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15.08.2006, 23:42 quote

Anonymous

Klassmale wrote:
Heres one of my favourites arabic sayings:

Leave that which you doubt for that which you do not doubt, for truth brings tanquility while falsehood sows doubt.


Nice to discourage investigation...

And to think 'arabia' was the shining light of the(european) dark ages

 

16.08.2006, 11:47 quote

Anonymous

"the sowing of one thing shall harvest another"
but then!
"sow the seeds that you intend to reap"

glad i'm not a farmer.

 

16.08.2006, 19:27 quote

Anonymous

'Don't mug yourself' - The streets


'Dig your own hole' - written on some toilet wall somewhere in london, the chemical bro's took it as one of their album titles


..wise words indeed

 

19.08.2006, 12:39 quote

Anonymous

ScotsDave wrote:
He who knows a wise quote keeps it to themsleves Very Happy


a shut mouth catches no flies?

 

19.08.2006, 17:12 quote

Anonymous

let the devil take tomorrow! for i am here and now! <<me hehe

 

24.08.2006, 19:11 quote

Anonymous

one of my favequotes came from a wise old lady i know (my granny) and it goes something like this:

"FAT FAE YOUR ARSE AND YOU'LL NO SIT ON IT" Wink Wink

 

25.08.2006, 14:59 quote

Anonymous

ooo here's one.... my granny actually told me this when i was a child and i had no idea how true it was....

never trust a man who's eyebrows meet in the middle!!

 

28.08.2006, 08:24 quote

Anonymous

beware the man who's eyebrows meet, for his is the heart thats full of deceit.

 

28.08.2006, 14:07 quote

Anonymous

missme7 wrote:
"There are no pockets in shrouds"


That was one of my Gran's, I always use it to justify buying shoes!!

Some of my faves are from Dorothy Parker :

If all the girls who attended Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B (said about Katherine Hepurn)

Take care of the luxuries and the necesseties will take care of themselves.

And my fave:

You can take a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Pol x

 

05.09.2006, 09:10 quote

Anonymous

I can't remember the exact quotation but it goes along the lines..

"Wars are not determined by those that are right, but by those that are left".


And slightly more cheery

"A Puritan is someone who is deathly afraid that someone, somewhere, is
having fun. "

 

05.09.2006, 09:12 quote

Anonymous

"I vant to be alone!"

 

05.09.2006, 11:34 quote

Anonymous

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Aristotle

It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon


Particularily poinient...

Ambrose Bierce:

Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.

 

05.09.2006, 14:51 quote

Anonymous

you can look at your neighbours flower bed all you like, but you must not trample on the flowers...

 

05.09.2006, 14:56 quote

Anonymous

smile and the world smiles with you, frown... and they'll all bugger off!!!! Wink

 

05.09.2006, 17:46 quote

Anonymous

Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.

 
 
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