Archive for the 'Quotes' Category
Monday, August 13th, 2007
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, The Swiss hold the America’s Cup, France is accusing the US of arrogance, and Germany doesn’t want to go to war.
Charles Barkley
Via Dismalden
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Saturday, April 14th, 2007
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for […]
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Saturday, April 7th, 2007
“If you have a headache, put on smaller shoes”
I think it’s a Chinese proverb, I don’t know where I heard it, but I believe it, as sometimes this proverb perfectly works.
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Friday, March 16th, 2007
Alexander the Great once came and stood opposite Diogenes of Sinope and said, “I am Alexander the great king.” “And I, ” said he, “am Diogenes the Cynic.” When someone was extolling the good fortune and splendor another had experienced in sharing the suite of Alexander, Diogenes said, “Not so, but rather ill fortune […]
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Saturday, November 11th, 2006
The help people need most urgently is help in admitting that they need help.
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Monday, October 30th, 2006
It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits:
freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
Mark Twain
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Thursday, October 26th, 2006
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night
to write.
Saul Bellow
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Saturday, October 21st, 2006
Dealing with failure is easy:
Work hard to improve.
Success is also easy to handle:
You’ve solved the wrong problem.
Work hard to improve.
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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and low down, and its salient virtuosi a gang of umitigated scoundrels? Then let us not forget its high capacity to soothe and tickel the midriff, its incomparable services as a maker […]
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Thursday, October 12th, 2006
My father, a good man, told me, “Never lose your ignorance; you cannot replace it.”
Erich Maria Remarque
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Monday, October 2nd, 2006
There is a little difference in people,
but that little difference makes a big difference.
The little difference is attitude.
The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Clement Stone
If I kiss you, that is an psychological interaction.
On the other hand, if I hit you over the head with a brick, that is also a psychological […]
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Thursday, September 28th, 2006
Exploring the universe through meditation is like studying human relationships through masturbation.
Archeologists near mount Sinai have discovered what is believed to be a missing page from the Bible and is believed to read ‘To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are fictitous and any resemblance to persons living or dead is […]
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
I have seen yesterday again, after a long time, Tom Hanks’ main artwork, Forrest Gump, and found out more than the last time.
The world seen by a “stupid is as stupid does”, all the political and social events, treated so simply and funnily in a 70-IQ eyes who made success after success, but blew […]
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Sunday, September 24th, 2006
Let me assure you that to us here at First National, you’re not just a number. Youre two numbers, a dash, three more numbers, another dash and
another number.
James Estes
If a man stay away from his wife for seven years, the law presumes the separation to have killed him; yet according to our daily […]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
I like these quotes and I have already posted them, but now it’s for someone who really need them:
You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
George Bernard Shaw
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
Albert Einstein
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