Proverbially Speaking

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11-09-2005, 09:20 PM
DorisInsinuate

Proverbially Speaking

I'm really enjoying the proverb "Carpe diem" at the moment. Thanks to some bad translation I've read it as "Don't waste time", which I'm finding a really helpful thing to keep reminding myself of.

Anyone else got some poor words of wisdom?
11-09-2005, 09:22 PM
Proper Bo

Re: Proverbially Speaking

piss off and read a book or something
11-09-2005, 09:25 PM
DorisInsinuate

Re: Proverbially Speaking

Shut it, philistine.
11-09-2005, 09:25 PM
Gripper

Re: Proverbially Speaking

"Tempus fugit"
"Carpe diem" is "Seize the day"
11-09-2005, 09:26 PM
Cheese

Re: Proverbially Speaking

Quote:

Originally Posted by Proper Bo

piss off and read a book or something

That's an even worse translation...
11-09-2005, 09:26 PM
DorisInsinuate

Re: Proverbially Speaking

Quote:

Originally Posted by gripper103.2

"Carpe diem" is "Seize the day"

Shut it, philistine.
11-09-2005, 09:26 PM
Guillaume

Re: Proverbially Speaking

Quote:

Originally Posted by DorisInsinuate

Anyone else got some poor words of wisdom?

He who goes to bed with an itchy ass wakes up with a stinky finger.

:unsure:
11-09-2005, 09:27 PM
Proper Bo

Re: Proverbially Speaking

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cheese

Quote:

Originally Posted by Proper Bo

piss off and read a book or something

That's an even worse translation...

I stand by my translatory skills :snooty:
11-09-2005, 09:27 PM
Cheese

Re: Proverbially Speaking

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guillaume

Quote:

Originally Posted by DorisInsinuate

Anyone else got some poor words of wisdom?

He who goes to bed with an itchy ass wakes up with a stinky finger.

:unsure:

You need to stop sleeping with flea-ridden donkeys...
11-09-2005, 09:27 PM
DorisInsinuate

Re: Proverbially Speaking

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guillaume

Quote:

Originally Posted by DorisInsinuate

Anyone else got some poor words of wisdom?

He who goes to bed with an itchy ass wakes up with a stinky finger.

:unsure:

Too many words, philistine.
11-09-2005, 09:28 PM
Gripper

Re: Proverbially Speaking

Carpe Diem

SEIZE THE DAY

TIS ONLY IN THEIR DREAMS THAT MEN TRULY BE FREE,
'TWAS ALWAYS THUS, AND ALWAYS THUS WILL BE. -KEATING.
11-09-2005, 09:30 PM
Lilmiss

Re: Proverbially Speaking

Quote:

Originally Posted by DorisInsinuate

Thanks to some bad translation I've read it as "Don't waste time"

it means, "Seize the day."

plebs. :snooty:

Edit; damn you gripper.
11-09-2005, 09:31 PM
Gripper

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Veni, vidi, vici - I came, I saw, I conquered. (Julius Caesar)
11-09-2005, 09:31 PM
Gripper

Re: Proverbially Speaking

Rome FTW
11-09-2005, 09:32 PM
Guillaume

Re: Proverbially Speaking

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lilmiss

Quote:

Originally Posted by DorisInsinuate

Thanks to some bad translation I've read it as "Don't waste time"

it means, "Seize the day."

plebs. :snooty:

Exactly what gripper pointed out twenty minutes ago.

chronologically-challenged pothead. :snooty:
11-09-2005, 09:33 PM
Gripper

Re: Proverbially Speaking

Veritas vos liberabit - The truth will set you free
11-09-2005, 09:39 PM
DorisInsinuate

Re: Proverbially Speaking

Shut it, philistines.
11-09-2005, 09:44 PM
Gripper

Re: Proverbially Speaking

Sonnets from the Portuguese, XIV

If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say,
"I love her for her smile - her look - her way
Of speaking gently - for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and brings
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day." -
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee - and love, so wrought
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry -
A creature might forget to weep who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou may love on, through love's eternity.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
11-09-2005, 09:45 PM
Lilmiss

Re: Proverbially Speaking

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guillaume

Exactly what gripper pointed out twenty minutes ago.

hush now :snooty:
i'm multi-tasking atm
11-09-2005, 09:46 PM
Guillaume

Re: Proverbially Speaking

Yeah, like your ancient puter can even do that. :P
11-09-2005, 09:47 PM
enoughfakefiles

Re: Proverbially Speaking

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guillaume

Yeah, like your ancient puter can even do that. :P

I think she means washing and ironing.:lol:
11-09-2005, 09:48 PM
Gripper

Re: Proverbially Speaking

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lilmiss

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guillaume

Exactly what gripper pointed out twenty minutes ago.

hush now :snooty:
i'm multi-tasking atm

Rolling joint
Making coffee
Watching "Bourne identity"
Listening to ~~Dropkick Murphys~~pretty fly for a jedi - offspring
Posting on FST

am I close?
11-09-2005, 09:52 PM
Lilmiss

Re: Proverbially Speaking

preparing meself for Lost.
so don't tell me what's gonna happen. :fist:

and, i don't wash or iron, tanksyou muchly. :snooty: :ermm:
11-09-2005, 09:53 PM
Lilmiss

Re: Proverbially Speaking

too close gripper.

get out my shire. :fist:
11-09-2005, 09:55 PM
Proper Bo

Re: Proverbially Speaking

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lilmiss

preparing meself for Lost.
so don't tell me what's gonna happen. :fist:

and, i don't wash or iron, tanksyou muchly. :snooty: :ermm:

the bit where he shoots him is great:P

And we know you don't wash :snooty:
11-09-2005, 09:56 PM
Guillaume

Re: Proverbially Speaking

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lilmiss

and, i don't wash or iron, tanksyou muchly. :snooty: :ermm:

Do not or can not? :tease:
11-09-2005, 09:56 PM
Gripper

Re: Proverbially Speaking

For Lilmiss

Lay your sleeping head, my love

Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm;
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral:
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.

Soul and body have no bounds:
To lovers as they lie upon
Her tolerant enchanted slope
In thier ordinary swoon,
Grave the vision Venus sends
Of supernatural sympathy,
Universal love and hope;
While an abstract insight wakes
Among the glaciers and the rocks
The hermit's sensual ecstasy.

Certainly, fidelity
On the stroke of midnight pass
Like vibrations of a bell
And fashionable madmen raise
Their pedantic boring cry;
Every farthing of the cost,
All the dreaded cards foretell,
Shall be paid, but from this night
Not a whisper, not a thought,
Not a kiss nor look be lost.

Beauty, midnight, vision dies:
Let the winds of dawn that blow
Softly round your dreaming head
Such a day of sweetness show
Eye and knocking heart may bless,
Find the mortal world enough;
Noons of dryness see you fed
By the involuntary powers,
Nights of insult let you pass
Watched by every human love.

W. H. Auden
11-09-2005, 10:00 PM
Proper Bo

Re: Proverbially Speaking

Quote:

Originally Posted by gripper103.2

For Lilmiss

Lay your sleeping head, my love

Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm;
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral:
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.

Soul and body have no bounds:
To lovers as they lie upon
Her tolerant enchanted slope
In thier ordinary swoon,
Grave the vision Venus sends
Of supernatural sympathy,
Universal love and hope;
While an abstract insight wakes
Among the glaciers and the rocks
The hermit's sensual ecstasy.

Certainly, fidelity
On the stroke of midnight pass
Like vibrations of a bell
And fashionable madmen raise
Their pedantic boring cry;
Every farthing of the cost,
All the dreaded cards foretell,
Shall be paid, but from this night
Not a whisper, not a thought,
Not a kiss nor look be lost.

Beauty, midnight, vision dies:
Let the winds of dawn that blow
Softly round your dreaming head
Such a day of sweetness show
Eye and knocking heart may bless,
Find the mortal world enough;
Noons of dryness see you fed
By the involuntary powers,
Nights of insult let you pass
Watched by every human love.

W. H. Auden

ghey
11-09-2005, 10:03 PM
Lilmiss

Re: Proverbially Speaking

i smell great today
or maybe that's the grass :unsure:

and no, i can't iron.
shake n wear is my motto. :01:
11-09-2005, 10:06 PM
Gripper

Re: Proverbially Speaking

Quote:

Originally Posted by Proper Bo

Quote:

Originally Posted by gripper103.2

For Lilmiss

Lay your sleeping head, my love

Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm;
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral:
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.

Soul and body have no bounds:
To lovers as they lie upon
Her tolerant enchanted slope
In thier ordinary swoon,
Grave the vision Venus sends
Of supernatural sympathy,
Universal love and hope;
While an abstract insight wakes
Among the glaciers and the rocks
The hermit's sensual ecstasy.

Certainly, fidelity
On the stroke of midnight pass
Like vibrations of a bell
And fashionable madmen raise
Their pedantic boring cry;
Every farthing of the cost,
All the dreaded cards foretell,
Shall be paid, but from this night
Not a whisper, not a thought,
Not a kiss nor look be lost.

Beauty, midnight, vision dies:
Let the winds of dawn that blow
Softly round your dreaming head
Such a day of sweetness show
Eye and knocking heart may bless,
Find the mortal world enough;
Noons of dryness see you fed
By the involuntary powers,
Nights of insult let you pass
Watched by every human love.

W. H. Auden

ghey

Tetchy:shifty:
11-09-2005, 10:06 PM
enoughfakefiles

Re: Proverbially Speaking

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lilmiss

and no, i can't iron.
shake n wear is my motto. :01:

The real secret is don't put so many clothes in the dryer.FTW:01: