Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
(I am a human being, I consider nothing that is human alien to me.)
- Terence
Which just goes as evidence to another great quote:
My new email sig.
Strictly speaking, the gazelle also need only run faster than the slowest gazelle.
Bertrand Russell:
That’s great, but his answer is only the second most astounding fact.
The most astounding fact is that there IS anything at all. Ref the Whitman lines posted by Drunky Smurf above!
I see I’m not the only one who’s posting their sig:
“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance”
- John Archibald Wheeler (1911 - 2008, RIP)
“The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants and for peace like retarded pygmies." - Lester B. Pearson
“Reality is what you can get away with.”
- Robert Anton Wilson
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moths nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal."
“Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.”
“It is better to give than to receive.”
- all said by Jesus Christ
“Manhood is the defeat of childhood narcissism.”
– David Gilmore
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
― C.S. Lewis
“And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”
― C.S. Lewis
Luck is the residue of design.
– Branch Rickey
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
The most terrifying sentence ever uttered in the English language is, “Hello! I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
- Ronald Reagan
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.” Richard P. Feynman “Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident (6 June 1986), Appendix F - Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle”
Sadly, we keep forgetting this.
What’s worse than a man who can’t dream, is a man who can only dream.
– Don’t know, possibly Ayn Rand
Everyone wants to go to Heaven but nobody wants to die.
I first heard of it as the Army General’s Law (and anon), but it’s by A.H. Weiler
“Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself”
Beavis (from Beavis and Butt-head), of all people, had this profound comment about Vanilla Ice:
"You know, they’re always, like, putting this guy down and making fun of him and saying he sucks and stuff…
But, you know, he really does suck. And this is one of those times where everybody’s right."
“Men don’t pay women to sleep with them, they pay them to go away afterwards”.
~multiple attributions
Many years ago I saw a quote attributed to Abe Lincoln that ran something like this:
“Half of the world’s problems would disappear if people would just leave each other alone.”
In the office of the training supervisor where I work:
*What if we train them, then they leave?
What if we DON’T train them, and they STAY?*