Hello Everybody;

All of you doubtless have heard or read quotations. Sometimes one sentence tells many things and almost equal to one book. I think we can share quotations we like. If you write quotations from your countries they will help us to know your cultures little bit but if they are NOT in English you had better translate them both TEXT and LITERALLY in order that we can understand them better. If we will write famous quotations from an author, scientist, king, artist etc. lets not forget to write their names too.

Last month i had decided to start this topic, then gave up but after i reading Dear Gina’s last post in the “Constructive Suggestions for LM” i was inspired by her quotation, i mean, her post encouraged me again.

Well, in Turkey we say:

“ÇOK LAF YALANSIZ, ÇOK MAL HARAMSIZ OLMAZ”

Roughly means: It is impossible to talk tooo much without saying any lie, It is impossible to get tooo much wealth without taking others’ portions unjustly.

I am finishing my words here in order NOT to talk tooo much.

Greetings From Istanbul

Yavuz

One of my favorite quotes is from a song called Mountains by Manowar:

Greatness waits for those who try
None can teach You - it's all inside
Just climb!

Hi everybody,

There is this quotation I'd love to share with you all:

"OUR HOUSE IS CLEAN ENOUGH TO BE HEALTHY. AND DIRTY ENOUGH TO BE HAPPY". Pete Seeger.

Be happy,

Antonia.

quote:

Originally posted by Jesse:
Loreena seems to be a Shakespeare fan (Cymbeline and Prospero's Speech), so here's a quotation from Twelfth Night. I think it describes perfectly how we all feel about our favourite singer and her work:

"If music be the food of love, play on...!"

we love ya, Loreena! (please come to Australia!)

One of my favorite quotes is from Loraine Bayes (Tickle Tune Typhoon)
Harvest Blessing
"Food is love from the earth,
Love is food for on another."

Next time you take a bite, feel the love the earth put into the food just for you to live.

Blessings,
Gina

Great topic, it is fun to read your quotations

My words of wisdom comes from the Edda, the poetic Edda, I think. I think Anxious spoke of it. (Valans spådom)
In Swedish my verse goes something like this:

Fän dör, fränder dör
även du skall hädan vandra
men en sak vet jag som aldrig dör
domen över en död man

Cattle die, friends die
you will pass away too
but I know one thing that will never die
the verdict over a dead man.

Seen the movie "The magic sword - Quest for Camelot"? I would like to quote something that the dragon says. Just because it is always the first words of wisdom that I come to think about (call me silly, haha):

Ha aldrig bruna skor till blå kostym.
Never wear brown shoes with a black suit. (In the Swedish dub they say blue suit. Strange)

Kisses are God's invention to use when words are not enough. (Greta Garbo, I think)

Malin

Loreena seems to be a Shakespeare fan (Cymbeline and Prospero's Speech), so here's a quotation from Twelfth Night. I think it describes perfectly how we all feel about our favourite singer and her work:

"If music be the food of love, play on...!"

we love ya, Loreena! (please come to Australia!)

The happiest man is he who learns from nature, the lesson of worship.
- R.W. Emerson


/ Emilia.

Hi again.

I forgot to tell where I read the wise words...

They are from the Nordic Mythology a verse called Sprogenes Bog = Book of Languages. And as far as I know it's a part of Vølvens Spådom = The Prophecy of Vølven.

quote:

Originally posted by Anxious 2:
This is interesting I think. I love words of wisdom.
It tells that someone has been philosophizing about life and things around them.
Makes it easier for us other people. We don't have to do it then... Just kidding!
(When you're kidding/joking, there is always some kind of earnestness in it).

Well, my contribution...

Usselryggen, den ildesindede,
spotter over dit og dat;
ei han veed, hvad vide han burde,
at ei han for Feil er fri.

The wretch, the malevolent
mock at this and that
not he knows what know he should
that of faults he is free.

I'm not sure if you get the meaning. It's hard to translate when you're not quite sure of the english grammar. And when besides the word order is backwards in the danish grammar because it's old danish. And when actually wanting to translate it to old english, since it is old danish, makes it even harder. I know only one or two old english words. The one is gawn/gown (maybe that counts for two!! )

I will go think of more wise words...

Well the core of my spiritual path is justice, so this one rings rather true with me...

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

Dont we all love words of Wisdom, so Inspirational !!!!

The one has conquered himself, is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men. - From the Dhammapada ( Sayings from the Buddha )

Quote un Quote " Miss the Moment, you Miss your Life, its that Important " - Hayley

This is interesting I think. I love words of wisdom.
It tells that someone has been philosophizing about life and things around them.
Makes it easier for us other people. We don't have to do it then... Just kidding!
(When you're kidding/joking, there is always some kind of earnestness in it).

Well, my contribution...

Usselryggen, den ildesindede,
spotter over dit og dat;
ei han veed, hvad vide han burde,
at ei han for Feil er fri.

The wretch, the malevolent
mock at this and that
not he knows what know he should
that of faults he is free.

I'm not sure if you get the meaning. It's hard to translate when you're not quite sure of the english grammar. And when besides the word order is backwards in the danish grammar because it's old danish. And when actually wanting to translate it to old english, since it is old danish, makes it even harder. I know only one or two old english words. The one is gawn/gown (maybe that counts for two!! )

I will go think of more wise words...

quote:

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Liliesfair,
That is very close to song that I can't for the life of me, remember the name; here it goes anyways:
"She changes everything she touches and everything she touches changes".

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Donna

"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."
-- G. K. Chesterton

A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of just mere words.
--His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

If you are showing love to your fellow human beings, you are showing love to your God.
--His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

"One who looks for a friend without faults will have no friends."
--Hasidic proverb

"It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies."
--Arthur Calwell

If you have much, give of your wealth. If you have little, give of your
heart.
--Arabic proverb

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." --- George Washington

And one which I do not recall the author of right now: (paraphrased) "It does not matter what we do while others are watching, it is what we do when we think we are alone which shows our true nature."

--Artúr

This from Peter Warlock a composer who lived in Enysford a village quite near where I live in Kent (1926)
". . . music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever. Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history. . . . All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago. All good music, whatever its date, is ageless -- as alive and significant today as it was when it was written . . ."