Share your wise sayings!- Page 5

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 3/16/06 at 11:43am

Updated On: 1/17/09 at 11:43 AM

[shameless]

Posted: 3/16/06 at 1:46pm

Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
(That’s one of my brother’s favorites and sadly, also one of his wisest.) :P


There are three sides to every story; side A, side B and the truth, which generally falls somewhere in between A and B.

Updated On: 3/16/06 at 01:46 PM

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 3/21/06 at 8:20am

There is a word in Pali, ‘teju’, which variously means heat and flame and potency and radiance and splendor. It is the power we embody if we dedicate our lives to the force of kindness, to transforming our intentions.
–Sharon Salzberg

[leadfootlouie]

Posted: 3/21/06 at 2:57pm

If you wanna make an omelet, ya gotta break some eggs!
Updated On: 3/21/06 at 02:57 PM

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 3/27/06 at 8:41am

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

-Kahlil Gibran

[That's So LaBrinka!]

Posted: 3/27/06 at 12:13pm

If only we can learn to sing, then we can fly and contain our goods to soil.

Desmond LaBlanche

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 8:58am

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands--and then just eat one of the pieces.

-Judith Viorst

[Princeton78]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 9:26am

I just posted this on another thread, but here goes...

"Nothing tastes as good as looking the way you want to."
--Diet tip from my best friend

[Jane2]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 9:50am

"Give a fool enough rope and he'll hang himself."

I may have made that up.

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 6:47am

Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

-Dalai Lama

[shameless]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 9:45am

Princeton, that's actually a Demi Moore quote and it's, "Nothing tastes as good, as looking good feels", but I'm sure she borrowed it from someone else.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 10:06am

You cannot tell a book by its cover. Very straightforward but found out, the hard way, how true this wise old saying is

[ALWrules]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 1:56pm

"God is dead" -Friedrich Nietzsche

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 1:58pm

"You gots to PLAY-AY to WI-YIN...shooze, I KNOW dat's right, gurl."

-Shirley Q. Liquor

[MyDreamsRecurring]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 4:08pm

"Many that live deserve death, and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. Even the very wise can not see all ends."

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, besides the will of evil."

Updated On: 4/1/06 at 04:08 PM

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 6:51pm

A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 8:44am

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

-Norman Vincent Peale

[Lavieboheme3090]

Posted: 4/3/06 at 11:54pm

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
Oscar Wilde

That having been said
"Thou shall not kill," is always a good one.

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 4/13/06 at 7:30am

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

-Sydney J. Harris

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 4/13/06 at 12:53pm

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle."

[MistressoftheHouse]

Posted: 4/13/06 at 1:56pm

Something I recently found and have been living by...

"If life gives you a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it." - Unknown

[Over_the_Moon]

Posted: 4/13/06 at 10:09pm

"Of all sad words, of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been."

[neomystyk29]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 12:50am

"This too shall pass" - Someone said this during senior circle of a show at my school. Basically cherish the good, because it will leaveu us, and know that the bad will pass just as easily.

"Laugh, Love, and Live"

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 8:47am

Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.

-Oprah Winfrey

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 4/16/06 at 6:37am

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
—Kahlil Gibran

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.

-Jonathan Winters

I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.
—Garth Brooks