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#163714 - 11/26/06 04:06 AM favorite phrases and sources
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 3338 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	"There are some phrases truly impregnated with the freshness of the sea and the smell of roses carried by the breeze." (from a letter Marcel Proust is writing to a friend) Proposition: Just your favorite phrase,sentence,line of the moment. From a book, proze or poetry. From a newspaper,magazine,the street,whatever. Past present or future. With the source it came from. No limit of date or contributions. No prizes to be won but to be among other people's favorite phrases. Maybe this has been done before, but favorite lines change with time. Edited by BranShea (11/28/06 01:14 PM)
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#163715 - 11/26/06 06:47 AM Re: phrases and sources
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 12365	Couple of mine are from Three Penny Opera: Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral. Tr. First feed the belly, then talk right from wrong. and Die im Dunkeln sieht man nicht. Tr. You don't see the one in the dark. Note regarding Fressen. In German there are two words for eating, essen is the eating as done by humans and fressen is the eating as done by animals. I take the Three Penny line to mean that one eats for survival before one worries about morality.
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#163716 - 11/26/06 07:25 AM Re: phrases and sources
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 3338 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	I favor those too. May I answer with a line from the same Brecht-Weil source: 'Meine Schwester und ich stammen aus Louisana, wo die Wassern des Mississippi untern Monde fliessen. 'My sister and I are from Louisiana, where the waters of the Mississippi flow under the moon.' Fromthe Opera The seven Carnal Sins. Edited by BranShea (11/26/06 07:28 AM)
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#163717 - 11/26/06 11:46 AM Re: phrases and sources
dalehileman Pooh-Bah Registered: 07/10/05 Posts: 1708 Loc: Apple Valley, CA, USA	I would have to think long and hard about this one and get back to you, but from Laverne: --He was the kind if you got in trouble you didn't look to see if he was still with you--you knew damned well he was--Louis LaMour --The biggest barrier to becoming rich is living like you're rich before you are---Knight Kiplinger _________________________ dalehileman
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#163718 - 11/26/06 12:38 PM Re: phrases and sources
AlimaeHP member Registered: 02/29/04 Posts: 135 Loc: Utah, United States Of America	"You can not have with out, that which you do not have with in." -Unknown Basically means that how ever you see yourself is how the world is going to treat you. _________________________ Rev. Alimae
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#163719 - 11/27/06 09:06 PM Re: phrases and sources
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 3338 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	(Date "within" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)) Hello AlimaeHP, your line kept me busy thinking.Most of the time what your line means may be true, but fortunately it is also possible that the world treats you better than you think of yourself. I'm here to improve my knowledge of your language. So I learned that without and within are written as one word. While compared to where I come from you use words far more often seperately. We stick much and many more words together and I had to unlearn that in English. I hope they did not change the rules in the meantime, for then that which I say may be incorrect. Anyway I hope you don't mind me saying this. Edited by BranShea (11/27/06 09:09 PM)
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#163720 - 11/27/06 09:56 PM Re: phrases and sources
AlimaeHP member Registered: 02/29/04 Posts: 135 Loc: Utah, United States Of America	No you are correct, I am not sure what I was thinking when I posted my reply. They are correctly written as without and within. Chalk it up to getting grey hairs, seven kids, and just finding out I have a fifth grandbaby on the way. Ack! I am only 35! Make it stop, make it stop. _________________________ Rev. Alimae
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#163721 - 11/27/06 10:03 PM Re: phrases and sources
themilum veteran Registered: 05/25/02 Posts: 1529 Loc: Aladamnbama the most watered s...	A favorite line of mine from the wonderful poetry of W.B.Yeats And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun. _______________________________ The Song of the Wandering Aengus 1899
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#163722 - 11/27/06 10:12 PM Re: phrases and sources
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 3338 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	THAT'S more work than words can say..........
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#163723 - 11/28/06 08:34 AM Re: phrases and sources
Elizabeth Creith addict Registered: 03/22/05 Posts: 500 Loc: Northern Ontario, Canada	Quote: A favorite line of mine from the wonderful poetry of W.B.Yeats And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun. _______________________________ The Song of the Wandering Aengus 1899 Yes, Yeats is wonderful! I like Gyring, spiring to and fro/in those great ignorant leafy ways from "The Two Trees" and Had I but raised my bridle hand, as I have held it low, the little jackals that flee so fast were feasting all in a row. Had I but bowed my head on my breast, as I have held it high, the kite that whistles above us now were gorged till she could not fly. Kipling, of course, "The Ballad of East and West" and, ibid The dun he leaned against the rein and slugged his head above, but the red mare played with the snaffle-bars like a maiden plays with a glove.
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