Favorite quotes

[Hard-Luck Henry]

hehe ... I found it here :wink: a quiz for you

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself."

Blake

 

[peapod]

Your just to good to me big H, I only got 5 right :twisted: now I have to take the other tests :twisted: Alright I got one for you :twisted: Sorry you will have to cut and paste it...and I also have a quote

"the restlessness of shorebirds, their kinship with the distance and swift seasons, the wistful signal of their voices and down the long coastlines of the world make them, for me, the most affecting of wild creatures. I think of them as birds of wind, as "wind birds"

Peter matthiessen the wind birds

http://books.guardian.co.uk/quiz/questions/0,5957,437461,00.html

 

[Hard-Luck Henry]

:lol: Wow, 9/10: it seems I'm 'a veritable Sappho' :roll:

To which end ...

"So must we learn in a world made as this one
Man can never attain his greatest desire,
But must pray for what good fortune Fate holdeth, Never unmindful."

(That's from Sappho, in case anyone was wondering :wink: )

 

[peapod]

Well I wondering, so its a good thing you told me
Here is something fitting for you big H. :wink:

Who goes to the hills, goes to his mother
Kipling

 

[Hard-Luck Henry]

Rev's mention of "thou shalt not ... " reminded me of this Blake poem. (I've probably posted it before, it's a favourite, but who's counting?)

I went to the Garden of Love.
And saw what I never had seen:
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.

And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And "Thou shalt not," writ over the door;
So I turn'd to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore,

And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tomb-stones where flowers should be:
And priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

 

[Hard-Luck Henry]

"After the stifling incense-choked sanctimoniousness of American politics, getting back to Britain was like coming up for air."

- Historian Simon Schama, on British election campaigning vs. the US variety.

Anyone interested can find the rest of the article here

 

[Hard-Luck Henry]

"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."

-- George Orwell

 

[Vanni Fucci]

I'm tired of hearing about money money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

Shaquille O'Neal

 

[Hard-Luck Henry]

"Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false."

Shaquille O'Neal

 

[Hard-Luck Henry]

"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."

Shaquille O'Neal

 

[Hard-Luck Henry]

"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it."

Shaquille O'Neal

 

[Hard-Luck Henry]

"Possessions are usually diminished by possession."

Shaquille O'Neal

 

[Hard-Luck Henry]

"Money doesn't talk, it swears."

Shaquille O'Neal

 

[Hard-Luck Henry]

"But scarce observed, the knowing and the bold
Fall in the general massacre of gold;
Wide-wasting pest! that rages unconfined,
And crowds with crimes the records of mankind;
For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws,
For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws;
Wealth heaped on wealth, nor truth nor safety buys,
The dangers gather as the treasures rise."

Shaquille O'Neal

 

[peapod]

''Just who do you think you are?''
--Mike to his clones, Connie and Lester, 1998.

 

[digigirl]

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."

"When you are angry you will give teh best speech taht you will live to regret."


"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything."

"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion."

 

[Gordon J Torture]

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy in life is when men are afraid of the light."

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find away around those laws."

"We know what we are, but we know not what we may become."

"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely beleive they are free."

 

[Twila]

"I am da führer of paranormal vegetables."

• -Peapod

 

[peapod]

hahahahhaha you like that one eh twinks, I hunted long and hard for it, just to give you a snort :twisted: were you drinking coffee at the time?? hehehehehehe

Got anything over 200 pounds, wearing spandex??
Twila

 

[Twila]

I found lots on the weekend at over 200lbs wearing spandex. It seems they have a nudy magazine that specializes in this sort of thing............Who knew?!?!