Author Topic: Famous (and not so famous) quotes  (Read 144264 times)

Pollypocket

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #90 on: July 06, 2005, 01:35:32 PM »
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Charlie Chaplin

waiting for lilacs

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #91 on: July 06, 2005, 06:37:51 PM »


             Laughter is an instant vacation.
                                                 --Milton Berle

Tryon

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #92 on: July 06, 2005, 06:46:29 PM »
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.

Marguerite de Valois

Pollypocket

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #93 on: July 06, 2005, 07:43:16 PM »
The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.

Mohandas Gandhi

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #94 on: July 07, 2005, 02:47:02 AM »


    It takes two to speak the truth — one to speak and another to hear.
           
            Thoreau

Pollypocket

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #95 on: July 07, 2005, 05:15:26 AM »
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

Desiderius Erasmus

Offline Jack McClennan

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #96 on: July 07, 2005, 11:30:12 AM »
You're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.
Dennis Miller

Pollypocket

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #97 on: July 07, 2005, 12:23:17 PM »
You're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.
Dennis Miller


*envisions it and cracks up*...keep those funny ones coming, Jack!!  :D

waiting for lilacs

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #98 on: July 07, 2005, 12:54:19 PM »


   We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved...

       Anonymous

Pollypocket

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #99 on: July 07, 2005, 08:04:43 PM »
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

Aesop

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #100 on: July 07, 2005, 08:35:25 PM »

    I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

           A.E. Hotchner

Pollypocket

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #101 on: July 07, 2005, 08:39:10 PM »
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #102 on: July 07, 2005, 08:43:13 PM »


    Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.


                                 Mark Twain

Pollypocket

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #103 on: July 08, 2005, 06:07:33 AM »
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

Alexander Chase

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Re: Famous (and not so famous) quotes
« Reply #104 on: July 08, 2005, 02:16:14 PM »


     I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
--Albert Einstein