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11 Feb 2012, 12:04 pm

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11 Feb 2012, 12:10 pm

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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11 Feb 2012, 4:57 pm

VMSmith wrote:

"come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day."
i think i said that right. i think it is from macbeth. not especially original but the words are a balm to me.

Certainly reads like Shakespeare.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
- William Shakespeare

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11 Feb 2012, 5:10 pm

Titangeek wrote:

VMSmith wrote:

"come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day."
i think i said that right. i think it is from macbeth. not especially original but the words are a balm to me.

Certainly reads like Shakespeare.

It is from Macbeth - at the end of Act I, Scene III.

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12 Feb 2012, 7:31 am

"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most."
--Mark Twain

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12 Feb 2012, 12:20 pm

“The bad news is you’re falling through the air,
Nothing to hang on to,
No parachute.
The good news is,
There is no ground.”

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12 Feb 2012, 12:47 pm

No idea who coined it but the semi- rhetorical question "what do you want, a biscuit?" Great putdown, sounds very british/English

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13 Feb 2012, 2:34 pm

‎"The absence of darkness in a person does not suggest an abundance of light, for to know the light you must have known the darkness."

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13 Feb 2012, 2:51 pm

Trigas wrote:

‎"The absence of darkness in a person does not suggest an abundance of light, for to know the light you must have known the darkness."

I think i've read this before mmm!

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13 Feb 2012, 3:00 pm

I found this poem at a thrift shop when I randomly picked up a dusty tome of quotations and opened it to a random page. It is the greatest poem I have ever read at a thrift store during a random perusal of dusty tomes of quotations, and that's saying a lot.

IF I WERE A CASSOWARY

If I were a cassowary
On the plains of Timbuctoo
I would eat a missionary,
Cassock, bands, and hymn-book too.
- Samuel Wilberforce

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13 Feb 2012, 7:40 pm

EmmaUK12 wrote:

Trigas wrote:

‎"The absence of darkness in a person does not suggest an abundance of light, for to know the light you must have known the darkness."

I think i've read this before mmm!

Nietzsche?

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13 Feb 2012, 8:12 pm

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief." -- Aeschylus (525-456 BC)

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13 Feb 2012, 8:16 pm

Titangeek wrote:

EmmaUK12 wrote:

Trigas wrote:

‎"The absence of darkness in a person does not suggest an abundance of light, for to know the light you must have known the darkness."

I think i've read this before mmm!

Nietzsche?

Idk I got it from a friend.

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13 Feb 2012, 8:58 pm

"Worry gives a small thing a big shadow."

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13 Feb 2012, 9:02 pm

If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

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