Favorite Quotes

[Turtle]

Take equipment from home but take provisions from the enemy. ~ Sun-tzu

[Michaelangelica]

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics,

because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

 

J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, quoted in Pearls of Wisdom]

[Turtle]

Generally, about all perception, we can say that a sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet ring without the iron or gold. ~ Aristotle

[Michaelangelica]

Teaching by example

"If I find any kid bulling or bashing any other kid,

I will bring them up here and publicly whip them !"

Headmaster of NSW School 1970's -addressing school assembly when he discovered kids were being attacked and bashed on the way home, though bushland, by other kids.

[Turtle]

Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. ~Unattested

[Michaelangelica]

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

 

- Mahatma Gandhi

[Turtle]

Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike. ~ Homer

[Michaelangelica]

In peace, sons bury their fathers.

In war, fathers bury their sons.

Herodotus

[Turtle]

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. ~Ambrose Bierce

[Boerseun]

By gnawing through a dyke, even a rat can submerge a nation.

[Turtle]

There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. ~ William Shakespeare

[Michaelangelica]

"People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.

And what they need most of all is nothing much happening."

Terry Pratchett Nation, 2008. p. 150

[Turtle]

Of all the creatures, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. ~Mark Twain

[Turtle]

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. ~Mrs. C.W. Earle, Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden, 1897

[Boerseun]

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. ~Mrs. C.W. Earle, Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden, 1897

"The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago.

The second best time, is right now."

[Turtle]

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself. ~ William Blake, 1799, The Letters

[Turtle]

I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. ~ Lord Byron