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

[WhoWee]

- The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry; Jon Ronson

This suggests that we have four psychopaths in the Senate, seventeen in the House of Representitives, and had one or two as President.

Sounds like a fun political thread - it's a long weekend?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Congratulations. Just remember that it takes commitment. Marriage is an institution and you should be committed to an institution.

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[uhjim]

"Fear not, yet anxious be"

 

[uhjim]

"Face is the natural abstraction of unity in being, the capital of being and the crown upon your head."

 

[Misericorde]

- The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry; Jon Ronson

This suggests that we have four psychopaths in the Senate, seventeen in the House of Representitives, and had one or two as President.

If that's accurate, that's terrifying, but it sure does explain a lot of things.

 

[Monster92]

"Three is a crowd and two is none" - Oscar Wilde :D

"Never talk disrespectfully of society. That's for people who can't get into do" - Oscar Wilde

"Life sucks. Then you die" - Unknown

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

"Three is a crowd and two is none" - Oscar Wilde :D

"Never talk disrespectfully of society. That's for people who can't get into do" - Oscar Wilde

"Life sucks. Then you die" - Unknown

The second one is from the play "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Wilde

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can't get into it do that.

I couldn't find the first one.

 

[Monster92]

The second one is from the play "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Wilde

I couldn't find the first one.

OMG! You're awesome. The first quote was from Algernon too from the importance of being earnest it's somewhere in the beginning. That book is so funny!

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

OMG! You're awesome. The first quote was from Algernon too from the importance of being earnest it's somewhere in the beginning. That book is so funny!

Got it.

You don't seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none.

My favorite line from that play:

Oh, flowers are as common here, Miss Fairfax, as people are in London.

 

[lisab]

The plural of "anecdote" is not "data".

--attributed to several people

 

[joesmith]

What you are shouts so loudly that I cannot hear what you say < Emerson>

 

[fourier jr]

can someone remind me what that quote was by a physicist that says something like skipping the easy stuff at the beginning of a book is worse that skipping the hard stuff at the end?

 

[Misericorde]

can someone remind me what that quote was by a physicist that says something like skipping the easy stuff at the beginning of a book is worse that skipping the hard stuff at the end?

I don't know, but I get the point, and it's a good one.

"...in the Twilight there is no difference between the absence of darkness and the absence of light." (English translation, Sergei Lukyanenko)

 

[Lancelot59]

Here's one I heard on definitely Not The Opera:

"Men use love to get sex, and women use sex to get love."

When you think about it from a biological standpoint it actually makes sense.

 

[DaveC426913]

The plural of "anecdote" is not "data".

--attributed to several people

(This should be the byline of the S&D forum...)

 

[Ivan Seeking]

(This should be the byline of the S&D forum...)

Except that it is explicitly wrong. The plural of anecdote can indeed be data, but not scientific data.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I will never forget the carefree days of kindergarten...

- from my nephew's 6th grade graduation speech

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[Norman]

- from my nephew's 6th grade graduation speech

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That is excellent! Did some one get it on video?

 

[Misericorde]

- from my nephew's 6th grade graduation speech

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That kid is either a budding genius, or in desperate need of prozac! Possibly both...

“The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.” (Oppenheimer)

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Did some one get it on video?

Obviously you don't know his mother.

 

[mayhem7]

Favorite quote (Not my own): "I don't like that Raymond"
And (also not my own): "Head, move, now!"

 

[Misericorde]

"The human rectum is almost nightmarishly elastic..." -Patton Oswalt

 

[dreamerregina]

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
Albert Einstein

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein

 

[daveb]

A bumper sticker I recently bought...

Stop using my name to justify your bad decisions - God

(no idea who really came up with it, but I was amused nonetheless)

 

[FizixFreak]

I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it.
- Jack Handey

 

[OmCheeto]

I don't repeat gossip, so listen carefully!

*per wiki: aka beer koozie, cozy, coosie, hugger, huggie, can cooler, beer sleeve, stubby holder.

 

[tenchotomic]

How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that made me want to drink?
Unknown

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Say cheese.
- Leonardo Da Vinci.

 

[OmCheeto]

You can't kill an idea whose time has come.

Just read this today. Seems like such a truism, that there must have been someone in the past that said it before him.

google google google

Here's one I found that's pretty close:

There is only one thing stronger than all the armies of the world: and that is an idea whose time has come.

Actually, there are a lot of great http://www.agingandcreativity.com/Great_Quotes.html" .

I think I love them all.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

Wait!

Who threw this one in there?

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

 

[Astronuc]

Today there is real danger that the American Dream
will become the Forgotten Dream.
For freedom is not the right to do as one pleases,
but the opportunity to please to do what is right.
The Founding Fathers sought freedom . . .
Not from law
but freedom in law;
Not freedom from government—
but freedom in government;
Not freedom from speech—
but freedom in speech;
Not freedom from the press—
but freedom in the press;
Not freedom from religion—
but freedom in religion.
We need to ponder these things today.

Rev. Peter Marshall ca. 1946-1949 His sermon on the American Dream seems relevant and timely today even if one does not share his theology.

http://www.lectioecclesia.com/Marshall,-Peter-on-National-Confession,-The-American-Dream.php

Excerpts It's an excellent book about an excellent person.