Favorite Quotes

[pamela]

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

k. gibran

[lemit]

The only second chance you get in life is the chance to make the same mistake twice. -David Mamet

 

--lemit

[lemit]

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. -James Thurber

 

--lemit

[lemit]

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. -William Shakespeare

 

--lemit

[Turtle]

wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. ~ aristotle

[pamela]

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.

robert plant

[Turtle]

the worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing. ~ herodotus

[Southtown]

This life will kill you.

[Southtown]

Pain is self-extant.

[Southtown]

Now that I've got your attention, it will never be the same.

[Turtle]

don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds. ~ albert einstein

[pamela]

To be is to do.

i. kant

[Turtle]

an idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea. ~ buddha

[pamela]

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

f. nietzche

B)

[Moontanman]

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love"

 

Washington Irving

[Turtle]

everything popular is wrong. ~ oscar wilde

[pamela]

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

a. schopenhauer