Finding Solace in Favourite Quotes: Escaping Despair with Words of Wisdom

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"Fortunately, science works even if you don’t believe in it!" :biggrin:

Bradley W. Carroll and Dale A. Ostlie
 
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I don't know who to attribute it to:

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, friendship and to turn around three times before lying down.
 
mr.me said:
I don't know who to attribute it to:

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, friendship and to turn around three times before lying down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Benchley" .
 
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Cynicism ages better than sentimentality.
[I didn't catch the name of the person speaking at the time]
 
This is rather worrisome -

"The fundamental issue is that law schools are producing people who are not capable of being counselors. They are lawyers in the sense that they have law degrees, but they aren't ready to be a provider of services."

JEFFREY W. CARR, the general counsel of FMC Technologies
 
My favorite quotes

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
-G M TREVELYAN

Education is a process of wasting 1/4th of your life to learn how to waste the remaining 3/4th-George Bernard Shaw

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. ~Woody Allen

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. ~Charles C. Noble

There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them. ~Charles D. GillI've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. ~Larry Bird
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ~Pablo PicassoA successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. ~David BrinkleyI am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. ~Buckminster Fuller

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. ~Mark Twain

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway. ~Mary Kay Ash

There is nothing as stupid as an educated man ,if you get him off the thing he is educated in-Will Rogers

To live is the rarest thing, most people exist that's all -Oscar Wild
 
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If you want to make peace ,don't talk to your friends ,talk to your enemies- MOSHE DAYAN

"If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant trees.
If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children." -- Confucius
 
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"Eyes on the prey, not the horizon." - Farkas, in some cave, before he turns into a werewolf, in Skyrim.

"CALIGULA, détourné, sur un ton neutre.
Les hommes meurent et ils ne sont pas heureux.

HÉLICON, après un temps.
Allons, Caius, c'est une vérité don't on s'arrange
très bien. Regarde autour de toi. Ce n'est pas cela
qui les empêche de déjeuner."

Exchange between Caligula and Helicon. (Albert Camus)
 
101 bad translations of the Caligula-Hélicon conversation above said:
The orange box on the bridge does not hesitate to contact us.

Bad translator creates some of my favorite quotes.
 
I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming. - Jimmy Carter
 
"A man's got to know his limitations" ... Clint Eastwood (from Dirty Harry I think)
 
PNGeng said:
"In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing."

"If you ever get to heaven, don't act surprised when you see who's there. No doubt many will be equally suprised to see you."
 
"my mama always says life is like a box of chocolate you never know what you're going to get"

Forrest Gump

Honestly i never understood this..., if its a box of choclate you are abviously going to get CHOCOLATE right?
 
FizixFreak said:
"my mama always says life is like a box of chocolate you never know what you're going to get"

Forrest Gump

Honestly i never understood this..., if its a box of choclate you are abviously going to get CHOCOLATE right?


:smile:
 
FizixFreak said:
"my mama always says life is like a box of chocolate you never know what you're going to get"

Forrest Gump

Honestly i never understood this..., if its a box of choclate you are abviously going to get CHOCOLATE right?


Well you could get a cherry filled chocolate or a creamy center chocolate or a caramel filled one or a maple one or an almond or a peanut butter or a jelly or one with a mouse fetus or a worm or a shard of glass or a gold nugget. There are many different but they all look the same so you never know what you will get. Get a box for your woman and see for yourself.

"stupid is as stupid does" mama Gump I have never really understood that one. Examples please?
 
Tregg Smith said:
"stupid is as stupid does" mama Gump I have never really understood that one. Examples please?
It means that you can't label anyone stupid unless they do something stupid. Forrest was not stupid in his mother's eyes because he didn't do stupid things. And because she was his mother.
 
Jimmy Snyder said:
It means that you can't label anyone stupid unless they do something stupid. Forrest was not stupid in his mother's eyes because he didn't do stupid things. And because she was his mother.

I did not think that's what that phrase meant.
 
DaveC426913 said:
I did not think that's what that phrase meant.
Well?
 
Jimmy Snyder said:
Well?
I never really had an idea what it meant.

I just sort of assumed it was some sort of badly formed 'I know you are but what am I?'
 
Jimmy Snyder said:
It means that you can't label anyone stupid unless they do something stupid. Forrest was not stupid in his mother's eyes because he didn't do stupid things. And because she was his mother.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4XT-l-_3y0
 
DaveC426913 said:
I never really had an idea what it meant.

I just sort of assumed it was some sort of badly formed 'I know you are but what am I?'

I think it's based on the idiom, "Pretty is as pretty does."

To me it sounds like something Forrest's mother came up with on the fly, as a response to someone calling him stupid.
 
Tregg Smith said:
Well you could get a cherry filled chocolate or a creamy center chocolate or a caramel filled one or a maple one or an almond or a peanut butter or a jelly or one with a mouse fetus or a worm or a shard of glass or a gold nugget. There are many different but they all look the same so you never know what you will get.

Mouse fetus,worm,shard of glass what the hell!

Get a box for your woman and see for yourself.

Too bad i can't do that i only have an imaginary girlfriend:redface:
 
Jimmy Snyder said:
He who procrastinates laughs last.

That my friend..., is not true.
 
Good judgement comes from experience.

Experience comes from poor judgement.
 
“To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both — a philosopher.”
Nietzsche

"Confine yourself to the present."
Marcus Aurelius

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
 
“Economic forecasting was created to make astrology look respectable.”
- Kenneth Galbraith
 

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