Sunday, October 3

More Quotes

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth.
Charles A Dana

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F Kennedy [oh, so true.]


Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
Ovid [that is very poetic]

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte


But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W B Yeats [this one is my favorite]

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly, (Human Nature)
Thomas Hobbes [hahaha]


Three things cannot be long hidden, the sun, the moon, and the truth
Buddha [didn't expect his to say that]


The pleasure of love is in loving.
Duc De La Rochefoucauld


Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli [all too true]


To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde


Love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit
William Shakespeare [ok, now that is so sweet]


A life without love is a sinful and immoral thing .
Vincent Van Gogh [starry starry night *hears music play softly*]


The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children!
King Edward VIII [k, now I didn't want to bash any of you parents but this is true in our country in general]


"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
Terry Pratchett.


"I can resist everything except temptation." -
Oscar Wilde.




2 Comments:

At 10/04/2004 9:45 PM, Blogger erudil said...

I love the "set a man on fire". Here's another version:
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.
Teach him to fish, and he'll sit around in a boat and drink beer all day.

 
At 10/05/2004 2:30 AM, Blogger Jeremiah said...

Well chosen quotes. =)

 

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