Favorite Quotes

[Racoon]

Dig the well before you are thirsty - Chinese Proverb

 

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges - Joseph Fort newton

 

Nothing great was ever acheived without enthusiasm :cheer: - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Turtle]

life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes. ~ carl friedrich gauss

 

just kidding.

here's the more likely attire. :xmas_sheep:

 

 

i think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at sixty-seventh street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. maybe. ~ denis leary

[JMJones0424]

I'm an ******* :Music:

~Dennis Leary

[Turtle]

most of the time people feel okay.

probably it’s because at the moment they’re not actually dying.

 

~ george carlin ~

 

[Racoon]

"Egotism is that special something which enables a man who's in a rut to think he's in a groove" - Unknown

 

:unsure:

 

 

"The one thing that can be safely predicted about life is that it is unpredictable...there is nothing on Earth that in the twinkling of an eye is not subject to change." - Richard L. Evans

[Turtle]

Richard L. Evans was a plagarizing hack. :omg: In the best of possible terms of course.

 

behold, i shew you a

mystery;

we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be

changed;

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last

trump:

for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised

incorruptible,

and we shall be changed.

~ saul ~

 

:xparty:

[Racoon]

Richard L. Evans was a plagarizing hack. :omg: In the best of possible terms of course.

 

behold, i shew you a

mystery;

we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be

changed;

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last

trump:

for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised

incorruptible,

and we shall be changed.

~ saul ~

 

:xparty:

 

 

You got me there Turtle :blink:

 

"Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?" - Antonio Porchia

[Turtle]

You got me there Turtle :blink:

 

"Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?" - Antonio Porchia

 

 

:D I love this work. ~ unattested ;)

 

i am above the weakness of

seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect,

between the disaster

and the atrocity.

~ edgar allan poe ~

[Deepwater6]

Everyone is born with a limited amount of time. Every moment we live-whether we're working, playing, complaining or being thankful is time that we have spent. Nothing is more valuable than the time we have left.

Cynthia Kersey

 

Happiness is not a reward-it's a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment- it is a result

Robert Green Ingersoll

 

Experience should be a guidepost and not a hitching post.

Author Unknown

 

Do what's right and try to get along with people, in that order.

Ezra Taft Benson

 

And I'll end with one of Turtles favs, Benny Frank. So loved in the city of of Philadelphia there is a huge bridge connecting :o PA and NJ named after him and the Franklin Institute which has loads of creative and hands on experiments and recreations by him and his era. A great place to visit.

 

Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur everyday.

Benjamin Franklin

 

DW

[Turtle]

be assured that a walk through the

seas of most souls would scarcely get your feet wet. fall not in love,

therefore, it will stick to your face.

 

~ tony hendra ~

Edited August 16, 2013 by Turtle

[Racoon]

Here are a few Witticisms I drummed up...

 

"Maybe Death and Taxes are inevitable, but Death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets" - Joan I Welsh

 

 

"Success, I shall tell you out of the wisdom of my years, is a toy balloon among children armed with sharp pins" - Gene Fowler

 

 

"You've heard of the three ages of man: Youth, Middle Age, and "You're looking wonderful!" " - Francis Cardinal Spellman

 

 

"There are two times in a man's life when he shouldn't speculate: When he can't afford it, and when he can" - Mark Twain

 

 

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject" - Winston Churchill

 

 

"Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half-truths" - Edgar A. Shoaff

 

 

"The most important thing in Acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made" - George Burns

 

 

"I think, therefore I'm single" - Liz Winston

 

 

"Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens" - Nick Diamos

[JMJones0424]

If there's something where there is doubt, don't claim you are certain. It's amazing how relaxing it is not to pretend to know more than you do. I'm surprised that those who claim to speak in the name of god don't take more advantage of this.

[coldcreation]

Hey JMJ, :)

 

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.

~Richard Dawkins

 

 

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.

~Richard Dawkins

 

 

 

CC

[JMJones0424]

Really reaching here, and I hope it's not taken the wrong way, but-

 

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

It may be presumptuous of me to call you a friend, CC, but I do, and so be it. As I am usually stupid, I'd like to be stupid with you. What are your reactions to causal dynamical triangulations? It seems to me to be an elegant geometric approach to the problem of consolidating general relativity with quantum mechanics, but I am, as I previously stated, stupid. And if you know anything of ADSL splitters, I have questions there too :)

 

On a not necessarily related note, has anyone heard from Turtle lately? I'm concerned he might have ended up in someone's soup, though I pity the fool that tries to capture him.

Edited November 26, 2013 by JMJones0424

[Turtle]

Absence doth sharpen love,

presence strengthens it;

the one brings fuel,

the other blows it till it burns clear.

~ William Shakespeare~

[Turtle]

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph. ~ Haile Selassie

[Deepwater6]

Remember you are your own doctor when it comes to curing cold feet.

 

Author unknown

 

You cannot run away from weakness. You must sometimes fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand.

 

Robert Louis Stevenson

 

To eat one must chew, to speak one must think.

 

Vietnamese proverb

 

Behave toward everyone as if receiving a great gift.

 

Confucius