Quotations - October 2007

Can someone complete this analogy from Descartes? "As one might try to use eyes to smell, so .........

2007-10-23 16:31:56 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

Mine is: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt." A lot of people "speak up" on this site, if you know what I mean.

2007-10-23 07:24:50 · 5 answers · asked by mikegreenwich 4

The quote is
" I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there can be any kindness. I can show , or any good thing i can do it now , as i sahll not pass this way again". - Willian Dean

What is the mean or what it is saying.

PLEASE HELP ME!

2007-10-23 07:14:06 · 7 answers · asked by babygirl 1

It was made in the late 1800's/Early 1900's... Is it applicable now?
"There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the ***** race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs -- partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the ***** to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs....There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."

2007-10-23 04:41:37 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

If God existed it would be necessary to abolish Him?

2007-10-23 04:21:42 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-23 01:56:35 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Give me a few wise words about why you shouldn't get a big head, try to make them a little funny.
Ten points could be yours :)

2007-10-23 01:26:54 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but "to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER" and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth.

What does he mean by "sunshine patriot" and "summer soldier"

2007-10-22 18:00:10 · 2 answers · asked by Chestudent 2

Quote: "He that lieth down with the dogs shall rise up with fleas"

Please give me your opinions about this quote, analyze it, and tell me if your agree/disagree.

2007-10-22 16:51:49 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm looking for a quote about letting go of the simple things that make us upset. I would prefer happy ones, nothing depressing please. Thanks in advance, I appreciate it!!! =)

2007-10-22 15:57:45 · 13 answers · asked by 570Chicky 2

Can u guess it?

"sumwhere beyond happyness nd sadness, i need 2 calculate wat creates my own madness"


what is beyond happyness nd sadness?
what creates my your madness?

2007-10-22 13:38:57 · 3 answers · asked by Snoopy 2

what coudn't u say around some one?pleaseeeeeeeeee

2007-10-22 13:34:44 · 2 answers · asked by titu t 1

It's a Benjamin Franklin quote.

2007-10-22 12:02:07 · 14 answers · asked by Victoria the Viking 3

what are your favorite quotes

2007-10-22 10:28:26 · 1 answers · asked by jonny c 2

Please dont try to be a smartass for this question

2007-10-22 08:32:14 · 4 answers · asked by gcakcak 1

I seen this qoute on a site and dont get it supppose to give wisdom or fortune or something can anyone else make sense of this?

2007-10-22 07:13:56 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-22 06:37:25 · 5 answers · asked by sue_k3851 3

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

2007-10-22 05:45:37 · 12 answers · asked by guess 5

2007-10-22 00:15:19 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

the main points for the above topic. plz ....

2007-10-21 22:39:41 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

What does this mean? I come and go from a big company and temp as a secretary. A lady I know and whom I hadn't seen for a little while came in to the office and said to me, "Hello scarlet pimpernel-ess". What could she have meant?

2007-10-21 22:34:19 · 7 answers · asked by Say It Like You Mean It 4

"The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth."-- Chinese Proverb.

Im writing about facing reality, does this quote fit with my purpose? If not, any ideas??

2007-10-21 18:25:30 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Any opinions or interpretations of this?

2007-10-21 17:13:15 · 2 answers · asked by Mike N 2

"there is a limit at which the practice of any art becomes an affront to affliction"

2007-10-21 17:04:11 · 5 answers · asked by stickyfingaz 2

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." by Dorothy Parker

2007-10-21 13:41:23 · 4 answers · asked by J 1

What is the meaning of this quote ??
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid"
-Soren Kierkegaard, political philosopher

2007-10-21 10:42:43 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I gotta know!

2007-10-21 09:25:49 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

I will be getting a tattoo of a dancer in the rain (I love dancing). Can you suggest some short and beautiful quotes to accompany this image, something dance-related?

2007-10-21 04:53:06 · 7 answers · asked by Karen H 3

What is your favorite quote?
Explain it.

2007-10-20 22:00:50 · 16 answers · asked by sss08 3

"To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will." ~ Sugar Ray Robinson

2007-10-20 18:01:12 · 6 answers · asked by Sophie Baby! 1