ShaRe
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"History is written by the victors."
W. Churchill
Favorite thoughts to ponder...
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W. Churchill
officerripley
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- Porlock, Calif
Christopher Isherwood said, “Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.” Best description of U.S. high school and the U.S. workplace EVER!
~~Jane T. Godfrey
~~Jane T. Godfrey
Farrah Nuff
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- East of the sun, West of the moon
If your nose runs and your feet smell,
you're built upside down! - Ima Lone
you're built upside down! - Ima Lone
OneEyedDiva
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- New Jersey
OneEyedDiva
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- New Jersey
This was posted on Facebook by my friend Annie:
"If I cut you off, chances are you gave me the scissors."
"If I cut you off, chances are you gave me the scissors."
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OneEyedDiva
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- New Jersey
Lewkat
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- Location
- New Jersey, USA
Farrah Nuff
Senior Member
- Location
- East of the sun, West of the moon
OneEyedDiva
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- New Jersey
squatting dog
We don't have as far to go, as we've already been
- Location
- Arkansas, and also Florida
Never feel bad when someone leaves you for someone else. Because the best revenge is the time you spent. You leave a memory in them that they will always remember. And in this they will always remember you.
squatting dog
We don't have as far to go, as we've already been
- Location
- Arkansas, and also Florida
If I agreed with you, them we'd both be wrong.
squatting dog
We don't have as far to go, as we've already been
- Location
- Arkansas, and also Florida
You don't forget your first love, whether it's by...
Nature
You met in kindergarten
Married
Divorced
Abandonment
Moved away
Death
Or something else
You never, ever, forget your first Love.
Nature
You met in kindergarten
Married
Divorced
Abandonment
Moved away
Death
Or something else
You never, ever, forget your first Love.
Geezer Garage
Senior Member
- Location
- Steamboat Springs CO
More likely common theft than inspiration. More in line with a corporation that has children laboring for it.
RunRabbitRun
New Member
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- Woke World
I'm not a member of any organized political party.
I'm a Democrat.
(Mark Twain)
I'm a Democrat.
(Mark Twain)
Capt Lightning
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- Historic Buchan, Scotland
There are many versions of this saying which is commonly misattributed to Bernard of Clairvaux who supposedly wrote "hell is full of good wishes or desires". I knew it more simply as " hell is paved with good intentions." - but the sentiment is the same.
Capt Lightning
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- Historic Buchan, Scotland
A piece of advice I was given............
If you are asked to do something, never say "Yes if....." always say, "No, unless.....".
If you are asked to do something, never say "Yes if....." always say, "No, unless.....".
Victor
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- Location
- midwest USA
When in doubt don't reach out. (Me. )
At the narrow passage there is no brother no friend. Arab saying
At the narrow passage there is no brother no friend. Arab saying
Victor
Senior Member
- Location
- midwest USA
Interesting thread. And don't trust anyone under 30
ShaRe
Member
"Although many people believe that Samuel Johnson said "The road to hell is paved with good intentions," he shouldn't get credit for this one."
"Johnson said something close, but he was following in others' footsteps. In Boswell's Life of Johnson, in an entry marked April 14, 1775, Boswell quotes Johnson as saying (on some other occasion), "Hell is paved with good intentions." Note, no prefatory "the road to..." Boswell's editor, Malone, added a footnote indicating this is a 'proverbial sentence,' and quoting an earlier 1651 source (yet still not in the common wording)."
"Robert Wilson, in the newsgroup alt.quotations, provided two other sources prior to Johnson. John Ray, in 1670, cited as a proverb "Hell is paved with good intentions." Even earlier than that, it's been attributed to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153), as "Hell is full of good intentions or desires." Just how it got to the road to Hell being paved this way, and not Hell itself, I don't know."
https://www.samueljohnson.com/road.html
Could be it got to be a road paved with good intentions to highlight the individuals active participation in getting to hell...