If a person were to try stripping the disguise from actors while they play a scene upon the stage, showing to the audience their real looks and the faces they were born with, would not such a one spoil the whole play? And would not the spectators think he deserved to be driven out of the theatre with brickbats, as a drunken disturber? . . . Now what else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each one his part, until the manager waves them off the stage? Moreover, this manager frequently bids the same actor go back in a different costume, so that he who has but lately played the king in scarlet now acts the flunkey in patched clothes. Thus all things are presented by shadows.

(Erasmus, The Praise of Folly)

that's my favourite quote my dear kafir and you know what, it's very true.

now who do you think the drunken disturber is, who are the audience, who are the actors and most importantly..who is the manager!

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle

When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell

Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but religiously follows the new.
Henry Davod Thoreau

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Originally posted by ngeg:
Marriage is like a TORNADO..starts off with lots of blowing and sucking then ends up taking yr house..

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"Everything is always ok in the the end. If it's not ok, then it isn't the end."

"Love & electricity are one in the same my dear, if you do not feel the jolt in your soul, every time a kiss is shared, a whisper is spoken, a touch is felt, then you're not really in love." - C. J. Franks

"There are those who do not believe that a single soul born in heaven can split into twin spirits and shoot like falling stars to earth where over oceans and continents their magnetic forces will finally unite them back into one. But how else to explain love at first sight?" - Don Juan DeMarco

"Hopeless romantics are only hopeless in the eyes of those who don't believe in romance."

"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. And dance like no one is watching."

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities." - Dr. Seuss

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"Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere."

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."

"War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow."

"Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek."

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict."

- Baha Men

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Originally posted by MyKingdomForATaba2Koshari:
MyKingdomForATaba2Koshari

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Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are mentally ill. Check 3 friends. If they're ok,
you're it."

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Originally posted by Morgan:
An eye for an eye will make the whole world go blind
~~Mahatma Gandhi

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# Is a vegetarian permitted to eat animal crackers?

# What if there were no hypothetical questions?

# Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

# Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

# Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with.

# I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

# Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

# If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?

# I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

# Electricity is really just organized lightning.

# Women like silent men, they think they're listening.

# "I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

# Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

# Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

# I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.

# As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.

# The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

# Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

"Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind but to the earth. It is time now for reason, education and science to take over."
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair - Speech, 1990

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."
— Euripides (ca. 480-406 B.C.E.) Greek poet, playwright and philospher

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
— Carl Sagan

"Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly."
—iMark Thomas

"If faith is 'believing what you are told', religious ethics is 'doing what you are told'."
— John B. Hodges

"Morality is doing what is right no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told no matter what is right."
— Larry Mundinger, 1999

"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe. It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime."
— Thomas Paine, ibid.

"Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principal behind lotteries, dating and religion."
— Scott Adams, creator of "Dilbert"

"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow the teachings of the new, he would be insane."
— Robert G. Ingersoll

"The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief — call it what you will — than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course."
— A. A. Milne

"I love your Christ. It's just that so many Christians are so unlike your Christ."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Suppose we've chosen the wrong god? Every time we go to church, we're just making him madder and madder."
— Homer J. Simpson

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Originally posted by nooralhaq:
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# Women like silent men, they think they're listening.

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Sometimes I wonder if women talk much or is it us men with bad listening skills?or do you think we are too slow? or just a natural thing they can't help?

Even if you not comprenez-ing in what she saying, you just enojoy her voice

[but its sweet ]

*only certain women - i wouldn't know about "other" women, i dont think i ever had a "social/intimate" conversation with a woman since a long time.

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Originally posted by Troubles101:
Sometimes I wonder if women talk much or is it us men with bad listening skills?or do you think we are too slow? or just a natural thing they can't help?

What's it really?!

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.

"Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."

Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
Liz Smith

"To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest"

"There wouldn't be a sky full of stars
if we were all meant to wish on the same one."
- Frances Clark

"Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands,but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guide, and following them, you reach your destiny."
- Carl Schurz

translation would erase the spirit of this quote but it's something like:

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Originally posted by Penny:
Life's a bitch and then you die

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Originally posted by Penny:
Life's a bitch and then you die

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Life's a bitch, you marry one, then you die and go to hell.

But there is always....

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Originally posted by bitterwithbaggage:
After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

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I like these!