Quotes By The Day - Page 3

conlor · 04-01-2007, 12:16

Classic Quotes by Agnes Repplier (4/1/1858-1950) American writer

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.

conlor · 04-01-2007, 12:46

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C (1964)

Sgt. Carter: Pyle. My old grandmother could do better than that.
Gomer Pyle: Well, bless her heart.

[Pyle is trying to remember the secret password, Lima Tango]
Gomer Pyle: Don't tell me, don't tell me. It's a bean, it's a bean... Lima.
Sgt. Carter: Lima what Pyle?
Gomer Pyle: Uhhhh... it's a dance, it's a dance... starts with T... I know- Lima Turkey Trot.
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Gomer Pyle: Shazam.

Gomer Pyle: Shame, shame, shame!

Gomer Pyle: Surprise, surprise, surprise!

April Fools!!!!

Separated at birth?

conlor · 04-02-2007, 21:26

Classic Quotes by Hans Christian Andersen (4/2/1805-1875) Danish poet and novelist

Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.
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Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
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Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
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"I cannot bear it!" said the pewter soldier. "I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers."
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And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall. She took the little maiden, on her arm, and both flew in brightness and in joy so high, so very high, and then above was neither cold, nor hunger, nor anxiety--they were with God.

conlor · 04-03-2007, 19:44

Classic Quotes by Jane Goodall (4/3/1934- ) English ethologist

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.
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Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.
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That I did not fail was due in part to patience....
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Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.
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We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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How would I have turned out, I sometimes wonder, had I grown up in a house that stifled enterprise by imposing harsh and senseless discipline? Or in an atmosphere of overindulgence, in a household where there were no rules, no boundaries drawn? My mother certainly understood the importance of discipline, but she always explained why some things were not allowed. Above all, she tried to be fair and to be consistent.

Snowden · 04-03-2007, 20:10

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And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall. She took the little maiden, on her arm, and both flew in brightness and in joy so high, so very high, and then above was neither cold, nor hunger, nor anxiety--they were with God.

I think this is one of the most beautiful descriptions of death that I've ever seen.

conlor · 04-04-2007, 09:36

Classic Quotes by Maya Angelou (4/4/1928- ) American writer and performer

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
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Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
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All great achievements require time.
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All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
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At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
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Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.