Just curious:)
2007-02-24 06:28:58 · 22 answers · asked by BeenThereDone That 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
"to thine own self be true"
-william shakespeare
2007-02-24 06:31:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
"What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart?" - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to." - Dorothy Parker
"The world is my country, and to do good is my religion" -Thomas Paine
"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself." - Henry Miller
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what theyare capable of becoming." - Goethe
"I know of no more encouraging fact the the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by concious effort" - Henry David Thoreau
"What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance" - Thomas Jefferson
2007-02-24 18:30:42 · answer #2 · answered by answer faerie, V.T., A. M. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Bite me"...oh wait that's not really a quote...LOL
"Do not go where the path may lead, go where there is none and leave a trail."
Michon, don't you mean "what goes around comes around?" :~)
And dogs, you reminded me of another, "Your reputation is what people say about you behind your back." How true is that? Til they know you how could they know differently?
And Lani, "In a world of insanity, the sane often seem insane." (Food for thought....lol)
2007-02-24 14:32:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That would definitely be from Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" : "How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes."
2007-02-24 18:44:57 · answer #4 · answered by Bloo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a good thing to turn your brain upside-down every now and then, like an hourglass, and let the particles run the other way. --- (Christopher Morley, in The Haunted Bookshop)
2007-02-24 14:33:58 · answer #5 · answered by Maria E. 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint."
2007-02-24 14:59:45 · answer #6 · answered by Imperialist 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
James Dean
"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."
Kurt Cobain
2007-02-24 14:33:17 · answer #7 · answered by babydruz 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't pis_ in the Wind
There's no sleep for the wicked
All's fair in love and war
2007-02-24 14:32:13 · answer #8 · answered by samaustinashlee_billiewjr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.
2007-02-24 14:36:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Best friends are not your best friends their just the ones that got there first.-: Peter Ustinov
2007-02-24 14:33:29 · answer #10 · answered by froggerty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A good friend will bail you outta jail but a best friend will be sitting there with you saying "Damn that was fun!"
2007-02-24 14:32:09 · answer #11 · answered by jaimi_lyne23 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋