Quote of the Day - 2

[DocBrown]

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains it's original dimensions.

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[A Guy]

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains it's original dimensions.

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I like that

A Guy

 

[A Guy]

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~Mark Twain

A Guy

 

[JMH]

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Immanuel Kant
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[johnwillyums]

I think that Kant, of all the moral philosophers, provides a pragmatic guide to be a good person.

 

[StalkeR]

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
Samuel Johnson

 

[DreemWarrior]

"I feel sorry for people who don`t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that`s as good as they`re going to feel all day."
Frank Sinatra

 

[boohbah]

"A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment. "

— Frank Zappa​

 

[StalkeR]

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
William Penn

 

[CarlTR6]

Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold...
~Bob Marley

A Guy

Taken from Proverbs.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains it's original dimensions.

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Hear! Hear!

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~Mark Twain

A Guy

This is so very true.

 

[DocBrown]

If you look back, you'll soon be going that way.

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[MilesAhead]

Presently

"The present is merely whenever I happen to find myself at the moment."

- The Time Traveler's Creed

 

[JMH]

“There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.”

Richard Bach.​

 

[A Guy]

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
~Dorothy Fisher

A Guy

 

[StalkeR]

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
Audrey Hepburn

 

[A Guy]

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
~Alexis Tocqueville

A Guy

 

[StalkeR]

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Alfred A. Montapert

 

[BrightBlessings]

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
~Alexis Tocqueville

A Guy

America HAS ceased to be good. The empire is crumbling and the players are fiddling.

 

[Hopalong X]

State of the Union

"Nero" has not performed his final recital yet though he has been practicing vigorously.


Hoppy

 

[boohbah]

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Alarum. Enter KING HENRY, EXETER, BEDFORD, GLOUCESTER, and Soldiers, with scaling-ladders
KING HENRY V
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the blow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and juutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doobt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'

Exeunt. Alarum, and chambers go off