Monday, December 17, 2007

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." cnr

"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

"Any court, country or person who must be told why robbing life is wrong, and always will be, lies dangerously close to forfeiting their own." csr

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

"A majority is simply a collection of many minorites." JFK

"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 (UK Labor Party)

"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, but how far you've come from where you were." German saying

"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

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

These were great to read!
Pam

Anonymous said...

"Quoteable Quotes" used to be one of my favorite sections of the Reader's Digest.

  :-)

                    sunny

Anonymous said...

A bit of cultural representation in that lot Cathy ,but weren’t you a previous studier of that old classical German phrase in the following?
“Es ist nicht so, wie weit Sie kommen, dass Fragen. Es ist, wie weit Sie kommen aus, wo Sie waren”

Methinks it says the same in your “it’s not how far”……….. Well thought none the less ED

Anonymous said...

The only Neil Kinnock I know of was...
Leader of the Opposition inthe English Parliament
In office for Labour
2 October 1983 – 18 July 1992

Born March 28, 1942 (1942-03-28) (age 65)
Tredegar, Wales, UK
Political party Labour
Religion Humanist (agnostic) [1]

I had no idea that there was an Irish  Neil Kinnock too as it says in one of your quotes Cathy.
Just pondering on it but I did enjoy reading your quotes.   Always food for thought.
Thank you.
Happy Christmas
love
Jeanie xx

Anonymous said...

Love them all.  I don't know who said it, but my favorite is; "Forget love, I'd rather fall in chocolate."   Linda in Washington state

Anonymous said...

I really enjoy reading these! Thanks for sharing. -Missy

Anonymous said...

those are great thx

Anonymous said...

My two favorites of these are:
Live like you were dying, die like you were living.
Be the change you want to see in your life.
Thanks for posting these, they are inspiring!  
Krissy :)
http://journals.aol.com/fisherkristina/SometimesIThink

Anonymous said...

Wonderful! :-)


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