Wise sentences

Nar · Post by **Nar** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 12:25 pm

Write a wise sentence you think could help everybody.

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it." Marcus Aurelius

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 12:34 pm

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen

Take that all you common sense possessing people!

edit; here's another one:

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
-George Bernard Shaw

Paranitis · Post by **Paranitis** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 12:43 pm

Don't eat the yellow snow.

Good soup is tasty, bad soup..well, it's also tasty, but not in a good way.

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 1:06 pm

(1.) Listen, before you speak.

(2.) Beware of people called Weasel.

Paranitis · Post by **Paranitis** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 1:25 pm

(3.) Beware of weasels called People.

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 1:41 pm

Marcus Aurelius: good choice for a start, Nar.

"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it." -Andre Gide

Chanak · Post by **Chanak** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 1:54 pm

"The meaning of life is to live it." - Unknown

jopperm2 · Post by **jopperm2** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 2:12 pm

"To call something public is to define it as dirty, insufficient and hazardous. The ultimate paradign of social spending is the public rest room."

"Democrats are... the party that says government can make you richer, smarter, taller and get the chickweed out of your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it."

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." -P.J. O'Rourke

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 2:35 pm

Brute force bereft of wisdom falls to ruin by its own weight.
-Horace

It is not goodness to be better than the worst
-Seneca

JSPCHIEF · Post by **JSPCHIEF** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 2:43 pm

"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it." - Voltaire

"Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity." - Voltaire

"To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." - Sun Tzu

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 2:53 pm

Trying hard to break the thread...

[quote="jopperm2]Right-wing propaganda[/quote"]
I see you and raise you!

"A witty saying proves nothing!"
-Voltaire

jopperm2 · Post by **jopperm2** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 2:59 pm

No that was Right-wing humor, for propaganda, see my other posts..

JSPCHIEF · Post by **JSPCHIEF** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 3:00 pm

[QUOTE=Vicsun]I see you and raise you!

"A witty saying proves nothing!"
-Voltaire

[/QUOTE]
Another Voltaire fan, I see.

One of my favorites:
"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge."

Lowkei · Post by **Lowkei** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 3:05 pm

He who go to bed with itchy bottom, wake up with a smelly finger!

Nar · Post by **Nar** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 3:12 pm

You need whole life to learn how to live.
To live means to fight.
<Lucius Annaeus Seneca>

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
<chinese proverb>

(thx Fable

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dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 5:05 pm

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

werebeargoddess · Post by **werebeargoddess** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 5:24 pm

"Birds of a feather flock together."

can't remember who said that.

garazdawi · Post by **garazdawi** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 5:26 pm

Carpe Diem

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 7:02 pm

A man in music, as one in love, either lives it or talks about it, seldom both.
Ernest Bacon

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Claud-Adrian Helvetius

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.
Theodore Roethke

The Z · Post by **The Z** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 7:02 pm

"It's a beautiful day...Don't let it get away." - Bono