Favorite Quotes

[LJP07]

This is one of my quotes:

 

" Why ask a question if you cannot accept the answer "

 

This occurs often when people say " Will you give me a slice of cake? ", then the person replies " No ", then the other goes on a rant about how mean and they get angry as a result at least immature people, d'ya think it's a good quote?

 

My 300'th post, I'm very proud of myself and hypography :P

 

Prolu2007

[Michaelangelica]

This is one of my quotes:

 

" Why ask a question if you cannot accept the answer "

Sounds like Sir Humphrey Appleby in "Yes, Minister"

"Never have a government inquiry unless you know the results."

Looked at some DVD's of these the other day.

They seem to have got funnier and more appropriate as time goes by

 

My 300'th post, I'm very proud of myself and hypography :)

Prolu2007

Congradulations! :) ;) :)

An excellent achievement:) ;)

[InfiniteNow]

"If the truth was known, people that don't like dogs, don't particularly like people either. My dog has the best judge of character I've ever seen."

 

- Fellow Hypography member, Celeste. :eek_big:

[Michaelangelica]

"It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion."

Anatole France

[Boerseun]

"Piss-poor planning preludes piss-poor performance."

- an Australian friend of mine

[Michaelangelica]

"Piss-poor planning preludes piss-poor performance."

- an Australian friend of mine

Very true

 

The Lesson of History is that

We don't listen to the Lessons of History

 

(anon to-night's TV)

[InfiniteNow]

"Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. "

 

"The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. "

 

-- Charles Baudelaire

[BrainForce]

The duty of man is to perform actions and not to worry of results...

Don't worry of results and let urself actionless....but remain active..the results are do calculated by the almighty....the most accurate calculator...wordpad and event-reminder......

[Michaelangelica]

A favourite quote.

About the only quote I actually remember.:shrug:

Perhaps it should go in "Asian Philosophy is Eloquent":China Man

 

Sorry don't know where it comes from, or even if I remember it correctly-but you get the idea..

 

Anyway its a good one to remember :) especially when you feel like this:-

 

 

There is nothing as soft or as gentle as water,

but to compel the hard and unyieling it has no equal

[InfiniteNow]

Sorry don't know where it comes from, or even if I remember it correctly-but you get the idea..

Were I to guess, it would be the Tao te Ching... circa chapter 78 :shrug:

 

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - chapter 78

[Michaelangelica]

Were I to guess, it would be the Tao te Ching... circa chapter 78 :shrug:

 

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - chapter 78

 

Thanks perhaps I had a different translation or remember it differently.

How do you know it?

 

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - chapter 78

 

Under heaven nothing is more soft and yielding than water.

Yet for attacking the solid and strong, nothing is better;

It has no equal.

The weak can overcome the strong;

The supple can overcome the stiff.

Under heaven everyone knows this,

Yet no one puts it into practice.

Therefore the sage says:

He who takes upon himself the humiliation of the people

is fit to rule them.

He who takes upon himself the country's disasters deserves

to be king of the universe.

The truth often seems paradoxical.

[InfiniteNow]

How do you know it?

I can thank my cousin/godfather for introducing it to me more than a decade ago, then a friend from high school reminding me of it, and college for helping me explore it's depth. It's just one of those books that I oft refer back to and view with new eyes... :shrug:

[InfiniteNow]

[Latex]\HUGE{S = \frac{c^3A}{4\hbar G}}[/math]

 

 

"Sometimes in physics you get a result which is so beautiful, it sort of almost has to be correct... and this result, was beautiful."

 

--The name of the scientist who made this remark about Stephen Hawking's equation above escapes me, but he did so in the special on Discovery Science channel, "The Hawking Paradox."

[infamous]

I suffer for those that preach doom and gloom for they must truly be afraid. Roosevelt spoke, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself". I would like to modify this famous saying in the following way:

 

We have only two things to fear, the first being fear itself and the second, those who participate in it's dissemination!...........Infy

[Michaelangelica]

Parking this, favourite of all quotes ,until the candle goes out

 

"que?"

(Manuel, Faulty Towers)

m:)

[InfiniteNow]

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

-- Charles Caleb Colton

 

 

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

-- Hermann Hesse

 

 

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

-- Ursala K. LeGuin

[infamous]

Before digging your hole, establish a rope sufficient to exit............Infy