To me, the best Proverb I have ever heard is an old Russian Proverb that states:

"There is no teacher Greater then experience, there is no punisher greater than fate, for Fate is a patient mistress, but she forgets no one"

The best Quote I've ever heard states:

Whatever doesn't Kill you, will only make you stronger". This is a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher (1844-1900)

Whats yours?

GET YOUR GOAT SMELIIN A** OUT OF BED!!!!

drill instructor while yelling and banging garbage cans at 2:00 am :D

Me: We're all goin straight on the road to Hell.

Ionel: I call shotgun!

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every
form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson.

There ain't nothing better than a man on a mission, dammit.

"I did not have sex with that woman"

"Mission accomplished"

"Read my lips, I will not raise taxes"

"I don't recall"

There's a passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you. I been sayin' that shit for years. And if you ever heard it, it meant your ass. I never really questioned what it meant. I thought it was just a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker before you popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this mornin' made me think twice. Now I'm thinkin': it could mean you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. 9mm here, he's the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could be you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. I'd like that. But that shit ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be a shepherd.

Pardon me, but I have to go watch Pulp Fiction again...

I know this one's long but it's been a huuuge encouragement to me. It's by Mother Theresa (wouldn't call it THE best quote I've ever heard but it's pretty pretty nice IMO. Um yah, I wouldn't completely agree with the last part sayin what you do is ONLY b/w you and God, though)

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self centered;

Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, People may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;

Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;

Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;

Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;

Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;

Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;

Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, at it may never be enough;

Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, if the final analysis it is between you and God;

It was never between you and them anyway.

I like the quote by Mother Theresa. Jesus said to do everything you do as though you do it for the Lord. So if the final analysis is between you and God,
and what else is the Great White Throne of judgement for but to determine whether or not you followed Jesus? Kinda points us in a direction.

mhh, yah, I totally know what you are saying. I'm just wondering whether it's a bad thing to do what you're doing for people as well. I mean what about the TWO most important laws: loving people as yourself AND loving God.

What about loving your neighbor as yourself and loving God? Isn't that how Jesus lived? Mankind has a lot of abberations and that's something they need to get under control & eliminate. They can do it with a little direction and help.

slavery is slavery. whether you are in chains, an indentured servant, or in debt. slavery is slavery.- john trudell.

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

- Lord Acton

I forgot to post my favorite quote.

" The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." Vince Lombardi

My greatest quote was from Mahamah Ghandi:


You can judge the character of a people by how they treat their animals.


I have always used that as a measure of a persons character and have never been wrong.




Originally posted by Dunkirk101
To me, the best Proverb I have ever heard is an old Russian Proverb that states:

"There is no teacher Greater then experience, there is no punisher greater than fate, for Fate is a patient mistress, but she forgets no one"

The best Quote I've ever heard states:

Whatever doesn't Kill you, will only make you stronger". This is a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher (1844-1900)

Whats yours? You can judge the character of a people by how they treat their animals.

That is one that I wll keep in my notes...Thanks :cool:

"This above all--to thine own self be true."

Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

- John A. Stormer: None Dare Call It Treason

I have always used that as a measure of a persons character and have never been wrong.

Can you provide some examples?

Serial killers such as Jeffrey Dahmer and other like him who enjoyed torchure frequently torchured animals as children and then graduate to human beings as their perversion escalate. It is a known statistic that those kinds of killers use animals in that way first.


Originally posted by Dio Seijuro

Can you provide some examples?

Wasn't vlad tempst III (Count Dracul) like that?

What is the Greatest Quote or Proverb you've ever heard in your life?

It's a tie.

1) ""AN IT HARM NONE, DO WHAT YE WILL""

2) """No human being has imagination enough to conceive of this infinite horror. All that the human race has suffered in war and want, in pestilence and famine, in fire and flood, all the pangs and pains of every disease and every death, all of this is nothing compared with the agonies to be endured by one lost soul.
This is the consolation of the Christian religion. This is the justice of God the mercy of Christ.
This frightful dogma, this infinite lie.....
Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God".________Robert Green Ingersoll, "Why I Am An Agnostic"

fortune favors the back bone not the wish bone
Doil

Well, there are too many quotes to mention here, but I'll give a few of them...

"A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-destroying blow."

"The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes."

"It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge."

"Great liars are also great magicians."

And I don't think I need to mention any names here...

Hello All!

There are so many verses & quotes that I truly love! The verse I lean on the most would be: "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" Philippians 4:13
I recently started to lean on Isaiah 26 In all situations keep your focus on the Lord & not the situation & I will bring you to the other side.

Have a Blessed day!
NiNa

The Earth is Enough: growing up in a world of Flyfishing, Trout, & Old Men

Harry Middleton

isbn: 0-87108-874-6

"...that the old men worked by hand because the profit of having turkeys and wild quail was worth more to them than the profit of a land without them. In wild things, in the land as it was, the old men took comfort. Where there was wildness, there was possibility, chance, genuine life full of promise and risk and perplexing uncertainty."


" slavery is slavery. whether you are in chains, an indentured servant, or in debt. slavery is slavery."

john trudell

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

I like the quote, if not the guy who said it

A little bleak:

"Memento mori" - Remember that you will die.. can't remember where it's from.

George Best,the late great soccer player was asked at the height of his career.'George,what do you do with your huge wages'.He replied.'I spend some on fast booze and fast women,I just blow the rest'.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

- Sun Tzu

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Common sense is not so common.


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My father used to say, you would worry less about what people think if you knew how little they did.

"In this life, we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love."
--Mother Teresa

My current is this.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle.

si post fata venit gloria non propero

si post fata venit gloria non propero

It is traditional to post the translation;

"If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it."
-Martial

I take it for granted that I am posting with intelligent people who can easily find the translation of a text, especially a Latin text. You did it with very little difficulty.

A Latin.Its a dead language,may it rest in peace.

A Latin.Its a dead language,may it rest in peace.

I like Latin. It says it all succintly.
Vini, vidi, vici.

Isn't that Veni, vidi, vici?

Prolly so----I have trouble with English sometimes, much less Latin.

I thought it was Vinnie. You got a problem wit' dat?

You did it with very little difficulty.

I know some Latin (working on that presently), but I had to surrender and look up a translation.

*hangs head in shame*

If your putting your point of view across,wouldnt you be better using plain english,that everyone can understand,instead of impressing us with your old Euorpean intellect.

We speak Latin at our house all the time, even to the dogs.
Not only does it irritate the neighbors, it's REAL helpful in case we're being bugged.

I thought it was Vinnie. You got a problem wit' dat?

Sedan, yer feckin' hilarious.

Actually, no it wouldn't, Paulc. The quote is a Latin quote and sounds better in Latin just as such phrases as caveat emptor and ipso facto do.

Hi Frogger.I dont know,so i'l accept your point.Tell me,where and y did you learn Latin.

I never said I spoke Latin. I took Latin a thousand years ago in Junior High School. I said the quote sounds better in Latin. There are certain phrases that just sound better in their native language. Weltschmerz, weltanshaung, schadenfreude, gemutlicheit, erzatz, wie es eigentlich gewesen, lebensraum, du bist ein dumme esel, etc., sound better in German. Non rompere il cajon, a fa napoli, sound better in Italian. Some quotes just seem to lose a bit of their flavor when translated.

"But it does move" -- Attributed to Galileo Galilei

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy. ;)

freedo m from fear could b e said to be the who philosofie of human rights

Dag Hammarskjöld