Questions about proverbs and quotes

[Blackdragon5095]

When I find any proverb or quote I don't understand l'll ask you guys. Anyway I start with this

1. "The greatest risk is not to take any risk at all"

I do take risk but I don't get is why is that the greatest risk ?? anyone care to help me out ?

2. "Life is lost in dreaming, and dreaming is lost in becoming "

I'm just trying to have a understanding of proverbs and quotes. They usally teach lessons that can be useful in life since life is a very unprediceable, all I know is that I will die 1 day.

 

[nectarine]

1. "The greatest risk is not to take any risk at all."

Just another version of a common proverb. 'Speculate to accumulate'. 'Don't start nothing, won't be nothing'. 'You lose all the games you never play'.

By not risking anything, you risk having nothing. If you don't take the odd chance, nothing will ever come your way. You will become both bored and boring.


2. "Life is lost in dreaming, and dreaming is lost in becoming."

When you spend all day thinking and dreaming about what you'll do, you waste a day you could have spent actually getting there. The longer you spend dreaming about it, the more of the life you're dreaming about is lost.

And when you go forth and live your life and pursue your dreams - becoming (what you dreamed of) - then you suddenly find your dreams coming true, and you have no time or urge to dream anymore.

 

[Blackdragon5095]

l'll write that down man and thx a bunch that made 100% SENSE. I will take risk in my life and spend time getting a dream done then just sitting around and dreaming.

New proverbs

1. Do something that is totally unnecessary and spoil what you already have done

2. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
3. He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument.
Chinese Proverb
4. The first man to strike admits he has ran out of ideas

 

[Bible_Belt]

I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver. and since he is so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him real quick and give it to him.

http://farstrider.net/DeepThoughts/Handey.htm

 

[nectarine]

1. "Do something that is totally unnecessary and spoil what you already have done."

Everything in life can be overdone. There comes a point in any endeavour where it is done as well as it can be and any further effort will not improve it, only lessen it. Even if you think it would be EVEN better if you did it, or that you just can't do enough of what you've been doing, the skill comes in seeing when it is just right and to leave it be.

For example, varnishing woodwork. Varnish looks very nice and gives everything a golden glow. You might think the more you apply the better, richer it'll look. Not so. Put too much on and you'll start to lose the finish, look like glue and go muddy. You have to finish it up when you judge it right.


2. "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

Straightforward clever wordplay. Saying that love is when you want nothing more in the world than to be wanted more than anything in the world by the object of your affections. That love is when you really want and like it when your girl is totally into you.

It's a tad cynical, whoever said it. Many people think love is unconditional, and this proverb states that love is very conditional, conditional upon being wanted and having your feelings reciprocated. I'm not saying it's wrong, I'd find it hard to love someone who didn't want me too.


3+4. "He who strikes first, yada yada"

Violence is the last resort. When someone has to get pissed off in a disagreement and start fighting, it's because they lost the logical argument and so look to reinforce their obviously lameass point of view by making everyone else shut up and do what they say with a fist to the face.