Posted by MaggieH (admin)
Mar 23, 2009 3:13 pm

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• A thing of beauty is a joy for ever
  John Keats

  Mar 23, 2009 3:47 pm
  by belphoebe

• They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
  Samuel Beckett
  
  A little grim, to say the least, but hey it's Samuel Beckett!

  Mar 23, 2009 5:46 pm
  by bookguru

• I found this quote over the weekend:
  
  "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other." Jane Austen in Emma
  
  The quote is saying that there are different perspectives, and even if you don't see why someone else would think that or do that, there's always a reason behind it. I think that's something everyone needs to realize and that more people need to agree to disagree.

  Mar 23, 2009 6:43 pm
  by books

• "The time to fix the roof is when the sun is shining."
  
  John F. Kennedy

  Mar 24, 2009 2:19 pm
  by klanahan

• 'Live every day as if it were your last
  because one day you will be right.'
  
  Benny Hill
  
  I'm a big fan of quotes this is one of my
  favorites but there are many!

  Mar 24, 2009 4:59 pm
  by tantricslide

• It's hard.

  Mar 26, 2009 2:53 am
  by jingzhang001

• 'Everything is eating, everything is eaten'
  Tom Connelly
  
  OK, I said this but if you thing about it - it's a fundamental truth.

  Mar 26, 2009 4:15 am
  by tconnelly

• "I do want to get rich...but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich." --Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography

  Mar 26, 2009 7:44 am
  by moengey

• "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing." -Oscar Wilde
  
  I love Oscar Wilde, I think he's one of the most quotable figures in literature. Another great quote from him:
  
  "A true friend stabs you in the front."

  Mar 26, 2009 9:59 am
  by Lolabean

• "It is better to sleep with a sober cannibal, than a drunken Christian!"
  -Ishmael
  Something of lasting value had to come from the never ending story of "Moby Dick"

  Mar 26, 2009 10:22 am
  by doctari

• Thank heaven, then, that a little illusion is left to us, to enable us to be useful and agreeable - that we don't know exactly what our friends think of us - that the world is not made of looking-glass, to show us just the figure we are making, and just what is going on behind our backs! By the help of dear friendly illusion we are able to dream that we are charming - and our faces wear a becoming air of self-possession; we are able to dream that men admire our talents - and our benignity is undisturbed; we are able to dream that we are doing much good - and we do a little"

  Mar 26, 2009 10:25 am
  by EDITHJWHARTON

• "And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -Abraham Lincoln
  
  I love this quote because it reminds me daily "Carpe Diem".

  Mar 26, 2009 2:16 pm
  by okclbates

• "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
  - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
  
  "Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean." - Maya Angelou

  Mar 26, 2009 3:41 pm
  by CherylsPearls

• I neglected to give credit. My quote is from Scenes of a Clerical Life and it is George Eliot

  Mar 26, 2009 7:59 pm
  by EDITHJWHARTON

• it may be that we are doomed, that there is no hope for us, any of us, but if that is so then let us set up a last agonizing, bloodcurdling howl, a screech of defiance, a war whoop! away with lamentation! away with elegies and dirges! away with biographies and histories, and libraries and museums! let the dead eat the dead. let us living ones dance about the rim of the crater, a last expiring dance. but a dance!
  - henry miller

  Mar 27, 2009 11:28 am
  by eleftarea

• "For what do we live, but to make sport of our neighbours, and to laugh at them in our turn?"
  
  -Austen, Jane

  Mar 27, 2009 10:29 pm
  by Nicole_K

• I don't remember exactly who told that phsase which could be translated from Russian into English like this: "It's better to die standing upright than to live on knees". Tommazo Campanella, could repeat it after Spartak or Jordano Bruno. I'm not sure. Have a nice day!

  Mar 30, 2009 10:07 am
  by Khvalovsky

• George Bernard Shaw was right when he warned that “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

  Mar 31, 2009 7:27 am
  by deyoung10

• "Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad." By Christina G.Rossetti
  
  I've lived this lesson, this is a great quote! Keep going and let it go smiling!

  Mar 31, 2009 4:31 pm
  by caeverman

• "First you master your instrument. Then you master the music. Then you forget about all the bullshit you learned and just play." Charlie Parker.

  Mar 31, 2009 11:50 pm
  by Alatriste

• We read, to know we are not alone. C.S. Lewis

  Jun 4, 2009 8:13 am
  by dreamdust

• "Fabrum esse suae quemque fortunae"
  Each man the architect of his own fate.

  Jun 4, 2009 9:10 am
  by MANICHAEAN

• Life is either a daring adventure of nothing.
  
  Helen Keller.

  Jun 16, 2009 10:24 pm
  by saturntv

• Typo. OR nothing. Sorry. :)

  Apr 19, 2010 1:57 pm
  by saturntv

• "They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much." -from the bestseller "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

  May 23, 2011 12:12 pm
  by sidmary