i have to choose a quote for my senior write up so if anyone has any ideas please help out.
2006-09-30 08:58:18 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire
"Smile; it confuses people." - Scott Adam
"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self." - Whitney Young
“Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried." - Mae West
2006-09-30 09:02:58 · answer #1 · answered by UNITool 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/o/oscarwilde118826.html
I like this one:
"There are no whole truths. All truths are half truths. It is in treating them as whole truths that plays the devil."
- Alfred North Whitehead, English logician and mathematician. He also wrote academic papers on the education of children. It seems like a good conclusion to have reached after completing kindergarten to high school. He must have known what kind of education kids were being fed, kind of like Pink Floyd and 'The Wall'.
Also:
"Truth is never pure and rarely simple"
- Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright
Same idea
"The world is a stage, but the play is poorly cast."
- Oscar Wilde
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
- Oscar Wilde
"I have nothing to declare except my genius."
- Oscar Wilde (at Customs in New York City)
You can see I am rather partial to Oscar Wilde. He was brilliant.
I also like this one:
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive."
- Sir Walter Scott, from poem 'Marmion'
I like this one too:
"Every man of genius contains within himself a false man of genius."
- Paul Valéry, French poet and writer
If you read 'The Genius' in 'Forty Stories' by Donald Barthhelme you might get a good idea why it is good.
"Sometimes I think. Sometimes I am."
- Paul Valéry
2006-09-30 09:13:03 · answer #2 · answered by spanner 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. Chinese Proverb
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"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. H. L. Mencken
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"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us." Marcel Proust
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise Cato, Roman censor
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"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth." Jules Verne
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"It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves." La Rochefoucauld
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So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom Psalm 90:12
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"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." Fredrich Nietzsche
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"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment." Lao Tzu
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
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"Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground." - unknown
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"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...." Carl Zwanzig
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2006-09-30 09:11:04 · answer #3 · answered by Joy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The man who can smile when things go awry, knows exactly who he is going to blame.
There can be only one.
Cry "Havoc!!", and let slip the dogs of war.
"We the unwilling, led by the unknowing, have been doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to almost anything with absolutely nothing."
2006-10-07 08:19:51 · answer #4 · answered by janssen411 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you like the person:
"No matter how much you believe that you are butterfly, your probably aren't."
If you are indifferent about the person:
"if you kill a man, you're a murderer
kill many, you're a conquerer
kill them all, and you're a god."
and if you hate the person:
"Good luck with getting rid of the VD you got after prom!"
2006-09-30 09:11:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing it best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle that any human being can fight and never stop fighting."
EE Cummings
2006-09-30 13:20:59 · answer #6 · answered by Jess 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. ~Flavia Weedn, Forever, © Flavia.com
2006-09-30 09:59:21 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If they are your friends you should write
"friends are the people that stick around when the whole world walks out" unknown
2006-09-30 11:43:42 · answer #8 · answered by young_steffers 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Carpe Diem
translates to Sieze the Day!
2006-09-30 09:08:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Work like you don't need the money, love like your heart has never been broken, and DANCE like no one is watching!"
"It's not so funny meow is it?"
"You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive."
"A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking."
2006-09-30 11:09:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋