It could be a proverb or a famous quote:

I quite like these "Marxist" comments:

"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms"

"I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30"

(That would be Groucho not Karl btw )


And then there's Margaret Thatcher:

"It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs."

"If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage."


"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman."


"If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim."

"I owe nothing to Women's Lib."

"Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country."


A chinese proverb

"Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet."

If you discover a quote or proverb worth sharing, whilst on your cyber travels, perhaps you could post it here.

Yilgun . . . I think you may like this thread

We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history.

(a fortune cookie from my old unix machine which itself is a history for me now)

You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2 equals 3 and there is a way out enough for one person only.

(On chess battle, by former world champion Tal)

http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_11_1426

http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_11_4928

Of course you're neither the first nor the last, I just like things well organised that's why I showed previous threads of a similar title. I do recommend browsing pre-existing threads before posting a new one.

My greatest fear: repetition.
Max Frisch

Digression, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.

Nietzsche

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.... Anais Nin

My greatest fear: repetition.
Max Frisch

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

Woody Allen

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.
/D.Adams 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'/

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
/George Bernard Shaw/

(I'd change 'her' in the second quote into 'some people' )

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
Socrates

Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.
You talk to your enemies.

Moshe Dayan

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Muhammad Ali

At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.

Aldous Huxley