Quotes You Like

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou

The most important thing is that we are different - otherwise we don't know who is who.
(Klara, 5 years)

“Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.” - Astrid Lindgren (author of Pippi Longstocking)

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Sholom Aleichem

"That was some weird sh-t." -- Former President George W. Bush, following Donald Trump's inauguration speech, Jan. 20, 2017

Originally posted by Suzianne
"That was some weird sh-t." -- Former President George W. Bush, following Donald Trump's inauguration speech, Jan. 20, 2017

If you are not weird, don't expect to understand me.

"Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan

Originally posted by Ponderable
"Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan

"You can't blame a girl for trying." 🙂

"Who's going to cook your Mexican food when your Mexican maid is gone?"
Tom Russell

I meant what i said and i said what i meant, cos' an elephants truthful 100%.

Horton from "Horton Hears a Who" by DrSuess

"Politicians and diapers must be changed often.
And for the same reason."

Mark Twain

"We are all here on earth to help others. What the others are here for I have no idea"

W.H. Auden

Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos gigantum umeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvehimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea.

John of Salisbury

Originally posted by Ponderable
Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos gigantum umeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvehimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea.

John of Salisbury

Google Translate renders this as:

"Bernard we were like dwarfs seated on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more and further, it is not our own clear eyes or bony body but rather high and upborne gigantic size."

Wikiquote, on the other hand, offers it this way:

"Bernard of Chartres used to say that we were like dwarfs seated on the shoulders of giants. If we see more and further than they, it is not due to our own clear eyes or tall bodies, but because we are raised on high and upborne by their gigantic bigness."

🙂