Nine Virtues

[garinda]

1 Courage - Prefer Balenciaga.
2 Truth - Too much of a diplomat to answer.
3 Honour - Big amongst thieves.
4 Fidelity - Fiddle-dee-dee! I'm with Scarlett O'Hara.
5 Discipline - Yes, I'll give it, to those weak souls who need it.
6 Hospitality - N.H.S. food is slop.
7 Self Reliance - Nobody does it better, or as well.
8 Industriousness - My feet weren't made for clogs.
9 Perseverance - Lovely chap. I know his mother very well.

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

I have to echo mobertol on this for more or less exactly the same reasons. (especially No.6.)

Aha, anoher kindred spirit....

I may not have mentioned that I was once a very actìve member of the Trinity College Byron Society in my dark and distant past....

(I do not jest...)

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by garinda

Thanks especially for this one - mais tu m'aime encore? (Sorry more foreign words but it's the title of the song...)

Carla Bruni's brilliant chart topping unforgettable single - Haven't heard it for such a long time -brought tears to my eyes!

She dumped her sexy French Philosophy Professor shortly after writing this song for him...to go and marry some other ugly little chap with foreign sounding surname...bad move, although at least the Prof is available for someone else

[Acrylic-bob]

Originally Posted by mobertol

I may not have mentioned that I was once a very actìve member of the Trinity College Byron Society in my dark and distant past....

Oooh! We like the suggestion of "a past", and that it might be "dark" adds immeasurably to the frisson.

Byron society - Oxford, Cambridge or Dublin?

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

Oooh! We like the suggestion of "a past", and that it might be "dark" adds immeasurably to the frisson.

Byron society - Oxford, Cambridge or Dublin?

You don't know the half.



I do.

That was only the first, tamer half. So I'm told.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Courage......I don't know, but I have done things that I never thought I would do.
Sometimes, stupidity masquerades as courage.
Truth.........There are many versions of this.......mine, yours and something that is
perhaps, a mixture of the two. Absolute truth can be damaging....and
a 'fiblet' is kinder...unless you have no compassion in your soul.
Honour......Thy father and thy mother........I'm not sure about anything else.
Fidelity.......Yes, I am faithful....but then so is an old dog. Maybe temptation has
not been put in my way...or it wasn't tempting enough. Or maybe I
couldn't be bothered.
Discipline.....It was the name on a leather strap my father had hanging on the wall in
the pantry. Yes, I have a strong sense of discipline.
Hospitality....will accept it if given in the right manner.and with good grace
Self Reliance - like G....I think I have heaps of it. You can only trust yourself to do
things exactly the way you want them. Only you know your
your standards.
Industriousness - my feet weren't made for clogs either.......so I worked my way out
of them and into something better....yes I am industrious.......
you have to be, to get what you want.

Perseverance - Yes, single minded and indomitable. God loves a trier.

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob
Oooh! We like the suggestion of "a past", and that it might be "dark" adds immeasurably to the frisson.

Byron society - Oxford, Cambridge or Dublin?

Originally Posted by garinda

You don't know the half.



I do.

That was only the first, tamer half. So I'm told.

When my muse decides to inspire me - I may elaborate on the wilder half...

Until then I feel moved to share the following "purple verse" with you which relates to that particular time in Oxford....

PUNTING ON AN AFTERNOON

They punted and they laughed,
Telling tale out of school,
From long-stemmed crystal quaffed,
Fine champers gold and cool,
And soon got gently ****ed,
As the day slipped away,
These days so sorely missed,
In our mem'ries will stay.

This is to be found inside a card showing "Boating on the River Epte" by Claude Monet, the inscription reads:

D,
this card inspired me to dash out some purple verse. Please forgive me!
Byronically yours, S.

(S, aka "The Prince of Darkness", a JRF in Philosophy at All Souls College.)

Memento of a particular day punting on the Cherwell past Parson's Pleasure.

[Acrylic-bob]

Oh, so, not Cambridge, then?

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

Oh, so, not Cambridge, then?

Nope and none of us were studying literature.....only lifes virtues! (This to get back on thread...)

[Acrylic-bob]

Only joking! I thought the poem was spiffing. Better than I got.

I came away from college with a picture of a raindrop and underneath inscibed in red chinese characters "Yesterday's name in puddles"

Needless to say I am still puzzling over that one.

[Acrylic-bob]

Helpfully the Catholic Church concentrates the nine virtues, which I think may be an Anglican distinction, into a more easily manageable four Cardinal Virtues.

Prudence - able to judge between actions with regard to appropriate actions at a given time
Justice - proper moderation between self-interest and the rights and needs of others
Restraint or Temperance - practicing self-control, abstention, and moderation
Courage or Fortitude - forbearance, endurance, and ability to confront fear and uncertainty, or intimidation

They were originally developed from Plato.

The term "cardinal" comes from the Latin cardo or hinge; the cardinal virtues are so called because they are hinges upon which the door of the moral life swings.

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

The cardinal virtues are so called because they are hinges upon which the door of the moral life swings.

Needless to say I am a lapsed Catholic....

I do like swinging even at my age....'tis the inner child in me.

[Acrylic-bob]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Needless to say I am a lapsed Catholic....

I do like swinging even at my age....'tis the inner child in me.

The images that post calls forth make me blush. And the more I consider it, the worse it gets.

[Retlaw]

[quote=Acrylic-bob;949990]Helpfully the Catholic Church concentrates the nine virtues, which I think may be an Anglican distinction, into a more easily manageable four Cardinal Virtues.

Which of these 4 or 9 virtues, covers interfering with choir boys.

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by garinda

1 Courage - Prefer Balenciaga.

5 Discipline - Yes, I'll give it, to those weak souls who need it.
.

1. Courage: The bags are lovely G, but you'd need real courage to wear some of the fashion. (See attached photo -have just ordered this creation)

5. Discipline: Being a weak soul I definitely need it - but you already know that. Up for a bit more "give, give, give" ?