Favourite Quotes And Sayings V3. I'm Serious, And Don't Call Me Shirley

[koneko]

"Zip it."

Sadie

 

[Ventrusii]

"One for the money, two for the better green
3-4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine"

-MF DOOM

 

[Erikmen]

An old one but still good suits me.

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

 

[Don Luigi]

"One for the money, two for the better green
3-4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine"

-MF DOOM

I've had this stuck in my head for a few days now. I think it's only because every time I try to recite it, I forget how to say it.

Stuck out of my head, if you will.

 

[Shambles]

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

-- Honore de Balzac

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

-- Honore de Balzac

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

-- Honore de Balzac

 

[Erikmen]

“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”
― Oscar Wilde

 

[Shambles]

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

--Malcolm X

 

[Erikmen]

Never allow someone to be your priority while
allowing yourself to be their option.

[h=1]Mark Twain [/h]

 

[Phil.McKeer]

"...and they were sawing off the branches on which they sat, all they while shouting across to each other their experiences on how to saw more efficiently. And one by one, they went crashing down into the deep. And those who remained shook their heads and continued sawing vigorously."

~ Bertold Brecht, Exile III

 

[Erikmen]

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness.
We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”

 

[Shambles]

If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention.

-- Unc'a Bill

 

[Erikmen]

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts.
Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”

 

[Shambles]

Without you I am but a slug with no home, but with you I am escargot.

-Sadie

(this just made me smile really rather a lot just now )

 

[Sadie]

Without you I am but a slug without a home, but with you I am escargo

-Sadie

(this just made me smile really rather a lot just now )

Fixxored, Still no more classy Trust you to quote me on such a random turn of phrase ....

 

[Erikmen]

“Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it.
And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore,
so you pick someone else to fight.”

 

[Buspersons Holiday]

''Hold back the edges of your gowns ladies, we are going through hell''
WC Williams

 

[Shambles]

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

-William Blake

Exuberance is beauty.

-William Blake

 

[Don Luigi]

My logisticians are a humourless lot … they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay.

Attributed to Alexander The Great

 

[Shambles]

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

-- Francis Bacon

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

-- Francis Bacon

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

-- Francis Bacon

Knowledge is power.

-- Francis Bacon

 

[Erikmen]

“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion.
I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.”
― Kurt Vonnegut