Author Topic: From the ashes of the past...we will find our future... (Read 7107 times)

Topskin69 · « **Reply #50 on:** August 27, 2009, 12:36:34 AM »

"We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them"
Samuel Adams

Topskin69 · « **Reply #51 on:** August 27, 2009, 12:41:32 AM »

"A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving"

Ayn Rand

Van_Bilderass · « **Reply #52 on:** August 27, 2009, 03:59:05 AM »

"The eye altering, alters all"
- William Blake

Topskin69 · « **Reply #53 on:** August 27, 2009, 02:04:37 PM »

"My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it."
John Bunyan

Topskin69 · « **Reply #54 on:** August 27, 2009, 02:11:08 PM »

"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth"
Theodor Adorno

Topskin69 · « **Reply #55 on:** August 29, 2009, 01:51:01 AM »

"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither"

C.S. Lewis

Topskin69 · « **Reply #56 on:** August 31, 2009, 03:20:02 PM »

"Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly"

Aeschylus

Topskin69 · « **Reply #57 on:** August 31, 2009, 11:53:44 PM »

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire"
Aristotle

Topskin69 · « **Reply #58 on:** September 30, 2009, 01:14:49 PM »

"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."

Jonathan Winters

Topskin69 · « **Reply #59 on:** March 22, 2010, 04:37:13 AM »

"A successful man, is one who can lay a firm foundation, with the bricks that others have thrown at him."

David Brinkley

w8m8 · « **Reply #60 on:** March 22, 2010, 04:38:48 AM »

Dear Walter,

nice posting

sincerely,
w8m8

Topskin69 · « **Reply #61 on:** March 22, 2010, 06:43:19 AM »

"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Topskin69 · « **Reply #62 on:** March 22, 2010, 06:47:45 AM »

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."

Voltaire

Topskin69 · « **Reply #63 on:** March 22, 2010, 06:52:56 AM »

"A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less."

Pir Vilayat Khan

#1 Klaus fan · « **Reply #64 on:** March 22, 2010, 04:10:21 PM »

Lots of wise sayings in this thread but this was utter shite.

Quote from: Topskin69 on August 19, 2009, 01:18:16 PM

"Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists"

Pascal

Topskin69 · « **Reply #65 on:** March 23, 2010, 08:28:33 AM »

Quote from: #1 Klaus fan on March 22, 2010, 04:10:21 PM

Lots of wise sayings in this thread but this was utter shite.

Nonsense. Pascal was a considerably wise man.

Topskin69 · « **Reply #66 on:** March 23, 2010, 08:34:47 AM »

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topskin69 · « **Reply #67 on:** April 18, 2010, 03:52:10 AM »

"What lies behind you, and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison, to what lies inside you."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

WillGrant · « **Reply #68 on:** April 18, 2010, 05:10:12 AM »

Good thread mate..some wise words indeed

Earl1972 · « **Reply #69 on:** April 18, 2010, 12:46:50 PM »

beautiful words

beautiful bodies

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Topskin69 · « **Reply #70 on:** May 03, 2010, 05:21:16 AM »

"But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken"

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Van_Bilderass · « **Reply #71 on:** May 03, 2010, 06:05:18 AM »

“Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it? I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others that at last their true nature could not reveal itself;... ” - Soren Kierkegaard

Cleanest Natural · « **Reply #72 on:** May 03, 2010, 06:08:47 AM »

Topskin69 · « **Reply #73 on:** May 03, 2010, 06:09:59 AM »

Quote from: Van_Bilderass on May 03, 2010, 06:05:18 AM

“Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it? I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others that at last their true nature could not reveal itself;... ” - Soren Kierkegaard

Well played Van...very poignant indeed!

Topskin69 · « **Reply #74 on:** May 03, 2010, 06:18:28 AM »

"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed"

Albert Einstein