Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Socrates's Quote

One word frees us

Of all the weight and pain in life,

That word is Love

From Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet:

Did my heart love till now? Forswear it sight,

For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night. 

 

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Proverb from all around

Gratitude is the least of virtues, but ingratitude the worst of vices. - Proverb


He who flies proves himself guilty. - Danish Proverb

He declares himself guilty who justifies himself before accusation. - Proverb

With clothes the new are best; With friends the old are best. - Chinese Proverb

Actions speak louder than words. - Proverb

Every bird loves to hear him self sing. - German Proverb

Better be proficient in one art than a smatterer in a hundred. - Japanese Proverb

Wait till it's night before saying it has been a fine day. - Proverb

Of one ill comes many. - Scottish Proverb

Many hands make light work. - Proverb

Who loves himself need fear no rival. - Latin Proverb

Curiosity killed the cat. - Proverb

Never give advice in a crowd. - Arabian Proverb

Better face a danger once than be always in fear. - Proverb

Every eel hopes to become a whale. - German Proverb

The day has eyes; The night has ears. - Proverb

A fool may be known by six things: anger without cause, speech without profit, change without progress, inquiry without object, putting trust in a stranger, and
mistaking foes for friends. - Arabian Proverb

Listen to the keyhole and you'll hear news of yourself. - Proverb

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Chinese Proverb

Three things on earth are accounted precious: knowledge, grain, and friendship. - Burmese Proverb

If you love yourself over much, nobody else will love you at all. - Proverb

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day - Teach a man to fish and you feed his for a lifetime. - Chinese Proverb

Contempt penetrates even the shell of the tortoise. - Persian Proverb

Though thy enemy seems a mouse, yet watch him like a lion. - Proverb

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. - Scottish Proverb

We have all forgotten more than we remember. - Proverb

It is so easy to become generous with other people's property. - Latin Proverb

Many things grow in the garden that were never sowed there. - Proverb

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"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."

"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." by Mark Lugris.


Love quotations are as abundant as they are varied.  Ranging from the sentimental to the spiteful, love quotations are as diverse as the emotion itself.  From Shakespeare to Sartre, love quotations offer a sweeping sampling of love, all kinds.

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Petuah Bung Hatta

Adalah gila meminjamkan buku kepada seseorang, namun yang lebih gila adalah orang yang meminjamkan buku.

Petuah itu kemudian ditambahkan oleh seseorang, "dan yang lebih gila dari semua yang gila, adalah orang yang meminjam buku kemudian mengembalikannya."

William Shakespeare Quote 5

“He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need:
If thou sorrow, he will weep;
If thou wake, he cannot sleep:
Thus of every grief in heart
He with thee does bear a part.
These are certain signs to know
Faithful friend from flattering foe.”



“But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again.”

William Shakespeare Quote 4

“If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die.”

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy rather in power than use; and keep thy friend under thine own life's key; be checked for silence, but never taxed for speech”

“Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.”

“'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of”  

“And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods
Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.”
 

William Shakespeare Quote 3

“There's place and means for every man alive.”

 “Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?”

“Say as you think and speak it from your souls.”

“Give thy thoughts no tongue.”

“Love is too young to know what conscience is.”

“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”

“Speak low, if you speak love.”

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William Shakespeare Quote 2

“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”

“Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.”

“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.” 

“Men's vows are women's traitors!”

“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind”

“It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions”   

William Shakespeare Quote

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”

“The love of heaven makes one heavenly.”

“When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain”

“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one”

“Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.”

“'Tis best to weigh The enemy more mighty than he seems”

“And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.”

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He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool - shun him

“He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool - shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple - teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep - wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise - follow him.”

 


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“A true friend laughs at your stories even when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your troubles even when they're not so bad”

“A true friend laughs at your stories even when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your troubles even when they're not so bad”

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Thursday, August 18, 2011

My Favorite Alice in Wonderland Quote



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Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, are full of quotable lines, but my favorite quote is this one from Humpty Dumpty:

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

On its face, this sounds like the purest nonsense, but it's actually a deeply philosophical statement. For the sake of clarity, or even just basic communication, we do need to define the terms we use, but the meanings of words change all the time; language is not a fixed set of words, definitions, collocations and syntax--all of these elements are in a more of less constant state of flux. Obviously, language has to continually evolve because the world around us, and our perception of it, is continually evolving.

Nonetheless, I often use this quote to chide people who don't seem to understand the meaning of particular words, but even so are not shy about using them with reckless abandon. I'll say to them, "You must follow the Humpty Dumpty school of language," and then follow up with the quote (I can sometimes be pretty obnoxious). Many people are unknowing adherents of the Humpty Dumpty school of language. "Socialism", for example, is one of the most misunderstood and misused words in recent history. Webster's defines it this way:
1. a theory or system of social organization which advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production, capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole. 2. procedure or practice in accordance with this theory. 3. (in Marxist theory) the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.
Ignoring, or simply ignorant of, the dictionary meaning of the word, people are wont to cry, "That's socialism!" about any number of things that are nothing of the sort. For example, socialized medicine is no more socialism than was the National Socialist German Workers' Party. I think this is an instance where words matter, and that anyone who uses the word "socialism" should be aware that they are talking about a system that is not substantively different from communism. Alice, in her conversation with Humpty Dumpty, voices some skepticism about the validity of his defining words to suit himself, remarking that,
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

But Humpty is unperturbed by her doubts. He answers, 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'

I think the egg has a point here. After all, communication is a two-way street, and it is encumbent upon the listener to infer what the speaker means by his or her words. And to give decriers of socialism their due, we often call countries like the U.K. or France, in which tax dollars bear the brunt of the cost for things like health care and education, "socialist" even though they're not, at least according to the dictionary definition of the word. As happens with many words, the meaning of "socialism" has changed over time. Therefore, Humpty Dumpty is not talking nonsense when he claims the right to define words for himself; finding new uses for words is part of the evolution of a language.

The Annotated Alice, a fascinating book written by one of the foremost authorities on Lewis Carroll, Martin Gardner, has extensive notes and explanations on this exchange between Alice and Mr. Dumpty--and it seems that Lewis Carroll supported our ovoid friend's contention.

Besides being the author of the two most iconic children's books ever written, Lewis Carroll was a man of varied interests and accomplishments. In fact, considering that he was a mathematician, logician, inventor, photographer and author, he was something of a Renaissance man. One of the subjects that interested him was the philosophy of language. It is evident in his writings that he was actually expressing some of his thoughts on this subject through Humpty Dumpty. Gardner points out in The Annotated Alice that Carroll wrote the following in an article called "The Stage and the Spirit of Reverence":

"no word has a meaning inseparably attached to it; a word means what the speaker intends by it, and the hearer understands by it, and that is all."

And in his book, Symbolic Logic, he said that:

"'The Logicians'--take, on this subject, what seems to me to be a more humble position than is at all necessary. They speak of the Copula of a Proposition 'with bated breath'; almost as if it were a living, conscious Entity, capable of declaring for itself what it chose to mean, and that we, poor humans creatures, had nothing to do but to ascertain what was its sovereign will and pleasure and submit to it."

Alice, a small girl of only "seven years and six months," was puzzled and perplexed by Humpty Dumpty's seemingly nonsensical words but, according to Gardner, "Lewis Carroll was fully aware of the profundity in Humpty Dumpty's whimsical discourse on semantics."

If you'd like to find out more about Martin Gardner's The Annotated Alice, then drop by my lens, The Annotated Alice at http://www.squidoo.com/the-annotated-alice.

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Saturday, August 13, 2011

Nobodys perfect in the world

Nobodys perfect in the world, artinya, tak ada manusia yang sempurna. Artinya lagi, setiap orang pasti memiliki kekurangan, dan biasanya kekurangannya itu berupa cacat bawaan. Karena itu, jangan terlalu "ngeyel" untuk sesuatu yang tidak kita kuasai. Juga jangan terlalu berharap orang lain akan selalu sempurna bagi kita, pasti dia memiliki kekurangan, sekecil apapun kekurangannya.

Nothing new under sun

Nothing new under sun, artinya, tak ada sesuatu yang baru di muka bumi ini. Apa-apa yang ada di muka bumi sekarang ini, sebenarnya telah ada, jadi tak ada yang benar-benar baru. Sesuatu yang ada sekarang, adalah bisa ada karena ada yang lama.

Jangan terlalu banyak menoleh ke belakang

Jangan terlalu banyak menoleh ke belakang, artinya, jangan terlalu memperkarakan sesuatu yang sudah kewat, dan kita selalu saja kembali ke belakang. Hapuslah kenangan masa lalu itu, sekalipun pahit adanya, sebab toh kita sedang menjalani kehidupan itu ke depan, bukan kembali ke masa lalu. Kita harus belajar memaafkan masa lalu, belajar memahami dan menerima segala kekurangan kita, sebab tidak ada manusia yang sempura.

Jangan berumah di pantai bila tidak ingin disapu badai

Jangan berumah di pantai bila tidak ingin disapu badai. pribahasa ini menerangkan, hendaklah menjauhi suatu persoalan yang bisa membuatmu terlibat di dalamnya. Jauhilah setiap bahaya yang sudah kita ketahui penyebab-penyebabnya. Jangan cari perkara kalau tidak ingin bermasalah.

Akibat setitik nila rusak susu sebelanga

Akibat setitik nila rusak susu sebelanga merupakan pribahasa yang artinya kerusakan terjadi pada seluruh tatanan akibat perbuatan seseorang. Karena itu, setiap personel harus memelihara corp de esprite. Pribahasa ini selarah atau senapas sengan pribahasa lain seperti "Kemarau setahun habis oleh hujan sehari."

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Siapa memberi ia akan menerima

Pribahasa ini sejalan dengan pendapat isac newton yang mengatakan sebenarnya tidak ada materi yang hilang, kecuali berubah dimensi. begitulah, ketika seseorang memberi, maka suatu hari ia akan menerima kembali pemberian itu dalam bentuk yang lain.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Apakah Pribahasa "Malu-malu kucing" masih berlaku?

Malu-malu kucing, yang artinya, pura-pura tidak mau tapi sebenarnya mau, namun tidak mau memperlihatkan minatnya itu karena rasa malu dilihat orang lain. Namun bila sudah tidak ada orang lain yang memungkinkannya melihat, segeralah ia mewujudkan keinginannya dengan secepat kilat. Perbuatan seperti itu mirip kucing jaman dulu, yang apabila disodori makanan, ia diam saja, seolah tidak mau. Namun begitu orang-orang lengah, makanan itu segera disambarnya.

Tapi yang suka malu-malu itu kan kucing jaman  dulu. Kucing jaman  sekarang sudah tidak malu-malu lagi, persis seperti remaja-remaja jaman sekarang yang urat malunya sudah mengendur. Kucing jaman sekarang, bila tidak disodori makanan, akan berusaha meminta makanan dengan cara mengiau, atau menepuk-nepuk kita dengan kakinya. Jika perangai kucing sudah berubah, maishkah pribahasa yang menggunakan permisalan dengan kucing dapat diberlakukan?

Berakit-rakit ke hulu, berenang-renang ketepian.

Ini adalah pribahasa yang menggunakan pola pantun dalam penyusunan kalimatnya, terlihat dengan adanya baris yang menjadi "sampiran" yaitu "berakit-rakit ke hulu" dan kemudian diikuti dengan baris yang merupakan "isi" yaitu bersakit-sakit dahulu, bersenang-senang kemudian. Selain ada sampiran dan isi, di sana juga ada permainan metrum dan bunyi.

Makna dari pribasaha ini adalah, sehendaknya setiap orang harus merasakan susah-payah dulu bila ingin sukses. Siapa yang mau bersusah payah, kelak ia akan menikmati kesuksesan di kemudian hari.

Harmoko Dua Kakinya

Harmoko dua kakinya, minta rokok sama apinya, adalah pantun jenaka.

Berat sama dipikul, ringan sama dijinjing

pesan moral yang terkandung dalam pribahasa ini adalah, bahwa sebagai makhluk sosial, kita mesti berbagi rasa dan secara merata. Suatu persoalan apakah itu berat atau ringan untuk diselesaikannya, hendaknya tetap diselesaikan secara bersama-sama. Pribahasa ini mengisyarakatkan bahwa tidak ada manusia yang sempurna dan superkuat seperti superman.