Favorite Quotes

[Turtle]

science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. ~ george santayana

[alexander]

well, here are some of my personal favorite quotes.... of myself (including that one, these are all from last couple of weeks)

i have, perhaps, underestimated my ability to underestimate myself

being smart is just not my forte

i'm doing stuff, and also some things, but mostly stuff, yes, definitely more stuff

chocolate fudge brownie, dammit

i seem to be a bit immature this morning.... and the rest of my life

listen, you cant answer a question with a question, especially if that question was an answer to your question to me originally

books? i dont need books, i am perfectly capable with coming up with great quotes myself, thank you

my philosophy on life is this: ... *3 hours later* ... anyways, so that's a small bit of my philosophy on things, if you ever have more time, or are anywhere that bored again, i'd love to continue

[Turtle]

as long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. ~ voltaire

[Boerseun]

Our original mission was to turn people into Christians. This has changed a bit. Today we have to consider turning Christians into humans.

 

- Johan Degenaar

[DougF]

This is an old fav of mine, not sure where it originates from but being a Surveyor in Florida it always hit home with me..

 

when you're up to your neck in alligators, it's easy to forget that the initial objective was to drain the swamp.

 

(had to use a Turtle as we have no Gators?)

[modest]

"We have labored long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors." ~Alan Moore

 

~modest

[alexander]

well it took 10 years and 100 million dollars to build this computer to analize all this data.... only to find out that it's just entropy

[Boerseun]

Life is the dash on your grave marker between two dates.

[Turtle]

of comfort no man speak.

let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs,

make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes

write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.

let's choose executors and talk of wills.

~ William Shakespeare ~

[Pyrotex]

"This sentence, which has thirty-two words, would like to inform its readers that this is the second time that it has expressed itself, and therefore can be said to be quoting itself."

 

~~This sentence, which has thirty-two words, would like to inform its readers that this is the second time that it has expressed itself, and therefore can be said to be quoting itself.

[modest]

"I desperately sought a way for not mentioning pink elephants in this sentence, but to no avail." ~H. Reddmann (alt.fan.hofstadter)

[coldcreation]

“Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.”

Carlos Santana

[DougF]

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

- Mark Twain

[pamela]

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

k. gibran

[Turtle]

:coffee_n_pc: morning without you is a dwindled dawn. ~ emily dickinson

[coldcreation]

"All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory." Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)

[Turtle]

illusion is the first of the pleasures. ~ voltaire