Quote of the Day - [3]

[A Guy]

Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
~Marcus Brigstocke

A Guy

 

[indianacarnie]

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

All by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) *sorry for the multiple quotes..... but how can you pick just one from this great man?

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. - Confucius
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[nobilis]

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. - Confucius
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Awesome.
Maestro Kung :tip:

 

[indianacarnie]

“Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.”
― Oswald Spengler

 

[koolkat77]

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[indianacarnie]

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Yes, I have a fondness for the German philosophers. And yes again I think this particular quote has much relevance for today.

 

[A Guy]

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
~Robertson Davies

A Guy

 

[indianacarnie]

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

 

[arizonajack]

The Moving Finger writes, and having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
Nor all your tears wash out a Word of it.


From: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

 

[A Guy]

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
~M. Cartmill

A Guy

 

[arizonajack]

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

W. C. Fields

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[A Guy]

He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes.
~H. E. Martz

A Guy

 

[BrightBlessings]

"Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality" - Michael Ellner

 

[A Guy]

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
~Rick Cook

A Guy

 

[arizonajack]

One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

Karel Capek

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[Arc]

 

[arizonajack]

Money can't buy happiness.

No money can't buy anything.

 

[BrightBlessings]

"It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know--or care--about circumstances in the colonies." Bertrand Russell

 

[A Guy]

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
~George Bernard Shaw

A Guy