Live & Learn...

Rána Eressëa · 02-27-2002, 05:35 PM

I was just wondering what were some of the sayings or quotes everyone lives by. I have a very long list, but I thought I'd share my favorites...

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." --Longfellow

"As the island of our knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance." --John Wheeler

"You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and ask, 'Why not?'" --George Bernard Shaw

"Stop looking for good sense here, settle for any." --Cheshire Cat, American McGee's Alice

"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live." --Martin Luther King

"The walls most difficult to penetrate are those that surround our hearts." --Cheshire Cat, American McGee's Alice

"Don't knock on Death's door. Ring the bell and run, he hates that." --Anonymous

aldesign · 02-27-2002, 05:57 PM

"Enjoy life"

"Sh*t happens"

"Its better to give, than to receive"

"one ring to rule them all..........etc" - Tolkien

"uve never had a friend like me" - genie in Disneys Aladin

Sorry but these are really lame, and i cant think of any clever long ones at the moment,
u must be doing a school topic on this or something?

andy

samwise of the shire · 02-27-2002, 06:21 PM

"Dont consider yourself worthy for something you dont consider others to be worthy of"- Abbie Crane(Me)

"God dont create no junk"- Some one I dunno who.

"Frodo Lives"-Someone from I think the Seventies

"Dont meddle in the affairs of DRAGONS for you are CRUNCHY and taste good with KETCHUP"-My favorite bumper sticker

"If a man knows not and knows not he knows not he is a fool-Shun him.
If a man knows not and knows he knows not he is simple-Teach him.
If a man knows and knows not he knows he is asleep-Wake him
If a man knows and knows he knows he is wise-Follow him"-an Arabian Proverb

"I think I'm gettin' the hang of this"-Sam Gamgee from LOTR:The Movie.

Where there is smoke there is fire- An Indian Proverb

***gdl96*** · 02-27-2002, 06:42 PM

live & let live...or is it live and let die?

LuthienTinuviel · 02-27-2002, 07:16 PM

"MY NAME IS GRAPES" ~ arthur Oemke

yea, i'll think of more inspiration al stuff in a minute..

oh yea! "i sit beside the fire and think..etc"
"the road goes ever on and on..etc."
and the bath song

these are very useful to know and have handy

Laurelyn · 02-27-2002, 07:27 PM

Look before you leap; it will save you a good many bruises. ~ I dunno who said that.

I wil try and think of some more later

emplynx · 02-27-2002, 07:34 PM

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
“Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.”
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
“We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.”
- General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

galadriel88 · 02-27-2002, 08:34 PM

"Never smile, even when you are sad, because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile!" - Anon.

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken - winged bird that cannot fly." - Langston Hughes

My sig

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take a risk with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat." - Eric Klein (one of my friends)

***gdl96*** · 02-27-2002, 09:03 PM

emplynx, that Thomas Edison one is mine! I use it all the time as an away message, and I live merely about two miles from the site which he invented the lightbulb.

elf_princess · 02-27-2002, 10:35 PM

"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend."

"True friends stab you in the front."

"Even a tough little chicken can only take so much pickin'"

Vanimdil · 02-28-2002, 12:50 AM

If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
- Dame Edith Sitwell

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred, I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

After all, it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
- Evelyn Underhill

You can experience the reality of what you believe in only one way, by putting it to the test. There is nothing at all that will light up the flame in your lantern except the wind of your going. Nothing else at all. -Elizabeth Goudge

Logic doesn't always make sense. -Me

FrodoFriend · 02-28-2002, 01:42 AM

"If you're lost in the desert, look for a well." - The Little Prince

"Each of us is like a solitary candle, alone in the dark." - The Abyss

"Majority does not determine sanity." - George Orwell

"No man has walked so long in the Shadow that he cannot return to the Light." - Robert Jordan (lol!)

"It's not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years." - Don't know who.

mirrille · 02-28-2002, 01:55 AM

"Endeavour to do good" - a sign outside a Buddhist temple. Simple and sweet. I like it.

"Live like there's no tomorrow.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Love like you've never been hurt." - I've seen variations of this one, so I may have got it mixed up. The most recent time I saw it was in a bathroom stall. I find it hard to live up to, except for the dancing part, but it's nice.

Arathorn · 02-28-2002, 02:49 AM

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live you're life in such a way that when you die the world cries and you rejoice" - an old indian proverb, I think

"The trouble with an-eye-for-an-eye is that the whole world goes blind" - Gandhi

"Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts certainly do" - Anonymous

"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate" - my Chem Teacher

Rána Eressëa · 02-28-2002, 04:48 AM

"Haste makes waste, so I rarely hurry. But if a ferret were about to dart up my dress, I'd run..." --Cheshire Cat, American McGee's Alice (Ah, yes, I love this fellow

)

"'Seek and ye shall find,' they say...but they don't say what you'll find." --Cheshire Cat, American McGee's Alice

"Doors have locks, locks need keys, which you don't have. Let's hope the doors are open." --Cheshire Cat, American McGee's Alice

"The grass is greener on the other side...until you get over there and find out it's all artificial turf." --Anonymous

"Video games don't effect kids. If 'Pacman' effected our generation as children, we would run around in darkened rooms while munching on pills and listening to repetitive music." --Anonymous

"Curiousity killed the cat, but the cat has got nine lives - and you don't." --Me

Arathorn · 02-28-2002, 05:39 AM

"Find out what you don't do well, then don't do it." - ALF

"Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans." - John Lennon

"When it comes to hair, winter is fine. It's the fall you have to watch out for." - my mom to my dad

"It is better to light just one little candle than to mumble in the dark" - me

Laurelyn · 02-28-2002, 07:03 AM

"Lá carita i hamil mára alasaila ná, not to do what you judge good would be unwise" ~ Tolkien, somewhere in his many works

***Earniel*** · 03-03-2002, 09:26 AM

Well I try to live by them...

Many problems are solved solely by not making a problem out of them.

To dream of the person you want to be, is to waste the person you are.

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. (Irish proverb or so they told me)

Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistant one. (A. Einstein)

Laurelyn · 03-04-2002, 12:55 PM

"What we call human nature is in actuality human habit" ~Jewel

bropous · 03-05-2002, 12:32 PM

Here are a couple of mine....

"My candle's burning at both ends, it will not last the night; but ah my foes and oh my friends, it gives a lovely light".
- Edna St Vincent Millay

"If you set out to take Vienna, you take Vienna"
- Napoleone Buonoparte

"Ours in not to reason why, ours is just to do and die"
- Wadsworth(?)

"I would never join any club that would stoop to having a person like me as a member"
- Groucho Marx

"Frame by Frame, death by drowning...in your own...analysis...."
- King Crimson, Discipline, "Frame by Frame"

"So have a good drown...As you go down...All alone...Dragged down by the stone...."
- Pink Floyd, Animals, "Dogs"

"Remember, folks, here's a little bit of clown in all of us. G'night and God Bless"
- Red Skelton

"In an insane world, the sane man must appear insane"
- Mr. Spock, Star Trek

"Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. teach him to fish, and you feed him for life."
- Unk

"Two great men, yet brothers not, make the North united stand; its power is seen to grow, and fear posses'd the Eastern lands"
- Al Stewart, "Nostradamus"

"In the darkness, light is life"
- Sean, Cave Meister Extraordinaire

"No, THIS is the summit! It's not much farther.....C'mon, guys, we can make it..."
- Me, Pikes Peak Ascension, 2000

"Holy Hannah!"
- Me, Favorite Interjectional Phrase

"Load, tell me a story about another time you were a major load..."
- Crow T. Robot, Mystery Science Theater 3000

And a few anonymous ones:
"Avoid alcohol while taking this product"
"Press Flap A into Tab B"
"Warning: Do Not Immerse"
"Do not remove this tag under penalty of law"
"Please ensure you are fully clothed before opening door"
"Management not responsible for lost articles"

02-27-2002, 05:35 PM	#1
Rána Eressëa The Rogue Elf Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,722	Live & Learn... I was just wondering what were some of the sayings or quotes everyone lives by. I have a very long list, but I thought I'd share my favorites... "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." --Longfellow "As the island of our knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance." --John Wheeler "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and ask, 'Why not?'" --George Bernard Shaw "Stop looking for good sense here, settle for any." --Cheshire Cat, American McGee's Alice "If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live." --Martin Luther King "The walls most difficult to penetrate are those that surround our hearts." --Cheshire Cat, American McGee's Alice "Don't knock on Death's door. Ring the bell and run, he hates that." --Anonymous Last edited by Rána Eressëa : 02-27-2002 at 05:36 PM.

02-27-2002, 05:57 PM	#2
aldesign Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Uk Posts: 447	"Enjoy life" "Sht happens" "Its better to give, than to receive" "one ring to rule them all..........etc" - Tolkien "uve never had a friend like me" - genie in Disneys Aladin Sorry but these are really lame, and i cant think of any clever long ones at the moment, u must be doing a school topic on this or something? andy __________________ The funniest story on the net, made by entmoot fanatics, visit it @ FOTMB.com* FRODO LIVES!! GET FREE AVATARS HERE!

02-27-2002, 06:21 PM	#3
samwise of the shire Radically Tolkienited Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: If home is where the heart is, and my heart is in heaven...that should answer your question. <+>< Posts: 967	"Dont consider yourself worthy for something you dont consider others to be worthy of"- Abbie Crane(Me) "God dont create no junk"- Some one I dunno who. "Frodo Lives"-Someone from I think the Seventies "Dont meddle in the affairs of DRAGONS for you are CRUNCHY and taste good with KETCHUP"-My favorite bumper sticker "If a man knows not and knows not he knows not he is a fool-Shun him. If a man knows not and knows he knows not he is simple-Teach him. If a man knows and knows not he knows he is asleep-Wake him If a man knows and knows he knows he is wise-Follow him"-an Arabian Proverb "I think I'm gettin' the hang of this"-Sam Gamgee from LOTR:The Movie. Where there is smoke there is fire- An Indian Proverb __________________ Jesus is my all in all <><+<><+<><+<><+<><+<><+ People who are so concerned with escapism do have a name...we call them jailers. ~J.R.R Tolkien Radically Saved, Totally Tolkienited GOD... BLESS... AMERICA...

02-27-2002, 07:16 PM	#5
LuthienTinuviel protector of orphaned rabbits Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Kalamazoo... yes, its a real place! Posts: 1,236	"MY NAME IS GRAPES" ~ arthur Oemke yea, i'll think of more inspiration al stuff in a minute.. oh yea! "i sit beside the fire and think..etc" "the road goes ever on and on..etc." and the bath song these are very useful to know and have handy __________________

02-27-2002, 07:27 PM	#6
Laurelyn Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Valinor, right next to Telperion . . . what did you expect, Michigan? Posts: 1,315	Look before you leap; it will save you a good many bruises. ~ I dunno who said that. I wil try and think of some more later __________________ The Third Age of Entmoot has begun. Angel of music, guide and guardian! Grant to me your glory! The country I eat and spend the day in is by no means the country I sleep and dream in. Define patriotism. Hold the boat, you spastic monkey! ~ Elenka

02-27-2002, 06:42 PM	#4
*gdl96* the greg the admin Join Date: Sep 1999 Location: NJ Posts: 2,101	live & let live...or is it live and let die?

02-27-2002, 07:34 PM	#7
emplynx Self-Appointed Lord of the Free Peoples of the General Messages Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 1,214	“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” - Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) “Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.” - Voltaire (1694-1778) “We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.” - General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.” - Mark Twain (1835-1910)

02-27-2002, 08:34 PM	#8
galadriel88 Halfwitted Queen of Lothlorien Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Far off in a dream Posts: 1,166	"Never smile, even when you are sad, because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile!" - Anon. "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken - winged bird that cannot fly." - Langston Hughes My sig "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take a risk with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat." - Eric Klein (one of my friends) __________________ The beuatiful mind/The beautiful heart/Doesn't deserve the pain/How can I stop the rain? -How Can I Stop the Rain? by Kessid, my new favorite band +Every good thing that comes into my life is only a reflection of the greatest gift of all; the offering of yourself, dear Son of God+ Always remember, you're uniqe, just like everybody else! "The one constant through all the years has been the Trombone. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. Its been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again, but the Trombone has marked the time. This field, this section, this band is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and could be again. Oh, people will come . . . people will most definitely come."

02-27-2002, 09:03 PM	#9
*gdl96* the greg the admin Join Date: Sep 1999 Location: NJ Posts: 2,101	emplynx, that Thomas Edison one is mine! I use it all the time as an away message, and I live merely about two miles from the site which he invented the lightbulb.

02-27-2002, 10:35 PM	#10
elf_princess Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: la dee da Posts: 275	"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend." "True friends stab you in the front." "Even a tough little chicken can only take so much pickin'"

02-28-2002, 12:50 AM	#11
Vanimdil Enting Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 51	If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese? - Dame Edith Sitwell I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred, I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. - Ralph Waldo Emerson After all, it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life. - Evelyn Underhill You can experience the reality of what you believe in only one way, by putting it to the test. There is nothing at all that will light up the flame in your lantern except the wind of your going. Nothing else at all. -Elizabeth Goudge Logic doesn't always make sense. -Me

02-28-2002, 01:42 AM	#12
FrodoFriend Halfwitted Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Eryn Vorn Posts: 1,659	"If you're lost in the desert, look for a well." - The Little Prince "Each of us is like a solitary candle, alone in the dark." - The Abyss "Majority does not determine sanity." - George Orwell "No man has walked so long in the Shadow that he cannot return to the Light." - Robert Jordan (lol!) "It's not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years." - Don't know who. __________________ Fingolfin lives! ... in my finger! The Crossroads of Arda - Warning. Halfwit content. Not appropriate for people with IQ of over 18. The Fellowship of the Message Board Nyáréonié - The Tale of Tears

02-28-2002, 01:55 AM	#13
mirrille Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Canada Posts: 479	Here's some I liked: "Endeavour to do good" - a sign outside a Buddhist temple. Simple and sweet. I like it. "Live like there's no tomorrow. Dance like nobody's watching. Love like you've never been hurt." - I've seen variations of this one, so I may have got it mixed up. The most recent time I saw it was in a bathroom stall. I find it hard to live up to, except for the dancing part, but it's nice.

02-28-2002, 02:49 AM	#14
Arathorn Bard of Mangled Songs Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: West of Middle Earth...oh alright...Manila Posts: 2,679	"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live you're life in such a way that when you die the world cries and you rejoice" - an old indian proverb, I think "The trouble with an-eye-for-an-eye is that the whole world goes blind" - Gandhi "Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts certainly do" - Anonymous "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate" - my Chem Teacher __________________ Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. -Missionaria Protectiva, Frank Herbert *Accio, Ash Nazg!* Elennuru s?la lúmenn' omentielvo* (The Death Star shines on the hour of our meeting) - Darth Arathorn Put aside the ranger... Start looking for Mumakil action figures...

02-28-2002, 04:48 AM	#15
Rána Eressëa The Rogue Elf Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,722	"Haste makes waste, so I rarely hurry. But if a ferret were about to dart up my dress, I'd run..." --Cheshire Cat, American McGee's Alice (Ah, yes, I love this fellow ) "'Seek and ye shall find,' they say...but they don't say what you'll find." --Cheshire Cat, American McGee's Alice "Doors have locks, locks need keys, which you don't have. Let's hope the doors are open." --Cheshire Cat, American McGee's Alice "The grass is greener on the other side...until you get over there and find out it's all artificial turf." --Anonymous "Video games don't effect kids. If 'Pacman' effected our generation as children, we would run around in darkened rooms while munching on pills and listening to repetitive music." --Anonymous "Curiousity killed the cat, but the cat has got nine lives - and you don't." --Me Last edited by Rána Eressëa : 02-28-2002 at 04:51 AM.

02-28-2002, 05:39 AM	#16
Arathorn Bard of Mangled Songs Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: West of Middle Earth...oh alright...Manila Posts: 2,679	"Find out what you don't do well, then don't do it." - ALF "Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans." - John Lennon "When it comes to hair, winter is fine. It's the fall you have to watch out for." - my mom to my dad "It is better to light just one little candle than to mumble in the dark" - me __________________ Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. -Missionaria Protectiva, Frank Herbert *Accio, Ash Nazg!* Elennuru s?la lúmenn' omentielvo* (The Death Star shines on the hour of our meeting) - Darth Arathorn Put aside the ranger... Start looking for Mumakil action figures...

02-28-2002, 07:03 AM	#17
Laurelyn Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Valinor, right next to Telperion . . . what did you expect, Michigan? Posts: 1,315	"Lá carita i hamil mára alasaila ná, not to do what you judge good would be unwise" ~ Tolkien, somewhere in his many works __________________ The Third Age of Entmoot has begun. Angel of music, guide and guardian! Grant to me your glory! The country I eat and spend the day in is by no means the country I sleep and dream in. Define patriotism. Hold the boat, you spastic monkey! ~ Elenka

03-03-2002, 09:26 AM	#18
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Well I try to live by them... Many problems are solved solely by not making a problem out of them. To dream of the person you want to be, is to waste the person you are. You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. (Irish proverb or so they told me) Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistant one. (A. Einstein)

03-04-2002, 12:55 PM	#19
Laurelyn Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Valinor, right next to Telperion . . . what did you expect, Michigan? Posts: 1,315	"What we call human nature is in actuality human habit" ~Jewel __________________ The Third Age of Entmoot has begun. Angel of music, guide and guardian! Grant to me your glory! The country I eat and spend the day in is by no means the country I sleep and dream in. Define patriotism. Hold the boat, you spastic monkey! ~ Elenka

03-05-2002, 12:32 PM	#20
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	Here are a couple of mine.... "My candle's burning at both ends, it will not last the night; but ah my foes and oh my friends, it gives a lovely light". - Edna St Vincent Millay "If you set out to take Vienna, you take Vienna" - Napoleone Buonoparte "Ours in not to reason why, ours is just to do and die" - Wadsworth(?) "I would never join any club that would stoop to having a person like me as a member" - Groucho Marx "Frame by Frame, death by drowning...in your own...analysis...." - King Crimson, Discipline, "Frame by Frame" "So have a good drown...As you go down...All alone...Dragged down by the stone...." - Pink Floyd, Animals, "Dogs" "Remember, folks, here's a little bit of clown in all of us. G'night and God Bless" - Red Skelton "In an insane world, the sane man must appear insane" - Mr. Spock, Star Trek "Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. teach him to fish, and you feed him for life." - Unk "Two great men, yet brothers not, make the North united stand; its power is seen to grow, and fear posses'd the Eastern lands" - Al Stewart, "Nostradamus" "In the darkness, light is life" - Sean, Cave Meister Extraordinaire "No, THIS is the summit! It's not much farther.....C'mon, guys, we can make it..." - Me, Pikes Peak Ascension, 2000 "Holy Hannah!" - Me, Favorite Interjectional Phrase "Load, tell me a story about another time you were a major load..." - Crow T. Robot, Mystery Science Theater 3000 And a few anonymous ones: "Avoid alcohol while taking this product" "Press Flap A into Tab B" "Warning: Do Not Immerse" "Do not remove this tag under penalty of law" "Please ensure you are fully clothed before opening door" "Management not responsible for lost articles" __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

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