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Favourite quote?
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i wanted to know what your fav quote is something inspiring something funny or something which touched you?????
i have loads one of them is:
"The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion."
i have loads one of them is:
"The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion."
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"Wise men learn by other men's mistakes; fools by their own." ~Chauser
"He who stands with both feet firmly on the ground is not moving." ~Tor Age Bringsvoerd
"For every complex problem there is a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong." ~H.L. Menken
NO idea who wrote it, but I lovelovelovelove it.
I even had it on a mug with homer Simpson and everything until my mum smashed it.
:thumb:
"Slence, like Patience, is a virtue that only wise men know to use when facing ignorance and intolerance"
~Jack Handey
"Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will." - Nelson Mandela
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." - Nelson Mandela
"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner." - Nelson Mandela
"If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers." - Nelson Mandela
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." - Nelson Mandela
"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." - Nelson Mandela
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela
"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb." - Nelson Mandela
"In my country we go to prison first and then become President." - Nelson Mandela
Sir Winston Churchill
"One can get in a car and see what man has made. One must get on a horse to see what God has made."
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Saint Francis of Assisi
"Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly."
"We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view."
- Mao Tse-Tung
Dr Martin Luther King
Nope. Had another look and apparently 'There is no shortage of theories as to who wrote the Serenity Prayer.' Could have been Reinhold Niebuhr.
It is a great prayer. And I'm sure I'd waste much less effort if I could live by it.
There's a few variations, too:
Lord, grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,
the good fortune to run into the ones that I do,
and the eyesight to tell the difference.
and
Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill because they pissed me off.