None is saved from himself, save by himself.

First impressions are normally right, invariably so.

Wherever you go, there you are.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 16^th, 2010 at 10:01am:

Wherever you go, there you are.

But if I wanted to go there I wouldn't start from here.

Ignorance and fear are the parents of certainty.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Man who eat with one chopstick never get fat.

Nothing to do with the topic, but I read this once, and loved it, so thought I would share.


Quote:

A lecture about English A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English class one day. "In English," he said, "A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative." A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."

mozzaok wrote on Jan 27^th, 2010 at 6:50pm:

Nothing to do with the topic, but I read this once, and loved it, so thought I would share. Quote: A lecture about English A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English class one day. "In English," he said, "A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative." A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."

Works for me. Love it!  ;D

"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
Chinese proverb


"There are no answers. Only choices."
Gibarian - SOLARIS [movie]

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

I thought there would be signs.

"In the road of life.. everybody needs a pitstop every now and then..." ~ Confucious

"footy its more than just a game" ~ Aristotle

The best is the enemy of the good.

The luckier you get, the harder you think you work.

Or...

The luckier you get, the more you think you've earned it.

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

aikmann4 wrote on Mar 13^th, 2010 at 12:27am:

"In the road of life.. everybody needs a pitstop every now and then..." ~ Confucious "footy its more than just a game" ~ Aristotle

I didn't know "footy" existed in Aristotle's lifetime.

Mnemonic wrote on Jul 4^th, 2010 at 9:27am:

I didn't know "footy" existed in Aristotle's lifetime.

He would have known it as footos

'What has always made a hell on earth has been that man that has tried to make it his heaven.'  ~Friedrich Holderlin

I've never met a pork chop that I didn't like.

The customers always right

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jul 4^th, 2010 at 10:43pm:

The customers always right

Tell that to the banks with their friggin fees... Nothing like a class action to wake them up, but. ;)

a class action is the customers saying, "we ain't happy"

a class action is what any industry wants to avoid , so ...............
the customers always right

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jul 4^th, 2010 at 11:21pm:

a class action is the customers saying, "we ain't happy" a class action is what any industry wants to avoid , so ............... the customers always right

Well.... He's always right when he's packing a weapon loaded with a magazine of lawyers, at least.

Trust me - I'm from the government.

Down Under,
but always a
Day Ahead.
;)

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest - Diderot.

Homer: Books are useless! I only ever read one book, “To Kill A Mockingbird,” and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! Sure it taught me not to judge a man by the color of his skin…but what good does *that* do me?

Well it may be just a funny quote, so I will provide you with what I wrote on my mirror.

!remoh era uoy

Heaven can go to Hell,
The Abyss is pure Paradise.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.

Woody Allen

We are not born into this world, we are thrown into it - in medias res - and it's ours to catch up, as quick as we can, with our "story so far".

Prejudice is opinion without judgement - Voltaire

The pretence that one can approach the world without prejudice is dishonest and absurd  - Dalrymple

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity.  But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.  

~Alan Gregg

Soren wrote on Jan 16^th, 2010 at 10:29am:

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 16th, 2010 at 10:01am: Wherever you go, there you are. But if I wanted to go there I wouldn't start from here.

Here and there, now and then, are simply destinations of place & time.

What really makes life, is the journey between!

Bobby. wrote on Jul 4^th, 2010 at 11:49pm:

Trust me - I'm from the government.

And, going that little bit further -
Trust me, I'm a Politician.

Follow your dream!

Unless it's the one where you're at work in your underwear in a fire drill.

perceptions_now wrote on Jul 9^th, 2010 at 12:23pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jul 4th, 2010 at 11:49pm: Trust me - I'm from the government. And, going that little bit further - Trust me, I'm a Politician.

When anyone says, "Trust me"......

DON'T! :-?

To be or not to be - Hamlet
Do-be-do-be-do. - Sinatra

NorthOfNorth wrote on Jul 9^th, 2010 at 9:35am:

We are not born into this world, we are thrown into it - in medias res - and it's ours to catch up, as quick as we can, with our "story so far".

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Soren wrote on Jul 9^th, 2010 at 1:06pm:

NorthOfNorth wrote on Jul 9th, 2010 at 9:35am: We are not born into this world, we are thrown into it - in medias res - and it's ours to catch up, as quick as we can, with our "story so far". Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Into this house we're born, into this world we're thrown.  (Maybe Jim Morrison read Heidegger).

'If you want to pronounce the salutation “Hail!” expressively, you had better not think of hailstones as you say it.' - Wittgenstein.

(Mysteriously, that almost seems to apply when posting on forums).

Soren wrote on Jul 9^th, 2010 at 1:02pm:

To be or not to be - Hamlet Do-be-do-be-do. - Sinatra

Or...

To be is to do — Socrates
To do is to be — Sartre
Do be do be do — Sinatra.

Faith is the belief that truth exists without the expectation of ever knowing it... Rendering the sense of certainty an art form.

Faith... Conviction, therefore, is the art of being certain.

While, endearing in its pathos, the function of god's invention is evidence of our infantile need to be cleaved to a sentient, paternal being who is a medium through whom we can receive, or have by birthright bequeathed, the ultimate, unmitigated truth - to be liberated from the ubiquity of doubt.

Truths are not relative. What are relative are opinions about truth.

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see.

— Mark Twain

I used to be indecisive.................but now I'm not so sure

The fox knows many little things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

Yet the fox also knows that the hedgehog must unfurl to swim when dropped into water.

Quote:

There's only two times in life - Now and too late.

From an interview with Anh Do

Quote:

I just got a job

~~ Imperium

Yay!!



!!!!!!!

aikmann4 wrote on Aug 31^st, 2010 at 2:57pm:

Quote: I just got a job ~~ Imperium

That's the story! An aphorism you can believe in.

Now, keep repeating it until even you believe it. ;D

It's actually a recount of a real experience that I don't need to believe in. I'm living it!!!!

Never let a vet put his thermometer in your mouth.

aikmann4 wrote on Aug 31^st, 2010 at 6:18pm:

It's actually a recount of a real experience that I don't need to believe in. I'm living it!!!!

Or so you thought...

Dogs look up to us
And cats look down on us
But pigs treat us as equals
--Winston Churchill