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I'm sure you are, K! :thumbsup:

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.

John Locke

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:lol: Thanks, luv!

"The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle."

Marcus Aurelius

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you're welcome :)

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Albert Camus

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:hug3

"Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners."

Benjamin Banneker

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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Oliver Goldsmith

I agree here!

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So do I!! :nod:

"People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar."

Rick Kaplan

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And something related:

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Pope John XXIII

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"I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates."

T. S. Eliot

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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

William James

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"I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved."

B. R. Ambedkar

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Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Coco Chanel

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"The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top."

Joyce Brothers

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"I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self-defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha--which is to demean oneself."

Robert M. Pirsig

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"One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human."

Loren Eiseley

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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

George Orwell

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"Time is the justice that examines all offenders."

William shakespeare

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"There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege."

Jesse Ventura

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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

Friedrich Nietzsche

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"There's nothing worse than talking about yourself to find out that you're not that interesting."

Sean Kinney

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"People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden."

Catherine Deneuve

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"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."

Charles Dickens

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"What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance."

Mason Cooley

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"First appearance deceives many."

Ovid

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"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."

George Bernard Shaw

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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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"I've nothing to say."

Anish Kapoor

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"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

Andy Warhol

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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Virginia Woolf

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People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black.

Henry Ford

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"Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead"

Charles Dickens

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Love it!! :)


"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living."

W. H. Auden

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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"People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction."

Alexander Chase

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"This direction is sterile and without hope to those who wish to give painting a richer and more human meaning and a wider scope."

Edward Hopper

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The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.

Drew Endy

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"I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed."

Steve Lacy

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“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.”

Albert Einstein

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"God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands."

Mahalia Jackson

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“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”

Saint Augustine

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I felt like poisoning a monk.

Umberto Eco (1932 - ), on why he wrote the novel "The Name of the Rose."

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“When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”

Pablo Picasso