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Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by TOYOSI20(f): 5:57am On Aug 05, 2009
* Problems are only opportunities in work clothes

* Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by xoxoxo(f): 1:16pm On Aug 05, 2009
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Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by fayahsoul: 3:49pm On Aug 05, 2009
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.
Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by fayahsoul: 4:24am On Aug 07, 2009
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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Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by fayahsoul: 4:29am On Aug 07, 2009
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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Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by fayahsoul: 4:37am On Aug 07, 2009
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
Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by fayahsoul: 4:42am On Aug 07, 2009
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
Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by fayahsoul: 4:47am On Aug 07, 2009
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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Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by fayahsoul: 4:53am On Aug 07, 2009
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
Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by fayahsoul: 4:56am On Aug 07, 2009
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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Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by fayahsoul: 5:01am On Aug 07, 2009
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.
Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by fayahsoul: 5:06am On Aug 07, 2009
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
Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by fayahsoul: 5:10am On Aug 07, 2009
Ponder on that for the interlude. . .there's plenty more from whence that cometh.
Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by fayahsoul: 5:15am On Aug 07, 2009
@ savanaha

What's happening my empress. . .
Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by stevedslek(m): 5:34pm On Aug 07, 2009
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
Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by SeanT21(f): 6:27pm On Aug 07, 2009
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.
Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by xoxoxo(f): 10:18pm On Aug 07, 2009
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.
Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by xoxoxo(f): 3:30pm On Aug 09, 2009
Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or culture also becomes a dead people. —-Malcolm X
Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by fayahsoul: 7:37pm On Aug 09, 2009
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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Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by stevedslek(m): 11:06pm On Aug 09, 2009
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
Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by fayahsoul: 1:26am On Aug 10, 2009
"as above so below"
Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by mohawkchic(f): 3:31am On Aug 10, 2009
~" I Like Men Who Have A Future And Women Who Have A Past" ~Oscar Wilde
Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by TOYOSI20(f): 2:02am On Aug 12, 2009
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by TOYOSI20(f): 2:04am On Aug 12, 2009
Success in life, in anything,
depends upon the number of persons
that one can make himself agreeable to.
Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by xoxoxo(f): 3:45am On Aug 12, 2009
fayahsoul:

"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. ,
Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by fayahsoul: 5:56am On Aug 12, 2009
xoxoxo:

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.
Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by fayahsoul: 5:58am On Aug 12, 2009
To live is to suffer but to survive is to find meaning in the suffering - DMX
Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by missyp1(f): 9:28pm On Aug 12, 2009
never be the tearz 4rm I lids
but the cloth dat blotz d tearz
Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by debest1(m): 1:59pm On Aug 14, 2009
If you haven't found something worth dying for, you probably havent found anything worth living for!
Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by stilletos: 9:15pm On Aug 14, 2009
A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness. ,
Chinua Achebe
Re: Short, Witty Quotes! by TOYOSI20(f): 12:12am On Aug 17, 2009
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind. smiley

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