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 Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:46 pm
Okies...here's another for you all. Kinda confusing but...
"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.” -Woody Allen
I like it because it deals with love and suffering, two things I have been subject to lately. I find it so true, yet so depressing.
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:00 pm
I actually came across a Voltaire quote the other day.
"I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -Voltaire
I like it because...well, it's self explanitory. It has to do with everyone's right to an opinion, whether others agree or not.
Another Voltaire quote:
"God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." -Voltaire
Self explanitory also?
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:46 am
haha, Rira, you've selected two of my favorite quotes from Voltaire... one of which is from Tartuffe I believe.
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:52 am
"I believe every man has his own reserved right to pave his own road to hell... and who am I to stop them?" -Robert Frost WELLLLL.... wtf can I add to that?
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Kharne Bloodhowler Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:16 pm
"In the world of today, words truly mean nothing. You can say that you love someone, but that means nothing considering anyone can say anything and come off as genuine. Do not say that you love someone, prove that you love someone. Words are empty without actions."
---Kharne Bloodhowler
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:45 pm
KharneBH "In the world of today, words truly mean nothing. You can say that you love someone, but that means nothing considering anyone can say anything and come off as genuine. Do not say that you love someone, prove that you love someone. Words are empty without actions." ---Kharne Bloodhowler So very true...
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Kharne Bloodhowler Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:58 pm
Isis375 KharneBH "In the world of today, words truly mean nothing. You can say that you love someone, but that means nothing considering anyone can say anything and come off as genuine. Do not say that you love someone, prove that you love someone. Words are empty without actions." ---Kharne Bloodhowler So very true... Thank you.
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:29 pm
Just for the record I do not mind Woody Allen's words...but his moral is highly quesionable...anywho here's one...
"Lizzie Borden took and axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one" -Lizzie Borden Trial
I have loved this little thing and I"ve no sane clue why...it appeals to my insanity so much so that I went around for weeks singing it to myself in freshman year...it's also why I have so few ((but the best ever)) friends.
"If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it." -W.C. Fields
I love this one, because it is something I often do anyway...
"I grew up way too fast today. I want to be a kid again." -Tabitha Vess on the shooting on March 5, 2001.
I too grew up too fast, and I think many people did...at least many that write poetry grew up too fast in my opinion...
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:40 pm
I have often wondered what the big deal over love is and have found some sense to it through these...
"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world." -Brandi Snyder
"Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down." -Anonymous
The second one I understand moreso because the walls between myself and others are many, but mostly for their protection rather than to see who can break them down...
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:59 pm
Einstein once said, "If you sit with a pretty girl on a bench, hours seem like seconds; however, if you sit on a hot stove seconds will seem like hours."
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Kharne Bloodhowler Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:15 pm
xp morbid but funny I like that one...to my collection it goes...these are all Voltaire...I found a jackpot of 'em...
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
God is always on the side of the big battalions.
God created sex. Priests created marriage. ((this has got to be one of the funniest I've come across from him))
This is no time to make new enemies.
Voltaire (1694 - 177 cool , when asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan.
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
there were so many more I didn't know what to do...
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:22 pm
My favorite one is the second one. That is just too wonderful to forget.
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Kharne Bloodhowler Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:26 pm
ahhh that is also one that brings a smile to my face...I like it as well...one day I must right all the quotes here into the little notebook I keep as my collection...well the ones I like anyway...
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. -Voltaire
tis true...no matter how much people boast...most are not ready for their reality to be questioned...
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:28 pm
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -Einstein
...he was a very interesting man. couldn't read till third grade and yet he is beheld as such a genius...wonder what he'd say to that...
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:39 pm
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -Einstein
...well, and I know many admire him...but I don't admire anything more than his own thoughts....rather than his infamous mathmatical equation...
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