delecto ergo sum

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.

None are so blind as those who willl not see.

Keep rules to a minimum and enforce the ones you have.

Vince Dooley
College football coach
University of Georgia

Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness.

~Lao-Tzu
philosopher (6th century BCE)

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.

Robert Southey
(1774-1843)
Poet

Your wealth is where your friends are.

Plautus
(c. 254-184 B.C.)
Playwright

Today, let’s give thanks for life. For life itself. For simply being born!

Daphne Rose Kingma

To be an adult is to be alone.
Jean Rostand

If you're nice enough over a long enough peroid of time... she will sleep with you.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Franz Kafka

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of
thought.

~John F. Kennedy

If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don’t wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.

African proverb

"Pan metron ariston."

("Everything in moderation.")

Ancient Greek saying.

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
----
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

It's easy to sit there and say you'd like to have more money. And I guess that's what I like about it. It's easy. Just sitting there, rocking back and forth, wanting that money.
-Jack Handey

We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by the qualities we possess.

Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard (1733-1817)

But elephants have souls. Anything that can get drunk, he reasoned, must have some soul. Perhaps this is all "soul" means.

Thomas Pynchon, "V."

"Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage."
----
George Foreman

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Caryl Haskins (1908-2001)
Scientist

In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.

~Vince Poscente, Olympian (1961- )

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it but what they become by it.

John Ruskin (1819-1900)

this is what history teaches. history teaches.

gertrude stein

don't compare yourself with others - it will only make you bitter or vain.

Isn't it funny how the pirates were always going around searching for hidden treasure, when the real treasure was the fond memories they were creating?

When you get to the end of your life, are you going to look back and regret you didn't spend more time at work?...

The whole is the sum of the parts, so be a good part.

Nate McConnell

Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.

Greek proverb

"Kill them all. God will know His own."

Simon de Montfort, on how his crusaders could separate the Cathar heretics from the good Catholics...

Setting a goal is not the main thing.
It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Tom Landry (1924-2000)

"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American Author (1904-2001)

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best--that is inspiration.

Robert Bresson
(1901-1999)
Filmmaker

Dig the well before you are thirsty.

Chinese proverb

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

Smile. It makes people wonder what you are up to.

- Unknown

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

Hunter S. Thompson

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

-Dune

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Henry Miller

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

Martha Stewart

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Carl W. Buechner

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

Cicero

without bad there is no good

You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There’s more of a chance then that they’ll survive. That is perhaps one of the greatest secrets of our life.

Dmitri Shostakovich
(1906-1975)
Composer

I love all waste/And solitary places; where we taste/The pleasure of believing what we see/Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.


Percy Bysshe Shelley
from Julian and Maddalo

You get what you measure. (my stats prof. Freaky genius)

Choose your staff with purpose. What kind of ego do you have if your employees are little clones of yourself? You should be fired. (Another teacher I had in HRM)

Any philosophy that can fit on a fortune cookie paper must be true. (I read this one from a fortune cookie. It blew my mind. I've never touched a fortune cookie since.)

Dig them holes deep, boys, you'll be living in them. (my section commander in the army)

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Jack London

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Margaret Atwood

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish
to scatter joy and not pain around us.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Choices are the hinges of destiny.

Edwin Markham

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

Agnes DeMille

The stone we write our rules in.....is often the same one we slam our heads against


tecoyah

That's a great one, tecoyah. Thanks!

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

"Ships that pass in the night and speak each other in passing;
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

amonkie, that latest one you posted is so well stated.
new to me but unforgettable.
thanks!

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Claude Bernard
(1813-1878)

In honor of April Fool's Day, I thought I'd share some of my favorite Mark Twain quotes.


* A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

* Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

* Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

* Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

* Don't let schooling interfere with your education. Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

* Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

* Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

* I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

* If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the difference between dog and man.

* Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

great set of statements here, warrrreagl. thanks!

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

People change and forget to tell each other.

~Lillian Hellman

Time wears away error and polishes truth.

~Gaston Pierre Marc, Duc de Levis, writer (1764-1830)

"Boredom is the shriek of unused capacities."
----
Saul Bellow

What I don't understand is say you owe a bookie some money and say said bookie shoots off one of your toes...you still owe the bookie the money. It just doesn't seem fair.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.

-Donald Trump

What you get out of an experience is directly proportional to what you put in. If you're lucky, it's proportional to what you put in squared... unless what you put in was nothing.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Jean Cocteau

I was recently watching Kill Bill II when i realized something. The reason I love Tarentino movies is that he makes every single one like it will be the only movie he ever makes

I truly believe this

On April 20th 2005

Bob Marley was smoking weed in heaven
not any regular "earth" weed
but Heaven Weed, the best in the universe
grown by Hippy Angels

and the Rastafarian Devils are pissed!!!!

Bob doesn't wanna pass it down to the flaming pit for 'em.

"The wastebasket is a writer's best friend."
----
Isaac Bashevis Singer

"You teach best what you most need to learn."


Richard David Bach

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher
esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

"Good experiences come from good judgement. Good judgement comes from bad experiences. Bad experiences come from bad judgement."

once every day there is a coming where cows are.

gertrude stein

Supple Cow:

... the last word in mass media mind control:

.......................................................................
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher
esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

.................................

Thanks so much for that quote. I will always recall it.

You're quite welcome, Art. In a similar vein:

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers."

~Thomas Pynchon, writer

~ All though it's just a memory, some memories last forever ~

Neil Pert
-=RUSH=-

Loneliness... is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

~Thomas Wolfe, novelist (1900-1938)

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

~John Locke

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

~Alan Kay

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason
and imitation without benefit.

~George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)

not sure if any of these were used previously, but here are my favorite:

"I say that it is the greatest good for a man to discuss virtue every day and those other things about which you hear me conversing and testing myself and others, for the unexamined life is not worth living for man" - Socrates

"Religion is opium to the people" - Karl Marx

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness" - Chuang-Tzu

"Think for yourself. Question authority. Through out human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing, fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos. [It] has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities who have attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations. Informing, forming in our minds, their views of reality. To think for yourself, you must question authority, and learn how to put yourself in a state of vunerable, open mindedness, chaotic, confused, vunerabilty to inform yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority." - Beggining of Third Eye, by Tool. Off of Salival (I think that's Timothy Leary (is that the right name?))

"You see, I think drugs have done some good things for us. I really do. And if you don't think drugs have done some good things for us, go home and take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your CDs and burn them. You know what? The musicans who made all that great music that has inhanced your lives through out the years, [we're] real fucking high on drugs." --- "Today a young man on Acid realized that all matter is really energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we all are one concisousness and are expirencing ourselves subjectivly, there is no such thing as death, Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather." - Beggining of Third Eye, by Tool. Off of Ænima.

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someones neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

"To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can."
- Og Mandino

I did a lot of thinking today. In a little more than a week I will basically be out on my own for good... no more summer vacations and winter breaks away from college mooching off of my dad. I'm very scared, but I have a feeling I can make it through. :)

I also decided that it's time to put my beliefs about the way I should be living and my views on myself to work. No more of this trying bullshit. Time to do something... for the sake of my sanity and my happiness.

"Hey! Wait! Knock me down and I'll get up again.
Oh! Pain! A remedy that can erase your sting.
I'll keep holding, and I'll keep trying.
I feel this fight, it is slowly dying now but I feel painless... " -Mae

"Sleep. Those little slices of death. How I loth them."
E.A. Poe

I realized today with the help of this thread that while my personal motto has always been
"do what makes you happy"
you don't necessarily need to 'do' or 'think' anything.
I love life.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

~Thomas Jefferson

Everyone needs to go back to basics now and then.

If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral.

~Samuel P. Ginder, US navy captain

amateurs built the ark... professionals built the Titanic
- unknown

We have not inherited the Earth from our parents. We are borrowing it from our children.

~ Native American saying

don't take life too seriously ............................. nobody gets out alive anyways!

"Death is a natural part of life."- Yoda

Life observations
 

When something goes so right, something else goes to pieces quite spectacularly.

Anyone else got a profound statement to make?

I always feel that the person who rescues you is also the one most likely to kill you.

Shit happens.

If you wear what you're comfortable in you'll look the best.

real friends stab you from the front

When you think you have it all figured out, something happens to humble you back into human form.

Find a job you like and you'll never work a day in your life.

MoJo

"I probably won't kill myself, and for all the wrong reasons."

Hunter S. Thompson

If you need somebody you can trust? trust yourself!

Bob Dylan

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

~Ayn Rand

"If you don't ask, you don't recieve."- My Papa