The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.
Author: John A Simone, Jr.
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The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.
Author: John A Simone, Jr.
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Save water, shower with a friend.
--Have no idea.
quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur...
let's see who can translate it (except for Tom?)
Prophecies are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver.
One from the signature of John E.
Knowledge is knowing that...tomato is a frust,
Wisdom is knowing that...you don't put tomatoes in fruit salad.
google can translate that for you... :)
but not these..
Hidup Ini Singkat, Mainlah Lagi.. :)
Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.
Dont know who said it!!
"You lose."
--Calvin Coolidge.
"I think I can turn this team around a full 360 degrees"
--Jason Kidd
No matter you win or lose, you lose.
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
I once quoted this in one of the threads , and I got severely rapped :D :D :D :D
Here goes ....
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime - Confucius
I used to collect quotes that I found to be interesting/amusing. I dug up a few of them here. These are all attributed to Albert Einstein.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
God is subtle, but he is not malicious.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
I know another good one from Einstein, but I'm not sure if its true or only legend. It is said that asked once by a woman to explain the difference between time and eternity he said:
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I have time to explain it to you, but you need an eternity to understand it.
I remember I posted this one in other thread. It is my favourite.
Groarggrrrrrrraaarrrrrrr! Gggrrrorrrrrrg! Gggrrrr!
Chewbacca
I always have these wise words in my mind. They always help me a lot.
That is because those words bear so much wisdome... :thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by Doctor Luz
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I amar prestar aen. Han mathon ne nen. Han mathon ne chae. A han noston ne 'wilith.
Pardon my ignorance, but what does it mean? Also, what language?Quote:
Originally Posted by cilu
Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound. :D:D:DQuote:
Originally Posted by cilu
The world is changed. I can feel it in the water. I can feel it in the earth. I can smell it in the air. - Galadriel, Lord of the Rings.Quote:
Originally Posted by cilu
I amar prestar aen. Han mathon ne nen. Han mathon ne chae. A han noston ne 'wilith.
Pardon my ignorance, but what does it mean? Also, what language?
Thought it was Sindarin or Quenya. Just didn't recognize it as such. :blush:Quote:
Originally Posted by Alin
Here's a couple I like:
"I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught" -Winston Churchill
"The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on their parents. So they provided jails called school, equipped with tortures called education" -Norman Douglas
"You cannot teach a person anything, you can only help him find it within himself" -Galileo
"I never let schooling interfere with my education" -Mark Twain
"There is too much education altogether, especially in American schools" -Albert Einstein
"It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind." -George Bernard Shaw
"Ignorance will make you a prisoner, stupidity will guarantee you will remain one" -Andrew Navarro (my old american history teacher)
"Everytime you make an excuse, you're lying to yourself. If you want to get ahead, stop lying" -???
Koyaanisqatsi - Life out of balance demands change. -Hopi Indian Word
Ok, here's my one of the paste time secret at IRC or chat.
~For world you may be one person, but for one person, you may be the world!~ :cool:
And it never failed me ;)
A great one Ejaz... :thumb: Not sure if I can post anything after it...
Alin, what are you doing? Are you using google to broke the magic here? :D
I know this one from a movie (I think it was When Harry Meets Sally):
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If one day you decide that you want to spend the rest of your life with one person you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
of course i use google, what do you think i know latin? :D:D:DQuote:
Originally Posted by cilu