by "Jcarr" (jcarr)
Published 01/24/2017 at 14:21
by "Jcarr" (jcarr)
Published 01/24/2017 at 14:21
Tags: Fancy
STARS: 2
Time to get a little culture up in here. Share some of your favorites.
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
-Sophocles
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The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don’t see the results.
-Henri Nouwen
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
-C.S. Lewis
"CB" (jrcb)
01/24/2017 at 14:25, STARS: 1
“Look at us! Look at us! It looks like the short bus stopped and let everyone off, but instead of giving us bag lunches they gave us scissors and high explosives!”
-Willy, Spriggs
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“You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody. You buy a Maserati when you’re too fucking classy to give a shit about all that nonsense.”
Probably used to be true.
As you can tell, I’m not a fan of profound quotes.
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
01/24/2017 at 14:25, STARS: 6
I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
—President Bill Clinton
"sm70- why not Duesenberg?" (sm70-whynotduesenberg)
01/24/2017 at 14:27, STARS: 3
“The fuck are you doing?”
-Sue Simmons
"Tekamul" (tekamulburner)
01/24/2017 at 14:29, STARS: 2
“Life does not just lay itself before you, the true man knows -wait- was that a fart or a shart? BRB”
-Me
"aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe" (emaxxbl)
01/24/2017 at 14:29, STARS: 2
I’m a decent egg.
"Bourbon&JellyBeans" (bourbonandjellybeans)
01/24/2017 at 14:30, STARS: 4
“By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.” ~ Richard Dawkins
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“Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right.” ~ Ricky Gervais
"jariten1781" (jariten1781)
01/24/2017 at 14:30, STARS: 3
Mencken is my favorite dude to quote.
Fave:
Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well
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known solution to every human problem
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neat, plausible, and wrong
One I post every election (doesn’t matter who wins, always gets people up in arms):
All of us, if we are of reflective habit, like and admire men whose fundamental beliefs differ radically from our own. But when a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental
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men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or count himself lost.
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All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre
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the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.
The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart
’
s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
"fourvalleys" (fourvalleys)
01/24/2017 at 14:31, STARS: 6
“One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.”
- Diogenes
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
01/24/2017 at 14:31, STARS: 2
Sir Humphrey : The only way to understand the Press is to remember that they pander to their readers’ prejudices.
Jim Hacker : Don’t tell me about the Press. I know *exactly* who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by the people who think they run the country. The Guardian is read by people who think they *ought* to run the country. The Times is read by the people who actually *do* run the country. The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country. The Financial Times is read by people who *own* the country. The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by *another* country. The Daily Telegraph is read by the people who think it is.
Sir Humphrey : Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?
Bernard Woolley : Sun readers don’t care *who* runs the country - as long as she’s got big tits.
"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
01/24/2017 at 14:31, STARS: 3
“There are known knowns.
These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That
is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are
also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.”
Donald Rumsfeld
"crowmolly" (crowmolly)
01/24/2017 at 14:32, STARS: 2
"For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
01/24/2017 at 14:33, STARS: 2
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"For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
01/24/2017 at 14:34, STARS: 5
Poorly worded, but not wrong
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
01/24/2017 at 14:34, STARS: 1
(Daniel Webster)
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
01/24/2017 at 14:37, STARS: 0
“You always find something in the last place you look.”
-my father*
* I don’t care if anyone else said it first, I heard it first from him; so he get the attribution.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
01/24/2017 at 14:38, STARS: 5
Response: I don’t believe you, and don’t call me Miss Lewinsky.*
* Another example of why I would make a lousy reporter.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
01/24/2017 at 14:40, STARS: 1
“If I’d had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.”
-Mark Twain
"sm70- why not Duesenberg?" (sm70-whynotduesenberg)
01/24/2017 at 14:40, STARS: 3
-The Tesla Model X
"Scott" (merl3noir)
01/24/2017 at 14:43, STARS: 3
“ If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower. ”
Mark Donohue
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“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
Often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, but Earliest source is Charles Stewart.
"Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer" (smallbear94)
01/24/2017 at 14:44, STARS: 4
“It was once my pledge never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my pledge never to do so before breakfast.”
- Winston Churchill
“You have enemies? Good. That means you have stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
- Winston Churchill
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
- Winston Churchill
“It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.”
- Winston Churchill
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
- Winston Churchill
“However brilliant the plan, you should occasionally look at the results.”
- Winston Churchill
“I find your lack of Churchill disturbing.”
- Smallbear
"interstate366, now In The Industry" (interstate366)
01/24/2017 at 14:44, STARS: 0
“The problem with quotes on the internet is that many of them are not genuine.”
-Abraham Lincoln
"3point8isgreat" (3point8isgreatest)
01/24/2017 at 14:47, STARS: 0
“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.” - Robert Oppenheimer
“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there—on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
Carl Sagan
"Tripper" (tripe46)
01/24/2017 at 14:47, STARS: 1
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity”
-Seneca
"oneavejoe" (oneavgjoe)
01/24/2017 at 14:53, STARS: 1
If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay the rest of mankind? — Frederic Bastiat
"Trevor Slattery, ACTOR" (anacostiabikecompany)
01/24/2017 at 14:56, STARS: 1
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Erich Fromm
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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
Erich Fromm
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Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
Thomas Paine
"Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz)" (galileo-humpkins)
01/24/2017 at 14:58, STARS: 0
“
- Dr. Seuss
"Tapas" (tapas)
01/24/2017 at 15:04, STARS: 0
I went from the favorite...to the most-hated/ But would you rather be underpaid or overrated? - Jay Z
"pauljones" (pauljones)
01/24/2017 at 15:05, STARS: 1
See people not how you want to see them, but rahter for they are and how they want to be seen.
Always assume you are at a disadvantage, and plan for that.
Don’t be afraid to give an order.
You do not have all the answers, but be confident in the answers that you do have.
There is nothing more important than people.
Integrity is everything
Time is not short. Time is not infinited. Time is not money. It is all of those things and none of those things, and all at once. Deal with it.
The true test of courage is knowing how to yield.
Courage is not defined by dying for a cause, but rather by living for a cause
Give credit where credit is due.
Use your emotions, but do not allow them to use you.
“Fearless” is synonymous with “stupid.” No one is without fear.
Chivalry is dead. Long live courtesy and respect.
Faith is not a religious concept, it is a human concept. Don’t be afraid to have a little.
Everyone has the capacity to contribute positively. That does not, however, mean that they will.
Being nice isn’t a weakness. It takes immeasurable strength to be nice in a world that isn’t always all that nice in return.
Silence is not the same as ignorance.
Making the wrong decision is better than making no decision.
Focus on the things that you can take with you. The rest is transient and meaningless.
If you cannot move heaven, then raise hell.
One in a bilion is infinitely more preferable to none in a billion.
We can’t be judged for the feelings that we have; we can only be judged for how we act on our feelings.
"Party-vi" (party-vi)
01/24/2017 at 15:05, STARS: 0
“Aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines”
~Enzo Ferrari
"MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s" (mastermario)
01/24/2017 at 15:11, STARS: 0
Never trust a fart
-Old timer at work
"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
01/24/2017 at 15:12, STARS: 0
The South did what? Seriously, what the fuck?
-Abraham Lincoln
"merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc" (merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc)
01/24/2017 at 15:14, STARS: 0
If you see the tree you are driving into, you have under steered. If you only hear it, you have over steered. -Walter Rohrl
Good drivers have dead flies on the side windows. -Walter Rohrl
"merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc" (merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc)
01/24/2017 at 15:15, STARS: 0
Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary... that’s what gets you.
"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
01/24/2017 at 15:28, STARS: 1
You can go anywhere in any car. A Cadillac is for when you’ve arrived.
-salesman
"RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike)
01/24/2017 at 15:44, STARS: 2
My MANY contributions! Copy-pasted from my ‘Awesome Quotes’ file! :P
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
— Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
— Calvin and Hobbes (Bill Watterson)
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.
— Rich Cook
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
— Albert Einstein
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. — Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
— Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
— Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
— Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us
to forgo their use. — Galileo Galilei
If a man does his best, what else is there?
— General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
— Etienne De Grellet
“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”
— Lawrence Clark Powell
“Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.”
— Josh Billings
“Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.”
— Pythagoras
“Stupidity in battle is rewarded by two things: pain, and then, no pain.” - Elementalist Henchman Cynn (This was a quote from a character in the original Guild Wars game...always liked it!)
“Remember friends as you pass by, as you are now so once was I. As low as I you once must be, prepare yourself and follow me.”
Gravestone of the 1800's
“Ponder this; a bus station is where a bus stops; a train station is where a train stops. On my desk I have a workstation...”
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. - Socrates
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
To know what is right and to not do it is the worst cowardice. —Confucius
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
—Napoleon Bonaparte
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
- Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
- Marcus Antonius
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.”
-Thomas Alva Edison
“It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.” - Sir Winston Churchill
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” - Sir Winston Churchill
“Canada is home to the largest French population to never surrender to Germany.” - Bash.org
“Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.” - Erich Fromm
“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.” - Erich Fromm
“To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.” - Erich Fromm
“No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.” - James A. Baldwin
“It is not how old you are, but how you are old.” - Jules Renard
“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.” - Jonathan Swift
“Jesus can walk on water. Cucumbers are 96% water. I can walk on Cucumbers, therefore, I am 96% Jesus....Your mind. It has been blown.”
“The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldnt be here if stars hadnt exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - werent created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.” - Lawrence M. Krauss
"The Lurktastic Opponaught" (oppolurker)
01/24/2017 at 15:45, STARS: 0
Well, that depends on what you mean by the word “is”.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
01/24/2017 at 15:45, STARS: 0
Friggin’ lawyers...
"G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3" (gbodyman)
01/24/2017 at 15:47, STARS: 0
“I am on the mend. At least now I can say that I am trying, and I hope you will forget things I still lack.”
-Jesse Lacey
"jmedarts" (jmedarts)
01/24/2017 at 17:17, STARS: 0
Of course that quote.......discusses people
"haveacarortwoorthree2" (haveacarortwoorthree2)
01/24/2017 at 17:48, STARS: 1
“If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.”
-Raylan Givens, Justified
"IanZ - limited-slip indifferential" (ianz-limited)
01/24/2017 at 19:18, STARS: 2
"nermal" (nermal)
01/24/2017 at 19:22, STARS: 1
“Show me someone without an ego, and I’ll show you a loser.”
- Donald Trump
"jariten1781" (jariten1781)
01/25/2017 at 07:18, STARS: 0
Just a heads up, that Einstein quote about human stupidity wasn’t actually his. It belongs to the notorious shyster Fritz Perls. He was a ‘therapist’ who travelled from hotel to hotel selling the miracle of his therapy which could make you rich, confident, attractive, brave, etc etc. He also wrote a number of books (some of which are still published to this day, with a huge markup of course) with made up BS, like this quote which was originally just an unattributed paragraph- later attributed to Einstein- who he claimed he knew but he really didn’t. He essentially misspoke in one of his seminars, saw the audience reacted very positively when they thought Einstein had said it so in later pressings and future books he just stated that Einstein said it. I find it rather on the nose, heh. He was basically like the miracle cure/get rich quick infomercial guys of today and even half a century after his death his nonsense is still felt.
"RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike)
01/25/2017 at 08:34, STARS: 0
Huh! You learn something new every day! I’ll change it in my file! :)