“The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping.”
-Claudius Claudianus
[quote]STR500 wrote:
“The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping.”
-Claudius Claudianus[/quote]
“Some guys just give up livin’
and start dying little by little
piece by piece.
And some guys come home from work
and wash up
and go racing in the streets.”
-Bruce Springsteen
“He who goes to bed with an itchy ass, wakes up with smelly fingers.”
" pull my finger!"
Don’t compare your insides to another persons outside.
I don’t know who said it first, but it’s a good one.
[quote]pookie wrote:
“He who goes to bed with an itchy ass, wakes up with smelly fingers.”[/quote]
Confucius ?
“The government has a long arm and a short arm. The long arm is used for taking and reaches everywhere. The short arm is for giving, but only reaches those very close by.”
-Silone
“Action is the antidote to despair”
“it’s not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.” Batman Begins
“I don’t touch any bug if I don’t know what it is. It might have a stinger, or a fang, or something.”
-My Brother
“I can resist everything except temptation” -Oscar Wilde
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it” -Oscar Wilde
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing” -Oscar Wilde
“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much” -Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was a smart man.
[quote]graphicsMan wrote:
“I can resist everything except temptation” -Oscar Wilde
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Funny thing about this quote… I’m sitting in class one day and the teacher starts to talk about sayings like this. She brings this one up and NO ONE GOT IT. She had to explain the joke to the rest of the class…pathetic.
[quote]graphicsMan wrote:
“I can resist everything except temptation” -Oscar Wilde
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it” -Oscar Wilde
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing” -Oscar Wilde
“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much” -Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was a smart man.[/quote]
Oscar Wilde tries too hard. When you read one of his plays, it reads more like a quote book than a play. There’s something really pathetic about someone who’s constantly trying to prove his own intelligence.
[quote]cap’nsalty wrote:
graphicsMan wrote:
“I can resist everything except temptation” -Oscar Wilde
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it” -Oscar Wilde
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing” -Oscar Wilde
“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much” -Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was a smart man.
Oscar Wilde tries too hard. When you read one of his plays, it reads more like a quote book than a play. There’s something really pathetic about someone who’s constantly trying to prove his own intelligence.[/quote]
Perhaps, but along the way he came up with some lovely quotes 
knowing is not enough you must apply, willing is not enough you must do–bruce lee
“fortune favors the bold” napoleon
“opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work” -Thomas Edison
“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do” -Voltaire
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightining; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle maybe a morale one, or it may be a physical one or it may be both. But it must be a Struggle. Power concedes nothing without demand; it never has and it never will -Fredrick Douglas
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to someonebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self - Whtiney Young
At first dreams seem impossible , then improbable , and eventually inevitable. --christopher reeve
opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the door bell
If you are never scared, or embarrased or hurt it means you never take any chances - Julia soret
Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength - Eric Hoffman
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principle of his own - Aesop
You don’t slow down because you get old, You get old because you slow down
“A city can become a world when you’re in love one of its inhabitants”
Laurence Durrell
“If you’re gonna be a monkey…be a muthafucking gorilla”
Reggie Noble
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill
[quote]cap’nsalty wrote:
graphicsMan wrote:
“I can resist everything except temptation” -Oscar Wilde
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it” -Oscar Wilde
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing” -Oscar Wilde
“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much” -Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was a smart man.
Oscar Wilde tries too hard. When you read one of his plays, it reads more like a quote book than a play. There’s something really pathetic about someone who’s constantly trying to prove his own intelligence.[/quote]
Sounds like Laurence Durrell too. There’s a great quote at the end of every paragraph of his books. Not sure if it just comes out that way or is like you say trying too hard.
“The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.”
boys have a penis; girls have a vagina.
Haha, here’s one I just read a few seconds ago from Brooks D. Kubik’s latest email, paraphrased heavily:
“There will be moments in your life when it doesn’t matter how you trained, but if you DID train.”