Great Quotes

[unclehobart]

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
- Will Durant

"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head."
- Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. "
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

 

[unclehobart]

"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. "
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. "
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. "
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

 

[unclehobart]

"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. "
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. "
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. "
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

 

[unclehobart]

"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. "
- Henry Kissinger (1923-)

"The graveyards are full of indispensable men. "
- Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. "
- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

 

[unclehobart]

"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. "
- Mae West (1892-1980)

"Hell is other people. "
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

"The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. "
- Gloria Leonard

 

[unclehobart]

"Plato was a bore. "
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. "
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. "
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

"Hemingway was a jerk. "
- Harold Robbins

 

[unclehobart]

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. "
- Woody Allen (1935-)

"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. "
- Abba Eban (1915-)

"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. "
- Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)

 

[unclehobart]

"Never mistake motion for action. "
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. "
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. "
- Irving Kristol

 

[Fuser Man]

Half this game is 90% mental
-Yogi Berra

 

[unclehobart]

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. "
- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962

"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.

"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?"
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing

 

[br0ck]

"We have met the enemy, and they are ours!"
- Oliver Hazzard Perry


He has a suburb here in Toledo named Perrysburg after him. He fought naval battles on Lake Erie in the War of 1812.

 

[Fuser Man]

Sun Tzu

Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory:

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.
He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.
He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.

 

[PostCode]

Veni, vidi, veci!


Gaius Julius Caesar 47 B.C., Anatolia

 

[75renegade]

"Don't marry the one ya think ya can live with.........
.......marry the one ya think ya can't live without."

(not complete, but a good start)

 

[ris]

i may disagree with you say but i will defend your right to say it [i don't know]

[by FLW in response to the client who asked why it leaked] that's how you know it's a roof [frank lloyd wright]

the sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building [louis i kahn]

 

[Gonzo]

COCAINE IS GOD'S WAY OF SAYING THAT YOU'VE GOT TOO MUCH MONEY.
- Robin Williams

IF YOU TALK TO GOD, YOU ARE PRAYING;

IF GOD TALKS TO YOU, YOU HAVE SCHIZOPHRENIA.
-Thomas Szasz


A FOOL ALWAYS FINDS A BIGGER FOOL TO ADMIRE HIM.
-Nicolas Boileau

THERE IS NO GREATER SORROW THAN TO RECALL HAPPINESS IN TIMES OF MISERY.
- Dante

 

[Spirit]

Originally posted by ris

[by FLW in response to the client who asked why it leaked] that's how you know it's a roof [frank lloyd wright]

WHOA!~ Are you a FLW fan???

 

[ris]

hi spirit - i'm not sure if i'm a fan as such but as an architect it helps to have a healthy respect for my forebears

i'm more of a Louis Kahn fan [his KImbell Art Gallery, Texas and British Art Centre, Yale are both excellent], but that's mainly because i know more about him that FLW.

i'm also more up on Le Corbusier, but again it's because i have read and written more on him and so feel more aware of his works and ideas.

my avatar is a chapel in South Wales, amazing stained galss on concrete. beautiful!

are you an FLW fan or do you go in for other stuff?

 

[Gonzo]

"Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. Shall we therefore never do good?" --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1810

"No citizen should be free to commit his country to war." --Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1793.

"Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government." --Thomas Jefferson: Instructions to William Carmichael, 1790

"The most successful war seldom pays for its losses." --Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Randolph, 1785

"The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788

 

[Professur]

"Thou shalt not kill" - God.


I've always kinda liked that one.