Random Quotes, Fables, Tall Tales and Proverbs…keep posting.

[753C]

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
- Redd Foxx

 

[Ronny]

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver

 

[Sneezy]

"What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of interior energy. Only the precursor of reason." -R.W. Emerson

 

[Ronny]

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

― Glenn Yarbrough

 

[Summerflyte]

A woman can become a man’s friend only
in the following stages – first an acquaintance,
next a mistress, and only then a friend.

Uncle Vanya, II
by Anton Chekhov

 

[Sparhawk]

Ruling a large country is like cooking a small fish.

Lao Tzu

 

[Summerflyte]

A man that looks on glass,
On it may stay his eye;
Or of he pleaseth, through it pass,
And then the heaven espy.

The Elixir
by George Herbert

Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.

Almansor
by Heinrich Heine

 

[Hedwig]

@ Hedwig, sorry I don't know the film your avatar was taken from, I don't watch much TV at all, and I'm not into celebrities either.

I'd have been surprised if you knew it, actually

New quote:

"Don't die with a bottle of champagne in your fridge!"
Rufus Sewell

 

[Andy.54Hawken]

Never try to outstubborn a cat.
Lazarus long ( Robert A. Heinlein )
Andy

 

[Summerflyte]

I'd have been surprised if you knew it, actually

Awww...don't leave me hanging here, I even went as far and did a search on google, found nothing - but I know I've seen him somewhere...but where? Please tell me.

The poet gives us his essence,
but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

The Captain’s Death Bed by Virginia Woolf

UPDATE: DH found the picture of your avatar, it's taken from the movie, In a Savage Land and the actor is Rufus Sewell, just like your quote - cheeky bugger LOL http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151047/

 

[Hedwig]

Hey, your DH's a good detective! Rufus is a cool guy with a fabulous sense of humour. And oh so gorgeous to look at.

Andy, love your cat quote. Very true.

 

[pontalba]

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. Frank Zappa

 

[Summerflyte]

Stone walls do not a prison make
Nor iron bars a cage
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for hermitage.

To Lucasta, Going Beyond the Seas
by Richard Lovelace

 

[Hedwig]

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo

 

[Sparhawk]

"When they discover the
center of the universe, a lot of
people will be disappointed they
are not it."

I liked this one.

 

[SFG75]

"You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else."
-Tyler Durden

 

[Summerflyte]

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.”
- Abraham Lincoln (paraphrase from the Bible, ‘Proverbs’ 17:28)

“I am going to call my kids Ctrl, Alt and Delete. Then if they muck up I will just hit them all at once.”
- Unknown

“To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.”
- Wilson Mizner

 

[Hedwig]

God gave us memory
so that we might have roses in December.
(James M. Barrie)​

 

[Hedwig]

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
- Joseph Addison

 

[Robert]

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

- Voltaire