[Darkness]

"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

Saw this in my gmail earlier, and I thought how true. How important it is to speak up if you want your needs, desires and opinions to matter. In politics, in religion, in relationships, in day to day life.

[Fluid of life]

I believe that it was better expressed as, "It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease."

[Innanna]

Or as the rules of both yesteryear and modern times say: "Your opinion differs from mine! OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!!"

[Couer de l'Ange]

But no-one listens really if your on a soapbox in central London!

[BellaCullen1982]

"put off today what someone else will gladly do tomorrow."

I'm a someone who would gladly do tomorrow, especially with jobs being so scarce. I've been looking for about six months now and can't find jack shit for work.

[ifeelsick]

i agree sire, you gotta voice your matters openly, the ten who said something may be better off after saying what they will than the ten thousand suffering in silence

[Darkness]

Yep, otherwise the vocal minority (10,squeaky wheel) ends up represending the silent (10,000) majority.

[Vore]

"Never mistake cat food for coffee beans... The coffee will taste terrible and you'll never get your cat back off the ceiling"

-My advice to a friend this morning when I pointed out how similar the cat food packets are to the coffee beans.

[havik]

"never poke a bloated beaver."

[Couer de l'Ange]

havikachilds, on Jul 8 2009, 02:06 PM, said:

"never poke a bloated beaver."

I'll bear that in mind next time I chat up a pregnant woman! :laugh:

[Vampire_Gamer]

Couer de l, on Jun 30 2009, 03:09 AM, said:

But no-one listens really if your on a soapbox in central London!

"You can do more with kind words and a gun then you can with only kind words"
-Al Capone

It may not be pretty but if you want people to listen it works.

[Daredevil]

I heard this one the other day, with regards to helping someone else and they ask you to make a decision for them:

"You're the one fucking this cat, I'm just holding up the tail."

[tarfu]

"If at first you don't succeed destroy all evidence you tried"- I forget where I read that

[Archangel]

1. If at first you don't succeed, smoke a joint and you won't care anymore.

2. Caesar said, "I Came, I Saw, I Conquered". I say, "I Saw, I Conquered, I Came".

[FallingSpider]

Vēnī, vīdī, vīcī

[Qoji]

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."

-H. P. Lovecraft

[havik]

A girl phoned me the other day and said... Come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. Nobody was home. ~Rodney Dangerfield