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THE INNER COMMONPLACE
QUOTATIONS FROM A LIFETIME OF COLLECTION AND REFLECTION
TITLE QUOTATION AUTHOR SOURCE SUBJECT
THE WORDS RANG SO T | 91 | The words rang so true: What is good about goodbye? What is fair about farewell? | Ann Rowe | Neo Labos Dance Project | Goodbyes |
I DON'T MAKE JOKES. | 92 | I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. | Will Rogers | Unknown | Government |
DON'T CALL YOURSELF | 93 | Don't call yourself happy until you are propped up dead in dry shoes and socks. | Reynolds Price | The Tongues of Angels | Happiness |
HE WHO CATCHETH JOY | 94 | He who catcheth joy as it flies
Learns to live in eternity's sunrise
But he who doth bend to himself a joy
Doth the winged life destroy. | William Blake | Unknown | Happiness |
HE WHO LIVES ON HOP | 95 | He who lives on hope will die f**** | Benjamin Franklin | Poor Richard's Almanac | Hope |
IF YOUR HORSE DIES | 196 | If your horse dies, we suggest you dismount. | Pete Petersen | Unknown | Failure |
THE PASSIONS OF THE | 197 | The passions of the young are the vices of the old. | Joseph Joubert | Unknown | Youth |
WE WERE HIRING PEOP | 198 | We were hiring people to read reports of the people who had been hired to write reports. | Jack Welch | Chairman of GE | Inefficiency |
THERE IS A FINE LIN | 199 | There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore looking like an idiot. | Steven Wright | Unknown | Fishing |
CA NE SERT A RIEN D | 200 | Ca ne sert a rien de tirer sur une ambulance. | French General | Unknown | Insensitivity |
NO MATTER WHAT ANYO | 101 | No matter what anyone says, what the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all along. | Cus D'Amato | Unknown | Human Nature |
OUT OF THE CROOKED | 102 | Out of the crooked timber of humanity No straight thing was ever made. | Immanuel Kant | Unknown | Human Nature |
PEOPLE WHO ARE BORN | 103 | People who are born round don't die square. | Cus D'Amato | Unknown | Human Nature |
THERE IS NO MAN SO | 104 | There is no man so dangerous as a disillusioned idealist. | Goethe | Unknown | Human Nature |
THREE CAN KEEP A SE | 105 | Three can keep a secret if two are dead. | Samuel Johnson | Unknown | Human Nature |
WHAT LIES BEHIND US | 106 | What lies behind us, and what lies before us Are tiny matters compared with what lies within us. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Unknown | Human Nature |
GOOD BETTER BEST NE | 107 | Good Better Best Never let it rest Until your good is better and your better best. | Mrs. Finnegan | Jamie Fee's 7th Grade Teacher | Improvement |
IN THE MIDDLE OF TH | 108 | In the middle of the desert, an oasis. In the middle of a sentence, a verb. In an ocean of conformity, an island of rebellion. | J.Peterman | Catalogue | Individuality |
THE MILLS OF GOD GR | 109 | The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine. | Anon | Unknown | Justice |
SAVOUR KINDNESS BEC | 110 | Savour kindness, because cruelty is always possible later. | Jamie Fee | Letter | Kindness |
A LEADER TELLS PEOP | 111 | A leader tells people not where they want to go, but where they ought to go. | Edmund Burke | Unknown | Leadership |
ON NE REGNE SUR LES | 112 | On ne regne sur les ames que par le calme. | Winston Churchill | History of WWII Vol 4 | Leadership |
ONE MAN WITH COURAG | 113 | One man with courage is a majority. | Andrew Jackson | Unknown | Leadership |
PAIN IS THE ART ENT | 114 | Pain is the art entering the apprentice. | French proverb | Unknown | Learning |
A RUT IS ONLY A GRA | 115 | A rut is only a grave with the ends knocked out. | Texan proverb | Unknown | Life |
ALL THINGS IN LIFE | 116 | All things in life are purchased at the price of experience. | Peter Ackroyd | Unknown | Life |
AS YOU RAMBLE ON TH | 117 | As you ramble on through life, brother
Whatever be your goal
Keep your eye upon the doughnut
And not upon the hole. | William Safire | Unknown | Life |
DID YOU KNOW THAT I | 118 | Did you know that IF are the two middle letters in LIFE? | Dennis Hopper | Apocalypse Now | Life |
I LONG FOR SCENES W | 119 | I long for scenes where man has never trod
A place where woman never smiled or wept
There to abide with my creator God
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie
The grass below-above the vaulted sky. | John Clare | Unknown | God |
I LEARN IN MY LIFE | 120 | I learn in my life you are going very slowly up and can go very fast down. | Petr Korda | Unknown | Life |
I'M TIRED JOEY-BOY | 121 | I'm tired Joey-boy
While you're out with the sheep
My life is so troubled
That I can't get to sleep
I would walk myself out
But the streets are so dark
I shall wait til the morning
And walk in the park
Cause life is so simple
When one is at home
And I'm never complaining
Where there's work to be done
Oh I'm tired Joey-boy
Of the makings of men
I would like to be cheerful again
Ambition will take you and ride you too far
And conservatism bring you to boredom once more
Sit down by the river and watch the stream flow
Recall all the dreams that you once used to know
Things you've forgotten that took you away
To pastures not greener but meaner
Love that is simple is all that I need
I've no time for schism or lovers of greed
Go up to the mount then
Go up to the glen
Where silence will touch you
And heartbreak will mend. | Van Morrison | I'm tired Joey-Boy | Life |
THE HEART HAS REASO | 122 | The heart has reason that reason knows nothing of. | Pascal | Unknown | Love |
THE HONEY GOES WHEN | 123 | The honey goes when the money goes. | Ann Brady | Unknown | Love |
THE LOVE WE HOLD BA | 124 | The love we hold back in this life is the pain we carry into the next. | Richard Dreyfus | Always (movie) | Love |
THIS KISS WHICH NE' | 125 | This kiss which ne'er these lips shall pass
Endures as proof that dreams may last
These lines which keep us both apart
Draw boundaries round a yearning heart
These feelings mix with cold deceit
Sweet fear and longing when we meet
This badge of loyalty I wear
Protects us both from love unfair
This chasm which I'll never cross
Prevents us taking gain or loss
These stairs will never take me higher
Than here - this purgatory of desire. | Eric Pettigrew | DEP | Desire |
TONIGHT I CAN WRITE | 126 | Tonight I can write the saddest lines Write for example: "The night is shattered and blue stars shiver in the distance. The night wind revolves in the sky and sings Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. / Esta noche puedo escribir los versos mas tristes Escribir por ejemplo: La noche esta estrellada y tiritan azules los astros a la lejos.
Puedo escribir los versos m�s tristes esta noche.
Escribir, por ejemplo: "La noche est� estrellada,
y tiritan, azules, los astros, a lo lejos."
El viento de la noche gira en el cielo y canta.
Puedo escribir los versos m�s tristes esta noche.
Yo la quise, y a veces ella tambi_n me quiso.
En las noches como esta la tuve entre mis brazos.
La bes_ tantas veces bajo el cielo infinito.
Ella me quiso, a veces yo tambi_n la quer�a.
C�mo no haber amado sus grandes ojos fijos.
Puedo escribir los versos m�s tristes esta noche.
Pensar que no la tengo. Sentir que la he perdido.
Oir la noche inmensa, m�s inmensa sin ella.
Y el verso cae al alma como al pasto el roc�o.
Qu_ importa que mi amor no pudiera guardarla.
La noche esta estrellada y ella no est� conmigo.
Eso es todo. A lo lejos alguien canta. A lo lejos.
Mi alma no se contenta con haberla perdido.
Como para acercarla mi mirada la busca.
Mi coraz�n la busca, y ella no est� conmigo.
La misma noche que hace blanquear los mismos �rboles.
Nosotros, los de entonces, ya no somos los mismos.
Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero cu�nto la quise.
Mi voz buscaba el viento para tocar su o�do.
De otro. Ser� de otro. Como antes de mis besos.
Su voz, su cuerpo claro. Sus ojos infinitos.
Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero.
Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido.
Porque en noches como esta la tuve entre mis brazos,
mi alma no se contenta con haberla perdido.
Aunque este sea el ultimo dolor que ella me causa,
y estos sean los ultimos versos que yo le escribo. | Pablo Neruda | Unknown | Love |
WHEN THE MONEY GOES | 127 | When the money goes, love flies out the window. | Ruth Hanson | Tom Pyle | Love |
IT IS NECESSARY TO | 128 | It is necessary to be reasonable in one's madness. | Skier about to go down Everest | Unknown | Daring |
FIENT DU CHIEN ET M | 129 | Fient du chien et marc d'argent; Ils seront tout un au jour du jugement. (A dog's t*** and a silver coin will be the same on the judgement day) | Benjamin Franklin | Poor Richard's Almanac | Materialism |
IF I OWN A COW IT M | 130 | If I own a cow, it milks me. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Unknown | Materialism |
LIFE IS NOT ABOUT A | 131 | Life is not about addition but multiplication. And if you multiply one hundred expensive things times the zero that's inside of you, you still end up with zero. | Mariko Fujiwara | FORTUNE magazine | Materialism |
SIMPLIFYSIMPLIFYSI� | 132 | Simplify,simplify,simplify. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Unknown | Materialism |
MEMORIES ARE OUR SO | 133 | Memories are our souvenirs from a lifetime of forgetfulness. | Eric Hansen | Motoring with Muhammed | Memories |
A MAN'S REAL POSSES | 134 | A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. | Alexander Smith | Unknown | Memories |
A MAN'S MIND IS LIK | 135 | A man's mind is like a fourteen room house. In his bedroom he's with his intelligent wife, in the living room he's on the floor with some bare-***** girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the garden he's growing his tomatoes, and down in the basement he's thinking of ways to blow the whole place up. | Arthur Miller | Unknown | Men |
SO FEW MEN HAVE EYE | 136 | So few men have eyes for anything except the profit margin and is the lawn mowed. | Alan Gurganus | Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All | Men |
YOU DON'T GET WHAT | 137 | You don't get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. | Nigel Bennett | Oral | Merit |
A MAN WITH A BRIEFC | 138 | A man with a briefcase can steal a lot more than a man with a gun. | Don Henley | The End of the Innocence (album) | Money |
MONEY IS A GOOD SER | 139 | Money is a good servant or a harsh master. | A rabbi | Unknown | Money |
MONEY IS LIKE SLEEP | 140 | Money is like sleep. You don't need six hours or seven hours or eight hours. All you need is five minutes more. | Nigel Bennett | Himself | Money |
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