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TOYOSI20 (f)
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #384 on: August 05, 2009, 05:57 AM »

* Problems are only opportunities in work clothes

* Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
   
xoxoxo (f)
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #386 on: August 05, 2009, 01:16 PM »

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fayahsoul
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #387 on: August 05, 2009, 03:49 PM »

If a man wants a woman to fall for him, he better be around to catch her.

The only thing faster than the speed of light is the speed of dark.

A man without reason is a beast in season.
fayahsoul
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #388 on: August 07, 2009, 04:24 AM »

The victimizer suffers more than the victim - Fayahsoul

Passion is an attribute of the soul and music a consequence of passion- Fayahsoul

Get off the cross we need the wood.

The only thing better than going fast is to go faster
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fayahsoul
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #389 on: August 07, 2009, 04:29 AM »

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

Be good to people on your way up because you might meet them on your way down.

If you fail to plan you plan to fail.

wisdom is better than silver and gold
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fayahsoul
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #390 on: August 07, 2009, 04:37 AM »

It is better to live in a desert land Than with a contentious and vexing woman.- proverbs 21:19

Niggas are not cheap they broke.

beauty is pain.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend, But deceitful are the kisses of an enemy.- proverbs 27:6
fayahsoul
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #391 on: August 07, 2009, 04:42 AM »

You want the truth?. . .you can't handle the truth.

Great things come in small packages.

Those who find comfort in solitude are either Gods or mad men.

Colourless is the true colour of colours - Fayahsoul
fayahsoul
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #392 on: August 07, 2009, 04:47 AM »

money na honey.

no romance without finance.

if it don't apply let it fly.

An infinite polygon is a circle
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fayahsoul
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #393 on: August 07, 2009, 04:53 AM »

In absolute silence lies the loudest sound.

How do we find the world's tallest midget?

Great minds never had any thing to do with sports - Saro wiwa.

A people without a history is like a tree without roots - X
fayahsoul
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #394 on: August 07, 2009, 04:56 AM »

Self-criticism is the highest form of maturity.

neo-colonization is the highest form of imperialsm.

The creator has become the created.

Impossible is nothing
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fayahsoul
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #395 on: August 07, 2009, 05:01 AM »

Lions ought to act like lions and hyenas, hyenas - Fayahsoul

I rather be a lion in the jungle than a dog in the city.

Would you rather be a well fed slave or a hungry free man?

Life is poetry.
fayahsoul
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #396 on: August 07, 2009, 05:06 AM »

just because a name is ridiculed does not mean the name is a ridicule - fayasoul

Life is a beautiful struggle- Mos def

Misplaced hate makes disgrace for races - 2 pac

Space is not expanding because space needs space to expand - Fayahsoul
fayahsoul
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #397 on: August 07, 2009, 05:10 AM »

Ponder on that for the interlude. . .there's plenty more from whence that cometh.
fayahsoul
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #398 on: August 07, 2009, 05:15 AM »

@ savanaha

What's happening my empress. . .
stevedslek (m)
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #399 on: August 07, 2009, 05:34 PM »

Yes, i'm drunk and you are ugly but  tommorrow i'll be sober but you'll still be ugly.
- Sir Winston churchill in reply to a lady accusing him of drunkeness

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations
- Sir Winston churchill

Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.

Dogs look up to men, cats look down on them, but pigs treat us as equals.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than responsibel and wrong.

If the present tries to sit in judgement of the past it will lose the future.

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

Eating my words has never given me indigestion

All are Sir W.L. Churchill quotes
SeanT21 (f)
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #400 on: August 07, 2009, 06:27 PM »

Parents spend the first part of our lives teaching us to walk and talk, and the rest of it telling us to sit down and shut up.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

If you cannot convince them, confuse them.

War is God's way of teaching Americans about geography. -- Ambrose Bierce

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
xoxoxo (f)
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #401 on: August 07, 2009, 10:18 PM »

What you need is something I have neither the time nor the inclination to give you,  Two weeks with a good man at Niagara Falls.

Grifter, hitter, hacker, thief. You're all trying to solve your version of the crime instead of just trying to, solve the crime. There's a reason you work together.
xoxoxo (f)
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #402 on: August 09, 2009, 03:30 PM »

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or culture also becomes a dead people. —-Malcolm X
fayahsoul
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #403 on: August 09, 2009, 07:37 PM »

Do unto others before it is done to you.

Say toilet dey dirty mean say shit never catch you.

People close the eyes of reason to see with the eyes of faith.

Courage is not the absence of fear rather it's the will to act in the presence of fear
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stevedslek (m)
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #404 on: August 09, 2009, 11:06 PM »

Definitions:
Work is the refuge of those who have nothing better to do
Idleness is the insupportable labour of doing nothing
An office is a great social center but no place to get any work done
A committee is a group of the unwilling picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of d wise
It is also the noblest frailty of d mind
Marriage is the cure for the state of insanity called love
It is also the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves making in all two people
fayahsoul
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #405 on: August 10, 2009, 01:26 AM »

"as above so below"
mohawkchic (f)
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #406 on: August 10, 2009, 03:31 AM »




~" I Like Men Who Have A Future And Women Who Have A Past" ~Oscar Wilde
TOYOSI20 (f)
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #407 on: August 12, 2009, 02:02 AM »

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
TOYOSI20 (f)
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #408 on: August 12, 2009, 02:04 AM »

Success in life, in anything,
depends upon the number of persons
that one can make himself agreeable to.
xoxoxo (f)
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #409 on: August 12, 2009, 03:45 AM »

Quote from: fayahsoul on August 10, 2009, 01:26 AM
"as above so below"
Awww, hermetic principles.  Nice! everything should be equal. if you think it, it's going to happen. the universe is the same as God, God is the same as man. . . .

hi fyah, Nice topic for discussion.  There are lots of scholars on Nl and I'll like to know their thoughts on this powerful quote.  I've argued so many times over this quote.

@topic

Man was made to suffer, yeah, and women were made to feel the pain. ,
fayahsoul
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #410 on: August 12, 2009, 05:56 AM »

Quote from: xoxoxo on August 12, 2009, 03:45 AM
Awww, hermetic principles. Nice! everything should be equal. if you think it, it's going to happen. the universe is the same as God, God is the same as man. . . .

hi fyah, Nice topic for discussion. There are lots of scholars on Nl and I'll like to know their thoughts on this powerful quote. I've argued so many times over this quote.


You're right. The quote recognizes universal balance and the god/goddesshood of man/woman.
fayahsoul
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #411 on: August 12, 2009, 05:58 AM »

To live is to suffer but to survive is to find meaning in the suffering - DMX
missy p (f)
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #412 on: August 12, 2009, 09:28 PM »

never be the tearz 4rm I lids
but the cloth dat blotz d tearz
debest1 (m)
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #413 on: August 14, 2009, 01:59 PM »

If you haven't found something worth dying for, you probably havent found anything worth living for!
stilletos
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #414 on: August 14, 2009, 09:15 PM »

A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness. ,
Chinua Achebe
TOYOSI20 (f)
Re: Short, Witty Quotes!
« #415 on: August 17, 2009, 12:12 AM »

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind. Smiley
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