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silverthunder) wrote2006-08-15 11:30 am
silverthunder) wrote2006-08-15 11:30 am
Quotes Meme
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herongale
Go here and look through random quotes until you find 5 or 10 (or however many you want) that you think reflect who you are or what you believe. Repost in your journal and tag five friends.
"The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection."
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
"Careful. We don't want to learn from this."
Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin and Hobbes
"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."
Jeff Valdez
"Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water."
Swedish Proverb
"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."
Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
"Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes."
James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
There were a bunch of others, but I forced myself to stay limited to ten. I could've spent a lot of time at that site picking them all out.
herongaleGo here and look through random quotes until you find 5 or 10 (or however many you want) that you think reflect who you are or what you believe. Repost in your journal and tag five friends.
"The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection."
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
"Careful. We don't want to learn from this."
Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin and Hobbes
"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."
Jeff Valdez
"Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water."
Swedish Proverb
"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."
Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
"Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes."
James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
There were a bunch of others, but I forced myself to stay limited to ten. I could've spent a lot of time at that site picking them all out.
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...but we totally had to read that Bacon essay for English. @_@ We had a quiz over that metaphor.