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Post by Frenchy Faith on Jul 25, 2004 4:30:47 GMT -5
[glow=red,1,900000]I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them. H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)[/glow]
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Post by Frenchy Faith on Sept 1, 2004 13:03:51 GMT -5
[glow=navy,3,9000000]Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778), The Social Contract, 1762
I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside. Louise Nevelson (1900 - 1988)
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
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Post by Frenchy Faith on Sept 11, 2004 3:14:36 GMT -5
[glow=orange,1,9000000]Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. Nora Ephron
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition. Woody Allen (1935 - )
It's a dangerous business going out your front door. J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922) [/glow]
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Post by Frenchy Faith on Sept 17, 2004 2:05:12 GMT -5
[glow=blue,3,900000]Another one I found by chance about mind & matter Faithy
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. " Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…? Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given. Deepak Chopra [/glow]
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Post by Frenchy Faith on Oct 13, 2004 4:31:20 GMT -5
[glow=purple,3,900000]The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965) O Magazine, February 2004
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885) Les Miserables 1862
Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower. Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. Voltaire (1694 - 1778) Discours en vers sur l'homme 1737[/glow]
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Post by Frenchy Faith on Oct 16, 2004 3:05:53 GMT -5
[glow=teal,3,900000]To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. Stanislaw Lem (1921 - )
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I[/glow]
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Post by Frenchy Faith on Oct 22, 2004 3:31:03 GMT -5
[glow=navy,3,9000000]To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. Sidney J. Harris
Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much. John Wayne (1907 - 1979), Advice on acting[/glow]
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Post by Frenchy Faith on Nov 6, 2004 3:56:11 GMT -5
[glow=purple,2,900000]"Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages"--Wyrd Sisters
"Even if we know we'll never know the answers, we have to keep asking the questions"-Taken
“Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given...” -Odyssey 1.32-4[/glow]
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Post by Frenchy Faith on Nov 13, 2004 4:28:15 GMT -5
[glow=purple,2,900000] "Make me a willow cabin at your gate And call upon my soul within the house, Write loyal cantons of contemnèd love And sing them loud even in the dead of night” Twelfth Night Shakespeare
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. Lynda Barry
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you. Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation, 1974[/glow]
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Post by Frenchy Faith on Nov 14, 2004 2:41:01 GMT -5
[glow=purple,2,900000]The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is. John Lancaster Spalding
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877[/glow]
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Post by Faithy on Dec 10, 2004 0:25:48 GMT -5
I found a lot of cool quotes and phrases in Latin here.. www.sacklunch.net/Latin/index.html some of my favorites are: fide, sed cui vide: Trust, but see whom you are trusting. felicitas multos habet amicos: Prosperity has many friends faber quisque fortunae suae: Every man is the architect of his own fortune; hence, faber fortunae suae, a self-made man. That just some form one page, what are your favorites?
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Post by Frenchy Faith on Dec 13, 2004 9:28:56 GMT -5
[glow=purple,2,900000]Cool site ! I don't know much which I could choose as there are too many & I don't remember one particular right now. Only I like the motto of my house at BB : nec Temere nec Timide = Neither rashly nor timidly & this one I just found as it was above the one I just said : nec scire fas est omnia: We are not allowed to know all things.
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Post by Frenchy Faith on Dec 15, 2004 4:05:00 GMT -5
[glow=blue,2,9000000]Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. E. F. Schumacher
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves. Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996), Cosmos (Blues for a Red Planet)
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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Post by Frenchy Faith on Jan 5, 2005 6:02:12 GMT -5
[glow=teal,2,9000000]Erm, I force myself to put this one in here, lol...
No wise man ever wished to be younger. Jonathan Swift
What the world needs is more genuises with humility, there are so few of us left. Oscar Levant
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about others. Peter Mc Arthur[/glow]
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Post by Frenchy Faith on Jan 8, 2005 3:31:26 GMT -5
[glow=purple,2,900000]Shall I abide in this dull world, Which in thy abscence is no better than a sty? ~ Shakespeare~ Anthony & Cleopatra
Oh, never more could [my love] turn to him : for faith was blighted - confidence destroyed! Mr Rochester was not to me what he had been ; for he was not what I had thought of him ; I would not say he had betrayed me ; but the attribute of stainless truth was gone from his idea... ~ Charlotte Brontë~ Jane Eyre[/glow]
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Post by Frenchy Faith on Feb 11, 2005 5:08:24 GMT -5
[glow=orange,1,900000]There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't. Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. Clive Barnes
Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions. Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992 [/glow]
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Post by Frenchy Faith on Feb 23, 2005 3:45:19 GMT -5
[glow=purple,2,900000]How much easier is it to be critical than to be correct. Benjamin Disraeli
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes)
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. George Bernard Shaw[/glow]
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Post by Faithy on Feb 24, 2005 1:45:01 GMT -5
Amazing Morrissey Quotes..
"I always felt, 'These things are happening because I'm an awkward, gawky, individual' and that stayed with me for years and years. I used to believe that if I wasn't successful in any way it was because I was a totally worthless shallow slob."
"The lyrics I write are specifically genderless. I don't want to leave anybody out. Handsome is a word that people think is applied to males... but I know lots of handsome women. After all, there is such a thing as a pretty male."
"All the so-called liberators spout excessive hatred. On the one side feminists scream men are the enemies, they're killing us, on the other extreme it's the Tetley bittermen thing. I refuse to recognise the terms hetero-, bi-, and homo-sexual. Everybody has exactly the same sexual needs. People are just -sexual, the prefix is immaterial."
"He just made people feel so neurotic about their lives. I mean, if you dreamt about a lampshade, it meant you wanted to be whipped by the local vicar or something." (On Freud)
"I find people who're quite artistic and creative crawl from dreadful conditions, while people who're cushioned in life tend not to produce anything dramatically artistic. To me popular music is still the voice of the working class, collective rage in a way, though not angst-ridden. But it does really seem like the one sole opportunity for someone from a working class background to step forward and have their say. It's really the last refuge for the articulate but penniless humans."
"I don't like it when people say let's leave the past and go ahead, because a lot of the future isn't that attractive."
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Post by Frenchy Faith on Apr 21, 2005 1:45:41 GMT -5
[glow=navy,2,900000]^ I thought I had posted about this, lol, I love these Morrissey's quote! ^
I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free. Angelina Jolie (1975 - )
I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts. Angelina Jolie (1975 - )
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. Katharine Hepburn (1909 - )
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Post by Frenchy Faith on Apr 21, 2005 2:37:42 GMT -5
[glow=purple,2,900000] I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. Adele Brookman [/glow]
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