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“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

Oscar Wilde

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I think you really love that quote, eh darlin'? It's the third time you've used it! :)


"Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains."

William Shakespeare

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I didn't notice that :)
This one no one used yet :biggrin:

“Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains . . . But it can put mountains where there are none.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

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"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license."
John Milton

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“Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, 'What will you have, sir?' And I said, 'A glass of hemlock.'”

Ernest Hemingway

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"My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.”

John Keats

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“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.” :rotfl:

Winston Churchill

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:lol: I love him!!


"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included."

Karl Marx

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“One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation. . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.”

Sigmund Freud

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"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy."

Saadi

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“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.”
Stendhal

I do wonder how one can acquire friends in solitude :doubt: ...

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"Character develops itself in the stream of life".
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become."

Jim Rohn

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“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.”

Barbara Johnson

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"A woman who is loved always has success."

Vicki Baum

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"Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable."
Fran Lebowitz

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"What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”

Thomas Merton

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"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
The last words of Pancho Villa

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“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."

George Orwell

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"Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. "
Marcus Tullius Cicero
:thinking: Don't know about that ...

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"Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living."

Thomas Browne

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“These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”

William James

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"No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame."

Thomas Hobbes

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“A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting.”

Russell H. Ewing

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"Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch."

Andy Goldsworthy

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"Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight."

Diane Ackerman

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"Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity."

Herbert Hoover

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“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.”

Albert Einstein

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"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
Elbert Hubbard

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"It is important to note that food is just one of the several things that people need to be kept alive in emergency situations."

Carol Bellamy

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“Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.”

J. Donald Walters

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"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times."

Martin Luther

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"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid".

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

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"Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected."
John Locke

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“What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.”

Ralph Marston

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"It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived."

Freddie Mercury

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“The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.”

Andrew Jackson