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

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"Id quod fuimus aut sumus, non cras erimus."

- Ovid

My translation: That which we were or we are is not what we will be tomorrow.
 
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Vorde said:
- Ovid

My translation: That which we were or we are is not what we will be tomorrow.

My translation: Mañana is good enough for me.
 
manojr said:
To err is human, to blame it on somebody else is even more human.

That's great.
 
"The word lie sits right in the middle of the word believe!"
 
If I read this entire thread, perhaps I'd find this posted already:

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick
 
dx said:
Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not.

-Albert Einstein

Yeah, but later on he was quoted as saying that perhaps the lord is malicious when he couldn't get his field theory to work (source = "Einsteins Mistakes" by Ohanian)
 
Here's a good one...

"Before Elvis, there was nothing." --John Lennon
 
"Religion is based primarily upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly as the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. It is because fear is at the basis of those two things. In this world we can now begin a little to understand things, and a little to master them by help of science, which has forced its way step by step against the opposition of all the old precepts. Science can help us to get over this craven fear in which mankind has lived for so many generations. Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead of the place that the churches in all these centuries have made it."

― Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian
 
"If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics."
-Galileo Galilei
 
ChiralWaltz said:
"If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics."
-Galileo Galilei

I like that one, good find
 
And it’s odd that the word atheist even exists. I don’t play golf. Is there a word for non-golf players?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Thanks Om for pointing me in the right direction.
 
Borek said:
Neil deGrasse Tyson And it's odd thatthe word atheist even exists. I don't play golf . Is there a word for non-golf players?

Thanks Om for pointing me in the right direction.


Well, I think religion plays an important role in society --like it or not-- and golf does not (EDIT: Maybe I'm ruining your joke, sorry if this is so) .
I like a lot of Neil "deGrasse is not Greener" Tyson's ideas ; I liked his recent C-Span show on the prospects of space exploration.

And, in case no one else has used this one, I like:

" Nostalgia is not what it used to be" , by , I think, S.Signoret, and a (darkly) funny one that Hallmark somehow rejected for its cards:

" Life is a **** sandwich and every day you take another bite"
 
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I don’t play golf. Is there a word for non-golf players?
No, but if the ancient greeks had been stupid enough to invent golf, there would be.
 
AlephZero said:
No, but if the ancient greeks had been stupid enough to invent golf, there would be.

LLOL! :smile:
 
"Indeed, the joy of insight is very important. I myself must say, if I look back at my life as a scientist and a teacher, I think the most important and beautiful moments were when I say 'ah-hah, now I see it a little better,' and it is not necessarily when I myself have done something. When I hear a seminar or when I hear a good speaker, then I say 'ah, now I see,' this is the joy of insight which pays for all the trouble one has had in this career."

Victor Weisskopf
 
I continue this thread :

Here is one quote regarding "Act Now":

Trust no future howe'er pleasant,
Let the dead past bury its dead,
Act act in a living present,
Heart Within and God o'erheard !

By H.W. Longfellow.
 
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“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”

― Warren Buffett
 
Let me tell you the most beautiful story I know.
A man was given a dog, which he loved very much.
the dog went with him everywhere,
but the man could not teach it to do anything useful.
The dog would not fetch or point,
it would not race or protect or stand watch.
Instead the dog sat near him and regarded him,
always with the same inscrutable expression.
"That is not a dog, it's a wolf," said the man's wife.
"He alone is faithful to me," said the man,
and his wife never discussed it with him again.
One day the man took his dog with him into his private airplane
and as they flew over high winter mountains,
the engines failed
and the airplane was torn to shreds among the trees.
The man lay bleeding,
his belly torn open by blades of sheared metal,
steam rising from his organs in the cold air,
but all he could think of was his faithful dog.
Imagine his relief when the dog came padding up
and regarded him with that same steady gaze.
After an hour the dog nosed the man's gaping abdomen,
then began pulling out intestines and spleen and liver
and gnawing on them,
all the while studying the man's face.
"Thank God," said the man.
"At least one of us will not starve."

- Orson Scott Card

First really good laugh I've had in a while.
 
Whovian said:
"At least one of us will not starve."

And then the dog said: "And I thought they smelled bad on the OUTSIDE!"
 
My Favorite Quotes

"Everyday it's the same thing - Variety" (from a Bugs Bunny episode)

"East Is East, And West is West - But a Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss...Boulder's Rule"
 
"I wouldn't join a club that would have me as a member"

--Woody Allen
 
Light Bearer said:
"Do or do not - there is no try."

"Only a Sith deals in absolutes"

This proves that Yoda is a Sith Lord.
 
micromass said:
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes"

This proves that Yoda is a Sith Lord.

I don't know what is real anymore...
 
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Albert Pike
 
I find television very educating.
Every time somebody turns on the set,
I go into the other room and read a book.Groucho Marx

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.attributed to Groucho Marx

I sent the club a wire stating,
PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION.
I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB
THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.Groucho Marx

We must remember that art is art.
Well, on the other hand water is water isn't it?
And east is east and west is west.
And if you take cranberries and stew them like applesause
they taste much more like prunes than rubarb does.
Now uh...now you tell me what you know.Groucho in Animal Crackers (movie)

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.Groucho Marx

Why a four year old child could understand this.
Run out and get me a four year old child,
I can't make head or tail out of it.Groucho in Duck Soup (movie)
 
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