Favorite Quotes

[Turtle]

there is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. on such a full sea are we now afloat. and we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

~ william shakespeare ~

 

or

 

oil's well that ends well.

~ roger thelonious george ~

[pamela]

Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit

Of This and That endeavour and dispute;

Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape

Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

o. khayyam

[Turtle]

i like this place and willingly could waste my time in it. ~ william shakespeare

[Boerseun]

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat. Life is a level of complexity that almost lies outside our vision; it is so far beyond anything we have any means of understanding that we just think of it as a different class of object, a different class of matter; 'life', something that had a mysterious essence about it, was god given'and that's the only explanation we had. The bombshell comes in 1859 when Darwin publishes 'On the Origin of Species'. It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this and begin to understand it, because not only does it seem incredible and thoroughly demeaning to us, but it's yet another shock to our system to discover that not only are we not the centre of the Universe and we're not made of anything, but we started out as some kind of slime and got to where we are via being a monkey. It just doesn't read well.

 

- Douglas Adams.

[Turtle]

when philosophers say something that is true then it is trivial. when they say something that is not trivial then it is false. ~ carl friedrich gauss

[pamela]

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

h.f. amiel

[Turtle]

let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel. ~ george chapman

[alexander]

Ah, to be young again, and also a robot. ~prof. Farnsworth

[Turtle]

it is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. ~ aristotle

[alexander]

In the game of chess you can never let your adversary see your pieces. ~ Zapp

[Turtle]

most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer. ~ jack handy

[pamela]

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

f. nietzsche

[Boerseun]

Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with a cricket bat.

[Boerseun]

God didn't make everything. If he did, he would have been Chinese.

[pamela]

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

voltaire

[alexander]

The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.

 

~ Nikola Tesla

[Turtle]

those that know, do. those that understand, teach. ~ aristotle