Favorite Quotes

[EWright]

"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet." Daymon Runyon

[infamous]

Wisdom comes to the man that understands his weakness...............infamous

[Turtle]

:circle: ___Faced with the opportunity of a student in a class, always sit in front; this way the beauty & intelligence of the other students does not distract you & you may focus your full attention on the ugly stupid teacher.

___Faced with the opportunity of instructing a class, seat your students in a circle so you only look relatively stupid and ugly. :Crunk: - Turtle -

[Queso]

:circle: ___Faced with the opportunity of a student in a class, always sit in front; this way the beauty & intelligence of the other students does not distract you & you may focus your full attention on the ugly stupid teacher.

___Faced with the opportunity of instructing a class, seat your students in a circle so you only look relatively stupid and ugly. :Crunk: - Turtle -

 

"i accell in both content and deliverance, so let's put on our classics and have a little dance, shall we?"

[infamous]

Where there are no absolutes, logic suffers.....................infamous

[Turtle]

The quick wit is the writer's art, the sharp wit the writer's craft. - Turtle George

[infamous]

When one finds themselves lost on the road of life, if they can remember the path that lead them there, they can find their way back...............infamous

[infamous]

Complaining about a problem one can fix themselves is misdirected effort of the highhest order........................infamous

[Turtle]

For any equal volume, the deep narrow sea has a fractional dimension higher than the broad shallow sea. The former is abrupt & loud, the latter slow & quiet - Turtle George

[Dark Mind]

If all things were possible... nothing would be certain. --Uncle Martin's signature

 

I found two paradoxes within this statement, can you find them :rolleyes: ?

[OpenMind5]

I mentioned this quote in my thread suggesting we start a quote of the week.

 

"Time is money...and I have nether."

 

Op5

[infamous]

If all things were possible... nothing would be certain. --Uncle Martin's signature

 

I found two paradoxes within this statement, can you find them :rolleyes: ?

I've never been very good at puzzels but I'll take a stab at it anyway.

 

If...............be certain

all things....nothing

 

How did I do Dark Mind?

[Dark Mind]

That's actually pretty good :naughty:. It's not what I had in mind though...

 

1. How can nothing be certain when you know everything is possible?

 

2. If everything were possible, then knowing the uncertain would be possible. Meaning everything would be certain. Yet at the same time everything could be uncertain :rolleyes:... Hey, everything's possible :friday:

[Dark Mind]

The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

- Albert Einstein

[Dark Mind]

The best things in life aren't things.

- Art Buchwald

 

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.

- unknown

 

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

- Robert Schuller

 

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

- Theodore Roosevelt

 

You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.

- Professor Harrold Hill (The Music Man)

[coldhead]

The money I make belongs to me and my family, not to a government stooge who takes a cut and dumps the rest on slum bunnies for squirting out babies. Rather than foster brilliance, we allocate for its suppression. Homeland Severity? War on Drugs? War on Poverty? BATF? Iraq? Project Head Start? HUD? Night Basketball? NASA? Washington can burn in Hell on its own nickel.

 

Paying $(US)5-10 for Firefox is OK with me. Somebody must pay for the servers. Anything that competently spits in Microsoft's face has my support.

 

UncleAl

[infamous]

If you find yourself in the hole, it's time to stop digging.