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I love good quotes!
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koonja
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Fortune Cookie: "If you're afraid to roll the dice, you'll never land a 6".
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us-if at all-not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.
T.S. Eliott
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us-if at all-not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.
T.S. Eliott
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The problem with the world that all the smart people are full of doubts while all the dumb ones are full of confidence.
-Charles Bukowski
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Graybeard52
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I didn't check the whole thread to see if this was already cited but this is my favorite:
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
~Theodore Roosevelt~
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
~Theodore Roosevelt~
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well said, pal
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My favorite non Biblical quote:
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn for men who died fighting for their country. Instead we should thank God that such men lived."
-General George Patton
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn for men who died fighting for their country. Instead we should thank God that such men lived."
-General George Patton
New England saying:
"Just because a cat has her kittens in the oven don't make them biscuits."
W.C. Handy
"I know the Yellow Dog district like a book, in deed I know the route that Rider took. Every cross tie bayou, burg and bog. Way down wherer the Southern cross the Dog. Money don't Zactly grow on trees, on cotton stalks it grows with ease."
"Just because a cat has her kittens in the oven don't make them biscuits."
W.C. Handy
"I know the Yellow Dog district like a book, in deed I know the route that Rider took. Every cross tie bayou, burg and bog. Way down wherer the Southern cross the Dog. Money don't Zactly grow on trees, on cotton stalks it grows with ease."
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