Adages & Proverbs

I loved that.
[size=150]Round and Round they danced and swirled.[/size]

[size=150]The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word"[/size]

  • Mata Hari

THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE, BUT FOOLS DESPISE WISDOM AND INSTRUCTION. PROVERBS 1:7
SOLOMON; SON OF DAVID, KING OF ISRAEL

[size=150]No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. [/size]
Michel de Montaigne

[size=150]Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.[/size]
Michel de Montaigne

[size=150]When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. [/size]
Michel de Montaigne

I can surely attest to this^. :laughing: Hi Yoda.

supercalifragilisticexpealodocious

even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious

if you say it loud enough

you’ll always sound precocious

supercalifragilisticexpealodocious :banana-dance:

[size=150]I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. [/size]
G. K. CHESTERTON

me too :laughing:

[size=150]The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling. [/size]
~Lucretius
…shivers…

[size=150]The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently[/size]."

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

“Thou Son, O how unlike the Father! First God Almighty comes with a Thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.”–William Blake

So old and rung out so much but ah so very true…

[size=150]This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet [/size]

“Pitying I wept to see the woe
That Love & Beauty undergo,
To be consumed in burning Fires
And in ungratified desires,”–Wm. Blake

It takes all worlds to make a kind.

Blake paraphrase–
“A truth when told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you could invent.”

“. . .God becomes as we are, that we may be as he is.”–Wm. Blake

[size=150]A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That’s how I hold your voice.” [/size]
― Rumi

[size=150]"Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.
How do they learn it?
They fall and falling,
they’re given wings.” [/size]
― Rumi

[size=150]Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. [/size]–Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

[size=150]The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. [/size]
G.K. Chesterton

[size=150]Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.[/size]
–William Blake

[size=150]But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.” [/size]
― Anne Brontë

[size=200]“What is Love without Love returned?”[/size] - i dunno who said that do you?