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QUOTABLE QUOTES

​and other stuff to think about

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Karma means you don't get away with anything
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anon



What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 BCE)


Nature never said to me: Do not be poor. Still less did she say: Be rich. Her cry to me was always: Be independent.
– Nicolas de Chamfort, writer (1741-1794)


Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.
- Heinrich Heine, poet, journalist, and essayist (1797-1856)



Since my house burned down / I now own a better view / of the rising moon.​

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
​- Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (1918-2013)

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Compassion is the basis of morality. - Arnold Schopenhauer, philosopher
(1788-1860)

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart, theologian (c. 1260-1327)


If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Dalai Lama


If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
- Buddha


The miracle is this: the more we share, the more we have.
- Leonard Nimoy


In order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.
- Henry Christopher Bailey


There are two ways to look at life. One is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as though everything is.
- Albert Einstein 


Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather


The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
- Tom Waits
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Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
- Pete Seeger


Life is mostly froth and bubble, / Two things stand like stone, / Kindness in another's trouble, / Courage in your own. - Adam Lindsay Gordon, poet (1833-1870)

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
- Thomas Fuller


Courage is fear that has said its prayers. - Karl Barth





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  • Blokes Lounge
    • Why a Bloke's Lounge?
    • Vision & values
    • Who's who
    • What the Lounge means to me >
      • IT'S A FUN AND FRIENDLY PLACE - Mick Gannaway
      • Ageing gracefully - Ian Begaud
    • Foundation members
    • VALE
    • GALLERY >
      • 2020
      • 2019
      • 2018 >
        • Rollo's 80th Birthday
      • 2017
      • 2016
      • 2014-15 >
        • XMAS IN JULY
      • 2013-14
      • 2012-13
    • QUOTABLE QUOTES >
      • QUOTES 2019
      • QUOTES 2018
      • QUOTES 2017
      • Quotes 2016
      • Quotes 2015
  • ACTIVITIES & VENUES
    • Activities
    • Interests and skills
  • News/other stuff
    • You and Your Prostate
    • Early detection saves lives
    • 2018 Commonwealth Games
    • Brrm Brrm - Bloke's cars
    • Marathon Man 2
    • SIX BEST DOCTORS
    • Beer blokes
    • Poetry >
      • The Names of the Game
      • THE TOUGHS
      • THE PUFFS
      • GOF Golf
      • TORTOISE TABLE
      • BLOKES ON BIKES
      • Meanderthals
      • Darts for Old Farts
      • TEAM TORTOISE
      • Dehli belly
      • Security Guard
    • On ya bike, Mal!
    • Rollo Meyers Park
    • Marathon Man
    • Vitamin F
    • Mental wellbeing
    • Avoiding midlife crisis
    • Signs of a stroke
    • DARTS >
      • BULLSEYE CLUB
    • FISHING NEWS >
      • Piscatorial ponderings
    • Volunteering
    • Older news >
      • Fishing fees - open letter to MPs
      • Men's Health Week June 15-21
      • Helping the homeless
      • Brewery tour a bottler
      • Probing for members
      • Forging a future
      • GC Snrs Regional Roundtable
      • Bali bombing survivor an inspiration
      • Mental health & older fellas
      • Laughs & Chuckles
      • GC SportinG Hall of Fame
      • Superannuation update
      • Bowel cancer info session
      • Poetry in Paradise
      • Centrelink support for seniors
      • eBooks and library services
      • Aged care session
  • USEFUL STUFF
  • Contact Us
  • Help & advice