ninthcouncil
First Post
To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
- Ambrose Bierce
You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
- W.B.Yeats
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. "What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor."
- St. Augustine
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
- Jane Austen (1775-1817)
If you cry "forward", you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
- Anton Chekhov
"The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage."
- Danish Proverb
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...
- Epicurus (341-270 B.C.)
Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- Charles de Gaulle, when asked if he was happy
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Do not overestimate the decency of the human race.
- H. L. Mencken
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
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
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- Che Guevara
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
- Wernher Von Braun
And finally, a whole bunch from the Confucian Analects:
"Learning without thinking is fruitless; thinking without learning is perplexing."
Duke Ai asked: "What must we do to make the people obedient?"
Master Kong replied: "Promote the upright, place them above the crooked, and the people shall be obedient. Promote the crooked, place them above the upright, and the people shall be disobedient."
"Acting solely in pursuit of profit will incur much resentment."
"Those who err through self-restraint are rare indeed."
"He who loves courage and hates poverty will rebel; he who is inhumane and is hated excessively will also rebel."
"I have never seen anyone who loves virtue as much as he loves beautiful women."
"When the state possesses the Way, speak uprightly and act uprightly; when the state loses the Way, act uprightly, but speak modestly."
"The gentleman rests at ease in adversity; the small man, once reduced to adversity, becomes reckless."
"Be more demanding with yourself and less so with others and you shall keep resentment away."
"If, at forty, a man is still loathed, he is done for."
Enjoy!
- Ambrose Bierce
You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
- W.B.Yeats
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. "What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor."
- St. Augustine
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
- Jane Austen (1775-1817)
If you cry "forward", you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
- Anton Chekhov
"The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage."
- Danish Proverb
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...
- Epicurus (341-270 B.C.)
Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- Charles de Gaulle, when asked if he was happy
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Do not overestimate the decency of the human race.
- H. L. Mencken
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
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
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- Che Guevara
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
- Wernher Von Braun
And finally, a whole bunch from the Confucian Analects:
"Learning without thinking is fruitless; thinking without learning is perplexing."
Duke Ai asked: "What must we do to make the people obedient?"
Master Kong replied: "Promote the upright, place them above the crooked, and the people shall be obedient. Promote the crooked, place them above the upright, and the people shall be disobedient."
"Acting solely in pursuit of profit will incur much resentment."
"Those who err through self-restraint are rare indeed."
"He who loves courage and hates poverty will rebel; he who is inhumane and is hated excessively will also rebel."
"I have never seen anyone who loves virtue as much as he loves beautiful women."
"When the state possesses the Way, speak uprightly and act uprightly; when the state loses the Way, act uprightly, but speak modestly."
"The gentleman rests at ease in adversity; the small man, once reduced to adversity, becomes reckless."
"Be more demanding with yourself and less so with others and you shall keep resentment away."
"If, at forty, a man is still loathed, he is done for."
Enjoy!
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