Wise men make proverbs, only fools repeat them

[fences_like_a_lemur]

"All power corrupts, absolute power is even more fun"

~Simon Travaglia

[ParryRiposte]

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad
~ Salvador Dali

[I_luv_saber]

7 But as these things came to pass, the Spirit that did cause Man to create his God lived on within all men; even within Aqualung
8 And Man saw it not
9 But for Christ's sake he'd better start looking.

-Jethro Tull

[ParryRiposte]

"Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance."
-Sam Brown

[fences_like_a_lemur]

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices— just recognize them.

~Edward R. Murrow

[ParryRiposte]

Hey, Jimmie! The Chimney Sweeps. Talk to the Sword. Shut up, you got a big mouth! Please come help me up, Henny. Max come over here... French Canadian bean soup...I want to pay, let them leave me alone...
-Last words of Arthur Flegenheimer

[fences_like_a_lemur]

A true friend stabs you in the front.

~Oscar Wilde

[ParryRiposte]

All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.
-William Halsey

[fences_like_a_lemur]

All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.
-William Halsey

All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.

~William S. Halsey

Hmm, is it just me or do those look awfully identical?

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

~Sherlock Holmes

[ParryRiposte]

Hmm, is it just me or do those look awfully identical?

Whoops! Where have I been?

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.
-Aboriginal proverb

[fences_like_a_lemur]

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.

~Stephen Hawking

[I_luv_saber]

The beareaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding beareaucracy.

-Unknown Or at least I don't

[fences_like_a_lemur]

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

~Richard Feynman

[ParryRiposte]

Omnia vincit Amor; et nos cedamus Amori.
-Virgil

[fences_like_a_lemur]

Ō xein', angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti tēde
keimetha tois keinōn rhēmasi peithomenoi.

Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,
that here, obedient to their laws, we lie

~Thermopylae Epitaf

[ParryRiposte]

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
~ Robert E. Howard

[Angwilwileth]

Anybody capable of getting himself made president should on no account be allowed to do the job.
-The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

[fences_like_a_lemur]

“War, not peace, produces virtue. War, not peace, purges vice. War, and preparation for war, call forth all that is noble and honorable in a man. It unites him with his brothers and binds them in selfless love, eradicating in the crucible of necessity all which is base and ignoble. There in the holy mill of murder the meanest of men may seek and find that part of himself, concealed beneath the corrupt, which shines forth brilliant and virtuous, worthy of honor before the gods. Do not despise war, my young friend, nor delude yourself that mercy and compassion are virtues superior to andreia, to manly valor.”

~Polynikes


1000th post!!!!!

[ParryRiposte]

Woot! Champagne for all!

'Oh Fatherland, Fatherland, show us the sign. Your children have waited to see! The morning will come when the world is mine! Tomorrow belongs to ME!'
- Fraulein Kost, Herr Ludwig, the Company; from Cabaret

[fences_like_a_lemur]

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

~Marie Curie