Entries Tagged as 'Quotes'
A Poem by King Henry VIII
King Henry VIII is well known for his many wives, and for being the principal orchestrator of the Reformation in England*, some may not know that he was also a poet.
The eagle’s force subdues eache byrd that flyes—
What metal can resyst the, flaminge fyre?
Doth not the sunne dazle the cleareste eyes,
And melte the ice, and make the froste retyre?
The hardest stones are peircede thro’ wyth tools;
The wysest are, with princes, made but fools.
This poem was written by, apparently, by King Henry VIII upon falling in love with Anne Boylnne. I thought it was quite pretty.
~BX
Source( C. S. Lewis)
*The Reformation and King Henry VIII are a tricky subject. I will perhaps write more later.
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The Lord is My Shepheard.
The Lord and I are in a sheep-shepherd relationship, and I am in
a position of negative need.
He prostrates me in a green-belt grazing area.
He conducts me directionally parallel to non-torrential aqueous
liquid.
He returns to original satisfaction levels my psychological makeup.
He switches me on to a positive behavioral format for maximal
prestige of His identity.
It should indeed be said that notwithstanding the fact that I make
ambulatory progress through the umbragious inter-hill mortality slot, terror
sensations will no be initiated in me, due to para-etical phenomena.
Your pastoral walking aid and quadrupic pickup unit introduce me
into a pleasurific mood state.
You design and produce a nutriment-bearing furniture-type structure
in the context of non-cooperative elements.
You act out a head-related folk ritual employing vegetable extract.
My beverage utensil experiences a volume crisis.
It is an ongoing deductible fact that your inter-relational
empathetical and non-ventious capabilities will retain me as their
target-focus for the duration of my non-death period, and I will possess
tenant rights in the housing unit of the Lord on a permanent, open-ended
time basis. (From our friends at Fortune)
Or, in it’s more known form:
The LORD is my sheperd
Psalm 23 A Psalm of David.
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
he leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul:
he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil:
for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:
thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:
and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever. (from the Bible)
~ BX
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God’s Gift.
Found in Fortune:
What we Are is God’s gift to us.
What we Become is our gift to God.
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When Quotes Had Class
http://www.allowe.com/Humor/book/When%20Insults%20Had%20Class.htm
Okay, some of them we’ve seen before on this blog, but it’s nice to see them all together.
BX
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From our good friends at fortune
An American scientist once visited the offices of the great Nobel prize
winning physicist, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen. He was amazed to find that
over Bohr’s desk was a horseshoe, securely nailed to the wall, with the
open end up in the approved manner (so it would catch the good luck and not
let it spill out). The American said with a nervous laugh,
“Surely you don’t believe the horseshoe will bring you good luck,
do you, Professor Bohr? After all, as a scientist –”
Bohr chuckled.
“I believe no such thing, my good friend. Not at all. I am
scarcely likely to believe in such foolish nonsense. However, I am told
that a horseshoe will bring you good luck whether you believe in it or not.”
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On Eating of Animals
Seen on a signature, of (as far as I can gather) G.Pitman on the RedHat List
“There’s plenty of room for all God’s creatures… Right next to the mashed potatoes.”
Interesting to think that we had the passage from Mathew on Sunday about Jesus saying that it was not what went into a man that made him unclean, but what came out of him (by way of actions, and words).
BX
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YAQ
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Decedant Barbarians
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism
to decadence without touching civilization.
– John O’Hara
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