Favorite Quotes

Some Days You Phock the Bear, some days the Bear Phocks You.
Me.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupry

"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair."
- Homer

"If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both."

Demography is Destiny. -Anon

Nice thread resurrection, currently Bort trending

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves
George Bernard Shaw

If I’m walking into a shit storm I wanna know which way the wind’s blowing.” - Nathan Muir (Robert Redford) Spy Game
Movie

My version of an old quote.
Why do it today when you can do it tomorrow.
If you do it today and enjoy it you can do it again tomorrow. :slight_smile:

“Always look on the bright side of life”
in Life of Brian.

There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man’s lawful prey.

John Ruskin.

“Superstition proclaimed as truth, will always conquer truth, ridiculed as superstition.” - John Frederick Lange (a.k.a. John Norman), 1971

“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” - Joseph Conrad, 1911

“The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that’s where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which they won’t do if they don’t know about it. This explains why it is so important to shoot missionaries on sight.” - Terry Pratchett, 1990

“And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.” - King James Bible, Revelation 6.6, 1611

“We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon” - Konrad Adenauer (derived from a quote of Greek philosophist Aesop)

… and most of all… nuu, this is a family oriented site, I cannot quote Charles Bukowski, here!! chuckles Well, let’s try this one, instead:

“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.” - Mark Twain

Otto von Bismarck.

From memory so may not be word perfect.

"Laws and sausages are both good things, but nobody should have to watch the production of either."

I was feeling down and out the other day when the good lord spoke to me. Smile and be happy, things could be worse. So I smiled and was happy and things did get worse. :stuck_out_tongue:

Once in a while
you get shown the light
in the strangest of places
if you look at it right.

— Robert Hunter, Scarlet Begonias

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

― Charles Bukowski

I, for my part, think that to tear down an error is to build up the truth that stands opposed to it.

— Frédéric Bastiat

Through Logic, You Will Find The Truth.

A dull knife is like a dull mind.
Hard to work with, and more likely to hurt you than help you.

Do not worry what other people might think.
I can guarantee you, most of them won’t.

Do it now. Talk about it later.

Why can’t we all “just get along”?

Un-mastered, f=ma is not your friend!

Obey Matthew 6:6.

Merry Mithras Day!
It’s the Reason for the Season!

For what is a knot, really, but a clever kink in a cord?

You can hold any opinion you want if you don’t test it too thoroughly.

If you’re not laughing by now, you’re taking this way too seriously.
I mean it.

“The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don’t have any”

“No person is your friend
who demands your silence,
or denies your right to grow.”

“Energy Is Conserved.”

Rudolf Clausius

“Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don’t give a f#ck how crazy they are”

Seth Gecko

“Beware of those in whom
the will to punish is strong.”

Nietzsche

“Rightful liberty is
unobstructed action according to our will
within limits drawn around us
by the equal rights of others.

I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’,
because law is often but the tyrant’s will,
and always so when it violates the rights
of the individual.”

“To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”

“In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”

Thomas Jefferson