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

[MCT]

"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities."

--Voltaire--

[Drew]

"One must raise the self by the self
And not let the self sink down
For the self's only friend is the self
And the self is the self's one enemy."

- The Bhagavad-Gita

[MCT]

"Wisdom has taught us to be calm and meek,
To take one blow, and turn the other cheek.
It is not written what a man shall do
If the rude caitiff smite the other too!"

--Oliver Wendell Holmes--("Non Resistance")

[Doc Emmett Brown]

edit:  because I cant read, apparently.

A loving dedication to the message board on the internet that is 'the one'  'one'...  

HTGTH:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely, and have more objective people than anywhere else on earth.
Rough winds do shake the boards with darling posters that dont shut up
And in the summer, I shall check you thrice everyday.
Sometimes too hot the eyes of The Admin shine down upon us
And oft' his blond complexion dimm'd due to flame wars and insults.
But it will never fade, nor shall Death wander in its shade!
So long as Gunners can breathe and have fingers to type (never mind a brain)
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

ok, ok so it's not in iambic pentameter and it aint 14 lines long, sheesh.  I tried.  


Without further ado, here is my contribution to the quote thread:

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.

--? H. L. Mencken

[Drew]

?Be more concerned with your character than your reputation because your character is what you really are and your reputation is merely what others think you are.? - John Wooden

[journey]

A loving dedication to the message board on the internet that is 'the one'  

HTGTH:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely, and have more objective people than anywhere else on earth.
Rough winds do shake the boards with darling posters that dont shut up
And in the summer, I shall check you thrice everyday.
Sometimes too hot the eyes of The Admin shine down upon us
And oft' his blond complexion dimm'd due to flame wars and insults.
But it will never fade, nor shall Death wander in its shade!
So long as Gunners can breathe and have fingers to type (never mind a brain)
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

ok, ok so it's not in iambic pentameter and it aint 14 lines long, sheesh.  I tried.  

That was very clever and thoughtful of you random.  

Here's a quote that I really like:

"Love is a fruit, in season at all times and within the reach of every hand."

- Mother Teresa

[MCT]

"One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs."  

--Robert Firth--

[McGann]

Okay...this is paraphrased, but it's a good lesson on lying with numbers and statistics:

"If the temperature goes up ten degrees between 7 am and 9 am, you could extrapolate that everyone will be burned to a crisp by 8 pm.  That's if you ignore the rotation of the earth.
Extrapolation is the last refuge of a groundless argument."
    Thomas Sowell

[MCT]

"Extrapolation is the last refuge of a groundless argument."

I really like that M&M............. ...........I certainly don't agree with it.........but I like it...........
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"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again."

--George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002--

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[D]

its time for black people to stop blaming white people charles barkely

[MCT]

"Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats."

--Ralph W. Sockman--

[Drew]

A kiss, when all is said, what is it?
A rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving;
'Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.

- Edmond Rostand

[Drew]

The decision to kiss for the first time is the
most crucial in any love story. It changes the
relationship of two people much more strongly
than even the final surrender; because this kiss
already has within it that surrender.

- Emil Ludwig

[Doc Emmett Brown]

In honor of Drew's birthday,


There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
-- Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare

You were born an original. Don't die a copy.
--John Mason

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
--Bernard M. Baruch

Have a good one!  

[D]

a man is basically as faithful as his options

women need food water and compliments and an occassional pair of shoes -----------Chris Rock

[Drew]

In honor of Drew's birthday,


There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
-- Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare

You were born an original. Don't die a copy.
--John Mason

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
--Bernard M. Baruch

Have a good one!  

Thankyou Random ! I like all 3 quotes.

"The thought of the others we never know it. We invent it. It is already well." - Jean Giono

[Doc Emmett Brown]

Appearances can be deceiving - I can look like this sometimes:



A feeling of absurdity.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.  

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

-- Albert Camus

[Drew]

Give me a kiss, add to that kiss a score;
Then to that twenty, add a hundred more:
A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on,
To make that thousand up a million.
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.

- Robert Herrick

[MCT]

"Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long
To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?
Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song,
Darkening thy power to lend base subjects light?"

--William Shakespeare-- "Sonnet C"

[Drew]

"You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss." - Daniel Heinsius