Quote Of The Day

peter4jc

“A jack of all trades is a master of none, but often times better than a master of one.”
-William Shakespeare.

silvermouse

“I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.”
― Ernest Hemingway

silvermouse

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
― Abraham Lincoln

peter4jc

From some guy on YouTube, admitting his opinon doesn't matter;

"My opinion and five bucks will get me a cup of black coffee"

Don't know why, it just hit me right.

Amos_Umwhat

"The reason we hold truth in such respect is that we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it."--Mark Twain

silvermouse

“Stop thinking about it as the information highway and start thinking about it as the marketing superhighway. Doesn’t it sound better already?” – Don Logan, President & CEO of Time, Inc., to the Association of National Advertisers, mid-1990s.

ShawnOL

Benjamin Franklin: 'Money has never made man happy. The more one has, the more one wants'

peter4jc

I don't think I want more. And I'm very happy.

peter4jc

"The juice isn't worth the squeeze."

• some guy in a video.

silvermouse

When you find yourself in the thick of it
Help yourself to a bit of what is all around you
--Paul McCartney

Yakster

Ob-la-di ob-la-da life goes on bra
La-la how their life goes on
Ob-la-di ob-la-da life goes on bra
La-la how their life goes on

-Paul McCartney

Amos_Umwhat

"Human beings are the only species known to mistake their worldview for the world...we live in a culture convinced that humans are exceptional and in control; we ignore, forget, or deny contrary evidence and therefore do not act upon it. Which is why, when we confront climate change, we address it instead through one of the fundamental assumptions of our ingrained cultural narrative - namely, that technology and human ingenuity can solve the problem". -- William Rees

ShawnOL

Any taxes!

silvermouse

"I don't think I want more. And I'm very happy."

--P. Schmidt, the wise curmudgeon

ShawnOL

From 1440:

"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself."

• Marlene Dietrich

edz

Before you embark on a journey of revenge,
dig two graves.

Confucius

memento_mori

“Most misunderstandings arise from uncommunicated assumptions.” – Gregory Davis

Saw this and immediately thought of how people interpret online forum threads content.

ShawnOL

"I love to think of nature as unlimited broadcasting stations, through which God speaks to us every day, every hour and every moment of our lives, if we will only tune in and remain so."

• George Washington Carver

From 1440

silvermouse

“What you think, you become.
What you feel, you attract.
What you imagine, you create.”
― Buddha

ShawnOL

"I left what on that intern's dress?"

-Bill Clinton.

ShawnOL

From 1440:

"I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot ... The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

• Jack London

peter4jc

Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart.

-Antoine de Saint Exupéry

silvermouse

“The more one has, the more one wants, since satisfactions received only stimulate instead of filling needs.”

--Émile Durkheim

peter4jc

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."

-Antoine de Saint Exupéry

TRayB

@peter4jc said:
"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."

-Antoine de Saint Exupéry

It's still a rock pile to the guy who has to move it.

silvermouse

plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

--Alphonse Karr

Rdp77

@silvermouse said:
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

--Alphonse Karr

I wonder what he was specifically referring to.

peter4jc

Things. He was referring to things. ;-)

silvermouse

digging down into the rabbit hole I found that the phrase was in his "self-published avant-garde satirical magazine Les Guêpes (The Wasps), a milestone series in the history of avant-garde and DIY publishing, and an important potential resource for researchers of the counter-cultural milieu of the time."
https://revenant-archive.blogspot.com/p/les-guepes.html

peter4jc

“Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore.”

-Albert Einstein