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An arguement of proverbs - 7/17/2006 11:23:16 PM

VandalHeart

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OK, this is a lot like the Mottos thread I just started, but I just had an idea.

I'm going to start with one proverb, the object of the game is to answer it with another proverb that either disagrees with it, or twists the meaning into something else. This is kind of like a cross between the Mottos thread and the multifarious word games on this forum. Let me give an example before I get started.

The tree of democracy must be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots.
    --Thomas Jefferson

Patriotism is the virtue of the wicked.
    --Oscar Wilde

See how this works? OK, lets get started with one of the most famous ones.

Do unto others as you would have done unto you.
    --The Golden Rule, The Bible

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RE: An arguement of proverbs - 7/18/2006 1:11:09 AM

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quote:

Do unto others as you would have done unto you.

"Good fences make good neighbors." Robert Frost, Mending Wall

New Proverb: "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." Ancient Greek proverb

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RE: An arguement of proverbs - 7/18/2006 4:46:09 AM

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"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush...unless you have a flamethrower."
--motto, Chess and Other Tactical Games Club, Tipton HS, Tipton, OK, 1997

"Does history ever recond an instance in which the majority was right?"
--Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love by Robert Heinlein

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I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you can have everything that you want. Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave.
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RE: An arguement of proverbs - 7/18/2006 3:18:19 PM

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"What is right is seldom popular. What is popular is seldom right/"
unknown

"And so it goes, and so it goes, and the book says we may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us."
narrator from the motion picture Magnolia

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I want a lover I don't have to love,
I want a girl who's to sad to give a fuck...
I want a boy who's so drunk he doesn't talk
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RE: An arguement of proverbs - 7/19/2006 10:54:15 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Lidh2l

"And so it goes, and so it goes, and the book says we may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us."
narrator from the motion picture Magnolia

There is no time like the present.
-unknown

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Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

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RE: An arguement of proverbs - 7/20/2006 12:35:22 AM

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You have to start the next pair, LaMalinche.

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--King Jarenth of the Goblins, Labyrinth

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RE: An arguement of proverbs - 7/20/2006 1:10:34 AM

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Sheesh . . . okay. . .

Good enough for Government work. (heehee what my last post obviously was)

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RE: An arguement of proverbs - 7/20/2006 1:13:31 AM

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Elephant: n - a mouse built to government specifications.
--Robert Heinlein

Non sufficet orbis.
The world is not enough.
--from the English crest of the Bond family

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I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you can have everything that you want. Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave.
--King Jarenth of the Goblins, Labyrinth

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RE: An arguement of proverbs - 7/20/2006 1:22:18 AM

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Amor patriæ nostra lex.
Translation: "Love of the fatherland is our law."

Cave ne ante ullas catapultas ambules.
If I were you, I wouldn't walk in front of any catapults.

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Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

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RE: An arguement of proverbs - 7/20/2006 1:24:01 AM

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LOL!!! Where are those from?

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--King Jarenth of the Goblins, Labyrinth

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RE: An arguement of proverbs - 7/20/2006 1:26:37 AM

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It is mock Latin. . .

Here ya go. . . have fun. . .

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Latin_Proverbs#Mock_Latin

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Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

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RE: An arguement of proverbs - 7/20/2006 1:27:30 AM

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Oops! Um, proverb...here ya go:

FAILURE

It could be that the meaning of your life is to serve as a warning to others.

-- www.despair.com

(I.E. - No, walk in front of the catapult...we need the example)

Be courteous. Be safe.
--startup message on Cingular Wireless cell phones

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I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you can have everything that you want. Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave.
--King Jarenth of the Goblins, Labyrinth

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RE: An arguement of proverbs - 7/20/2006 1:31:14 AM

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A good friend is someone who will bail you out of jail, but your best friend is the one sitting next to you saying "that was fun".

A good man in an evil society seems the greatest villain of all.

-English Proverb

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Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

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RE: An arguement of proverbs - 7/20/2006 1:36:52 AM

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Your enemy never thinks of himself as a villian.
--Robert Heinlein

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
--attributed to William Wallace, scottish revolutionary

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I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you can have everything that you want. Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave.
--King Jarenth of the Goblins, Labyrinth

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RE: An arguement of proverbs - 7/20/2006 1:38:57 AM

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Come on Tobes and weenieroast, stop lurking and come play!

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Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

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RE: An arguement of proverbs - 7/20/2006 1:40:27 AM

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All good things come to an end.

A picture is worth a thousand words, and yet picture books are for infants.

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Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

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RE: An arguement of proverbs - 7/20/2006 1:49:00 AM

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If a picture's worth a thousand words, then why can't I paint you?
The words would never show,
The you I've come to know.
If a face can launch a thousand ships, then where am I to go?
There's no one home but you.
You're all that's left me too.
--Bread, If

What goes up must come down.
--tenet of Euclidean Physics and from Blood, Sweat, and Tears, Spinning Wheel

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I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you can have everything that you want. Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave.
--King Jarenth of the Goblins, Labyrinth

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RE: An arguement of proverbs - 7/20/2006 1:55:28 AM

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"Blame can be passed either upward or downward. Unlike credit which, like hot air, always rises."
-- Orson Scott Card

"Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around"
-- Cameron Crowe, Vanilla Sky

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RE: An arguement of proverbs - 7/20/2006 2:03:07 AM

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We fear change.
-Garth Algarr, Wayne's World

I hate pessimism. Any school of thought in which the thinker's happiness is predicated on being wrong is not a school of thought for me.
--unknown

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I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you can have everything that you want. Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave.
--King Jarenth of the Goblins, Labyrinth

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RE: An arguement of proverbs - 7/20/2006 2:04:15 AM

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By the way, Tobes, that was a good one. I had to think REALLY damn hard to come up with an arguement for that one. Oh, and welcome to the boards!

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I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you can have everything that you want. Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave.
--King Jarenth of the Goblins, Labyrinth

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