What’s your favourite quote(s)? {Please remember to quote the author}
Recently:
“Nature, left entirely alone, manages her own affairs. Lion, leopard, wild dog, jackal and other predatory creatures, great and small, and whether of the earth, air or water, have their full place in nature, just as much as the animals on which they are accustomed to prey, and are entitled to equal respect. Understand this, and nature will transform you. Ignore it and she will return armed with a pitchfork.”
James Stevenson-Hamilton, founder of the Kruger National Park
(Note to mods: Apologies if in the wrong forum or against board rules on copyright. Feel free to move, lock, slap me about the head, spit on my grave…)
“Nobody’s creepy from the inside, Hazel. Some of them are sad, and some of them hurt, and some of them think they’re the only real thing in the world. But they’re not creepy.” - Death of the Endless
also
“Give a man fire and he’s warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he’s warm for
the rest of his life.” - Terry Pratchett
I’ll screw it up because I couldn’t find it to get it exact, but it’s by Mark Twain, and anyone that’s ever raised a teenager can relate.
“When I was 14, I thought my father to be the stupidest man on the face of the earth. By the time I reached 21, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned.”
“Everybody wants to go to Heaven but no one wants to die.”
I send the following to my former students when they get tenure:
“The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn’t need its brain anymore, so it eats it. (It’s rather like getting tenure.)”
“While I may not agree with what you say, i will defend to the daeth your right to say it”
~Voltaire (Probably not the exact words, but close enough)
“I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn’t it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.”
~Babylon 5 (said by Marcus Cole, written by J.Michael Strazinsky)
“How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master’s bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.”
*Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. * - Benjamin Franklin
Somehow the Patriot Act made this make a lot of sense to me.
