[Mae]

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose." - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

[Mae]

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napoleon Bonaparte

[Pfloyd]

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." - Marthe Troly

[Mae]

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw

[abraxas21]

"The birds born in cages think that flying is a disease" - Alejandro Jodorowsky

[Mae]

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

[Litotes]

Originally Posted by Mae

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

As a chessplayer, I can say this is wrong. I have several times lost games because I did both the penultimate and the final mistake.

[Mae]

Originally Posted by Litotes

As a chessplayer, I can say this is wrong. I have several times lost games because I did both the penultimate and the final mistake.

I know nothing about chess. I just thought it was an interesting quote about making the next to last mistake instead of just making the last mistake.

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." - Edgar Allan Poe

[Litotes]

Originally Posted by Mae

I know nothing about chess. I just thought it was an interesting quote about making the next to last mistake instead of just making the last mistake.

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." - Edgar Allan Poe

It's not bad. Tartakower was quite a character, though. A couple of other famous chess quotes from him are: "It's not enough to be a good player, you also have to play well" and "Moral victories don't count".

[Punky]

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

—William Arthur Ward

[Punky]

I hear: I forget / I see: I remember / I do: I understand

—Chinese Proverb

[Mae]

"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words." - Edgar Allan Poe

[Droog]

Originally Posted by Mae

"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words." - Edgar Allan Poe

Love Edgar Allan Poe Read any William Blake?

"To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour." - William Blake

[ssin]

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
Woody Allen

[Mr. Oracle]

Who has at least one person they can trust and confide in completely? That person is blessed. Don't f$#! it up.

"I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven by William Butler Yeats