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Post by Arlon10 on Feb 6, 2018 12:34:20 GMT
The topic title is a famous quote from Henri Estienne. I'm not certain whether the Bible mentions it at all. It is just a pleasant thought. Truth can be elusive. I didn't even know they sheared lambs. Estienne is also famous for the saying, "If youth knew, if age could." I would really appreciate it if you shared your favorite aphorisms, witticisms, apothegms, proverbs or adages here. It doesn't have to do with sheep.
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Feb 6, 2018 12:38:49 GMT
There is nothing like a dame.
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Post by Arlon10 on Feb 6, 2018 12:52:01 GMT
There is nothing like a dame. That reminds me of the days when people would buy sheet music to the songs in movies they really enjoyed and gather around the piano and sing. A more popular song from that movie was of course Some enchanted Evening. These days people buy video games from movies they really enjoyed. It's just not the same somehow.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 15:10:24 GMT
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb Except when he doesn't
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Post by progressiveelement on Feb 6, 2018 15:32:13 GMT
I like lamb, but my mother and my bro's fiance say it smells like a dead person.
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Post by theoncomingstorm on Feb 6, 2018 15:34:08 GMT
"I've argued with dictionaries and won."
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Post by Catman on Feb 6, 2018 16:40:16 GMT
"I've argued with dictionaries and won." But has anyone ever won an argument with a cat?
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Post by Arlon10 on Feb 6, 2018 23:01:07 GMT
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb Except when he doesn't Aren't you the life of the party? What might have happened to that one is it killed a bird that it didn't want to eat because sheep don't eat birds. So because it wantonly killed a bird, that's what happened to it. Don't you have any favorite aphorism? Are you an atheist? You read books anyway, right? Here's one you might like, "Reason leads me not fortune." It's from the ancient Roman historian Livy. It sort of puts atheists in a good light. Do they deserve it? A really clever one from the Bible is, "Locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands." It might be a sidelong criticism of atheism, although there was no atheism as we know it today.
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Post by Arlon10 on Feb 6, 2018 23:12:46 GMT
"I've argued with dictionaries and won." Domo arigato, Mr.Roboto
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Post by Arlon10 on Feb 6, 2018 23:22:05 GMT
"I've argued with dictionaries and won." But has anyone ever won an argument with a cat? The only thing cats ever say is, "Give me food now." One company that makes cat food named it's product "Meow Mix." They say it's the one cats ask for by name.
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Post by Arlon10 on Feb 6, 2018 23:38:10 GMT
I like lamb, but my mother and my bro's fiance say it smells like a dead person. I'm told it helps if you put a lot of sage on it.
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Post by Arlon10 on Feb 6, 2018 23:46:41 GMT
It sort of makes you wonder... ... There is another one like that ... Why do some people get lost in thought? Because it's new territory.
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Post by thefleetsin on Feb 7, 2018 0:19:40 GMT
truth isn't at all elusive.
religiously fueled blathering is.
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Post by Arlon10 on Feb 7, 2018 6:37:28 GMT
truth isn't at all elusive. religiously fueled blathering is. Of course truth can be elusive at times or there wouldn't be any poetry. And you might want to be more careful what you call blather.
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Post by Arlon10 on Feb 7, 2018 9:09:41 GMT
Your witty saying does not have to be long, for example ...
"42"
and Zen koans are allowed.
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Post by Arlon10 on Feb 8, 2018 12:06:25 GMT
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Post by Arlon10 on Feb 8, 2018 17:16:36 GMT
I'm disappointed with the level of participation in this thread. I hope it means you have rich and meaningful lives, if perhaps just not here.
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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Feb 8, 2018 18:16:42 GMT
I'm disappointed with the level of participation in this thread. I hope it means you have rich and meaningful lives, if perhaps just not here. It's threads like these I wish I had access to my mom's old PC as she used to collect quotes on a Word document. I always enjoyed her reading them to me even when I disagreed with them. They were often a good lesson in Alexander Pope's maxim about how poetry was "what oft was thought but never so well expressed." One of the few quotes I've found that I truly think is a profound statement about life is the one that was in my signature for a long time (not now) by Jung: "The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being." Perhaps not short enough to call a witticism/aphorism/whatnot, but it's always deeply spoke to me. The "Of mere being" part always struck me as something that would make a good title for a novel or poem or philosophy work or something. It's the quote I think about when reading something like Wallace Stevens's The Plain Sense of Things: or WB Yeats's Meru:
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Post by goz on Feb 9, 2018 1:37:00 GMT
I like lamb, but my mother and my bro's fiance say it smells like a dead person. I'm told it helps if you put a lot of sage on it. Wrong, as usual, it is rosemary and garlic!
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Post by Arlon10 on Feb 9, 2018 13:32:44 GMT
I'm told it helps if you put a lot of sage on it. Wrong, as usual, it is rosemary and garlic! I'm not the chef by any means. Although I cook fine enough for my own purposes and do most of my own cooking, for others I order take out.
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