Favorite Quotes

[Boerseun]

"Build your house, cook your food, make your clothes, catch your fish. In no other way can you understand God or the world."

- Marthinus Versfeld

[Turtle]

the french peasant cuisine is at the basis of the culinary art. by this i mean it is composed of honest elements that la grande cuisine only embellishes. ~ alexandre dumaine

[Pyrotex]

Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.

 

After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.

 

~~Unattributed Buddhist aphorism

[Turtle]

age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. ~ francis bacon

[Boerseun]

A mystic is someone who wants to understand the universe, but is too lazy to study physics.

[Boerseun]

Why can't those who hold to an 'intelligent designed fine-tuned universe' see that the universe was designed to kill us?

[Moontanman]

True love may be short and bitter sweet but you can tuck it in your heart and take it out and taste it when you are old and know... Yes! This is what true love tasted like....

 

me

[Turtle]

a certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled. ~ thomas hood

[Boerseun]

Blaming crime on guns is like blaming obesity on spoons.

[Turtle]

let yourself be open and life will be easier. a spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. a spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed. ~ buddha

[pamela]

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

a. schopenhaur

[Turtle]

i would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty. ~ phaedrus

[pamela]

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

l. buscaglia

[Turtle]

in science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. but in poetry, it's the exact opposite. ~ paul dirac

[Boerseun]

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

[Turtle]

earth provides enough to satisfy every person's need, but not every person's greed. ~ mahatma gandhi

[Turtle]

even after a bad harvest there must be sowing. ~ seneca