Favorite Quotes

[Que Saudade 284]

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

John Lennon

[X Factor 1,112]

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Bruce Lee

[epsonderby 85]

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”

George Orwell, from 1984

[X Factor 1,112]

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.

Thomas Jefferson

[Andy-n-Maricar 6]

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

General William T. Sherman

[Darnell 8,478]

Language is a verra 'orrible, nastie beastie. One must master it first, 'fore taking it out for walkies.

[ME]

[Darnell 8,478]

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Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house.

--Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love", (Robert A. Heinlein)

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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

-Robert A. Heinlein

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[Darnell 8,478]

apologies, it seemed a bit short. Here it is again..

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

― Robert A. Heinlein

I've done all save for the dying bit..

[X Factor 1,112]

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

William Shakespeare

[Que Saudade 284]

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Emily Dickinson

[X Factor 1,112]

Four horses cannot overtake the tongue. -- Chinese (on gossip)

[mounir412 101]

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

[X Factor 1,112]

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

Behind every argument lies someone's ignorance. -- Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)

[Andy-n-Maricar 6]

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Hunter S. Thompson

[X Factor 1,112]

The customer is always right. -- Barry Pain (1864-1928)