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3202022 No.3202022 [Reply] [Original]

Wise phrases please, extra points for it being from a book.

E.g. Act,don't react. -Xena, Warrior Princess

Ready? GO.

>> No.3202024

>>3202022
>from a book
>Xena, Warrior Princess

>> No.3202028

>>3202024
lol, meant the pic. the Xena thing was just an example on how to show it... I guess... I presented two shut up.

>> No.3202034
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3202034

Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if only one remembers to turn on the lights - Albus Dumbledore

>> No.3202037

>>3202028
Because you took my reply in good humour, I'll approve and add:

“Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdain-- under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.”
William James, The Social Value of the College-Bred

>> No.3202038
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3202038

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. - Epicurus

ujst gonna keep dumping.

>> No.3202039

>>3202022
ah, monsieur, it would be my greatest pleasure to bestow a few wise phrases on you!!!

"4chan is a good way to spend your time" harold laodicea

"the 4chan man is a happy soul, a happy soul." duhkham shiva lazarus scardinelli.

"the is the"
4chan man

>> No.3202041

'The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason
enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to
master her.'

- Bernard Shaw

>> No.3202043

>>3202034

dat font dont do it justice roflmaoo

>> No.3202049

I thank you, I'm collecting wise phrases, eventually my son is gonna be very wise... [with a lot of phrases to keep handy.]

>> No.3202050

>>3202049
'Genius develops in quiet places,
Character out in the full current of human life.'

You must either conquer and rule or lose and serve,
suffer or triumph, and be the anvil or the hammer.'

both my Goethe

>> No.3202055

>>3202049

Have fun with a Sancho Panza around the house

>> No.3202059

>>3202049

your son wont even process em he'll be like huhh n den he'll proceed to do things in opposite of the advice which uve given

>> No.3202063

>>3202059
>>3202055

Fuck.. Well, then I'll make myself wiser I guess.

>> No.3202064

>>3202059
unless his son is completely docile, and a rigorous sexual education has been known to produce complete docility in children, provided one starts early. do you understand this word, "rigorous", monsieur?

>> No.3202069

>>3202064
lol, this.

>> No.3202071

>>3202063

hopefully he'll be able to half-grasp them and maybe they'll sprout eventually

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3202072

>>3202041
>implying there are minds strong enough to master her
>implying these aren't the minds of men
>implying fixed-IQ
Shaw best check his science.

captcha; ST. W-Lovely arsumnt

>> No.3202073

>>3202071
Or, I could wait until I reach my death bed and hand him a 20yr old book of wise phrases, and tell him to read all that is within. For my sake, and his.

..or something.

>> No.3202074

>>3202064
>rigorous

are you asking me?

>> No.3202080

>>3202064
Sir, why don't you just say, "You'll turn your son into a faggot"? Why all this circumlocution?

>> No.3202081

Hey while we're at this... who the hell said this one...

It's difficult to know what to do, but the worst thing is NOT doing anything while you're trying to figure that out. -???

>> No.3202083

>>3202081
mighta been in a movie?

>> No.3202084

>>3202080
monsieur, i once held a torch to the night and asked it 'why' a hundred times, and the stars twinkled back at me a hundred answers.

>> No.3202088

"It's better to burn out than to fade away" - Jack Kerouac

>> No.3202090

>>3202072
You misunderstand. If you purely rely on logic in your life you'll only gimp yourself. We actually had a discussion on this some days ago.

>> No.3202092

>>3202084
lolwut? is that another saying? I swear to god that's another saying.

>> No.3202093

>>3202092
saying... "Phrase" fits much better.

>> No.3202100

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself" - Albert Camus

want more?

>> No.3202101

>>3202100
Yes, thank you very much, I would like more. kinda collecting them.

>> No.3202105

>>3202101

are u going to give ur son the first quote u posted in ur pic

>> No.3202107

>>3202105
>>3202022

> I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity - Edgar Allen Poe

lol, yeah. It would give him perspective on insanity.

I like to say that perspective is everything. it kinda guides us to accommodate to each other when we can view from their perspective and others

>> No.3202114

>>3202093
ah, does it, monsieur?

>> No.3202115

>>3202107

try this page compiled specifically for what u seek

http://twitter.com/ngonation

>> No.3202117

>>3202115
Fuck yes.

>> No.3202118

>>3202114
just correcting myself, I figured it probably wasn't said often, therefore it's more of a phrase, also a phrase fits in both instances anyways.

aside from that, I swear I have heard that thing before.

>> No.3202121

>>3202118
ah, monsieur, i am happy to be deprived of my originality!!! it accumulates around my soul like... ah, yes, like barnacles, monsieur. how did you know my soul was a ship?

>> No.3202126

>>3202121
It seems the vessel of our soul is our bodies and our souls guide our hearts and our hearts seek our bodies destination, so it is safe to say, all of which are guide, vessel, and seeker.

>> No.3202127

>>3202117

http://twitter.com/TheGoldenMirror
http://twitter.com/ProverbParty
http://twitter.com/thequotemaster
http://twitter.com/rajgurujain
http://twitter.com/ZENandTAO
http://twitter.com/ItsGADragon
http://twitter.com/Inspired2Share
http://twitter.com/mindn_soul
http://twitter.com/AffirmYourLife
http://twitter.com/TheArcoh
http://twitter.com/JaiKaliMa_
http://twitter.com/QuoteGym
http://twitter.com/LegendQuotes

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. ~ Michelangelo

enjoy pal

>> No.3202130

>>3202127
with this... I must say thanks, to all who gave help. Gezus, this may take a long long time.

>> No.3202132

>>3202130
also, thanks to you guys, I understand why I enjoy using Kirby so damn much in SSB. lol

"When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style" - Bruce Lee

>> No.3202146

>>3202132
what did we all just stop trying to get points here?

>> No.3202148

>>3202146
oops, didn't mean to quote that.