2006-08-30 01:12:29 · 19 answers · asked by ankit m 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
please give short and sweet quotation(s), if possible
2006-08-30 01:25:17 · update #1
Whenever you cry, I'd like to be that tear which is born in your eyes, lives on your face and dies on your lips.
2006-08-30 01:15:59 · answer #1 · answered by buxiii 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
I think this applies very well today with what the Bush administration is doing and shows how wrong President Bush's policies are. I'm sure that Benjamin Franklin who fought to keep Great Britain from reading our mail would strongly criticize Bush for tapping all of our phone lines.
2006-08-30 08:41:56 · answer #2 · answered by devilishblueyes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As the world goes, right is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must
2006-08-30 09:57:15 · answer #3 · answered by Jimmy P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
quote:
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
and another one.......
"Do not go where the path may lead but go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." –Ralph Waldo Emerson
2006-08-30 08:17:21 · answer #4 · answered by cheetah7 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Golden Rule
2006-08-30 08:22:27 · answer #5 · answered by pahlabooylabooy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify.
Thoreau
Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Thoreau
This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
2006-08-30 09:51:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
“The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
- Albert Einstein
'Nuff said?
2006-08-30 08:40:37 · answer #7 · answered by Mr. Peachy® 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"When you want something, the rest of the universe conspires you to achieve it." -The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
"The measure of love is to love without measure."-St. Teresa of Avila (quite unsure of this)
2006-08-30 09:40:20 · answer #8 · answered by edelweiss 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world...the master calls a butterfly"- Richard Bach
2006-08-30 08:27:47 · answer #9 · answered by payal b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"one who ask a question remains a fool for 5 minutes ...but doesnt asks a question remains a fool for ever"
" a pessimest sees difficulty in every oppurtunity while an optimist sees oppurtunity in every difficulty "
2006-08-30 08:19:13 · answer #10 · answered by terrorismbuster 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋