Favorite Quotes

[Michaelangelica]

If people were meant to be angels, they'd be born with wings. ~ Roger Thelonious George

We have been!

It is in the "Junk DNA" section filed under "A".

 

Just not enough angels in Hypography ;)

 

[Turtle]

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. ~John Keats :)

[Michaelangelica]

"It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing in space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going around to atheists' houses and smashing their windows."

~Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

[Turtle]

If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy. ~Jack Handy

[Turtle]

It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man. ~ Jack Handy

[Turtle]

The votaries of philosophy, when they carry on the study, not only in youth as a part of education, but as the pursuit of their maturer years, most of them become strange monsters, not to say utter rogues, and that those who may be considered the best of them are made useless to the world by the very study which they extol. ~Adeimantus

[Michaelangelica]

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

James Bryant Conant

[Turtle]

:) We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me. ~ Jack Handy

[Turtle]

There is no greater squander of a human life than to spend it speculating on what happens when it ends. ~ Beatrix Terranna Goodone

[Moontanman]

There is no virtue in politeness when confronted with ignorance, dishonesty, and delusion. PZ Myers

[Turtle]

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. ~Aristotle

[Turtle]

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. ~Ambrose Bierce

[Michaelangelica]

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.

Bill Copeland

[Turtle]

The only worthwhile philosophy is gardening. ~Roger Thelonious George

[InfiniteNow]

There is no virtue in politeness when confronted with ignorance, dishonesty, and delusion. PZ Myers

 

That is a good one. I think the full quote is even better.

 

 

Pharyngula: Open season on fresh meat

I want my commenters to be uncivil. There is no virtue in politeness when confronted with ignorance, dishonesty, and delusion. I want them to charge in to the heart of the issue and shred the frauds, without hesitation and without faltering over manners. These demands for a false front of civility are one of the strategies used by charlatans who want to mask their lack of substance — oh, yes, it would be so goddamned rude to point out that a huckster is lying to you. I am quite happy that we have a culture of being rude to frauds here.

[Moontanman]

That is a good one. I think the full quote is even better.

 

 

Pharyngula: Open season on fresh meat

I want my commenters to be uncivil. There is no virtue in politeness when confronted with ignorance, dishonesty, and delusion. I want them to charge in to the heart of the issue and shred the frauds, without hesitation and without faltering over manners. These demands for a false front of civility are one of the strategies used by charlatans who want to mask their lack of substance — oh, yes, it would be so goddamned rude to point out that a huckster is lying to you. I am quite happy that we have a culture of being rude to frauds here.

 

Well I was going to use the entire quote but i didn't want to scare away one of the posters here :naughty: Got to keep em the dark before we administer the foul blow! :naughty:

[Turtle]

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~Oscar Wilde