Quote of the Day - [4]

[Arc]

All things are difficult before they are easy.

_ Thomas Fuller

 

[drpepper]

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain

 

[jdXp610]

Sulu: Attention: John Harrison. This is Captain Hikaru Sulu of the USS Enterprise. A shuttle of highly trained officers is on its way to your location. If you do not surrender to them immediately, I will unleash the entire payload of advanced long-range torpedoes currently locked on to your location. You have two minutes to confirm your compliance. Refusal to do so will result in your obliteration. And If you test me, you will fail.

Bones: Mr Sulu, remind me never to p*** you off

 

[A Guy]

Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.
~Marvin Minsky

A Guy

 

[Dsprague]

"I've seen it. It's rubbish."
-- Marvin the Paranoid Android

 

[A Guy]

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
~Jack London

A Guy

 

[A Guy]

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.
~Thomas H. Huxley

A Guy

 

[Dsprague]

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent
and original in your work.
-- Flaubert

 

[A Guy]

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.
~Thomas H. Huxley

A Guy

 

[Arc]

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

_ Aristotle.

 

[alikhan]

Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
—Montaigne (1553–1592)

 

[jdXp610]

Love

a fixed idea about it will cause you a great deal of suffering

if you have the feeling that it's going to be an easy ride, your going to be disappointed

if you have a feeling it's going to be hell all the way, you may be surprised

~Leonard Cohen~

 

[Britton30]

What the hell is that thing? What the hell is that thing.

~Wild and crazy guy, Steve Martin on Saturday Night Live

 

[A Guy]

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
~John Ruskin

A Guy

 

[jdXp610]

".... It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul. "

~from Invictus by William Ernest Henley~

 

[maxie]

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost, when health is lost, some thing is lost, when character is lost, all is lost.

 

[koolkat77]

 

[A Guy]

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
~James Thurber

A Guy

 

[maxie]

There are things that we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go.

 

[Dsprague]

"Sometimes insanity is the only alternative"
-- button at a Science Fiction convention.