# Deep quotes/thoughts **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 16, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-quotes-thoughts/473015 "2008-11-16T18:29:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![erleichda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4da419/32.png) [@erleichda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erleichda)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-quotes-thoughts/473015/21 "2008-11-19T22:38:42Z")
“Unfortunately, the most embarrassing moments in our lives are often not the ones we are most embarrassed by.” - erleichda ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-quotes-thoughts/473015/22 "2008-11-19T23:31:21Z")
Student: “What are you doing, Master?” Zen Master: “Nothing.” Student: “Teach me the Way.” Zen Master: “I’m busy.” ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-quotes-thoughts/473015/23 "2008-11-20T03:53:42Z")
“T’was ever thus: the horse does all the work, and the cabby gets the tips.” ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-quotes-thoughts/473015/24 "2008-11-20T04:29:50Z")
“There are times to retreat from danger, and times it must be faced head on. If you choose to face it-go boldly. Remember that no matter how strong your enemy might be, you too have power” - DeLint “You want to impress people with tricks? Then take up juggling oranges or something. A mage has no time for conjuring and parlor tricks. Let me tell you what happens when you piss away your powers on them: First you lose respect for your skills and that debilitates them. And then, when a time comes that you really need them, you lose control and there’s hell to pay. And let me tell you one more thing: secrecy in itself is a source of power.” - ibid “If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” - Payne “I carry a gun because I can’t carry a cop” - unknown “A plan is just a list of things that don’t happen.” - ibid ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-quotes-thoughts/473015/25 "2008-11-20T04:36:39Z")
“A witty saying proves nothing.” -Voltaire ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-quotes-thoughts/473015/26 "2008-11-20T05:34:10Z")
“…But having confronted our ignorance, let us endeavor to learn.” - Cecil Adams “Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.” - Thucydides “You break it, you own it.” - Colin Powell, October, 2004 ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-quotes-thoughts/473015/27 "2008-11-20T06:04:47Z")
“Man is the best computer we can put aboard a space craft…and the only one that can be mass-produced with unskilled labor.”–Wehrner von Braun “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?”–Satchell Paige “We are not in the Boy Scouts. If we had wanted to be Boy Scouts we would have joined the Boy Scouts.”–Richard Helms, Director of the CIA, speaking about the CIA’s mission. “There is no feeling like being all alone, at night, in a bank.”–Willy Sutton, famous bank robber “God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh.”–Voltaire “Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.”–Peter Ustinov ---
**Author:** ![blakesta93](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f1d935/32.png) [@blakesta93](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blakesta93)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-quotes-thoughts/473015/28 "2011-10-05T18:26:16Z")
emotions are like glass, the stronger the glass the higher the cost, but you don’t realize the cost until you see your reflection in the mirror. blake kohlmeyer iowa [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-quotes-thoughts/473015.md?page=1)