Favorite Quotes

[pamela]

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

f. nietzsche

[Turtle]

bigotry is the sacred disease. ~ heraclitus

[pamela]

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself

k. gibran

[Turtle]

no great artists ever see things as they really are. if they did they would cease to be artists. ~ oscar wilde

[pamela]

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

a. schopenhauer

[Turtle]

keep your goals away from the trolls. ~ peter mcwilliams

[alexander]

It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. All year long, the grasshopper kept burying acorns for winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. But then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns. Also he got a race car. Is any of this getting through to you?

 

~ Fry

[Turtle]

the television, that insidious beast, that medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. ~ ray bradbury

[pamela]

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

s. dali

[Turtle]

vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. ~ jonathan swift

[pamela]

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

r. feynman

[Turtle]

i've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. ~ maya angelou

[pamela]

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

j.r.r. tolkien

[Turtle]

benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed increase their means of injuring you.~ Æsop

[pamela]

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

k. gibran

[Turtle]

boldness be my friend. ~ william shakespeare

[Pyrotex]

Catastrophe is such a strong word; let's all agree to call it a whoopsie daisy.

 

--British Petroleum PR Dept.

 

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