Saturday, June 10, 2006

Quotes of the Quotable Part Two

"Live like you were dying, die like you were living."  Anon.  

"BE the change you want to see in your life."  M. Gandhi

"Belief, like any other body, follows the path of least resistance."     R.W. Emerson  

"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities."   Oscar Wilde

"Love is too young to know what conscience is." Shakespeare 

"Never trust the advice of a man in trouble."  Aesop

"Old people like to give good advice, to console themselves for not being able to set a bad example." Rochafoucauld

"Man's loneliness is but his fear of life."  Eugene O'Neill

"I would die for my country but I would never let my country die for me."  Neil Kinnock

"No war is worth fighting except the last." J. Enoch Powell

"A friend is a single soul dwelling in two bodies." Aristotle

It's not how far you've come that matters.  It's how far you've come from where you wereGerman proverb

"What's wrong with being a boring guy?"  George W. Bush

"Shooting a flying bird is as bad a shooting all birds.  The last is as good as the first."    Ernest Hemingway

"An atheist is someone who probably believes in God but just doesn't like Him."   csr

"Poverty is not a shame; being ashamed of it is."   English Proverb  

"In her first passion, a woman loves her lover.  In all others, all she loves is love."   Lord Byron

"Man needs to adore and obey, but if you do not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities and find a chieftain in his own passions."  Benjamin Disraeli

"Love is the law; love under will."  Alistair Crowley

"Give me a place to stand and I will move the Earth."  Archimedes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

dear Cathy,
hugs! thank you for these! I think that Emerson's quote is the funniest (wittiest!) which one is your favorite one? love and hugs,natalie

Anonymous said...

"Man's lonliness is but his fear of life."  Eugene O'Neill

That's me in a nutshell! :(

Jackie

Anonymous said...

Great quotes.
Barb

Anonymous said...

"A friend is a single soul dwelling in two bodies." Aristotle

What happens when this "single soul" decides to leave?  Do we then have two souls dwelling in two bodies?  Or is the one soul split forever between the same two bodies?  Maybe Aristotle knows the answer.  Heaven knows, I sure don't!  When I lost a really special friend, I believe this person took part of our single soul with them as mine does not feel the same as it once did when they were in my life.  Just wondering about this one - have you got any answers?  I feel like you are a tremendously deep person with a mind to match.  Have you ever given any true thought to this quote from Aristotle or am I just too curious for my own good? Just sitting here in front of my computer thinking . . . . . . Rain.

Anonymous said...

Rain, you bring up a point that confounds both the scientific and the religious worlds.  Apart from my empathy at your loss, let me say that most agree the soul exists on a non-physical plane and is not subject to our physical rules.  Therefore, a spirit or soul can exist many places at many times, yet we'll never comprehend it until we're rid of our physical limitations.  I'm so thrilled you took the time to examine this so closely - keep exercising that curious brain!  Cathy  

Anonymous said...

Loved all the quotes. Especially the one about the Atheist being someone who probably believes in God but doesn't like him. I've had my own days of shouting protest toward a being I considered cruel for leaving me deaf after all I've been dealt in life. Yet I wonder.......I discovered the beauty of my own spirit through my deafness and all the pain I survived left me a better human being....(Hugs) Indigo