Favorite Quotes

[Michaelangelica]

"A PM came. A PM vanished into the either, like lost love."

-tested.

 

A favorite 'quote' and its 'meaning':-

To His Coy Mistress

 

Had we but World enough, and Time,

This coyness, Lady, were no crime.

We would sit down and think which way

To walk, and pass our long Loves Day.

Thou by the Indian Ganges side

Should'st Rubies find: I by the Tide

Of Humber would complain. I would

Love you ten years before the Flood:

And you should if you please refuse

Till the Conversion of the Jews.

My vegetable Love should grow

Vaster than Empires and more slow.

An hundred years should go to praise

Thine Eyes, and on thy Forehead Gaze.

Two hundred to adore each Breast,

But thirty thousand to the rest.

An Age at least to every part,

And the last Age should show your Heart.

For Lady you deserve this State,

Nor would I love at lower rate.

But at my back I alwaies hear

Times winged Chariot hurrying near:

And yonder all before us lye

Desarts of vast Eternity.

Thy Beauty shall no more be found;

Nor, in thy marble Vault, shall sound

My echoing Song: then Worms shall try

That long preserv'd Virginity:

And your quaint Honour turn to dust;

And into ashes all my Lust.

The Grave's a fine and private place,

But none I think do there embrace.

Now therefore, while the youthful hew

Sits on thy skin like morning dew,

And while thy willing Soul transpires

At every pore with instant Fires,

Now let us sport us while we may;

And now, like am'rous birds of prey,

Rather at once our Time devour,

Than languish in his slow-chapt pow'r.

Let us roll all our strength and all

Our sweetness up into one Ball:

And tear our Pleasures with rough strife,

Thorough the Iron gates of Life:

Thus, though we cannot make our Sun

Stand still, yet we will make him run.

Andrew MARVELL

And as subtly analysed and interpreted by one perspicacious, senior Australian HSC student:-

"Life's short woman; get your gear off"

[Turtle]

you gonna eat that? - unattested

[Boerseun]

"The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H. Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history."

- Robert Heinlein

[Boerseun]

"It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous."

- Gloria Steinem

 

"The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it."

- George Santayana

"Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?"

- Epicurus

 

"Cinderella [science]... lights the fire, sweeps the house, and provides the dinner; and is rewarded by being told that she is a base creature, devoted to low and material interests. But in her garret she has fairy visions out of the ken of the pair of shrews [Theology and Philosophy] who are quarrelling downstairs. She sees the order which pervades the seeming disorder of the world; the great drama of evolution, with its full share of pity and terror, but also with abundant goodness and beauty... ; and she learns... that the foundation of morality is to [be] done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence."

- Thomas H. Huxley

 

"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing."

- Thomas H. Huxley

[Turtle]

more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. that, my friends, that is true perversion. - harvey milk

[pamela]

"A PM came. A PM vanished into the either, like lost love."

-tested.

B)

 

 

Awake, north wind,

and come, south wind!

Blow on my garden,

that its fragrance may spread abroad.

Let my lover come into his garden

and taste its choice fruits.

author unknown

[Turtle]

writing is the only trade i know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude. - george v. higgins

[pamela]

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

r.w. emerson

[Turtle]

unity can only be manifested by the binary. unity itself and the idea of unity are already two. - buddha

[pamela]

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

k. gibran

[Turtle]

everyone who enjoys thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed. -- herein lies the difference between them that create and them that enjoy. - friedrich nietzsche

[pamela]

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

i. kant

[Michaelangelica]

B)

 

 

Awake, north wind,

and come, south wind!

Blow on my garden,

that its fragrance may spread abroad.

Let my lover come into his garden

and taste its choice fruits.

author unknown

Omar Kyham ? -unknown translator?

i have a Fitzgerald translation, my mother's favourite poet

 

Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring

The Winter Garment of Repentance fling:

The Bird of Time has but a little way

To fly--and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.

 

Opps i should have read the bible at least the good bits.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)

"Awake, O north wind, And come, wind of the south; Make my garden breathe out fragrance, Let its spices be wafted abroad. May my beloved come into his garden And eat its choice fruits!"

various versions here

Song of Solomon 4:16 Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.

Ther are a lot of "Awakes" in Omar, hence the confusion

Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky

I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry,

"Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup

Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry."

 

and #1 in my translation

 

Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night

Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:

And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught

The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.

[Turtle]

in sleep a king, but, waking, no such matter. - bard of avon

[Turtle]

prejudice, n. a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. ~ ambrose bierce

[pamela]

wisdom begins in wonder

socrates

[Turtle]

the wise learn many things from their foes. ~ aristophanes