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Message de minneapolis_cafe posté le 2004-06-25 11:45:36 (S | E | F | I)
Hi guys!
Here are some interesting or funny quotations :

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment."
-BARRY LePATNER

"When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action : they rented out my room."
-WOODY ALLEN

"When I was born I was so surprised I couldn't talk for a year and a half"
-GRACIE ALLEN

"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
-B.B. KING

"We always admire the other fellow more after we have tried to do his job."
-WILLIAM FEATHER

"Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson."
-VERNON LAW

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
-MARIE CURIE

"You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough"
-JOE E. LEWIS

That's all for today!
Bye,
Minnea.

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Edité par bridg le 19-11-2004 12:03

Réponse: re de brunk, postée le 2004-06-25 11:51:58 (S | E)
Great !
here are my favourites
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action : they rented out my room."
and
"When I was born I was so surprised I couldn't talk for a year and a half"

it woke me up !!

n what about the one you told me wednesday evening ?

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Edité par brunk le 2004-06-25 11:58:56

Réponse: re de virginia, postée le 2004-06-25 13:38:40 (S | E)
This one: "When I was born I was so surprised I couldn't talk for a year and a half" is also my favourite.
I've also a few quotations, that I liked and so I wrote them down on the top of the pages of my organizer... and each year I copy the old ones and I put new one throughout the year!

"Sait-on gré du superflu à qui nous prive du nécessaire?"

"Toutes les bonnes choses ont une fin"

"Männer haben nur zwei Fehler: Alles was sie tun und alles was sie sagen" (I'm not a feminist... I'm teasing: "Men have only two defaults: All what they do and all what they say")

"The busy bee has no time for sorrow" William Blake.

"Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of religion" W. Blake.

"Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps" W. Blake.

"Sans la liberté de blâmer, il n'est point d'éloge flatteur"

"Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you" W. Blake.

"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough." W. Blake.

Think about it! ;-)

Réponse: re de brunk, postée le 2004-06-25 14:06:06 (S | E)
here are my quotations !! enjoy

my favourite : "Your mind is like a parachute. It only works if it is open."
Author: Anthony J. D'Angelo

"There is no way to peace; peace is the way."
-A. J. Muste

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
-Confucius

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
--Robert Frost

Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
--Ken Dodd

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world
--Unknown

.. special for my prefered feminist ;-)
"Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood"
Author: Oscar Wilde
"Men forget but never forgive. Women forgive but never forget."
Author: Anonymous

Réponse: re to brunk. de virginia, postée le 2004-06-25 14:37:20 (S | E)
In yours, I cannot make up my mind between

Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. (But I would change it a little bit (In my experience ;-) ): Sand for the children, sun for the husband, sharks for the husband's mother...)

And

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world... But it's a very sentimental quotation ( à l'eau de rose)

I knew the last one you wrote from Oscar Wilde. I've always been surprised... Usually, homosexuals understand women better than heterosexual men...

See you!

Réponse: re à brunk de mariet, postée le 2004-06-25 15:03:39 (S | E)
... in case you'd like it not to remain anonymous :
Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.
-- Thom, The Dragon Reborn
(reference found on a list of quotations)

Réponse: re à minneapolis_cafe de mariet, postée le 2004-06-25 15:10:27 (S | E)
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
-B.B. KING

"We always admire the other fellow more after we have tried to do his job."
-WILLIAM FEATHER

are the ones I like most among yours (at the moment), because they are so very true!

Réponse: re de brunk, postée le 2004-06-25 15:25:44 (S | E)
you're right, we should ask to homosexual people some advice !! you've got a so tormented soul !! stop racking your brain !!
.. just kiddin
i appreciated this one from you :"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough." W. Blake.

take it easy !

Réponse: To Mariet, Virginia and Brunk de minneapolis_cafe, postée le 2004-06-25 19:51:26 (S | E)
Hi there!
Thanks for answering my post. I enjoyed your quotes too.
Regarding the one I told you Wednesday evening, I learnt it from Guizm0 when seeing her profile.

Here's the quote :

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
-BILL WATTERSON

This one's great too!

I'll add some new ones tomorrow.

Réponse: re de virginia, postée le 2004-06-25 23:11:53 (S | E)
ok minnea, we are waiting for them with great impatience!
See you!

Réponse: to minneapolis_cafe de mariet, postée le 2004-06-28 20:13:43 (S | E)
Hello,
What's the matter ? On the 25th you wrote :
"I'll add some new ones tomorrow."
We've been waiting ever since. You will give us some new ones soon, won't you ?
So long !

Réponse: re de minneapolis_cafe, postée le 2004-06-28 23:34:40 (S | E)
Hi everyone!
Sorry Mariet. I was annoyed about a virus on my computer this weekend. That's why I didn't get back to you right away.
Hopefully, it should be fine now.
Anyhow, I'm glad you're interested in my sayings ().

So, here are the new ones you've been waiting for :

"Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full."
-HENRY A. KISSINGER

"I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys. "
-WOODY ALLEN

"Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all."
-WOODY ALLEN

"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown."
-WOODY ALLEN

"Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to."
-JOHN ED PEARCE
(I'm pretty sure you'll like this one, Mariet)

"The world is full of people who want to be immortal and don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
Unknown

"When I die, I want to go like my grandfather did, peacefully in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like all the passengers in his car!"
-EMO PHILLIPS

The last one really cracks me up.

And Happy Birthday, Brunk!!! (better late than never)

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Edité par minneapolis_cafe le 2004-06-28 23:38:42

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Edité par minneapolis_cafe le 2004-06-28 23:39:19

Réponse: re de brunk, postée le 2004-06-29 10:41:30 (S | E)
yeah, the one from elo phillips is really funny !! at least as fun as the one from the mysterious unknown people... here are some new ones..
enjoy !

"I have all the answers, it's just that most of them aren't right."
Anon

" It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."
Woody Allen

"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants."
A. Whitney Brown

"There are 3 types of people in life: those that can count and those that can't."
Anon

"I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it's fantastic."
Woody Allen

"Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people - and kill them."
..Pacafist badge

Réponse: re de virginia, postée le 2004-06-29 11:12:27 (S | E)
Hi Minnea!

I believed that maybe you took a few days off!
I thought that this statement is... full of truth... "I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown."
But your last one is the most funny... even if it's a bit macabre...

Concerning your statements Brunk I really prefer the one from A. Whitney Brown. "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants." It's a way of seeing vegetarianism that I had never considered! ;)

I've no quotations today... Sorry!
See you!

Réponse: re:A few quotes... de adypellegrino, postée le 2004-07-31 13:31:08 (S | E)
"Nel paese dei ciechi chi ha un occhio e' re" (Italian)
"In the country of blinds he who has an eye is king"

(I don't know if that is the correct translation!... But can be...)

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Edité par mariet le 01-08-2004 05:19
The English proverb is :
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed is king.
Et en français :
Au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois.
Welcome among us, adypellegrino !

Réponse: re:A few quotes... de dolivera, postée le 2004-07-31 16:28:41 (S | E)
Thanks for these informations.

Réponse: re:A few quotes... de failte, postée le 2004-07-31 19:58:25 (S | E)
It's not my favourite quotation but I think it's perfect here:

"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?"
Clarence Darrow

Indeed here we learn to speak correct English but we also now whom we are going to speak it to: great people from all around the world!

;-)

Hélène

Réponse: re:A few quotes... de hoppy1, postée le 2004-08-01 15:39:58 (S | E)
tell me if you know more .

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