A "Words to live by" thread.........again.

Published on February 6, 2003 By UBoB In WinCustomize Talk

I'll start this off again....

"You may be only one person in the entire world, but if you're really lucky you might be the entire world to one person."

.....now, follow this example, and please keep it nice.

Comments (Page 50)

736

MadIce

on Sep 23, 2003

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues. -- Thomas Fuller, Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Moderation)

737

MadIce

on Sep 23, 2003

True happiness springs from moderation. (German: Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.) -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Naturliche Tochter (II, 5, 79)

738

MadIce

on Sep 23, 2003

The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims (no. 18)

739

MadIce

on Sep 23, 2003

Take this at least, this last advice, my son:
Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on:
The coursers of themselves will run too fast,
Your art must be to moderate their haste.
(Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses: Story of Phaeton (bk. II, l. 147))

740

MadIce

on Sep 23, 2003

Moderate pleasure relaxes the spirit, and moderates it. (Latin: Modica voluptas laxat animos et temperat.) -- Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), De Ira (II, 20)

741

MadIce

on Sep 23, 2003

Pandarus: Be moderate, be moderate.
Cressida: Why tell you me of moderation?
The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste,
And violenteth in a sense as strong
As that which causeth it.
How can I moderate it?
(William Shakespeare, The History of Troilus and Cressida (Pandarus & Cressida at IV, iv))

742

MadIce

on Sep 23, 2003

There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundless, and the choicest pleasures of life lie with the ring of moderation. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy--Of Compensation (l. 15)

743

MadIce

on Sep 23, 2003

Enough about moderation.

744

blindbatt

on Sep 24, 2003

If garlic powder is made from garlic, and olive oil is made from olives, what are baby powder and baby oil made from? One must also consider foot powder and toothpaste.

745

blindbatt

on Sep 24, 2003

Softens Your Hands as You Do Dishes

Assumed by Global Honk to be a warning label. If every time you use a product it softens your hands, won't they eventually turn to mush?

746

blindbatt

on Sep 24, 2003

According to Merriam Webster Online the word stupid appears to have originated in 1541. Imagine this, before 1541 nobody was stupid! This sounds very nice, but then I get a little sad because of 1541 and the introduction of the word stupid. Who was the first person officially known as stupid? Did this bother the person to be called stupid?

Happy thought, perhaps this person was so stupid he or she didn't know that being called stupid was not a compliment.

747

blindbatt

on Sep 24, 2003

well you were the one who said "Enough about moderation." So I am complying

748

MadIce

on Sep 24, 2003

#746 was great!

749

MadIce

on Sep 24, 2003

My capacity for happiness, you could fit it into a matchbox without taking out the matches first. -- Marvin the paranoid android, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

750

Jafo

on Sep 24, 2003

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