By necessity, by providity, and by delight, we all quote.
-R.W. Emerson
A quick comment
Ralph Waldo Emerson, the poet and writer, here captures the spirit of quotes. We all have various reasons why we quote, but the fact is we all tend to quote. Quotes we use become us.
How often have you had people give you a quote that just sticks with you from childhood to adulthood? Quotes reveal the psyche, the thought process of a generation or culture, and also preserve it.
Some quote to amuse themselves or others. Some quote because the quote makes a difference…such as a President giving a speech. The quote seizes and captivates the moment and makes it special. I remember some quotes my grandparents used to say, and I am thankful to remember the quote because it helps me remember these special people in my life.
What to do with this famous saying:
Keep on quoting! How often have you quoted a relative, now gone, or far away, but have said “my grandmother always said or used to say…”? I did just yesterday, come to think of it! You see, quotes are a part of our lives, our memory, our natural habit and one should seek to quote for all reasons mentioned, because our lives are made fuller because of our quotes.
That’s why I wrote this…because this quote captures the essence of why…because it gives pleasure, it is necessary and it is useful to us all. Quote, and enjoy life!
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29 February 2008
Famous Sayings - 3 Reasons We All Tend to Quote
26 February 2008
Famous Sayings - Don't Keep Good Advice To Yourself
The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
A quick comment:
To not pass on good advice should be considered a great disservice. How many times have we failed to pass on good advice? Some advice can make a big difference in someone’s life. Other advice won’t be followed and that too may make a big difference if not followed. But better they had a choice by hearing an alternative offered by you, than none at all.
Giving advice that we know by experience and likelihood will, produce a predictable, good and desired result can go a long way and can make the world a better place, even if it only seems like such a small difference. So don’t forget to offer good advice.
What to do with this famous saying:
The next time you find yourself withholding good advice, don’t. Give it. I remember when I told someone who was selling a house they bought that they could sell it for much more and the money they’d make would be tax free. They were delighted, and they prospered because of it. This made me feel good.
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23 February 2008
Famous Sayings - Quotes Can Make People Smarter
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
-Sir Winston Churchill
A quick comment about this quote:
If you don’t believe this one, then you must not know the life of Malcolm X. Malcolm X read quotes from Mahatma Ghandi amongst others. This made him educated and helped him to intelligently communicate with his contemporaries. This teaches us a valuable lesson about the value of quotes.
Quotes are a summary of a lesson on the knowledge and learning of something important. In one short sentence, a quote gives us thousand words. Just like a picture, which is said to be worth a thousand words, “a quote is worth a thousand words” just as a picture is worth a thousand words.
The Bible is translates as a “book of books”. It is the ultimate book of quotes that God gave man. Each quote it with a thousand words. Entire commentaries have been written on the Bible, to include entire books for a single book, chapter or even verse.
The wisdom of Churchill’s words tell us that education can begin to take place through quotations and provide an inspiring foundation for the beginning of someone’s education.
What to do with this famous saying:
Teach your kids a quote, ask them if they know what it means, then teach them what it means. I did this once with my nephew who was 13 at the time. The quote was the title of a book, and it said “beware the naked man who offers you his shirt” I asked my nephew if he knew what that meant and he just gave me a strange look like what on earth are you doing reading a book with a title like that”?
I told him, think about it for a moment…beware…a naked man….yet offers you a shirt. What is that trying to say? He thought about it for a bit and said, the naked man doesn’t have a shirt to give. I said “Good!…you’re absolutely right”
So what is this saying? He came back with, if the naked man offers you a shirt he doesn’t have, then he’s lying. I said exactly. The naked man wouldn’t have a shirt to offer…so that’s like someone making a promise they can’t keep. Then he understood.
The point of all of this is simply that a single quote can tell us a lot while stating a little. Such efficiency of words is wise and that's what makes quotes so unique.
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21 February 2008
Famous Sayings - Why We Should Appreciate Quotes
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
-Benjamin Disraeli
A quick comment about this quote
This quote is really a quote of what quotes are all about. Again we have the theme of wisdom, but here we go one step further. If wisdom were to be forgotten by a single generation, then wisdom would be re-invented every 40-60 years. This should not be.
Quotes allow us to pass along lasting wisdom over time, in an easy and memorable way, and keep wisdom for as long as we continue to exist as humans.
So we should become pundits and purveyors of quotes, making good use of them, pass them along to our children and students, to the young and the old. Many will often identify with certain quotes, and what better way to communicate wisdom but with a quote?
What to do with this famous saying:
Quote freely, quote liberally, but quote, quote, quote! Quote what is worth quoting, quote what is simple to understand, quote what is confounding and perplexing. Get people to think, to become wiser and more attentive to be wise. Perpetuate quotes of the day, of the week, of the month, of the year. There are enough quotes to last for each day of a lifetime, several times over!
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18 February 2008
Famous Sayings - The Importance of Wisdom
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with thy getting get understanding.
- Proverbs 4:7
A quick comment about this quote:
When I see this quote I think of how there is a quest for knowledge in many, and how in that quest for knowledge there should be a useful result. That result is that what first seems like data or information should result in knowledge.
Yet the quest should not stop merely at knowledge. In this “information age”, much knowledge abounds indeed. But the quality of that knowledge is another story. Knowledge becomes truly useful and of the highest quality only if it turns into wisdom.
The knowledge that is true and survives the tests of time, change and turmoil as well as experience is called wisdom. Wisdom should also be understood, for without understanding wisdom becomes useless. This quote of scripture narrows it down very quickly…get wisdom, and get understanding…that is foremost the “principal thing”.
What to do with this famous saying:
The next time you learn something new, classify the value of what you learn into information, knowledge and wisdom. There is definitely too much information and perhaps even too much knowledge. You must determine what knowledge is useful to you. But Whatever you do, hold on to wisdom. That’s what really counts.
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