'Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. '
'Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.'
'Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.'
'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.'
'What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. '
'But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all. '
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May 22, 2006 11:38:31 GMT
Post by terfle on May 22, 2006 11:38:31 GMT
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
I have nothing to declare except my genuis.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, by each let this be heard, some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword!
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May 22, 2006 15:54:14 GMT
Post by wilderbeest on May 22, 2006 15:54:14 GMT
That's an awful lot of quotes. Some I don't agree with, but most are great!
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May 23, 2006 14:45:36 GMT
Post by terfle on May 23, 2006 14:45:36 GMT
the master of quotes. i took some irrelevent ones out though, so there are far more than those
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May 26, 2006 19:15:16 GMT
Post by Flick on May 26, 2006 19:15:16 GMT
You should only regret the things you do do.
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May 26, 2006 23:39:12 GMT
Post by wilderbeest on May 26, 2006 23:39:12 GMT
Indeed. Or another way, "Better to regret the things you do, than the things you don't." - That one's my "favourite quote" on my Facebook profile.
I also like "War doesn't determine who is right, only who is left."
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May 29, 2006 13:39:48 GMT
Post by terfle on May 29, 2006 13:39:48 GMT
and who quoted those?
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May 30, 2006 22:54:59 GMT
Post by wilderbeest on May 30, 2006 22:54:59 GMT
The trouble is, I'm not sure... I got them from a friend who got them from a friend... you get the idea.
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Jun 1, 2006 19:16:16 GMT
Post by Captain Annie on Jun 1, 2006 19:16:16 GMT
i get quote of the day on my google/cuaid homepage which is fun!
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Jun 2, 2006 8:46:07 GMT
Post by wilderbeest on Jun 2, 2006 8:46:07 GMT
Yeah, they're good! What have we today... "Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there." - Josh Billings
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Jun 3, 2006 14:58:40 GMT
Post by wilderbeest on Jun 3, 2006 14:58:40 GMT
Just found another one I think's really nice - 'Hold close to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly'--Langston Hughes
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