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

[Doc Emmett Brown]

Q: What is Microsoft going to do tomorrow?

A: What Google is doing today.

   (silly /. post)

[MCT]

Put this in your book:

"Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish."

--Quintilian--

[Skeletor]

That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.

-Wooderson, from the movie Dazed and Confused

[Doc Emmett Brown]

'I can not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presents danger, the solution is ignorance' -- Isaac Asimov

so have another bite of the apple said the serpent.

[MCT]

For my favorite Internet pedants:

"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated."

--Alec Bourne--

[MCT]

"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds."

--Aesop--

[MCT]

For the majority:

"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you."

--Bert Leston Taylor--

[MCT]

... ...

"The human dress is forged iron,
The human form a fiery forge,
The human face a furnace sealed,
The human heart its hungry gorge."  

--William Blake/excerpt from - 'A Divine Image'--

[MCT]

"Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success."

--Brian Adams--

[MCT]

I really like his stuff........

"WHAT man may learn, what man may do,
Of right or wrong of false or true,
While, skipper-like, his course he steers
Through nine and twenty mingled years,
Half misconceived and half forgot,
So much I know and practise not."

--Robert Louis Stevenson/excerpt from - What Man May Learn, What Man May Do--

[ppbebe]

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

                                                                                                          -Socrates

[MCT]

This is a good one:

"It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability."

--Francois de La Rochefoucauld--

[journey]

"I would rather be ashes than dust."

"I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in significant glow, than a sleepy permanent planet."

"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist."

"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."

"I shall use my time."

-Jack London

[Jim]

Well, it isn't a quote for all occasions...Although I guess that maybe it could be. However it is certaintly relevant in regards to upcomming events. It's nice to see some Socrates quoted, by the way.

"Remember, every single vote counts. Don't let yourself be tricked into thinking it does not. It is important for us all to engage this political system and to be conscious of who is being chosen to speak for us. If you choose not to be involved with decisions that affect your life on a daily basis, in our opinion, you forfeit your right to complain about it later."

-MJK

Maybe it dosn't necesarily fit in with the thread, but I thought that it had to be posted somewhere.

[MCT]

Jimbo!!!............welcome back......... ...........and try stickin' around for a bit....

"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back."

--Chinese Proverb--

Not much happening though.............but that's because most of the good one's don't post anymore............

[axls_locomotive]

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Ernest Hemingway

[MCT]

If only this were true:

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

--Albert Camus--

[Doc Emmett Brown]

'classifying a differential equation as linear or non-linear is like classifying an animal as an elephant or non-elephant'

-- textbook.

If only this were true:

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

--Albert Camus--

It helps if you've lived through fascism or an equal challenge.    Have you faced any 'man-building' obstacles in life to help you find your invincible summer?   Read his play called Rhinoceros when you get the chance.

[MCT]

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

--Andy Warhol--

[ppbebe]

It's nice to see some Socrates quoted, by the way.

Another one
Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt? ? Socrates last words.