2006-12-07 04:22:04 · 10 answers · asked by billy 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
"It is better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees"
Emiliano Zapata
"Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day,
Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat every day".
Chinese Proverb
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2006-12-07 05:08:37 · answer #1 · answered by metallithrasher187 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. You can never be wise unless you love reading.
2. Books and friends should be few but good.
3. If you are solitary, be not idle; if you are idle, be not solitary.
4. All intellectual improvement arises from leisure; all leisure arises from one working for another.
5. To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.
6. Be always busy.
7. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
8. Language is the dress of thought.
9.. What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
10. Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
British poet, essayist, dramatist, pioneering lexicographer
2006-12-08 03:17:48 · answer #2 · answered by Arigato ne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"You know how people are. They only recognize greatness when some authority confirms it."-Calvin and hobbs
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
-- Douglas Adams
2006-12-07 12:43:24 · answer #3 · answered by alice j 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
If it wasn't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
Color me green with envy.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Can't buy love , but you can rent it!
2006-12-07 12:30:54 · answer #4 · answered by Teri Molina 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog"
--- author unknown
"Love your enemies, and be good to everyone who hates you.
Ask God to bless anyone who curses you, and pray for everyone who is cruel to you. "
-- Jesus, Bible Luke 6:27-28
"Cogito, ergo spud." [I think, therefore, I yam] LOL
-- my buddy Tony
"Here lies George Johnson
Hanged by mistake, 1882
'He was right, we was wrong
but we strung him up and now he's gone' "
-- Boothill Cemetery, Tombstone, Arizona, USA
"It's like déjà vu, all over again."
-- Yogi Berra, American baseball player
"The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder."
-- Richard Daley, former Chicago mayor
2006-12-07 12:24:43 · answer #5 · answered by cfpops 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To the world you are just one person, but to one person you are the world.
And my favorite quotation of all time is a very long one, though I know it by heart .... see it at this site.
2006-12-07 15:10:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"He's dead, Jim!" - Dr. Leonard McCoy (ST-TOS)
"The Smurfs are alive and well and living inside my head" - Daisy Millicent Jackson (Lost Along The Milky Way)
2006-12-07 12:30:07 · answer #7 · answered by Shaula 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are not living life on the edge, then you're taking up too much room!
2006-12-07 15:07:59 · answer #8 · answered by courtsnort51 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Every action done in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those that are present." -- George Washington
2006-12-07 13:25:59 · answer #9 · answered by danielleb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Working people have no time to make money."
By Chico, a brazilian bar owner.
2006-12-07 14:13:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋