Quote of the Day

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)

The best time to plant an oak tree was twenty-five years ago. The second best time is today.
James Carville

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
Scott Westerfeld, Extras, 2007

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

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With great power there must also come ... great responsibility!

There is only one who is all powerful, and his greatest weapon is love

I dont think I need to post who said them.. the first one should be known by many

If at first you don't succeed, cheat, repeat until caught, then lie - Anonymous

Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
Belgian Proverb

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert H. Goddard (1882 - 1945)

If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
Nadine Stair

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)

The time to relax is -- when you don't have time for it.
Sidney J. Harris

The Mother

“When your mother has grown older,
When her dear, faithful eyes
no longer see life as they once did,
When her feet, grown tired,
No longer want to carry her as she walks –
Then lend her your arm in support,
Escort her with happy pleasure.
The hour will come when, weeping, you
Must accompany her on her final walk.
And if she asks you something,
Then give her an answer.
And if she asks again, then speak!
And if she asks yet again, respond to her,
Not impatiently, but with gentle calm.
And if she cannot understand you properly
Explain all to her happily.
The hour will come, the bitter hour,
When her mouth asks for nothing more.”

Adolf Hitler, 1923.

"Follow your bliss" - Joseph Campbell

Good one! (except for this guy...)

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"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."

- Bruce Lee

"F*ck you and f*ck your marker."

- Issac Clarke from Dead Space

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
Thich Nhat Hanh

That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), A Farewell to Arms, 1929

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"

At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.
William Hale White

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)

The way we see the problem is the problem.
Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
John Tudor

Gully Foyle is my name
And Terra is my nation.
Deep space is my dwelling place,
The stars my destination.

― Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination

She is an animal. Servile as a dog. And yet if he is careful to make no demands, to leave the air between them open, another version of the windup girl emerges. As precious and rare as a living bo tree. Her soul, emerging from within the strangling strands of her engineered DNA.

― Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup Girl

"Crazy people fight in wars, wise ones drink wine"
"No more gold, no more friends"
"Don't be in dept to country, don't be friend with police, don't tell secrets to women"
"Protect your country from enemy's and your wife from friends"
"Watch for men who never cry"
"When old dog barks, you check what its about"
"Devil dose not look for humans, humans look for Devil"
"Whoever lies for you, will lie against you"

- Vuk Karadzic
NOTE - All of these are translated from Serbian by me.

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“By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.”

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
Arab Proverb

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Bret Harte (1836 - 1902)

“To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings! ”
― George Orwell, 1984

Into my heart on air that kills
from yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.

A. E. Housman (1859–1936).

Offence is never given, only taken..

"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot." ~Charlie Chaplin

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)

Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
Marcus Brigstocke

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
Mickey Mantle (1931 - 1995), (attributed)

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies.
Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968)