Saturday, July 15, 2006

Insightful quotes and proverbs

1.The partridge loves peas,but not those that go into the pot with it.-African(Wolof)proverb
2.Everything we learn to write is a stepping stone for the next level of conversation we are capable of having with ourselves.-Christina Baldwin
3.It is not important what you believe,only that you believe.-Anonymous
4.Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.-Finley Peter Dunne
5.Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.Teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks.-Anonymous
6.A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.-Gore Vidal
7.One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.-French proverb
8.It is easy to dodge a spear that comes in front of you but hard to keep harms away from an arrow shot from behind.-Chinese proverb
9.One enemy can harm you more than a hundred friends can do you good.-German proverb
10.The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.-oliver Wendell HOlmes Sr.
11.You can only go halfway into the deepest forest;then you are coming out the other side.-Chinese proverb

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Good quotes and proverbs

1.We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.-Annie Dillard
2.Wrong cannot afford defeat but right can.-Rabindranath Tagore
3.Never be haughty to the humble;never be humble to the haughty.-Jefferson Davis
4.What we remember is only a ripple in the pond.-Nikki Giovanni.