The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life". - Theodore Roosevelt
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth. - Pliny the Elder (23-79 A. D.)
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. - Jean Paul Kauffmann
Former Member
An eye for an eye only makes the world more blind: Mahatma Ghandi.
TI (Guest)
a tooth for a tooth makes the dentists rich.
Sonrisa (Guest)
When you get something free, it has no value. If you have a hard time in trying to get it, then it becomes valuable.
___Financial Analyst
___Financial Analyst
TI (Guest)
...like Guyana guava. Selling for $7 in Queens.
We used to get it free in Guyana
We used to get it free in Guyana
Former Member
Thwe worms in the guave are for free.
Former Member
i will eat more banana chips as a snack.
People always say the early bird gets the worm to encourage an early start but isn't it an early start that gets the early worm eaten?
Former Member
quote:isn't it an early start that gets the early worm eaten
You win some and you loose some.
quote:Originally posted by bird:quote:isn't it an early start that gets the early worm eaten
You win some and you loose some.
would you say we have ourselves a conundrum?
Petal29 (Guest)
Selfless service is the greatest purifying force on earth - Hindu saying
Former Member
Service to mankind is thy duty; reward not thy concern.
Sonrisa (Guest)
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
__ George Eliot
__ George Eliot
Sonrisa (Guest)
We hold on so tightly that our hands are unavailable to reach out for the happiness we could gain by letting go.
__M.J. Ryan
__M.J. Ryan
Former Member
We kill our self making a living. ME..
Sonrisa (Guest)
A gentle wave is a tsunami to a sandcastle...even a minute betrayal has the same effect on trust.
__Me, Coco
__Me, Coco
Sonrisa (Guest)
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran
Sonrisa (Guest)
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
__Leo Buscaglia
__Leo Buscaglia
Sonrisa (Guest)
"O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal."Â
__Milan Kundera
__Milan Kundera
Former Member
Breakfast in bed everyday will make one fat and lazy. ME.
Sonrisa (Guest)
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
TI (Guest)
A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one
Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
Former Member
Your children are your children. Treat them with love and care.(Alex)
Sonrisa (Guest)
quote:Originally posted by Alexander:
Your children are your children. Treat them with love and care.(Alex)
Alex, to add to your quote... Dorothy Nolte said:
Children Learn What They Live
By Dorothy Law Nolte
If children live with criticism,
They learn to condemn.
If children live with hostility,
They learn to fight.
If children live with ridicule,
They learn to be shy.
If children live with shame,
They learn to feel guilty.
If children live with encouragement,
They learn confidence.
If children live with tolerance,
They learn to be patient.
If children live with praise,
They learn to appreciate.
If children live with acceptance,
They learn to love.
If children live with approval,
They learn to like themselves.
If children live with honesty,
They learn truthfulness.
If children live with security,
They learn to have faith in themselves and others.
If children live with friendliness,
They learn the world is a nice place in which to live.
Copyright ÂĐ 1972/1975 by Dorothy Law Nolte
Dorothy Law Nolte, Ph.D.
This is the author-approved short version.
Former Member
quote:Originally posted by antabanta:
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life". - Theodore Roosevelt
America , when it's right needs to be acknowledged and when it's wrong it needs to be put right by the power's that be ! Sam Top from USVI Talk Show " Top Talk !God bless America !
Former Member
Coco, thanks for a most worthwhile addition to the family. It makes a lot of sense.
Former Member
doan tell bonus duh, the man gun get really really mad that he spent 7 years studying de ting and is all fu nutinquote:Originally posted by antabanta:
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. - Jean Paul Kauffmann
Sonrisa (Guest)
quote:Originally posted by chameli:
The most powerful and profound aspect of relationship is emotion. If we learn to shift emotions we can change all of our relationships.
dunno who wrote it....but i like it!
Aye Cham, I like quotes on relationships. Thanks for sharing this one. Maybe others will share as well.
Sonrisa (Guest)
Present your family and friends with their eulogies now - they won't be able to hear how much you love them and appreciate them from inside the coffin. ~Anonymous
Give me your gift of flowers now, while I am alive. For it is now that they delight my senses and bring a smile to my lips; not when I'm dead.
Give me your gift of flowers now, while I am alive. For it is now that they delight my senses and bring a smile to my lips; not when I'm dead.
Sonrisa (Guest)
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. ~Flavia Weedn
Sonrisa (Guest)
The greatest gift of human beings is that we have the gift of empathy.
__Meryl Streep
__Meryl Streep
Sonrisa (Guest)
All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
~~ Walt Disney
~~ Walt Disney
TI (Guest)
All?
Sonrisa (Guest)
quote:Originally posted by Terry Ishmael:
All?
Mr. Disney did not say WILL come true, de bannas said CAN
I'll answer your question with a question:
Do you have the courage?
TI (Guest)
Great question.
Desperate people have more courage than complacent people. I have to figure where I am on that axis.
Desperate people have more courage than complacent people. I have to figure where I am on that axis.
Former Member
teach a man to fish and u feed him for life
teach a man to invest on wall street, he will buy a boat and hire another man to do his fishing - Bert Desai
teach a man to invest on wall street, he will buy a boat and hire another man to do his fishing - Bert Desai
Sonrisa (Guest)
quote:Originally posted by Terry Ishmael:
Great question.
Desperate people have more courage than complacent people. I have to figure where I am on that axis.
Complaceny is not a good thing. We start to take things for granted when we become complacent.
Former Member
... a mouth is always muzzled by the food it eats to live - Carter.
TI (Guest)
quote:Originally posted by ICIP:
teach a man to fish and u feed him for life
teach a man to invest on wall street, he will buy a boat and hire another man to do his fishing - Bert Desai
Then when the market rises, he jumps up...
and when the market falls, he jumps through the window.
Sonrisa (Guest)
quote:Originally posted by Terry Ishmael:quote:Originally posted by ICIP:
teach a man to fish and u feed him for life
teach a man to invest on wall street, he will buy a boat and hire another man to do his fishing - Bert Desai
Then when the market rises, he jumps up...
and when the market falls, he jumps through the window.
Keep in mind that he's in the fishing industry, so he might have some sturdy nets to catch him!
TI (Guest)
"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider . . . Histories make men wise."Â
Francis Bacon, Sr
Francis Bacon, Sr
TI (Guest)
Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time."Â
Peter F. Drucker
Peter F. Drucker
Sonrisa (Guest)
We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
~~ George Hegel
~~ George Hegel
Sonrisa (Guest)
When you're in your nineties and looking back, it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?
~ Elizabeth Dole
~ Elizabeth Dole
Sonrisa (Guest)
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart
~ Kahlil Gibran~
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
~Hellen Keller ~
~ Kahlil Gibran~
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
~Hellen Keller ~
Former Member
A trip to the top begins with the first mountain--Alex
Sonrisa (Guest)
quote:Originally posted by Alexander:
Your children are your children. Treat them with love and care.(Alex)
Alex, more on children from Kahlil Gibran
Growth
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you,
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might that His arrows might go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
Former Member
Coco, thanks. Gibran was way ahead of his time.
Sonrisa (Guest)
What you are will show in what you do.
~ Thomas A. Edison~
~ Thomas A. Edison~
TI (Guest)
Edison was smart fella coco. I use to had dis on meh office wall in guyana.
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration"
Thomas A. Edison
...then a lot of stink sweaty people start coming in the office, and I tek it down.
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration"
Thomas A. Edison
...then a lot of stink sweaty people start coming in the office, and I tek it down.
Sonrisa (Guest)
"First-class players lose to second-class players because
second-class players sometimes play a first-class game"Â
~Siegbert Tarrasch
"Chess is as much a mystery as women"Â
~Purdy~
second-class players sometimes play a first-class game"Â
~Siegbert Tarrasch
"Chess is as much a mystery as women"Â
~Purdy~
Former Member
A long mouthstache make many friends-Alex( although it might sound like Con***ius!)
Sonrisa (Guest)
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
~ Margie Piercy
~ Margie Piercy
Sonrisa (Guest)
Special request: Ladies and gentlemen, are you able to share some thoughts on this thread? Your own or borrowed...
Former Member
'There is nothing quite like a woman!"-Alex, after he had spent a year living in the Amazon.
One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole. Mahatma Gandhi.
Former Member
Two birds in the bush is better than one in a cage--Alex.
Sonrisa (Guest)
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
~ Will Rogers
~ Will Rogers
Former Member
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
John Donne
John Donne
I hope one day to grow up before I grow old.
Sonrisa (Guest)
quote:Originally posted by ball:
I hope one day to grow up before I grow old.
Peter Pan?
Sonrisa (Guest)
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
~Harriet Beecher Stowe
~Harriet Beecher Stowe
Former Member
When you're in a valley of despair, let your faith shine like a torch--Alex.
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds. Your mind trancends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. - The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
Few of us can do great things, but all of us can do small things with great love. - Mother Teresa.
Sonrisa (Guest)
quote:Originally posted by antabanta:
Few of us can do great things, but all of us can do small things with great love. - Mother Teresa.
Anta, Mother Teresa is such an inspiration- a truly blessed soul.
absolutely!!quote:Originally posted by coco:quote:Originally posted by antabanta:
Few of us can do great things, but all of us can do small things with great love. - Mother Teresa.
Anta, Mother Teresa is such an inspiration- a truly blessed soul.
Former Member
Be careful what you say, even the eyes have ears!--Alex
Former Member
Take your time and walk ye well, but let thy feet always go forward. (Alex, when he and Plato studied together.)
There is nothing so powerful as and idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
Will that be cash or charge.?
Would you like some batteries to go with that vibrator Maam?
Would you like some batteries to go with that vibrator Maam?
Sonrisa (Guest)
"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."Â
~Kahlil Gibran~
~Kahlil Gibran~
TI (Guest)
I guess we have to run barefeet in the wind.
Sonrisa (Guest)
quote:Originally posted by Terry Ishmael:
I guess we have to run barefeet in the wind.
Would the wind be able to play with your hair? You might be sporting the "bald look"
Sonrisa (Guest)
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
~Aristotle~
~Aristotle~
TI (Guest)
quote:Originally posted by coco:quote:Originally posted by Terry Ishmael:
I guess we have to run barefeet in the wind.
Would the wind be able to play with your hair? You might be sporting the "bald look"
The wind only like women, I think!
Sonrisa (Guest)
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
~Kate Chopin~
~Kate Chopin~
TI (Guest)
Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839)
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder"
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder"
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. - Socrates
Sonrisa (Guest)
Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough. ~Dinah Shore
Sonrisa (Guest)
It is better to be bold than too circumspect.
~Machiavelli~
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? ~Frank Scully
~Machiavelli~
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? ~Frank Scully
TI (Guest)
...but sometimes if yu too bold, yu could get circumcized.....
sorry!
sorry!
Sonrisa (Guest)
Lorena Bobbitt was one brave woman! I seem to recall that her husband was too "BOLD".
Sonrisa (Guest)
Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy.
~Aristotle~
~Aristotle~
TI (Guest)
quote:Originally posted by coco:
Lorena Bobbitt was one brave woman! I seem to recall that her husband was too "BOLD".
EMS guy told me after the incident the man ran a mile. I guess the saying is true.
"Give a man a inch, he went a mile!"
Former Member
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." -- Sinclair Lewis, 1935
Sonrisa (Guest)
Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
TI (Guest)
quote:Originally posted by coco:
Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
This is true. Your hand tremble and your writing gets a bit scrawly!
Sonrisa (Guest)
Appreciation can make a day- even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
~Margaret Cousins
~Margaret Cousins
Sonrisa (Guest)
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
~Eleanor Roosevelt~
~Eleanor Roosevelt~
Speculation is an effort, probably unsuccessful, to turn a little money into a lot. Investment is an effort, which should be successful, to prevent a lot of money from becoming a little. - Fred Schwed Jr., in 'Where Are The Customer's Yachts?' (1940)
Sonrisa (Guest)
"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."Â
~ Mahatma Gandhi~
~ Mahatma Gandhi~
Sonrisa (Guest)
What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp. ~Author Unknown
Former Member
"Three generations of imbeciles is enough," remarked the late Justice Holmes in an oft-quoted decision of the Supreme Court which upheld the constitutionality of Virginia's sterilization law. [decision overturned]
Sonrisa (Guest)
If we're really honest with ourselves, there are probably times when we think, "What possible use can I be in this word? What need is there for somebody like me to fill?" That's one of the deeper mysteries. Then God's grace comes to us in the form of another person who tells us we have been of help, and what a blessing that is.
Excerpt from: Life's Journey according to Mister Rogers
Excerpt from: Life's Journey according to Mister Rogers
Former Member
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
The four most dangerous words in investing are, "It's different this time." - John Templeton
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