A "quote" for all occasions..(did I spell that right?)

[MCT]

This one is neat:

"Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy."

--Groucho Marx--

[Drew]

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." ? Bertrand Russell

[nesquick]

"be aware" (Jean Claude Vandame, a world famous belgium philosoph)
 

[ppbebe]

"We don't want happiness in the next world -We want it next Monday!"? ?
                     
- Saint-Juste (a speech given in 1793, at the height of the French Revolution) 

[Drew]

"You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories." - Stanislaw J. Lee

[Jim]

"A thing explained is a thing we have no further concern with. - What did that god mean who counselled: 'know thyself!'? Does that perhaps mean: 'Have no further concern with thyself! become objective' - And Socrates? - And the 'man of science'? -"

Friedrich Nietzsche

[Drew]

"A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted." - George Santayana

[MCT]

Advice:

"Don't roust your faith bird-high an' you won't do no crawlin' with the worms."

--John Steinbeck/excerpt from - The Grapes of Wrath--

[Drew]

"Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost; the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been." - Anonymous

[MCT]

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

--Frank Lloyd Wright--

[Drew]

"The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven." - John Milton

[Jim]

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

--Frank Lloyd Wright--

Of all your posted quotes...

...That was the weakest.

Shall I quote some more Nietzsche? I have Beyond Good and Evil right next to me still. Are you (any of you) familiar with (any of) his work?

Here's a good one (number 73, if any of you are wondering):

"He who attains his ideal by that very fact transcends it"

[journey]

"Imagination has no age. And, dreams are forever." - Walt Disney

[Drew]

"Imagination has no age. And, dreams are forever." - Walt Disney

very nice 


"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - M.L.K.

[MCT]

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

--Frank Lloyd Wright--

Of all your posted quotes...

...That was the weakest.

I think that's purely a matter of perspective there Jimbo. But I can certainly see where you're coming from, and can easily give your judgment a little credence because of that.

And what's with your newfound case of certitude? A certitude that positively screams of the 'old days' I might add................
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"Frankly, I'm an agnostic. I believe the Universe is innocent until proven guilty."

--Solomon Short--

[Jim]

Well, basically I just came to realise that I'm better than everybody on the board.?

Edit to say, in true MCT style:
The above = a joke
The below = to be disassociated with the above.

Well, I always have been if I feel that I know what I'm talking about...

...In this area I feel that I am strongly enough opionated to be able to criticise something and explain myself. Edit to say: lol, I remind myself of another poster on the board here, but I won't name names

Saying that, I would never be so much so in say...The Election Thread. Unless it comes to critical analysis of character or argumentative device, and even then I do so reasonably poorly. Or at least that is what I am forced to tell myself...

...There's a great Nietzsche quote on the subject, but alas, I cannot find it. It's probably a good thing.

I'll settle for my final quote from the man (open to debate, if you understand me ) One for the debaters on the board, maybe? :

'One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrased.'

[MCT]

Well, basically I just came to realise that I'm better than everybody on the board.?

Welcome to the club............

Edit to say, in true me style:
The above = a joke
The below = to be associated with the above.

...In this area I feel that I am strongly enough opionated to be able to criticise something and explain myself. Edit to say: lol, I remind myself of another poster on the board here, but I won't name names

Fair enough. Take note though, that my 'certitude' comment was directed at your overall demeanor as of late.............

Saying that, I would never be so much so in say...The Election Thread. Unless it comes to critical analysis of character or argumentative device, and even then I do so reasonably poorly. Or at least that is what I am forced to tell myself...

Never sell yourself short. Never sell an opponent long either...............

I'll settle for my final quote from the man (open to debate, if you understand me ) One for the debaters on the board, maybe? :

The 'debaters' = the conspicuously (through the use of subtle devices) self-proclaimed kings of all things polemic, right?

'One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrased.'

That's a neat quote, as it can be taken one of two ways.
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"Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed."

--Charles Baudelaire--

[Drew]

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." ? Bertrand Russell

[MCT]

So true:

"Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States."

--J. Bartlett Brebner--

[Drew]

"The only trouble with resisting temptation is that you may not get another chance." - Anonymous