Proverbs and Catchy Sayings!

[glenn]

What category do I fall under? I've never fallen under a catgeory. I fell underneath a car once, and I haven't been the same since

- Tom Waits.

[anirbas]

[roflmao, Glenn...goooood one!]

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"Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"And of all things upon the earth,
I hold that faithful friend is best."

~Edward Robert-Bulwer-Lytton

[Bronwyn]

These are all so wonderful! Had so much fun reading them.
Dawness, you are too cute there with that last one, but oh so right...
it goes that fast. Beautiful hugs to my friends here.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
- W. H. Auden

[glenn]

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

~e.e. cummings

[anirbas]

good to see you here, brat! loved the Auden quote...
and so agree with that cummings line, Glenn...

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"I listened, motionless and still:
And as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more."

~William Wordsworth.

[anirbas]

"This learned I from the shadow of a tree,
That to and fro did sway against a wall:
our shadow-selves, our influence, may fall
Where we ourselves can never be."

~Anna E. Hamilton

[Sam]

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Janis Joplin

[Sam]

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

-Edgar Allan Poe

[Sam]

We are what we repeatedly do.

Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

-Aristotle

[anirbas]

"It is an awesome, challenging thought: The Lord comes to us
in our friends. What we do and are to them is an expression
of what we are to him."

~Lloyd John Ogilvie

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and to that I would add my own nirquote...copying DG aka Dawness...

the friends that stand by my side are few,
but of the highest caliber, precious in their
individual beauty, like morning dew
or the scent of roses perfuming
the fetid air of my daily routine...

nir.

"thank you for being a friend..."

[Sam]

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails

-Pioneer Girls Leaders' Handbook

[anirbas]

"I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

~William Butler Yeats.

[Juan Castrocafe]

tis better to be pissed off than pissed on..but if pissed on, make sure that fucker regrets ever having that thought in their head!
also, speak softly and carry a good hunk of pipe just in case you need to crack a skull or two...otherwise, always be your own personal Jesus..and then again, forget the whole Jesus thing..be damned good to yourself..you will always be with yourself no matter who else is with you..

John Moseley

[Sam]

Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well.

Josh Billings

[anirbas]

~*"Poetry is music made less abstract"*~

Amiri Baraka, Poet and Writer.

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~*"Poetry is a part of prayer, a part of the way we
express love to each other. It transforms the heart."*~

Schyleen Qualis, Poet and Actor.

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~*"Poetry is more like improvisational jazz, where each person plays the note that she hears."*~

Alice Walker, Writer.

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~*"The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational, and the collective body of our ancestral memories."*~

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~*"Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought."*~

Audre Lorde, Writer.

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~*"Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action."*~

Audre Lorde, Writer. 1934-1992

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~*"Art is timeless."*~

Toni Morrison, Writer.

[dawness]

be crazy and wild; it is life's butter and jam--- dawn

[anirbas]

ggglgggl...what if you're already crazy and wild, dg? funny sweets, i love your Aurorian
from the dawnic heart, sayings and proverbs...hehehehehe...fevered or not, you got me laughing...and that's a good thing...

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"If you want to write something, write it.
Or you'll turn forty, wishing you had."

~Dorothy Parker.


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"You're an artist, Mrs. Parker. Sometimes,
artists lose their balance..."

~Mr. Bentley, to Mrs. Parker, after she fell into the floor, from drinking to much, and apologized to him as he helped her to her feet.

[glenn]

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Dorothy L. Sayers

[Sam]

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Oliver Goldsmith

[Sam]

Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.

Sylvia Robinson

[Sam]

Every gift lying dormant in your soul has the potential to fill a void
in someone else's life.

Unknown

[Sam]

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Epicetus, Greek philosopher

[Juan Castrocafe]

after 47 attempts, shit does roll downhill, unless stopped by an immovable rock, but it will roll once that is removed...of course, at some time, someone must have shit at the top of the hill and had it roll onto someone with such offense that this has become the standard in all workplaces...which must be full of shit...and a lot of hill-less people.

[Sam]

Love is not blind, it sees more not less;
But because it sees more it chooses to see less.


-Unknown

[Sam]

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Mark Twain

[Sam]

Being true
is about stepping out
without hesitating
to be yourself.....

Unknown

[anirbas]

~*"In tight places one's friends are apparent."*~

~Petronius.

[soulfir3]

A friend is someone who can sing you the song of your heart when you've forgotten it.

[soulfir3]

WHY GOD MADE MUMS [/u]

Answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions:

Why did God make mothers?
1. She's the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.
2. Mostly to clean the house.
3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.

How did God make mothers?
1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.
2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.
3. God made my Mum just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts.

What ingredients are mothers made of?
1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in the world and one dab of mean. -- lol
2. They had to get their start from men's bones. Then they mostly use string, I think.

Why did God give you Your mother & not some other mum?
1. We're related.
2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people's mums like me.

What kind of little girl was your mum?
1. My mum has always been my mum and none of that other stuff.
2. I don't know because I wasn't there, but my guess would be pretty bossy.
3. They say she used to be nice.

What did mum need to know about dad before she married him?
1. His last name.
2. She had to know his background. Like is he a crook? Does he get drunk on beer?
3. Does he make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO to drugs and YES to chores?

Why did your mum marry your dad?
1. My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world. And my mum eats a lot.
2. She got too old to do anything else with him.
3. My grandma says that Mum didn't have her thinking cap on.

Who's the boss at your house?
1. Mum doesn't want to be boss, but she has to because dad's such a goof ball.
2. Mum. You can tell by room inspection. She sees the stuff under the bed.
3. I guess Mum is, but only because she has a lot more to do than dad.

What's the difference between mums & dads?
1. Mums work at work and work at home & dads just go to work at work.
2. Mums know how to talk to teachers without scaring them.
3. Dads are taller & stronger, but mums have all the real power 'cause that's who you got to ask if you want to sleep over at your friend's.
4. Mums have magic, they make you feel better without medicine.

What does your mum do in her spare time?
1. Mothers don't do spare time.
2. To hear her tell it, she pays bills all day long.

What would it take to make your mum perfect?
1. On the inside she's already perfect. Outside, I think some kind of plastic surgery.
2. Diet. You know, her hair. I'd diet, maybe blue.

If you could change one thing about your Mum, what would it be?
1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I'd get rid of that.
2. I'd make my Mum smarter. Then she would know it was my sister who did it and not me.
3. I would like for her to get rid of those invisible eyes on the back of her head.

[Sam]

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