Explain this quote: "He who ask is a fool for five minutes. He who doesn't ask is a fool for a lifetime
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It just means that it is better to ask. At least you'd have your answer. If you hadn't asked, then you'd just be stupid wondering what the answer is.
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This is one of the best that I actually heard a mild-mannered man say to a new "know-it-all" person that he was trying to train, but the young man thought that he had all the answers.   Here goes!!!  "I'VE ALREADY FORGOTTEN MORE THAN YOU'LL EVER KNOW"   When you consider the meaning of that statement, it's a REAL put down.  I WILL guarantee you that the person hearing it will never forget it.  It will make them STOP and think.
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If you call a person a FOOL!..Matthews 5:22 don't ever call a person this by any means. Peace in Jesus Name. Out
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Not as long as you acknowledge where the quote originated or who copyrighted it.  Such as my favorites:\n"Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect."\n- Mark Twain, a Biography\n\n"The time is always right to do what is right" - Martin Luther King, Jr.\n\n"A righteous man cares for the needs of his animal." Proverbs 12:10\n\n"Ask the animals, and they will teach you." Job 12:7-10 \n\n"Though all creatures are subject to man's cruelty, God loves all His creation and has made plans for all His children and the lesser creatures to enjoy His eternal Kingdom." Psalm 145:-9-10,13,15-21 AMP
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I believe it's an excellent quote.\n\nAlthough many questions are embarassing to ask, and may cause an unexpected response, at you you can rest knowing that you tried to satisfy your curiousity.\n\nAnd if you ask a question when others are by you, you may have asked a question that they were dying to know.\n\n"Curiousity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back."\n\nExcellent question, by the way!
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1) This was Socrates, and he made this statement at his trial.  (Read the "Apology" by Plato.  Or take my word for it.)  What he meant was something like, "If we just go through life never asking why, what's the point?"  He believed that to truly find "the good life" we need to be willing to ask hard questions and come to know the truth.\n\n2)  This is another statement that leads toward the same basic idea.  The speaker (I can't remember who said this one off the top of my head) is suggesting that we cannot be successful until we come to know who we really are--why we do what we do.  So examining one's self is the first step that we must take if we are to live successful lives.
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it is clear as day that this fool does not care about you, the question i need to ask is this; do you care about YOU? if you do well the answer to your question is clear, move on with your life, the jerk is not worth your time.
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FOR WESMEISTER:  Answer not a fool according to his folly lest thou also be like unto him.\n                                                 Proverbs 26:4
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Quote:\nIt suggests that a person’s brain is like a cracked pot, in other words that he or she is in some way deranged. Pot was once a slang term for the skull, and something cracked was obviously defective—a older expression with a similar meaning that used the same word was crack-brain, and of course we still have the slang term cracked for someone who’s thought to be crazy (a crackhead is something different, of course).\n\nCrackpot has been with us since the 1880s, though its first sense was that of a stupid person. The London humorous writer F Anstey (a pseudonym for Thomas Anstey Guthrie) recorded it in this sense in 1891 in a piece about short farces of the period that were performed in the more minor London music halls (I hope his attempt at recording the London dialect of the period is understandable): “Colonel Jinks’s ill-used son discovered the will, whereupon his ecstasy was quite lyrical. ‘What!’ he cried. ‘All that mine? Five thousand jimmy-oh goblets, five thousand good old golden sorcepin lids! [i.e. gold sovereigns] To think I’ve bin sech a bloomin’ crackpot all this time and never tumbled on it! I’ll be a gentleman now, and live in stoyle.’”\n\nWithin a few years, the term had moved to its modern sense of a person given to eccentric, senseless or lunatic notions.
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"If I wanted to add years to my life, I'd be good, But I'd rather be bad and add life to my years."\n\n                            unknown
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It means man is capable of asking questions that no one can answer.\n\n?
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It is about a lover talking about her dead lover and hoping that he/she is still out there somewhere (in heaven or hell) instead of nonexistant anymore ( he/she hopes there is life after death because he/she cannot bear the idea that his/her lover's soul that she loved so much has ceased to exist "I would rather know you alive in Hell than think your beauty is nothing now"). The lover who is still alive is speaking of her loyalty to his/her dead lover( because his/her love was strong ("But as we held faithfulness, you and I")) and the hope that they will be reuinted after death and that her dead lover will still love him/her then ("Do you ever think of me? you who died")
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Pretty much the quote states that even the more powerful people in the world make mistakes and aren't always correct in their ways of solving problems.  And that a truly good person would be able to see that they're way isn't the right way and will allow other solutions to the problem, as long as the problem gets resolved peacefully.  And that the worst thing a person can do is be too proud to take someone else's advice.  In Antigone, her father I believe (it's been a while since I read this) is so set in his ways and believing he's right, that he won't see things from Antigone's point of view.  Due to his pride, it results in his daughter's death (I'm pretty sure she dies in this), which is not an affective solution to the problem.  I'm sorry I can't remember quotes and things of that sort.  But I hope I put you on the right track!  Good luck!
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I think the actual quote is "Stupid is as Stupid does."\n\nOnce you put the "as" in there it is much more obvious that the phrase means our stupidity is defined by our actions.
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the quote is - “To hide the key to your heart is to risk forgetting where you placed it.”\n\nits  Timothy Childers quote .
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It's a Chinese proverb you're thinking of. You've almost got it right. The correct version is:\n\n"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
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I am not sure what you will find historically about this quote, however, I know that back in the '50's it was a saying that many "southern" mothers would quote.  The saying, as far as I know and heard my grandmothers and their friends talk about, means that if you 'dig deep into the lie a person obviously is telling, or has told,  you will find that he/she is capable of, or has already stolen. " My mom would carry that statement further and even today, I find myself quoting it: " if you lie, you'll cheat, if you cheat, you'll steal..." I think that also falls into the same category.  In a nutshell, if you are capable of lying, then there is nothing that you probably will not do.  I hope this helps.  It brought back memories.