Can somebody help me with this one? I remember a quote from G.B. Shaw, something like:…“a lifetime of failure is a far more honorable thing than a life without trying”…but I can’t seem to find this anywhere. Anyway, it’s my favorite quote, because i’ve had more than my share of failure in this life!
I am a collecter of quotes. The ones I have scribbled in my day planner that are worthy:
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, there is where they shall be. Now put foundations under them. - Thoreau
A dreamer is one who can only fund his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. - Oscar Wilde
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. - Percey Byshe Shelly
Dare to be naive. - R. Buckmeister Fuller
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he had good thoughts. He had money as well. - Margaret Thatcher.
(translation of the dedication for an award for which she recieved from an African tribe) To Mrs. Thatcher, she upon whom is is unsafe to try any Oompus-Boomus.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Carl Sagen
(and my personal favorite):
The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: “Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness.” Nathan Brandon
And a few of the less cliched Hamlet quotes, for good measure:
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are drempt of in our philosophy.
He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
And the one that always gives me the shivers:
'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.
my goodness I like words.
Einstein:
“I vill a little t’ink”
- when he was pondering a difficult problem.
a few from my herd:
“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it is impossible for anyone to accomplish. But whatever is possible for another, believe that you, too, are capable of it.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.” – David Lloyd George
“Recursion: The ability to talk to yourself and get an answer.” – Ralph E. Griswold (ok, so it’s computer-nerd humor)
“I love humanity–it’s people I can’t stand.” – Linus of Peanuts
and my most personal contribution:
“Paranoia isn’t desirable when working with computers…
It’s an occupational necessity.” – me
(ok, so maybe you have to be a programmer dealing with NULLS to really appreciate that one.
“Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.” –
Laurie Anderson.
“Life is like licking honey from a thorn.” Don’t know who said it.
“The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt has real culture.” Tom Taussik
“She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.” Clive Cussler on Marylin Monroe
“Everthing’s an alternative to something.”
Don’t know who said it, but it sure puts things into perspective.
“usual vault rules apply – touch not, lest ye be touched.” - brody bruce
“When all hope is lost, pig-headed refusal to acknowledge reality will always save the day.”
–Andy Ihnatko
“All kinds of people go out of their way to act weird. In the past, they were burned as witches. Now, they create alternative music.”
–Ken Tanaka
“There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy.”
–Joseph Campbell
“Possession is nine tenths of the law. Escape is the other tenth.”
–Sigma Seven
“Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun; you don’t stare directly at it! You get a sense of it, you look away!”
–Jerry Seinfeld
“I try to commit at least one deadly sin each day. If I don’t get around to it, I can always chalk it up to sloth.”
–Robert Ragno
“I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass… and I’m all out of ass.”
–Crow, MST3K #519 (“Outlaw”)
“You probably mean ‘sedentary’. I personally lead both a sedentary life in that I spend too much of my time sitting in front of CRTs of various designs, and a
sedimentary life in that everything I have is organized by how many layers down in the stack it is.”
–Greg Morrow
“The Austrians have perfected the technology to turn everything into an alcoholic beverage.”
–Dr. Eckhard Krotscheck
“Sometimes, I just hate being a woman. Then I remember I have big boobs.”
–LauraRae, Straight Dope Message Boards
“Sometimes, I just hate being a woman. Then I remember I have big boobs.”
–LauraRae, Straight Dope Message Boards
Not obscure at all. Very well-known. But I never knew it came from Maslow. I just always thought this was, y’know, an old saw known (in one variant or another) since antiquity.
– You can take a long shower, or you can take a hot shower, but you can’t take a long hot shower.
– Senegoid.
The actual quote is
“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
A good job you got in so quickly with your correction.
I actually own a copy of his book
Toward a Psychology of Being
My favorite gift from Shakespeare:
**
Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!**
The Government of North Korea has not only imposed heavy fines on, but has also detained, arrested, and imprisoned persons who violated DPRK laws, such as entering the country illegally. . . . please keep in mind that you have no right to privacy in North Korea and should assume your communications are monitored.
– US State Department travel warnings. 2013.
-Rothschild Brothers’ of London communiqué to associates in New York June 25, 1863
“The few who understand the system, will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favors that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantages…will bear its burden without complaint, and perhaps without suspecting that the system is inimical to their best interests.”
—(and four years later—)
“Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, ( and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism)”
-Karl Marx, Das Kapital, 1867
It was much more obscure 15 years ago. This is Grampa Zombie!
Yeah, but it’s a damn entertaining zombie
heh
I just realized this is a 15 year old thread. Your humor is subtle, very very subtle.
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t necessarily mean they aren’t out to get you.
old bumper sticker