man who go to bed with itchy dupa wake up with stinky finger
"An escalator can never break. It can only become stairs."
-- Mitch Hedberg
[QUOTE=Raijin;40784735]Per audacia ad astra[/QUOTE]
Through boldness, to the stars.
A friend of my dad's once told me "Never get caught by the police with your pants around your ankles"
solid advice
live your life so that you're not constantly embarrassed by it all the time
If poems count:
[quote]An old man going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening cold and gray,
To a chasm vast and deep and wide.
Through which was flowing a sullen tide
The old man crossed in the twilight dim,
The sullen stream had no fear for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side
And built a bridge to span the tide.
“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,
“You are wasting your strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day,
You never again will pass this way;
You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide,
Why build this bridge at evening tide?”
The builder lifted his old gray head;
“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,
“There followed after me to-day
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been as naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him!”[/quote]
[QUOTE=Meloan;40817080]A Parable:
A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him.
Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted![/QUOTE]
could someone explain this
[QUOTE=Pelican;40921770]could someone explain this[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure it means something along the lines of "Even in the darkest times, there is a little light to be found".
[quote=Wise Man]"If the red river's a flowin', take the dirt road home,"[/quote]
[QUOTE=Coridan;40878052]"Man who run in front of car get tired."[/QUOTE]
"Man who run behind car get exhausted."
[QUOTE=Pelican;40921770]could someone explain this[/QUOTE]
It's a story of aging and death because we are constantly being chased by the two at birth, and the fruits are those moments that make the life worthwhile. In the first paragraph I could imagine it also be something with confronting your fears/problems sooner or later.
[QUOTE=Mastahamma;40885713]My favorite?
[i]Ignorance is bliss[/i].[/QUOTE]
Knowledge is power.
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
[editline]8th June 2013[/editline]
If some cunt can fuck something up, that cunt will pick the worst possible time to fucking fuck it up cause that cunt's a cunt. - Malcolm Tucker
[media][URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe3Ou9xBAlI[/URL][/media]
"Say not little in many words, but much in few."
-Pythagoras
[QUOTE=Pelican;40921770]could someone explain this[/QUOTE]
In simplest terms, enjoy life even though you know you're going to die.
Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem.
"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery."
"Small minds discuss people;
Average minds discuss events;
Great minds discuss people."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
-Plato
"You've got no one to blame but yourself."
- Mr. Christler
"It's like it sounds 10 times more interesting to yourself when you're saying it."
- Bronson
"The hardest love to forget is* the one that never happened."
[QUOTE=Errorproxy;40964234]"Small minds discuss people;
Average minds discuss events;
Great minds discuss people."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
[/QUOTE]
Great minds discuss ideas.
Finché abbiamo dei ricordi, il passato dura.
Finché abbiamo delle speranze, il futuro ci attende.
Finché abbiamo degli amici, il presente vale la pena di essere vissuto.
You can't change the direction of the wind, but you can adjust the sails.
"He who fights monsters should see to it that he does not become one."
[QUOTE=No Party Hats;40812484]If we're doing phrases still, I really enjoy 'Memento Mori'
Remember, you are mortal[/QUOTE]
That reminds me of another phrase that's not quite as deep: "Morituri te salutamus", meaning something like "Those who are about to die, we salute you" or something along those lines.
Quidquid latine dictum, altum videtur
Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.
[QUOTE=YCheez;40976429]"He who fights monsters should see to it that he does not become one."[/QUOTE]
That's some Batman wisdom right there.
[QUOTE=xXxPR0L337SN1P4;40970141]Great minds discuss ideas.[/QUOTE]
Oh fuck, I messed up my favorite quote.
Not even sure if it's Eleanor Roosevelt who said it.
I also remembered another one of my teacher's:
"Marry your best friend." - Mr. Christler
[QUOTE=No Party Hats;40812484]If we're doing phrases still, I really enjoy 'Memento Mori'
Remember, you are mortal[/QUOTE]
hopefully not for much longer. i want [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_nutricula"]this frickin [I]jellyfish[/I][/URL] to be fully researched and have whatever's discovered incorporated into gene therapy.
"this isn't flying, this is falling with style."
buzz lightyear, 1995
[QUOTE=Errorproxy;41036970]Oh fuck, I messed up my favorite quote.
Not even sure if it's Eleanor Roosevelt who said it.
I also remembered another one of my teacher's:
"Marry your best friend." - Mr. Christler[/QUOTE]
Your teacher is dumb, if you get a divorce you lose your spouse [I]and[/I] your best friend.
"If a man would move the world, he must first move himself."
-Socrates
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;41065967]Your teacher is dumb, if you get a divorce you lose your spouse [I]and[/I] your best friend.[/QUOTE] I think the point of it is that if you marry your best friend, you'll never get a divorce.
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