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Quotable Quotes Part II
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Sentimentality
Sentimentality is no indication of warm heart.
Nothing weeps more copiously than a chunk of ice.
Life Today
First feelings are always the most natural.
Louis XIV of France
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
Thomas Carlyle
Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.
Wallace Stevens
Sentimentality is no indication of warm heart.
Nothing weeps more copiously than a chunk of ice.
Life Today
First feelings are always the most natural.
Louis XIV of France
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
Thomas Carlyle
Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.
Wallace Stevens
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Service
The vocation of everyman and woman
is to serve other people.
Leo Tolstoy
There never was a bad man that had ability
for good service.
Edmund Burke.
Small service is true service, while it lasts.
William Wordsworth
The vocation of everyman and woman
is to serve other people.
Leo Tolstoy
There never was a bad man that had ability
for good service.
Edmund Burke.
Small service is true service, while it lasts.
William Wordsworth
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Service
If I can any way contribute to the diversion
or improvement of the country in which I live,
I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it,
with a secret satisfaction of thinking
that I have not lived in vain.
Joseph Addison
If I can any way contribute to the diversion
or improvement of the country in which I live,
I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it,
with a secret satisfaction of thinking
that I have not lived in vain.
Joseph Addison
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Sex
In Adam's fall,
we sinned all. :tsk:
The New England primer.
Continental people have sex life;
the English have hot water bottles.
Georges Mikes
The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks,
Which practically conceal its sex.
I think it is clever of the turtle
In such a a fix to be so fertile. :clap2:
Ogden Nash
I second it!!! Oh what a fix to be in!!!
In Adam's fall,
we sinned all. :tsk:
The New England primer.
Continental people have sex life;
the English have hot water bottles.
Georges Mikes
The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks,
Which practically conceal its sex.
I think it is clever of the turtle
In such a a fix to be so fertile. :clap2:
Ogden Nash
I second it!!! Oh what a fix to be in!!!
[h=2]A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
– George Bernard Shaw[/h]
– George Bernard Shaw[/h]
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Even though we all know that...
Something IS better than Nothing, :decision:
Nothing IS better than Nonsense! :loco:
Something IS better than Nothing, :decision:
Nothing IS better than Nonsense! :loco:
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...provided something is learned from those mistakes.
If the mistakes follow like the questions in a rapid-fire-round,
there is nothing more dishonorable and useless
than a life spent in making such mistakes.
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Sex
In Adam's fall,
we sinned all. :tsk:
The New England primer.
Continental people have sex life;
the English have hot water bottles.
Georges Mikes
The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks,
Which practically conceal its sex.
I think it is clever of the turtle
In such a a fix to be so fertile. :clap2:
Ogden Nash
I second it!!! Oh what a fix to be in!!!
I am sure at least some of you wondered what made me comment this way!
The upper shell of the turtle is called the carapace. The lower shell that encases the belly is called the plastron. The carapace and plastron are joined together on the turtle's sides by bony structures called bridges.
The inner layer of a turtle's shell is made up of about 60 bones that include portions of the backbone and the ribs. This means that the turtle cannot crawl out of its shell.
in cartoons we find turtles coming out of their shell but in reality they can't do so!
They are really really fixed in between two shells joined by bridges.
Isn't it a real fix to be fixed for life in this manner between two rigid shells???
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Song
There is delight in singing,
tho' none hear
Beside the singer.
Walter Savage London.
Yes! Audience are not really necessary for
singing good music and feeling satisfied.
It is the best of all trades,
to make songs and the
second best to sing them.
Hilaire Belloc
Better than the best trade is to
make songs, sing them and mint money!
There is delight in singing,
tho' none hear
Beside the singer.
Walter Savage London.
Yes! Audience are not really necessary for
singing good music and feeling satisfied.
It is the best of all trades,
to make songs and the
second best to sing them.
Hilaire Belloc
Better than the best trade is to
make songs, sing them and mint money!
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Songs
You can relax peacefully wherever there is singing,
Without fear of what is thought in the land;
No man is robbed where there is singing,
For scoundrels have no songs.
Johann Gottfried Seume.
But scoundrels have Smiles instead of Songs !!!
And the others who are neither singing nor listening may rob!!!
You can relax peacefully wherever there is singing,
Without fear of what is thought in the land;
No man is robbed where there is singing,
For scoundrels have no songs.
Johann Gottfried Seume.
But scoundrels have Smiles instead of Songs !!!
And the others who are neither singing nor listening may rob!!!
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Soul
As the rays of the sun lighten and gild the blackest cloud,
so the soul be entering the body of the universe gives it
the life and immortality; the abject it lifts up.
Plotinus.
My soul is God, my soul is eternity.
Egyptian book of the dead.
As the rays of the sun lighten and gild the blackest cloud,
so the soul be entering the body of the universe gives it
the life and immortality; the abject it lifts up.
Plotinus.
My soul is God, my soul is eternity.
Egyptian book of the dead.
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Soul
The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God,
and there shall no torment touch them.
The wisdom of Solomon. 3:1.
Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
Like seasoned timber, never gives:
But though the whole world turn to coal,
Then chiefly lives.
George Herbert.
The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God,
and there shall no torment touch them.
The wisdom of Solomon. 3:1.
Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
Like seasoned timber, never gives:
But though the whole world turn to coal,
Then chiefly lives.
George Herbert.
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Speech
Be a craftsman in speech, so that thou mayest be strong,
for the tongue is a sword and speech is
more valorous than any fighting.
Egyptian proverb.
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.
Francis bacon.
Speech is small change of silence.
George Meredith.
Be a craftsman in speech, so that thou mayest be strong,
for the tongue is a sword and speech is
more valorous than any fighting.
Egyptian proverb.
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.
Francis bacon.
Speech is small change of silence.
George Meredith.
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“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
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When the same person does both
he will be in double trouble!!!
he will be in double trouble!!!
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Speech
Speech is civilization itself.
The word even the most contradictory word,
preserves contact - It is silence which isolates
Thomas Mann.
Silence is deep as Eternity;
Speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle.
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
Charles Murice De Talleybrand
Speech is civilization itself.
The word even the most contradictory word,
preserves contact - It is silence which isolates
Thomas Mann.
Silence is deep as Eternity;
Speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle.
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
Charles Murice De Talleybrand
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Success
'Tis a lesson you should heed,
Try try again.
If at first you don't succeed,
Try Try again.
William Edward Hickson.
The secret of success in life is known
only to those who have not succeeded.
John Churton Collins
'Tis a lesson you should heed,
Try try again.
If at first you don't succeed,
Try Try again.
William Edward Hickson.
The secret of success in life is known
only to those who have not succeeded.
John Churton Collins
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Success
Nothing succeeds like success.
Success depends on three things:
who says it, what he says, how he says it;
and of these, what he says is the least important.
John Viscount Morley of Blackburn.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Success depends on three things:
who says it, what he says, how he says it;
and of these, what he says is the least important.
John Viscount Morley of Blackburn.
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System
The most ingenious way of
becoming foolish is by a system.
Third earl of Shaftesbury
There is virtually no kind of situation
that can't be handled with a system.
Robert R Godfrey.
The most ingenious way of
becoming foolish is by a system.
Third earl of Shaftesbury
There is virtually no kind of situation
that can't be handled with a system.
Robert R Godfrey.
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System
Ultimately all systems fail.
Ben Rose.
The writers against religion whilst they oppose
every system are wisely careful
not to set up any of their own.
Edmund Burke.
Ultimately all systems fail.
Ben Rose.
The writers against religion whilst they oppose
every system are wisely careful
not to set up any of their own.
Edmund Burke.
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Talent
The luck of having talent is not enough;
one must also have a talent for luck.
Hector Berlioz
The latent talent emerges when the time is favorable.
But how to make the latent luck emerge
when the time is favorable??? :noidea:
Talent is that which is in a man's power!
Genius is that in whose power a man is.
James Russell Lowell.
So that jolly well explains why all the geniuses
seem to be completely possessed by their talents!!!
The luck of having talent is not enough;
one must also have a talent for luck.
Hector Berlioz
The latent talent emerges when the time is favorable.
But how to make the latent luck emerge
when the time is favorable??? :noidea:
Talent is that which is in a man's power!
Genius is that in whose power a man is.
James Russell Lowell.
So that jolly well explains why all the geniuses
seem to be completely possessed by their talents!!!
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
Socrates
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He who realizes that
he knows NOTHING
knows EVERYTHING!!!
But where can he be???
he knows NOTHING
knows EVERYTHING!!!
But where can he be???
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Talent
Talent without sense is a torch in filly's hand.
Welsh Proverb
Genius does what it must, and
talent does what it can.
Earl of Lytton.
Talent without sense is a torch in filly's hand.
Welsh Proverb
Genius does what it must, and
talent does what it can.
Earl of Lytton.
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