Wise Quotes

[Iryssa]

Just for a little fun...how about some wise quotes? Since this is The Close, try to take them from religious/spiritual/etc. texts, but you won't be gunned down for taking 'em from songs or whatever...Feel free to comment on them...but please consider that the point of this is to learn from eachother, not to tear eachother apart. Anyway, I'll start out with a couple from the Bible (I know...I'm SO predictable )

"Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses."
-- Proverbs 27:5&6

[High Lord Tolkien]

One of my favorite quotes is:

"I shall defeat my enemy by making him my friend"

But I don't know who is credited for saying it.
When I originally read it it was attributed to Abraham Lincoln.
But a Google search comes up with nothing.
Anybody ever heard it before?

[Sheriff Lytton]

"The Bible tells us how to go to the heavens, not how the heavens go."

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use."

-Galileo Galilei

[Plissken]

"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so."
-- Bertrand Russell

[Warmark]

" Tt takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen."

The ever-wise Homer Simpson.

[wayfriend]

· "It's not the dress that makes you look fat, it's the fat that makes you look fat." -- Al Bundy

But seriously, some wise things that actually help me get throgh every day. Not sure whom to attribute them to, or what the exact quote is.

· The best judge of a persons character is how he treats someone that he doesn't need anything from.

· It's better to ask forgiveness than permission.

· Pain is relative.

[Plissken]

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

-Ben Franklin

(Been screaming this at the top of my lungs for about, oh, almost four years now.)

[nuk]

I've seen different versions of this quote, but the one I just found on the net is:
"To every complicated question there is a simple answer - and it's normally wrong" - HL Mencken

That's one thing I love about Physics - simple answers. Of course they're wrong, but often not by much.

[dennisrwood]

without temptation there is no sacrifice
-me

[Kymbierlee]

I forget who said this but it is so true:

If you are nice to me, but mean to the waiter, then you are not a nice person.

[Cheval]

One of my favorite quotes is:

"I shall defeat my enemy by making him my friend"

But I don't know who is credited for saying it.
When I originally read it it was attributed to Abraham Lincoln.
But a Google search comes up with nothing.
Anybody ever heard it before?

It sounds like an old Chinese proverb that I heard:
"The way to defeat your enemy
is to become his friend."

"Remember that trying is the first step to failure" - Homer Simpson

My personal favorite: "If you don't have the time to do things right the first time,
then where are you doing to find the time to do it over again?"

[kevinswatch]

Some random Calvin and Hobbes quotes...

"To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible." - Calvin

"If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?" - Hobbes

-jay

[Lord Mhoram]

"If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that needs no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust, and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all...why then perhaps we must stand fast a little - even at the risk of being heroes." - Sir Thomas More in "A Man For All Seasons" by Robert Bolt

"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates

[variol son]

It may be that hope deceives, but hate, hate corrupts.

Poverty stole your golden shoes, it didn't steel your laughter.

[Sheriff Lytton]

"Ninety per cent of everything is crap"

-Theodore Sturgeon

[Cail]

"You're a lot of woman, you know that? Yeah, wanna make 14 dollars the hard way?"-Al Czervik

[dennisrwood]

all of life can be broken into two basic components, blood and shit.

-me

[Iryssa]

More from Proverbs:
"A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult"
- Proverbs 12:16

"Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in those who take advice."
- Proverbs 13:10

(Decided I've gotta memorize those ones...)


And one from someone who goes to the Bible college I went to:
"Take away the feelings and life would be easy right? But would it really be living? Just a thought."