Favorite Quotes

[Turtle]

iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. ~ leonardo da vinci

[coldcreation]

Work! Ecstasy! Smash your brains! Chew, stuff yourself, gulp it down, mix it around! The bliss of giving birth! The crack of the brush, best of all as it stabs the canvas.

- Max Pechstein

[Turtle]

if i were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, i'd trip her. oh, i'd pick her up and brush her off and say, "sorry, mom," but nobody beats me.” ~ leo durocher

[Turtle]

natural numbers are better for your health. ~unattested

[phillip1882]

"rationally making irrational decisions" :unsure:

[Turtle]

one would be hard put to find a set of whole numbers with a more fascinating history and more elegant properties surrounded by greater depths of mystery--and more totally useless--than the perfect numbers. ~ martin gardner

[Turtle]

friends don't let friends drive drunk. ~public service announcement

[Turtle]

the world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. ~ lucretia mott

[labelwench]

Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. ~W. Earl Hall

[Turtle]

anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess. ~ margaret mead

[Moontanman]

Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus

[Turtle]

think in the morning, act in the noon, eat in the evening, sleep in the night. ~ william blake

[modest]

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

 

-Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)

[Turtle]

there is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.

doubt separates people.

it is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations.

it is a thorn that irritates and hurts;

it is a sword that kills.

~ buddha ~

[sman]

Perhaps God did create all organisms, including human beings, in finished form, in one stroke, and maybe it all happened several thousand years ago. But if that is true, He also salted the earth with false evidence in such endless and exquisite detail, and so thoroughly from pole to pole, as to make us conclude first that life evolved, and second that the process took billions of years. ~Edward Owen Wilson

[Turtle]

chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. ~ george santayana

[labelwench]

• "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."
  • -John Steinbeck