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Share your wise sayings!
#225re: wise sayings
Posted: 8/14/06 at 8:45pm
"Imitation is suicide." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The difference between involvement and commitment is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast. The chicken was involved; the pig was committed." - ?
"Don't be so humble--you are not that great." - Golda Meir
And a ruba'i from the Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam, from the Fitzgerald translation:
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'.
ahmelie: Are you implying that twinkies and lesbians are bad? BITCH!
#226re: wise sayings
Posted: 8/15/06 at 7:32am
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
-Yiddish proverb
#227re: wise sayings
Posted: 8/17/06 at 7:39am
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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
-John Stuart Mill
#228re: wise sayings
Posted: 8/18/06 at 8:40am
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Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
-Cher
#229re: wise sayings
Posted: 8/21/06 at 8:35am
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
-Benjamin Franklin
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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
-Lou Holtz
#230re: wise sayings
Posted: 8/22/06 at 7:33am
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Worrying is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-Unknown
#231re: wise sayings
Posted: 8/22/06 at 9:32amIn the spirit of keeping things simple and not adding to clutter ot chaos, "do not give a gift unless the recipient can eat it or it melts."-Jane Siberry
#232re: wise sayings
Posted: 8/23/06 at 9:01am
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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song.
-Maya Angelou
#233re: wise sayings
Posted: 8/24/06 at 8:54am
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Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
-Richard L Evans
#234re: wise sayings
Posted: 8/25/06 at 11:10am
Let go of your concerns for awhile. Table your problems: go for a drive, take in a movie, go shopping, or read a book. The respite is precious and you can return to the issue with a clearer, more serene perspective.
-National Association for Mental Health
#235re: wise sayings
Posted: 8/25/06 at 3:52pm
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior,
like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher
#236re: wise sayings
Posted: 8/26/06 at 9:28am
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The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
-William Faulkner
#237re: wise sayings
Posted: 8/27/06 at 10:15am
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
-Author Unknown
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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.
-Beca Lewis Allen
#238re: wise sayings
Posted: 8/27/06 at 12:07pm
The soul would have no rainbows had the eyes no tears.
(one of my all time favorites)
Avatar: Me with Al Larson, Jonathan Larson's father.
#239re: wise sayings
Posted: 8/28/06 at 7:53am
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It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
-Elizabeth Kenny
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#240re: wise sayings
Posted: 8/28/06 at 4:30pm"if you dont put it out there, they wont put it in there"
#241re: wise sayings
Posted: 8/29/06 at 9:01am
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If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world.
-Robert Kaplan
#242re: wise sayings
Posted: 8/30/06 at 8:12am
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
-George Bernard Shaw
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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
-St. Francis of Assisi
#243re: wise sayings
Posted: 8/31/06 at 7:39am
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can achieve greatly.
-Robert F. Kennedy
#244re: wise sayings
Posted: 9/1/06 at 8:35am
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are but princesses that are waiting to see us act just once with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest essence, something helpless that needs our love.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
-Moshe Dayan
#245re: wise sayings
Posted: 9/5/06 at 9:31am
Nothing should be prized more highly than the value of each day.
–Johann von Goethe
#246re: wise sayings
Posted: 9/6/06 at 7:49am
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Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.
-Fanny Jackson Coppin
#247re: wise sayings
Posted: 9/7/06 at 7:39am
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
-Harry Emerson Fosdick
#248re: wise sayings
Posted: 9/7/06 at 2:49pm
I don’t want to work, but I have to work to make enough money so I don’t have to work.
—writer Adrienne Gusoff
I wrote the story myself. It’s all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.
—actress Mae West
#249re: wise sayings
Posted: 9/8/06 at 8:45am
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The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.
-John McEnroe
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