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Number 6 · Member Joined: 28 May 2008 Posts: 50 Location: The Angels

Post those deep words.
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Number 6 · Member Joined: 28 May 2008 Posts: 50 Location: The Angels

"And come he slow, or come he fast,
It is but death who comes at last."

Sir Walter Scott
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v acht · Guest

"It is in men as in soils where sometimes
there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not."

Jonathan Swift
(1667-1745)

DOC · Guest

"The unexamined life is not worth living. "

Socrates

Darth-Vader · Guest

"Yergire yergira, bayts martik mart chen."
My father.

Darth-Vader · Guest

Except hes not dead.

H.G. Wells · Guest

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."

H.G. Wells
(1866-1946)

myleftfoot · Supreme Member Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 432

"If we don't stand for something, we may fall for anything."

Malcom X

Honore de Balzac · Guest

Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders

Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

Honore de Balzac · Guest

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we
bring up more gravel than pearls.

Honore de Balzac
1799-1850

Friedrich Nietzsche · Guest

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher
(1844-1900)

Sophocles · Guest

Sophocles 496 BC-406 BC

"Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law."

Guest · Posted Fri Aug 01, 2008

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

-- Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)

Herbert George Wells · Guest

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

H.G. Wells
1866-1946

Guest · Posted Mon Aug 04, 2008

" It is not what you do or where you go, it is what you make of it."

" People who are depressed are actually just bad philosophers."

R.L. Stevenson · Guest

Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist
1850-1894

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

Daniel Defoe · Guest

The best of men cannot suspend their fate:
The good die early, and the bad die late.

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)

Shamiram · Guest

I dedicate this to all "aspiring" Armenian "men":

"Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor. "

And this--to aspiring moralists:

"Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment."

And finally, my favorite of his quotes, to those who understand it Wink

"Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision."

Norman Mailer , a prolific and major literary force of the last century, an eccentric genius, the Oscar Wilde of our age, recently deceased. Hat's off.

Harriet B. Stowe · Guest

"Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good."

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
American novelist and humanitarian

Shamiram · Guest

Harriet B. Stowe.... see Norman Mailer quote (above) on sentimentality. Like the Central Americans say, "Bah!"