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Jenivere-the-bard Vice Captain
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 Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:24 pm
For our visitors:
Ever wished that your Gaia sig had a cool catch-phrase, but never been able to find the right words?
To enrich our world with the words of others before us, I propose setting up this: A Collection of Sayings and Phrases. Categorized by subject matter and response, these sayings have brought wisdom - er, well, some of them have - to our world, whether in literature or beyond.
This collection will grow and shape over time, so don't forget to keep coming back for more!
If you copy and paste a quote to use elsewhere, please copy and paste the author of the quote as well. If I find a quote missing so much as "-Anon." after it, I will be very angry.
Questions, comments, criticism? Sign our Guestbook and post them there.
For our members:
I appreciate how you're all helping me with this! When you submit a quote, you could either PM it to me or post it here, and I'll edit it into the proper category. Or, if you already know there's no current category for it, you could make a new one, so long as you follow the category format (heading text size 24 in gray, then the next color in the rainbow for the quotes).
When submitting a quote, PLEASE put the author if you can. It helps me know what category to put it in. Thanks!
Topics include:
Page One
Do You Know Who Said This?
Observations of the World
Story of My Life
Ironic
Ain't It The Truth?
The Big Questions
Some More Advice
Really Bad Jokes
A Gaian Said It
Fur the Love of Animals
I Do Declare
Signs From God
Page Two
Art Is In The Eye Of The Beholder
Individuality
The Way of the Warrior
An Open Door, A Glass Half Full
HEARTTHROB!!!!!!!
That's So Random
Advice
EEEEEKKKK!!!! A TALKING MOUSE!!!!!!
Corny
The Great Quest
Page Three
Grief
Friendship
Competition
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:25 pm
Do You Know Who Said This?
We have a few quotes or sayings we don't know the authors for, but couldn't resist posting anyway. If you know who it was who said or wrote the quote or saying below, please PM one of us so we can fix it!
dark voice: "You will never catch me."
-----"I don't need to. I found a gun." -UNSURE
"Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense." -Liralin D{need to find rest of name}
"Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference." -UNSURE
"It tastes like cardboard!"
--------"I got nothing against cardboard." -UNSURE
"I promise I won't change." -UNSURE
"I don't wanna be told to grow up." -UNSURE
"Whoever's praying 4 snow pleez stop!" -UNSURE
"Happy Easter to our Christian Friends. Happy Passover to our Jewish Friends. To our atheist friends... Good Luck." -UNSURE
"Facebook: You have one new friend request from Jesus. Confirm; Ignore" -UNSURE
"I'm having trouble dealing with the fact that Spencer Reid is a fictional character." - UNSURE
"PIENADE!!" He chucked a pie at him.
--------"JAKE WTF!!" -UNSURE
"Junstin Beiber's not gay, she's lesbian!" -UNSURE (but amazing)
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Jenivere-the-bard Vice Captain
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Jenivere-the-bard Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:27 pm
Observations of the World
(Basically, I haven't figured out what category to put these in yet.)
"The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?" -Pablo Casals
"It's not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable." -Moliere
"The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary." -Anonymous
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." -T.S. Elliot
"When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things." -Anonymous
"Hope is knowing that people, like kites, are made to be lifted up." -Anonymous
"An optimist is the human personification of spring." -Susan J. Bissonette
"Changing my own actions may not change the world, but it's a start." -Jacqueline Pearce
"...The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." -Anne Frank
"Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself." -Starhawk
"There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination." -Confucius
"All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they can be equally free." -Voltaire
"One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are." -Gail Godwin
"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress." -Coco Chanel
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." -Anonymous
"I could never love where I could not respect." -Charlotte Elizabeth Aisse
"It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. THe mosquito is swatted." -Mary O'Conner
"Everybody can do something that makes a difference." -Todd R. Wagner
"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life." -Simone Weil
"Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion." -Anna Pavlova
"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage." -Seneca
"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself." -Michel de Montaigne
"Life is either daring adventure or nothing." -Helen Keller
"We want people to feel with us more than to act for us." -George Eliot
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved." -George MacDonald
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine." -Elvis Presley
"Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same." -Francesca Reigler
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts." -Winston Churchill
"The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends." -Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses." -Elsa Maxwell
"Intelligence is the only unlimited natural resource." -Anon
"One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are." - Gail Godwin
"Patience is the key to contentment." - Mohammed
"Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do." - Shaquille O'Neal
"As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time." - Anon.
"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike." - Theodore Roosevelt
"The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back." - Abigail van Buren
"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. THe shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." - Abraham Lincoln
"Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures." - Horace Greeley
"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same." - Anne Frank
"New friends are silver, but old friends are gold." - Unknown
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." - Marie Curie
"Let everyone sweep in front of their own door, and the whole world will be clean." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:28 pm
Story of My Life
"When I was born, I was so surprised I couldn't talk for a year and a half." -Gracie Allen
"I misplaced my dictionary. Now I'm at a loss for words." -Anonymous
"Gravity always gets me down." -Anonymous
"Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars and I thought to myself, 'Where in the world is the ceiling?!'" -Anonymous
"Am I indecisive? Well, yes and no." -Anonymous
"I spilled spot remover on my dog - now he's gone." -Stephen Wright
"I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places." -Henny Youngman
"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done." - Marie Curie
"I never learned anything while I was talking." - Larry King
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:29 pm
Ironic
"According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless." -Ashleigh Brilliant
"All generalizations are false." -Anonymous
"According to my calculations, the problem doesn't exist." -Anonymous
"8/5th of all people do not understand fractions." -Anonymous
"I didn't use to finish sentences, but now I" - Anonymous
"Welcome to my life." -UNSURE
dark voice: "You will never catch me."
-----"I don't need to. I found a gun." -UNSURE
"The report of my death was an exaggeration." -Mark Twain
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein
"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." - Mark Twain
"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you." - Rita Mae Brown
"While looking at the products on an online bookstore's website, I came across a do-it-yourself book for a quick and easy divorce. At the end of the description, the options were: 1. Add to shopping cart; 2. Add to wish list, or 3. Add to wedding registry." - Bonnie Lanthier
"40-ish, incoherent, illiterate couch potato, uneducated, cold personality, lousy cook, very financially secure, wanted by 50-ish white widowed male. Need new problems." - Debra Sadlo; personal ad in the Belleville, Ill., Journal
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:31 pm
Ain't It The Truth?
"Duct tape is like The Force: it has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together." -Anonymous
"One thing about the speed of light - it gets here too early in the morning." -Anonymous
"Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it." -Anonymous
"Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine." -Anonymous
"The shortest distance between two points is always under construction." -Noelie Alito
"I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's one called 'brightness,' but it doesn't work." -Anonymous
"People usually get what's coming to them, unless it's been mailed." -Anonymous
"The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting." -John Adams
"Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill." - Christopher Parker
"My dad used to say, You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought of you if you knew how seldom they did." - Dr. Phil McGraw
"If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters." - Nora Ephron
"Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds." - Jojo Jensen
"Maturity is knowing you were an idiot in the past.
Wisdom is knowing you're going to be an idiot in the future.
Common sense is knowing that you should try not to be an idiot NOW." - Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:33 pm
The Big Questions
"If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?" -Anonymous
"Do equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate make a balanced diet?" -Anonymous
"Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?" -Anonymous
"After eating, do amphibians have to wait one hour before getting out of the water?" -Anonymous
"Did you know that the word 'gullible' isn't in the dictionary?" -Anonymous
"Why is 'abbreviation' such a long word?" -Anonymous
"What's another word for 'thesaurus'?" -Anonymous
"If time is on your side, what is on the other side?" -Anonymous
"How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?" -Anonymous
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:34 pm
Some More Advice
"Be nice to people. They outnumber you 6.5 billion to one." -Anonymous
"Push will get a person almost everywhere - except through a door marked 'pull.'" -Anonymous
"Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense." -Liralin D{need to find rest of name}
"If you are going to try crosscountry skiing, start with a small country." -Anonymous
"A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could have only one book, what would it be? I always say 'How to Build a Boat.'" -Stephen Wright
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. And inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." -Groucho Marx
"Worry: a misuse of your imagination." -Anonymous
"If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment." -Harry F. Banks
"Don't judge a book by its movie." -Anonymous
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it!" -Yogi Berra
"Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference." -UNSURE
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Jenivere-the-bard Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:35 pm
Really Bad Jokes
"Forecast for tonight: darkness." -Anonymous
"Corduroy pillows: They're making headlines!" -Anonymous
"The dead batteries were given out free of charge." -Anonymous
"The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference." -Anonymous
"Writing with a broken pencil is pointless." -Anonymous
"The cost of feathers is rising; now even down is up." -Anonymous
"It tastes like cardboard!"
--------"I got nothing against cardboard." -UNSURE
"Two boll weevils grew up in Alabama. One moved to Hollywood and became a famous actor. THe other stayed in the cotton field and never amounted to anything. He became known as the lesser of two weevils." - Dustin Godsey
"Does Santa call his elves 'subordinate clauses'?" - Doug Hecox
"There's a new cop drama on TV that's set in Alaska. I bet the police never yell, 'Freeze!'" - Bob Snyder
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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 7:55 am
A Gaian Said It
"Sometimes I wonder who's luckier: the people who don't have to fight, or the people who have something worth fighting for." -Aloysia Bloodfur
"I make words my business." -Jenivere-the-bard
"If you can accept the darkness inside, you are one step closer to wisdom." -Day Seraph
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:17 am
Fur the Love of Animals
"A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime." -Mark Twain
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:19 am
I Do Declare
"Somehow or other I will be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious." -Oscar Wilde
"I promise I won't change." -UNSURE
"I don't wanna be told to grow up." -UNSURE
"I could never love where I could not respect." -Charlotte Elizabeth Aisse
"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself." -Michel de Montaigne
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain." - Emily Dickinson
"I hope I shall always have firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man." - George Washington
"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can still do something; I will not refuse to do something I think I can do." - Helen Keller
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Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:12 pm
Signs From God
You know those message bulletins some churches have on their front lawns? Often they show the times for regular Sunday masses, when special events will take place, and occasionally a word of encouragement. Here are some messages found on some such bulletins... and they may not be quite what you expect!
"Don't let worries kill you. Let the church help." -Church of The Corss, United Methodist Church
"Honk if you love Jesus. Text while driving if you want to meet him." -Stonebridge Church of God
"Church Parking: Trespassers will be baptized." -Christian Fellowship Church
"If you are looking for a sign from God, this is it." -Eastside Baptist Church
"God loves you whether you like it or not." -Providence Presbyterian Church
"Whoever's praying 4 snow pleez stop!" -UNSURE
"Do not criticize your wife's judgement - see whom she married." -First Presbyterian Church
"Have Trouble sleeping? We have sermons. Come here one." -Benton Heights Presbyterian Church
"Do you know what hell is? Come hear our preacher." -Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church
"Life Stinks. We have a pew for you." -Clarksburg Baptist Church
"Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads." -Donelson View Baptist Church
""Try Jesus." If you don't like HIm, the devil will take you back." -Western Hills Church of Christ
"Happy Easter to our Christian Friends. Happy Passover to our Jewish Friends. To our atheist friends... Good Luck." -UNSURE
"Evenings at 7 in the Parish Hall
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Mon - Alcoholics Anonymous
Tue - Abused Spouses
Wed - Eating Disorders
Thu - Say No To Drugs
Fri - Teen Suicide Watch
Sat - Soup Kitchen
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Sunday Sermon
9 A.M.
"America's Joyous Future""-UNSURE
"Facebook: You have one new friend request from Jesus. Confirm; Ignore" -UNSURE
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