"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. "
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. " - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire (1694-1778) "Maybe this world is another planet's Hell." - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) "Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." - George Eliot (1819-1880) "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true." - James Branch Cabell "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." - Will Durant "Wit is educated insolence. " - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. " - Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980) "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. " - Moses Hadas (1900-1966) "Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. " - Mark Twain (1835-1910) "I am become death, shatterer of worlds. " - Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967) (citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion) "You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. " - Al Capone (1899-1947) "Men have become the tools of their tools. " - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. " - Mark Twain (1835-1910) "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. " - Woody Allen (1935-) "A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. " - Helen Rowland (1876-1950) "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. " - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "I think it would be a good idea. " - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. " - Edmund Burke (1729-1797) "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. " - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) "Half this game is ninety percent mental. " - Yogi Berra "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "I worship the quicksand he walks in." - Art Buchwald "We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction." - General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ------------------ "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." -General George Patton (1885-1945) http://www.123imagehost.com/images/t...amber5copy.jpg |
My favorite is:
No amount of kindness, No matter how small, is ever wasted (AESOP) ------------------ http://publish.hometown.aol.com/tobb.../sp_horror.gif Protectorate of the OHF Death Waits 4 U ALL |
King Harold....Battle of Hastings 1066.
"Watch that bloke, he'll have some fu**ers eye out the way he's performing". Captain of the Titanic. "Where's all this water coming from?" ------------------ One love, peace. [This message has been edited by Charlie (edited 05-01-2001).] |
Tobbin, that's not true, it's just a fable.http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...es/biggrin.gif
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I know that, but it sounds cool saying it like that anyways. People actually believe it. ------------------ http://publish.hometown.aol.com/tobb.../sp_horror.gif Protectorate of the OHF Death Waits 4 U ALL |
Oops, I wuz kidding....Aesops fables and all that, sorry.
(He may well have said it.) ------------------ One love, peace. [This message has been edited by Charlie (edited 05-01-2001).] |
Just wanted to bump because I get a kick out of these. Memnoch's quoting Voltaire reminded me of them.
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Can we add to it? I've got some good ones around here somewhere......
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