Quotes of the Day Game

[Fist and Faith]

Has anyone ever noticed how well spoken and direct native american leaders seem to be despite knowing very little english?

How many of the quotes we have (I have 3 "Native American Wisdom" books) do you suppose were originally spoken in English? I'd bet not many. And it's a fair bet that not many of those that were originally spoken in Native American were written down.

[Kinslaughterer]

Certainly, I suppose they had good translators and perhaps decent contributors as well.

[Kinslaughterer]

"We're going to have the best educated American people in the world."
Dan Quayle

[Furls Fire]

LOL!!!

[variol son]

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is the belief that there is something more important than fear. The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

I saw this on a movie, but I don't quite remember which one.

Sum sui generis
Vs

[danlo]

Knowing Fist he has prob already used this quote somewhere on the board b4, but

The best [man] is like water.
Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.
It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain.
This is why it is so near to Tao.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

[Landwaster]

"Geeze, they come to bits easy" - Ossie from Bad Taste (Peter Jackson's first feature film. Ossie was describing alien farmer cannibal zombies)

[Infelice]

Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising
I come singing to the sun, sword unsheathing.
To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking:
Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!

Eomer at the battle of the Pelennor Fields

[duchess of malfi]

It is a problem. To tell of such things. To share the most private and sacred of moments. It feels like a violation to put such things into words. And a lie not to. To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, lonliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.

~Dan Simmons, The Rise of Endymion

[Infelice]

We have souls, you and I. We want to know things; we share the same earth, rich and verdant and fraught with perils. We don't - either of us - know what it means to die, no matter what we night say to the contrary.

Lestat, Memnoch The Devil

[Kinslaughterer]

If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side?

George Carlin

[Furls Fire]

hubby and I started watching this show called "Carnivale" on HBO. It's kind of creepy, with a supernatural feel to it.

Anyway, at the very beginning of the very first episode, the dwarf, Samson, his face filling the whole screen says this...

Before the beginning
After the great war between Heaven and Hell
God created the Earth
And gave dominion over it
To the crafty ape He called “Man”.

To each generation was born
A creature of light
And a creature of darkness

And great armies clashed by night
In the ancient war between good and evil

There was magic then, nobility
And unimaginable cruelty

So it was until the day
That a false sun exploded over the Trinity

And man forever traded away wonder...
For reason.

I thought it was really cool...thought I would share.

[Fist and Faith]

Ah! I wondered where your previous sig was from!

duchess,
NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE quote!! People don't believe me when I say making love can be a spiritual experience. But it looks like Simmons agrees!

danlo,
Not sure if I have quoted that here or not. But I recognize it from the Tao Te Ching, verse 8. The translation I first read has it this way:

The highest good is like water
Water gives life to the 10,000 things, and does not strive
It flows in places men reject, and so is like the Tao

And what the heck, here's the rest of verse 8

In dwelling, be close to the land
In meditation, go deep in the heart
In dealing with others, be gentle and kind
In speech, be true
In ruling, be just
In business, be competent
In action, watch the timing
No fight, no blame

[Fist and Faith]

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is the belief that there is something more important than fear. The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

I saw this on a movie, but I don't quite remember which one.

I found a site that says it was used in The Princess Diaries.

[Furls Fire]

Ah! I wondered where your previous sig was from!

Yep, that was it Cool huh?

[Landwaster]

'Is "tired old cliche" one?'

[Kinslaughterer]

"There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti." Sir Edmund Hillary

[Landwaster]

Ooh I like that, Mr Slaughterer!

How about (from David Williamson play "Don's Party") :
Man #1 : "I'm gonna sue you for everything you've got. I'm a lawyer."
Man #2 : "I'm gonna knock your bloody teeth out."
Man #3 (grinning) : "He's a dentist."

[Skyweir]

LOL ..

[Furls Fire]

This is pretty funny, got it in an email, thought I would share. It cracked me up...

The Truth About Those Conflicting Medical
Studies

For those of you who watch what you eat...
Here's the final word on nutrition and health.
It's a relief to know the truth after all the
conflicting medical studies.



1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer
fewer heart attacks than the

British or Americans.

2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer
fewer heart attacks than the

British or Americans.

3. The Japanese drink very little red wine and
suffer fewer heart attacks
than the

British or Americans

4. The Italians drink excessive amounts of red
wine and suffer fewer heart
attacks than the

British or Americans.

5. The Germans drink a lot of beers and eat lots
of sausages and fats and
suffer fewer heart attacks than the

British or Americans.

CONCLUSION:

Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is
apparently what kills you