Quotations..Proverbs ..Things that make me smile..

[missypuss]

Come on guys we all have crappy days.
But we also have things we use to get us through those days..
Il start this one off..
"Always smile back at little children.
To ignore them
is to destroy their belief
that the world is good."
Pam Brown. B .1928

[gurlbidesign]

"Age does not bring wisdom, often it changes simple stupidity into arrogant conceit."

[gurlbidesign]

Or how about what I am having put on my headstone...."I knew if I lived long enough something like this would happen."

[sandy82]

Come on guys we all have crappy days.
But we also have things we use to get us through those days..
Il start this one off..
"Always smile back at little children.
To ignore them
is to destroy their belief
that the world is good."
Pam Brown. B .1928

Missypuss, an amazing quotation and an amazing post. Truly.
Something unusual, and good, about them both.

Have you ever pictured, say, a movie actor but couldn't remember the name? And then you do a sort of free-form association. It can start with a glass. Filled with what...water, wine, milk? Beer! And then you wander through brand names. Something Irish. And you remember Alec Guinness.

Looking at the quotation and at your post prompted the same sort of wandering. Picturing the child smiling and a stranger smiling back...the words were written at least several generations ago: a modern author wouldn't come up with such an idea. A Bible verse, remembered wrongly: Blessed are the children for they shall see God.

Then the realization. A simple one, but profound. The quotation does not contain the words "I" or "me". Your introductory language uses "I" only in a helpful sense. No wonder the quotation had to be old. As an exercise, the preceding three paragraphs are also written without "I" or "me".

This gets back to the Media and Advertising. This is now the world of I-I-I-I and me-me-me-me. A partial exemption for phrases such as "I think that" because they tend to make a statement less dogmatic. Wagner was the best composer!! (Achtung. Sieg heil.) Instead: I think that...

Beyond that, look at the world around us. The center of the universe is I-me. Self-absorption, nothing beyond the self. No standards. No responsibility. No awareness of anyone except.

"I've been listening for two whole days, and I... ."
"I want." "I have." "I like."
Some people can't understand the world in any other way.

Thanks, Missypuss, for reminding us that something else was thinkable.
And for giving us a faint whiff of what it was.
.

[Ceot]

I like the phraze _God hates liars ,But life hates the truth._

Or _Things left unspoken hold no change opon a world of silence._


How about _People wear to many masks to remember their own face_

Or how about_I,m the fool in a play of harlequins_.

Perhaps One day i,ll say Vinnie,vinnie veachie.

Or maybe on my headstone with a stanic emblem.

(I at least knew were I was heading)......lol

[missypuss]

vinnie vinnie ....
Wasnt he that actor in something like Snatch...?

[missypuss]

Hmmm "look for the lesson, rather than the blame..."
or maybe "nothing in this world is ever free,it all comes at a price"
or perhaps "dont judge a book by his cover"

[Ceot]

Life itself is a lesson learned ,if only to see tomorrow.
So here I stand and look back opon my yesterday.
Cold and lifeless are my eyes.
And yet everyone still seems to look at me that way.

Am I a corps, or am I a man?
In the other ,I find the other hand.
Many smiles and tears all fade away.

And yet still her name in stone.


This simple innocent child lost inside the dark.
And from it I arose This craven beast.

Master to those who run away.
And home for those who want to stay.
A kiss of sorrow made sweet once more.
Let me take you back.

My eyes are this abysfull reign.
I fell so deeply your own desire.
That need full, want full burning pain.
Something I use to fuel the pire.

And bring you to that fine moment you adore.
With loveing words or a rose.
I arise to despise you little frown.
I take it away, and to this day keep it upside down.

So my love do not juest.
I fear only the rest.
Please see me not a clown.

[Ceot]

Smell.....pussy.......smile.....again and again and again.....happy times...

[missypuss]

Hmm Ceot.....
" I stand
And suddenly understand
That you,Deep Night,
Surround me and play with me,
And I am stunned...


Your breath comes over me,
And from a vast ,distant solemnity
Your smile enters me. "

"The vast night" _ Rainer Maria Rilke

[morrcomm]

Mine is a simple sentence a friend told me the other week. I was complaining about some hassles with a project I'm working on, and he just nodded toward my wife across the room and said, "Yeah, true, but look who you married."

That one's going to keep putting things in perspective for me for a long time to come, I think...

[missypuss]

I have a story which is similar to yours Morcomm.
My friend and colleague got a speeding ticket today for driving her MG ten miles over in a 30 zone..
We were discussing the fact that the policeman probably saw her coming , thought "rich bitch" and zapped her..
And if it was me in my jalopy doing ten miles over, he probably would not have even paid attention..
She said its all about choice..... "I had to choose car or kids..
And Im guessing every time you would choose your kids.....
So who is the richest bitch????"
True......
And made me think sometimes we dont know just how lucky we are...

[loadedkaos]

"People don't want to hear the truth, they just want better stories." -New Sins sorry I can't remember the author.

[goldragon_70]

Some one said this in a chat, "I told you, I was sicker then you thought I was." :p

[Mallic]

"Let your posts be aggressive, witty, insulting, interesting, paradoxical, funny, illogical, sarcastic, even inconsistant. But never let them be boring"

[GAYTTO]

"England and America are two countries separated by a common language."

George Bernard Shaw

[missypuss]

"Whatever Games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

And
""There can be no keener revelation of a mans soul, than the way he treats his children"
-Nelson Mandela

[Mallic]

As Mark Twain said....

"East is east, and west is west"

[morrcomm]

Something for the cynics...

"When we speak of family ties, let us not forget the noose."
-- Donald G. Smith

[missypuss]

:D I am smiling ..
I am very happy...
I got my tickets for the Foo Fighters today .............!!!!!!

[gurlbidesign]

"Men and women, women and men. It will never work." Erica Jong

[gurlbidesign]

"A woman needs to know but one man well to understand all men; whereas, a manmay know all women and not understand one of them."

Helen Rowland.

[Mallic]

Well, a woman said that. She wasn't in our minds, she don't know what we're thinking

[gurlbidesign]

"A woman needs to know but one man well to understand all men; whereas, a man may know all women and not understand one of them."

Helen Rowland.

[Mallic]

As I said....

Well, a woman said that. She wasn't in our minds, she don't know what we're thinking

[Primus]

be careful how you insult family members

"You're a son of a bitch you know that"
my own mother

"Oh yea... welll you're mom"
my own sister

And yet the speak as if I don't give any thougt to what I say

[Jerm]

"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt"

"Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy"

"They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but love."

William Shakespeare

[Mallic]

"Good morning" - Universal

[gurlbidesign]

"The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing---and then they marry him." Cher

[gurlbidesign]

"A successful man is one who makes more money then his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man." Lana Turner

[GAYTTO]

"A successful man is one who makes more money then his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man." Lana Turner

Excellent ! Brilliant ! :lol:

[GAYTTO]

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."

Albert Schweitzer

[gurlbidesign]

Vidi, Vici, Vini I think the original got garbled in translation.

[cardigan]

Vidi, Vici, Vini I think the original got garbled in translation.

That would be "Veni, Vidi, Vici" - meaning "I came, I saw, I conquered" - in Latin. I think Julius Ceasar said that - after conquering the Gauls. (not sure about that, but I AM sure about the quote :-) )

[gurlbidesign]

Vidi, Vici, Vini I think the original got garbled in translation.

That would be "Veni, Vidi, Vici" - meaning "I came, I saw, I conquered" - in Latin. I think Julius Ceasar said that - after conquering the Gauls. (not sure about that, but I AM sure about the quote :-) )

Now read it just as I wrote it.

[cardigan]

OK - I get it now! :-) Sorry!

[Mallic]

"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti"

[Mallic]

One of my personal favourites:

"Life is like a box of chocolates...... Remarkably similar to frozen shit" - Me

[missypuss]

One of my personal favourites...
" One can know a man from his laugh,and if you like a mans laugh before you know anything of him,you may confidently say that he is a good man"
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Born 30th oct 1821

[Mallic]

Thats a bit of a problem, cause I liked Hitlers laugh

[missypuss]

Know him personally did you ?? :)

[goldragon_70]

Thats a bit of a problem, cause I liked Hitlers laugh

Never seen him laugh.

[Lissar]

I used to tell people who were upset, "It could be worse; it could be raining."

One day, it was raining, and I didn't know what to say. My friend supplied the following remark: "It could be worse; you could be on fire."

[missypuss]

Hmmmn and did that make you smile??? :wink:

[Mallic]

"If you cannot argue the case, argue the law. If you cannot argue the law, throw the book at the Jury and scream"

[teslaboy]

I actually have a t-shirt that reads:

"He who laughs last thinks the slowest."

Made me laugh when i first read it :)

[Mallic]

How 'bout the ever classic

"There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't"

and...

"How many people in the world can read hex if you and dead people can read hex?"

[Lissar]

What about, "There are there kinds of people in this world: those who can count and those who can't."

[Mallic]

And those who can't spell.......

[goldragon_70]

And those who can't spell.......

*Razzes hand*