Maral Posted February 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2005 "Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the tradewinds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armen Posted February 26, 2005 Report Share Posted February 26, 2005 I love Mark Twain. http://www.cmgww.com/historic/twain/twnm003.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormig Posted February 26, 2005 Report Share Posted February 26, 2005 What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world: Robert E. Lee, letter to his wife, 1864 = Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime: Ernest Hemingway = If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war: Pentagon official explaining why the U.S. military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maral Posted March 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 not really words of wisdom...but I thought this was pretty ...what my eyes saw before they saw you, is lost as life, how can they count those days as living .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armen Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 not really words of wisdom... style_images/master/snapback.png Exactly Maral, those words are anything but wisdom. In fact they are anti-wisdom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maral Posted March 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 Exactly Maral, those words are anything but wisdom. In fact they are anti-wisdom style_images/master/snapback.png ahhh come on Armen admit it...you think that line is pretty too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armen Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 ahhh come on Armen admit it...you think that line is pretty too style_images/master/snapback.png Well, they are but they are far from being wisdom, aren't they? So here is a conclusion: wisdom is realy ugly sometimes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted March 15, 2005 Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 "Truth is always the strongest argument" Sophocles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted March 22, 2005 Report Share Posted March 22, 2005 Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once. H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good--the atavism of a more ancient ideal. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Beyond Good and Evil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted March 25, 2005 Report Share Posted March 25, 2005 Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The Tempest' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sev-mard Posted March 25, 2005 Report Share Posted March 25, 2005 Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once. H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) style_images/master/snapback.png That is sage advice these days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted March 29, 2005 Report Share Posted March 29, 2005 Biography lends to death a new terror. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted March 30, 2005 Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 Fish and visitors smell in three days. Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1736 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted March 30, 2005 Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass. Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592), 'De l'experience,' 1580-88 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass. Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592), 'De l'experience,' 1580-88 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", 1872 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maral Posted March 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry. He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it slowly, and then asked, How much do I owe you? You don't owe me anything, she replied. "Mother has taught us never to accept pay for a kindness." He said..... "Then I thank you from my heart." As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but his faith in God and man was strong also. He had been ready to give up and quit. Many year's later that same young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled! Finally sent her to the big city, where they called in specialists to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes. Immediately he rose and went down the hall of the hospital to her room. Dressed in his doctor's gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once. He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to save her life. From that day he gave special attention to her case. After a long struggle, the battle was won. Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it, then wrote something on the edge and the bill was sent to her room. She feared to open it, for she was sure it would take the rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally she looked, and something caught her attention on the side of the bill. She read these words..... "Paid in full with one glass of milk" (Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly. Tears of joy flooded her eyes as her happy heart prayed: "Thank You, God, that Your love has spread broad through human hearts and hands." There's a saying which goes something like this: Bread cast on the waters comes back to you. The good deed you do today may benefit you or someone you love at the least expected time. If you never see the deed again at least you will have made the world a better place - And, after all, isn't that what life is all about? GOOD FRIENDS ARE LIKE ANGELS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO SEE THEM TO KNOW THEY ARE THERE ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anileve Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 "Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the tradewinds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain style_images/master/snapback.png That is such a cliche. No matter how many things you do, twenty years from now you will still have something to regret not doing. Unless of course you live in total denial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maral Posted March 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 nothing wrong with living in denial Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoushik Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry. He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it slowly, and then asked, How much do I owe you? You don't owe me anything, she replied. "Mother has taught us never to accept pay for a kindness." He said..... "Then I thank you from my heart." As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but his faith in God and man was strong also. He had been ready to give up and quit. Many year's later that same young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled! Finally sent her to the big city, where they called in specialists to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes. Immediately he rose and went down the hall of the hospital to her room. Dressed in his doctor's gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once. He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to save her life. From that day he gave special attention to her case. After a long struggle, the battle was won. Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it, then wrote something on the edge and the bill was sent to her room. She feared to open it, for she was sure it would take the rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally she looked, and something caught her attention on the side of the bill. She read these words..... "Paid in full with one glass of milk" (Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly. Tears of joy flooded her eyes as her happy heart prayed: "Thank You, God, that Your love has spread broad through human hearts and hands." There's a saying which goes something like this: Bread cast on the waters comes back to you. The good deed you do today may benefit you or someone you love at the least expected time. If you never see the deed again at least you will have made the world a better place - And, after all, isn't that what life is all about? GOOD FRIENDS ARE LIKE ANGELS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO SEE THEM TO KNOW THEY ARE THERE ! style_images/master/snapback.png It's so sad that most humans have to be told this kind of stories to realize that they need to be kinder, more compassionate to their fellow human beings. That's the job of the church, isn't it? The truth is that people either have compassion or they don't, and no amount of stories will ever change that. God has nothing to do with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) Talk about a revelation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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