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Whats your most favorite Quote?
The writer and programmer in me likes this one:
While I am always ready to learn, I do not always enjoy being taught-Sir Winston Churchill.
No Pain No Gain, Youll never get a 2nd chance 2 make a first impression,if life gives u lemons make lemonade…..:)
not sure how it goes exactly but something like this- no matter where you are in life always freeze your panes so you can know where your origin was! great one i think
“i agree to disagree!”
i love this one! it always comes in handy!
Don’t tell H-shem how big your troubles are, tell your troubles how big H-shem is.
If life gives you lemons, keep them because hey, free lemons. 🙂
yes, and how come lemons have such a bad reputation anyway. they are wonderful, lemon meringue pie, i wouldnt drink tea without lemon, lemonade on a hot day, and they can make the blandest fish taste delicious.
and ever hear advertisements talk about “lemon fresh scent”?
My Mom’s: Knowledge is worth every penny, but common sense is priceless, it just can’t be bought.
sisterBear-vr qt!! lol
Nothing Is more whole Than a Broken Heart,reach 4 the moon cuz if u miss watz wrong with a handfull of stars?,you cant climb a ladder with ur hands in ur backpocket…
In spite of ice,
in spite of snow
in spite of all, the winds that blow.
In spite of hail,
and biting frost,
Take thyself, and get thee lost!
-Popa’s friend’s adaptation of Phillip Freneau
i love that one My.02!! ..”anything the mind can conceive and believe, with G-d’s help it can achieve.”
“The sunlight can’t come in a dirty window” -Rabbi Wallerstein
If life gives you lemons, squirt it at your enemies.
I can’t say it’s my absolute favorite, but I always liked it:
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.
— Groucho Marx
The Wolf
i was gonna answer Sister Bear but Peanuts beat me to it! Loving that quote 😀
The Man who dies with the most toys wins!
There is no such thing as yai’oosh.
–Rav Nachman of Breslov
“Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one’s taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.”
– Learned Hand (google him, he’s a really famous judge)
“never trouble trouble unless trouble troubles you, cause if you trouble trouble, trouble’s sure to trouble you”-my rabbi in sem
what did Rav Nachman, t’zl mean?
I was wondering the same thing.
I heard from chassidisheh sources:
Yi’ush itself is not an aveirah, but it leads to the biggest aveiros.
Or a spin on the words of the gemarah- yi’ush shelo mida’as-if s/o is miya’esh he is shelo mida’as
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% what you make out of it.
Youll Never get a 2nd chance to make a firet impression,although a teakettle is up 2 its neck in hot water it still continues 2 whistle,The grass isnt always greener on the other side,The difference between united and untied is where u put the I
Life is like a mango. There is a pit inside, but it’s too big to swallow by accident.
-Popa
There is an “I” in pizza.
is that what was meant, yeush about life, as opposed to a state of mind that allows changes, like in property ownership?
and the quote seems to be saying that in whichever case, yeush doesnt even exist, not that its bad.
Popa- There certainly is an I in “pizza”-and in “ice cream” and in “win”, but there is no I in “team”
Mod- the simple meaning is as you understood, my qoute is a drash- you won’t find it in any litvishe seforim.
I was wondering the same thing about what Rav Nachman, zt”l meant. It may be slightly misquoted. Any one have an insights on that?
Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.
Life is not a bowl of cherries, but neither is it the pits.
If there is a will, there is a relative.:0)
“Stop worrying about what other ppl are thinking abt you! they are too busy worrying about what you are thinking about THEM!!
“IS God your steering wheel or ur spare tire?
total guess
maybe he meant that even though there is a certain level at which yeush acts similar to hefker, truly there is no complete yeush because a human being, no matter how hopeless and even impossible it seems, still has an attachment to his property and on some deep level still thinks hell get it back, something like that.
or if were talking about yeush as in giving up hope in life, maybe he meant something similar to what i conjectured about property.
If you’re working off the literal meaning of the gemarah, I would have to disagree since according to all opinions yiush mida’as is yiu’sh. They only dispute the din of yiu’sh shelo mida’as.
Nice try Mod , but no cigar(excuse the cliche- I just left the smoker thread)
Gemorrah?
i have been referring to the quote of Rav Nachman, tz’l
“There’s never enough time or money to do it right, but there’s always enough time and money to do it over.”
“Do unto others before they do unto you.”
“You can get more with an kind word and a gun than you can get with just a kind word.”
“The higher the altitude, the lower the multitude.”
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
~Edgar W. Howe
Teenagers complain there’s nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.
~Bob Phillips
The average income of the modern teenager is about 2 a.m. ~Author Unknown
It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
~Sam Levenson
In spite of ice,
in spite of snow
in spite of all, the winds that blow.
In spite of hail,
and biting frost,
Take thyself, and get thee lost!
-Popa’s friend’s adaptation of Phillip Freneau
I thought you were going to say something about mailmen here.
Sorry , I lost you there. But either way if his saying is in any way related to property ownership it would not make sense why there would be no such thing as yiu’sh. Or am I still not following you?
im just guessing, really shouldnt be doing this but what i meant is that in almost everything the Rabbaim set a shiur, i was saying maybe he meant that even when the shiur is reached and the yeush is chal, there is never really complete yeush because that is not the way of human nature
Mod 80 – I don’t know if this is from R. Nachman, but I did hear a quote on that. Perhaps this is the same what AOM was trying to say:
The gemorrah says “Yiush Shelo Meedas”. So whomever (possibly R. Nachman) explains -If you’re Meyouish in life (If you give up on life) -Shelo Meedas (because you don’t have [without] Daas -in other words -because you lost your mind)!
99% of the things you worry about, don’t come true”
oh another one just read my subtitle!;)
L-rd, if it is not my fate that you lighten my burden, then I pray that you strengthen my back.- Author unknown
“The grass may be greener…but you still got to mow it”
“If we aren’t supposed to eat animals, then why are they made of meat?”
“Whatever doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. And since not lifting weights doesn’t kill us. Therefore not lifting weights makes us stronger.””
“When is Math going to grow up & start solving his own problems?”
“I’m a Vegatarian. Not because I LOVE animals. But because I HATE plants!” ~Some bumper sticker I read.
“Guns don’t kill people…the bullets however…”
It is ok to try and fail and try and fail again, but it is not ok to try and fail and fail to try again.
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