Adages & Proverbs

Emmm… thanks for the mention, but in English, it is just a little different. :wink:

Nothing is possible until something is impossible.

And it is;
If you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything.

(Dan~)
I was trying to quote it then I accidentally deleted it.
It was a reported comment anyways.

Here comes the rage, perhaps.

Life … is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

In all we do, and hear, and see,
Is restless Toil and Vanity.
While yet the rolling earth abides,
Men come and go like ocean tides”
― Anne Brontë, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

You are welcome, James.

Though, I found it worth mentioning and thus poated. I take it as my intellectual duty to say the truth, even if it contradicts my perception.
Unlike many others, i do not have any ego problem in crosscheking my perceptions and admit my shortcomings.

with love,
sanjay

Yes, I have noticed ([size=85]although it would help if you didn’t start off quite so biased … snicker[/size]).


Nietzsche’s like salt for your philosophy. You need a bit to make it interesting, but too much is poison.
- Only_Humean

with love,
sanjay

One of my favourites.

When you see the play this passage leaps off the stage at you - far more than “Is this a dagger I see before me…”

I accidentally wrecked one of LM’s replies.
I wanted to appologize.

Names are the guests of reality - Taoist Sage Zhuangzi

with love,
sanjay

Listen like a student, question like a master. - Myself.

with love,
sanjay

“. . . presume not God to scan,
The proper study of Mankind is Man_.”—Alexander Pope

“There is no cure for birth and death except to try to enjoy the interval”. --George Santayana

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

J. Krishnamurti.

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

:sad-teareye:

[size=85]How I do love that guy.[/size]

Live to learn to live to learn to live.

Money is not everything but one must have just enough of that to realize that fact.

  • an Indian stock broker said in an interview.

with love,
sanjay

“Fischer’s Fritze fischte frische Fische.”
Translation:
“Fisher’s Fritze fished fresh fish.”

“Was Du ererbt von deinen Vätern hast, erwirb es, um es zu besitzen.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Faust” (I), S. 39.
Translation:
“What you have inherited from your fathers, acquire it in order to possess it.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Faust” (I), p. 39.

Heraklit:

"Πάντα ῥεῖ "
“Panta rhei.”
Translation:
“Everything flows.”

“ποταμοῖσι τοῖσιν αὐτοῖσιν ἐμβαίνουσιν, ἕτερα καὶ ἕτερα ὕδατα ἐπιρρεῖ.”
“Potamoisi toisin autoisin embainousin, hetera kai hetera hudata epirrei.”
Translation:
“Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.”

“τὰ ὄντα ἰέναι τε πάντα καὶ μένειν οὐδέν.”
“Ta onta ienai te panta kai menein ouden.”
Translation:
“All entities move and nothing remains still.”

“πάντα χωρεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει” καὶ “δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν ποταμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης.”
“Panta chōrei kai ouden menei kai dis es ton auton potamon ouk an embaies.”
Translation:
“Everything changes and nothing remains still … and … you cannot step twice into the same stream.”

“Lachen ist die beste Medizin.”
Translation:
“Laughing is the best medicine.”

“Wo viel Licht ist, ist auch viel Schatten.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Götz von Berlichingen”, 1773.
Translation:
“Where much light is, there is also much shadow.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Götz von Berlichingen”, 1773.

“Das ist nicht das Gelbe vom Ei.”
Translation:
“That is not the yellow of the egg.” The meaning is: “It’s not exactly brilliant.” :wink:

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All men die but not all men live.

  • A dialouge from the film Braveheart.

with love,
sanjay