Proverbs (3 Viewers)

Oct 3, 2004
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#42
An annoying Arabic proverb that old men in Lebanon always lecture the youth with:




إلّي خِلِق عِلِق




Means, whoever is born is stuck [in this life]
 

Bisco

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Nov 21, 2005
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#43
here are some i came across thought u would like them:

"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship."
- Sharon Stone

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."
- J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)

"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."
- Jimmy Durante

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

i love the last two!!! they have a superb meaning.
 

Bisco

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Nov 21, 2005
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#44
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947

"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
- Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."
- Robert Orben
 

Bisco

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Nov 21, 2005
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#48
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
- Anais Nin (1903-1977)

"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
- Vince Lombardi

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell
 
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Chxta

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    It is far easier to fight for principles than to live up to them
     

    Bisco

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    Nov 21, 2005
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    "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
    - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

    "Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
    - George Burns (1896-1996)

    "Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back."
    - Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

    "Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn."
    - Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-)
     

    Red

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    Nov 26, 2006
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    #54
    Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

    Appropriate since I have an exam tomorrow. That reminds me, I should probably start studying.
     
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    Chxta

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    You must be the change that you wish to see in the world.
     

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