Wisdom Game

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Post a wise saying (can't be your own) that uses at least one word from the previous quote. You get 1 point for each word that you use again for as many times as the word is repeated.

For example:

"A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left to him."

next post:

"All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost."

= 5 points

Just keep tallying up your score...the winner gets a trip for 2 to Tahiti (not really)

The slate is clean so the first poster can post any wise saying and they get 5 early bird points!

Oops...The quotes shouldn't be longer than 2 sentences....my bad.

Edited October 1, 2006 by Steven_and_Jinky

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Just keep tallying up your score...the winner gets a trip for 2 to Tahiti (not really)

That sounds like fun (not really)

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Just keep tallying up your score...the winner gets a trip for 2 to Tahiti (not really)

That sounds like fun (not really)

Minus 5 to Reinhard.

[dalegg 143]

Wisdom game? Who do you think your crowd is here? I'm having a hard enough time changing letters.

[jjjimmy 0]

we have nothing to fear but fear itself.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

we have nothing to fear but fear itself.

5 points to Jimmy for being the first!

"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness."

Steven - 2 points.

[Chuckles 0]

I want my baby back, baby back, baby back ribs !!

0 points -Chuckie

[Melo 1]

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Melo = 3 points

[one...two...tree 2,762]

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Melo = 3 points

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

2 points here...

Steven = 4 points

p.s. You can look up all the quotes (google, etc.)...it's not about knowing all these quotes off hand, but finding common words among the different quotes.

[Melo 1]

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

2 points here...

Steven = 4 points

p.s. You can look up all the quotes (google, etc.)...it's not about knowing all these quotes off hand, but finding common words among the different quotes.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

3 more points - total = 6

Well I should look more carefully - here is the updated versio:

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

11 more points - total = 14

[Fischkoepfin 1]

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.

Fischkoepfin: 3

[Melo 1]

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.

Fischkoepfin: 3

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

Melo: 9 + 14 = 23

[rebeccajo 14]

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

That's not wise. That's bunk.

[Melo 1]

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

That's not wise. That's bunk.

This was written by J.R.R Tolkein.

[ghallett 0]

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

Do not piss into the wind.