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This page will store the daily quotes as they accumulate:
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous,
he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and
a man."
-Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
-Plato
What an inflammatory comment, eh? It's difficult to have a good political argument since most people (myself sometimes) find it difficult to leave their emotions out of it. If anyone's game for a good political chat, IM me.
To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or
a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure,
though, that you want its full attention.
-Kelvin Throop
Speaking of Elephants, I'm playing this new online simulation game called Nationstates. You have your own country which you decide social and political issues for. Lots of politicing and other fun stuff.
"Operationally, God
is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic
Cheshire cat."
-Sir Julian Huxley (1887 - 1975)
Having just read Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time and reading about String Theory, it seems like there's no limit to how deep the rabbit hole goes. =( Kinda puts a big downer on the idea that the universe is understandable.
"The major difference between Republicans and Democrats
is that Democrats cater to a slightly less scary group of special interests."
-Bill Maher
"We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion,
and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble."
-Kahlil Gibran, "Children of Gods, Scions of Apes"
"Citius, Altius, Fortius" (Swifter, Higher, Stronger)
-Olympic Motto
"Keep away from people
who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but
the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
-Mark Twain
"The entire essence of America is the hope to first make
money -- then make money with money -- then make lots of money with lots
of money."
-Paul Erdman
Seems kinda pointless, don't you think?
A case against Captial Punishment:
"It is better that
ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer."
-William Blackstone
Our duty, as men and women,
is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators
in creation.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: (1881-1955) French philosopher, paleontologist
"Nothing in the world
is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I do not have a
psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened
to me long enough, he might become disturbed."
James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
"We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the
world."
-Buddha
"Take this kiss upon
the brow! And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream."
-Edgar Allan Poe, Dream Within A Dream, A
"So many gods, so
many creeds;
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs."
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
"I celebrate myself,
and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."
-Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
"In university they
don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."
-- Doris Lessing: (1919-____) English author, playwright
"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start because, our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."-David Jeng
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"A wise man is superior
to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior
is patience and moderation."
-Molière, The Would-be Gentleman
"To die, to sleep
--
To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause; there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life."
-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"In love the paradox
occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two."
-Erich Fromm
"He who asks a question
is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever."
-Chinese Proverb
"Citius, Altius, Fortius"
-Olympic Motto
"If you want a symbolic
gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it."
-Norman Thomas
"No enterprise is
more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for
execution."
-Niccolo Machiavelli, The Art of War, 1521
Why have I decided to become an engineer? Simple, the following quote:
"The priest persuades
a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against
it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether."
-Max Percy
"Leadership is the
art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to
do it."
-Dwight D Eisenhower
"'Beauty is truth,
truth beauty,' -- that is all Ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know."
-John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn
"The woods are lovely,
dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep."
-Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire
"You don't love
a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her."
-Anonymous
"Make the most
of yourself, for that is all there is of you."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If it looks
like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have to at least consider the possibility
that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands."
-Douglas Adams
"It's a mighty
poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word."
-Andrew Jackson
I have never let
my schooling interfere with my education.
-Mark Twain
"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority
than to be right alone."
-John Kenneth Gabraith
"To live without loving is not really to live."
-Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière (1622-73)
French playwright
"Sometimes David kills Goliath, and people never forget. But there were
a lot of little guys Goliath had already mashed into the ground. Nobody sang
about those fights."
-Orson Scott Card
"If you find yourself going through hell, keep going."
-Winston Churchill
"Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.'
-John Kenneth Gabraith
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to the truth.
-Kahlil Gibran
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
--Robert F. Kennedy
"I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish
it was easy to follow that advice. It is important to our friends to believe
that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we
are not."
-Mignon McLaughlin
If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
-Voltaire
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
-Les Brown
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot
drive out hate; only love can do that."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived
and dishonest--but the myth--persistant, persuasive and unrealistic."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-63)
35th US President, Democrat, politician
"I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow,
misforturne, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house, and I have
the key."
-Charles Fletcher Lummis
"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that
it falls in with our instinctual desires."
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
Austrian physician, founder of psychoanalysis
"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but awhile he knows something."
Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
"It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get
you into hot water."
Franklin P. Jones
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
Juvenal [Decimus Junius Juvenalis]
I had rather attempt something great and fail, than to attempt nothing at all and succeed.
-Robert Schuller
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
Juvenal [Decimus Junius Juvenalis]
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind.
John Neal
"What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism
is therefore the first step toward truth."
Denis Diderot (1713-84)
French philosopher, writer
To see a world in a grain of sand
And heaven in a wildflower
To hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour
-- William Blake
"Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress
any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
-- Carl Edward Sagan
"Think of your many years of procrastination: How the gods have repeatedly granted you further periods of grace, of which you have taken no advantage. It is time now to realize the nature of the universe to which you belong. And of the controlling power whose offspring you are: And understand that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment, or it will be gone, and never in your power again."
-Emperor Marcus Aurelius
Meditations 11.4
