GREAT MEN'S and WOMEN'S QUOTES

[npap]

PLATO : “You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!”

[npap]

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Abraham Lincoln

[FedoraRefugee]

Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

Jesus of Nazareth

[monkeyboy]

Sunrise
Surprise
Civilized Man
You were keeper to me
Now your animal is free
You're free to die
You're old and your hands are gray
You're old, go home and stay
We've all heard your dirty stories
Two thousand years
Two thousand years
Two thousand years
Of your
God damned
Glory

Paul Kantner

[FedoraRefugee]

Sunrise
Surprise
Civilized Man
You were keeper to me
Now your animal is free
You're free to die
You're old and your hands are gray
You're old, go home and stay
We've all heard your dirty stories
Two thousand years
Two thousand years
Two thousand years
Of your
God damned
Glory

Paul Kantner

[altair4]

"I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them"
Jay McInerney

From the Windows "man" page for sleep.exe : http://ss64.com/nt/sleep.html

[hinto]

“In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said: "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter-bitter," he answered;
"But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.”
-Stephen Crane

[markfiend]

Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear--and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!
--Lord Omar

[XidCat]

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.
Mark Twain

[npap]

“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”

Mahatma Gandhi

[vrkalak]

"It is the inevitable nature of man, to desire that which he cannot have."


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vrkalak says: "If they ever make a movie about my life. And you know they will. I want Keanu Reeves to play me."

[Aevum]

Women weren't made to be loved, not to be understood.

Oscar Wilde

[blogger]

"It is the inevitable nature of man, to desire that which he cannot have."


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vrkalak says: "If they ever make a movie about my life. And you know they will. I want Keanu Reeves to play me."

“The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods”
Socrates

[blogger]

Women weren't made to be loved, not to be understood.

Oscar Wilde

“Woman once made equal to man becomes his superior”
Socrates

[Chasester]

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
George S. Patton

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.
George S. Patton

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
George S. Patton

If a man does his best, what else is there?
George S. Patton

[blogger]

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

[Aevum]

Hain't we got all the fools on
our side? And hain't all the fools
the majority in any town?


~ Mark Twain

[rich_roast]

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

[Aevum]

Behaving is keeping for oneself how good you think of yourself and how bad of others.

- Mark Twain

[mick55]

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche