2006-12-16 10:30:35 · 23 answers · asked by mk 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a chapter"
-St. Agustus (I think, It might be Augustine. I know it's a saint, though)
2006-12-16 16:56:13 · answer #1 · answered by mnyquist 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
'Time flies,
the sun rises and shadows fall,
let it pass by,
love reigns for ever over all'.
I am not sure who authored this quote but it is inscribed on the
Air India Memorial in Akahista Ireland.
I don't have any connection at all to the Air India tragedy but the quote is important to me. I lost my beloved brother to a heart attack 3 years ago and I'm thinking of having the quote tattooed as a memorial of him.
2006-12-16 11:20:36 · answer #2 · answered by Jennifer M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
" Let us look each other in the face. We are Hyperboreans we know well enough how far outside the crowd we stand."
Nietzsche [Pindar]. From: The Antichrist.
**Alone among the Twelve Olympians, Apollo was venerated among the Hyperboreans: he spent his winter amongst them. For their part the Hyperboreans sent mysterious gifts, packed in straw that came first to Dodona and then were passed from people to people until they came to Apollo's temple on Delos (Pausanias). Abaris, Hyperborean priest of Apollo, was a legendary wandering healer and seer. Theseus and Perseus also visited the Hyperboreans
2006-12-16 13:35:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two of my favorite quotes come from President Thomas Jefferson:
"The legitimate powers of government extend only to such acts as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
"I cannot live without books"
2006-12-17 02:36:24 · answer #4 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All I have is a voice,
To Oppose the recurring lie.
The Lie of authority,
Whose Buildings grope the sky.
Bertrand Russel
2006-12-17 17:14:17 · answer #5 · answered by Vaakshri 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's to dark to read. Groucho Marx
2006-12-16 10:55:58 · answer #6 · answered by smilindave1 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gone with the Wind: "Nothing has turned out as we expected. It never does. Life's under no obligation to give us what we we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is."
written by margaret mitchell
2006-12-16 10:39:29 · answer #7 · answered by sillygoose08 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Proverbs for Paranoids by Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow),
The Time quotation from Beat the Devil,
Everything by Groucho Marx,
Nothing by Karl Marx,
The Four Rules of Success by 'Dr. Luther Waxling' (David Salle),
Jesus for his pithy 'golden rule',
Einstein on his thought process (visual & muscular),
Ted Nelson's four rules,
For you crazy kids on the 'net, the entirety of AWMT by Vannevar Bush...
Several of my own statements....
2006-12-16 10:44:17 · answer #8 · answered by K V 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Always do the right thing. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-Mark Twain
2006-12-16 10:44:07 · answer #9 · answered by parabellum 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i had a t-shirt that said"of all my wifes relatives i love myself the best"
seriously i would have to say jim lovell who orchestrated
the rescue of the astronauts on apllo 13.
"failure is not an option"
2006-12-16 10:36:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋