Favorite Quotes

[coldcreation]

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. [...]

 

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

 

~Ulysses S. Grant

[phillip1882]

banking establishments are more dangerous to essential liberty than standing armies.

 

the tree of liberty mut be renewed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

 

What is it men cannot be made to believe! (on christianity.)

 

all thomas jefferson.

[coldcreation]

The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.

~Arnold Schwarzenegger

[Turtle]

the maxims of people disclose their hearts. ~ french proverb

[Turtle]

nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity. ~ martin luther king, jr

[Turtle]

the volunteers of the world deserve a 2% raise. ~ beatrix terrana goodwon

[Turtle]

what powers inherent lurk,

and where their bounds, and issues. and, hence, we,

triumphant, too, o'er superstition rise,

contemn her terrors and unfold the heavens

~titus lucretius carus ~

de rerum natura

[Turtle]

what happens if a big asteroid hits earth? judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad. ~ dave berry

[phillip1882]

that great, i like dave berry. here's some more of his quotes.

Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.

 

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

 

Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.

 

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'

 

Dave Barry

[Turtle]

time may wait for no man, but it does brake for turtles. ~ beatrix terrana goodwon

[coldcreation]

"A Western traveler encountering an Oriental philosopher

asks him to describe the nature of the world:

 

“It is a great ball resting on the flat back of the world

turtle.”

 

“Ah yes, but what does the world turtle stand on?”

 

“On the back of a still larger turtle.”

 

“Yes, but what does he stand on?”

 

“A very perceptive question. But it’s no use, mister; it’s

turtles all the way down.”"

 

~Carl Sagan, 1979, p. 293

[Turtle]

my sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane. ~ robert frost

[paigetheoracle]

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle (Robert Kennedy). The quiet suppression is what stops true progress in any society. It is what keeps a dictatorship stuck in time, a man stuck in a job he hates and the attack on whistle blowers. Truth will out? Not if those frightened of progress (because it leaves them behind) have anything to do with it!

[Turtle]

some days i would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water. ~ buffalo bill

[belovelife]

“You should, by law, only use force to protect someone’s life or to protect them from being bodily injured. If you’re not protecting somebody’s life or protecting them from bodily injury, there’s no need to use force."

Retired Philadelphia police captain Ray Lewis 2011

[Turtle]

well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? they never mention that part to us, do they? ~ george carlin

[Turtle]

any effectively generated theory capable of expressing elementary arithmetic cannot be both consistent and complete. ~ kurt gödel