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De - Pt| Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
| design, v.: What you regret not doing later on. | |
| The last person who said that (God rest his soul) lived to regret it. | |
| Inglish Spocken Hier: some mangled translations Sign on a cathedral in Spain: It is forbidden to enter a woman, even a foreigner if dressed as a man. Above the enterance to a Cairo bar: Unaccompanied ladies not admitted unless with husband or similar. On a Bucharest elevator: The lift is being fixed for the next days. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable. -- Colin Bowles | |
| Your life would be very empty if you had nothing to regret. | |
| Violence stinks, no matter which end of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan. Sometimes people are just begging for that frypan, and if we weaken for a moment and honor their request, we should regard it as impulsive philanthropy, which we aren't in any position to afford, but shouldn't regret it too loudly lest we spoil the purity of the deed. -- Tom Robbins | |
| Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret. -- Benjamin Disraeli, "Coningsby" | |
| Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret? -- Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet" | |
