Favorite Quotes

[Yanoda]

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."
Albert Einstein

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
Henry Ford

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
George Bernard Shaw

“The only thing constant in life is change.”
Francois de la Rochefoucauld

“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.”
Harold Wilson

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Mark Twain

“Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.”
Plato

“The sole equality on earth is death.”
Philip James Bailey

“Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne

“If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”
Moshe Dayan

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
Charles Darwin

“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”
Hippocrates

“War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”
Thomas Mann

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
Martin Luther King Jr.

Just a few of many...

Cheers

Yanoda

[Sir Bang]

"If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you."

"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad."

"If you can't convince them, confuse them."

"I'm thinking of a finger, and it's not 1, 2, 4, or 5."

[fightingclam]

"If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you."

"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad."

"If you can't convince them, confuse them."

"I'm thinking of a finger, and it's not 1, 2, 4, or 5."

Dude, those are [m'kay] hilarious. Nice!

[(SWGO)Minas_Thirith]

"be like water my friend, tasteless"

[Bryant]

Mark Twain:
"The report of my death was an exaggeration."

"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress."

"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable."

Albert Einstein:
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

[Richdog]

"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."
"I've had a wonderful evening, m'dear, but this wasn't it."
-groucho marx

All warfare is based on deception.
Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
If he is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him.
If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them.
Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.
-Sun Tzu