Favorite Quotes

[infamous]

"Good is never good enough, when better is expected!"

--Thomas Fuller

I think your doing quite well, if I must say..............

[nkt]

You can lead a horse to water but, you can't make him drink!

You can lead a fool to knowledge, but you can't make him think...

 

(nothing personal!)

[infamous]

You can lead a fool to knowledge, but you can't make him think...

 

(nothing personal!)

Hey good one nkt; we could make a quatrain out of these lines:

 

You can lead a horse to water,

but you can't make him drink.

You can show the fool evidence,

but you can't make him think.

 

 

I'll claim this quatrain for my own..................................................infamous

[Dark Mind]

Now that's brotherly conduct if I ever saw it :beer:.

 

Still working on that riddle... it's a toughie, and I'm not thinking "out-of-the-box" right now...:eek2:

[infamous]

In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can lead to impotence..............P.L. Berger

[Dark Mind]

"But then one day I learned a word

That saved me achin' nose,

The biggest word you ever 'eard,

And this is 'ow it goes:

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!"

--From Mary Poppins

[infamous]

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable...................Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 

Causes one to suspect that Johann was approached by a String Theorist that time traveled back into the past to visit with him.

[infamous]

Nothing is better than doing something when nothing else will do..................................infamous

[infamous]

In scientific work those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact................................Thomas H. Huxley

[nkt]

Hey good one nkt; we could make a quatrain out of these lines:

 

You can lead a horse to water,

but you can't make him drink.

You can show the fool evidence,

but you can't make him think.

 

 

I'll claim this quatrain for my own..................................................infamous

Not bad. What are the rules for a Quatrain? Is it just four lines that rhyme like that?

 

I've got a database driven daily quote thing that changes by the day that I wrote in PHP, and all the quotes are invention or ethics or work related. If anyone wants a copy, let me know. You can see it at http://www.rubbertreeplant.co.uk across the top.

 

My site's quote of the day:

 

"In a free country you have the right to be offended anytime and any place by anything, but you do not have the right to be taken seriously."

 

-Angus MacDonald

[infamous]

Not bad. What are the rules for a Quatrain? Is it just four lines that rhyme like that?

 

No real rules nkt; just any four lines with rhyme or without. Strictly, poems don't have to rhyme to be poems.

[Boerseun]

"This wallpaper is horrible. One of us must go."

 

Edgar Allan Poe, quoted on his deathbed.

[infamous]

Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more..............George Bernard Shaw

[infamous]

What you do speaks so loudly, I can't hear what you say.

 

Nick Saban; 2001 LSU Football Head Coach

[Dark Mind]

"My name is not Tomrod". He he. I'll save that for our upcoming quotes section.

Done :).

 

"My name is not Tomrod."

--Tormod Guldvog

[Turtle]

When seeking your place in the world, leisurly strive for famous anonymity. Roger T. George

[Turtle]

When your head is cold, put on some socks. - Roger T. George