Wise men make proverbs, only fools repeat them

[notalent]

Never interupt your enemy while he is making a mistake

Napoleon

[Angwilwileth]

Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.

Laurence J. Peter

[Inquartata]

Work is right for killing time, but it's a shaky way to make a living. -Pappy Maverick

[ParryRiposte]

Do you really want to live forever?

~ Alphaville

[Phaeton]

The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody--Tom Stoppard

[I_luv_saber]

Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to... suffering.
-Yoda

[Inquartata]

Experience keeps a dear school, but a fool will learn in no other.

[notalent]

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated

Mark Twain

[introspective]

Able was I, ere I saw Elbe - Napolean [ but by then he'd had lost his marbles, what does this cryptic quote mean?]

[fences_like_a_lemur]

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

~Lactantius

[Inquartata]

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

[fences_like_a_lemur]

In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies across the dead page, suffocated signs full of muffled sound and faded glory, signifying absolutely nothing. And it is the nothing, the Mystery, the Emptiness alone that needs to be realized: not known but felt, not thought but breathed, not an object but an atmosphere, not a lesson but a life.

~Ken Wilber

[ParryRiposte]

At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done to him. It is this above all that is sacred in every human being.

~Simone Weil

[fences_like_a_lemur]

Well, it's Groundhog Day... again...

~"Phil"

[counter riposte]

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
- Theodore Roethke

[introspective]

Counter, now I've got you - you are Westley how horrible. Poor boy, you've mutatated.

Who is Simone Weil?
At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done to him. It is this above all that is sacred in every human being.

This is very interesting. He really understood the dark nature of the human being. I was just talking about this this evening, about the criminal mind and what's in it. That is the thing that these stupid television programs insist on trying to uncover in order to "prevent" "it". But actually, it doesn't do a thing. I think William Blake also came close to understanding this dark nature but was unable to address it coherently. Thus, he illustrated to the best of his ability. The author, Thomas Harris was formerly a writer on the criminal circuit in New York, so he came very close to the subject, which is why is is able to write very well about the criminal mind. I like what Simone Weil wrote, she speaks to the life condition we Buddhists call hunger. Or fundemental darkness. In Japanese it's called Mumyo. I don't know what exactly the author above means by "this above all that is sacred in every human being. Could you clarify for me a bit?

[Inquartata]

Ahem.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

[fences_like_a_lemur]

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: “O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it.

~Voltaire

[I_luv_saber]

The only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about.
-Oscar Wilde

[fences_like_a_lemur]

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to musicians, Spanish to women, French at the Court, German to my servants and English to my horse.

~Charles V