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What are your favourite non-biblical quotes?
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It is easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
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Look left, look right. One of you won't graduate.
- my physics teacher on the first day of university
I know.
- Han Solo (to Princess Leia)
... and this one is prominently displayed in my cubicle at work:
Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
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Look left, look right. One of you won't graduate.
- my physics teacher on the first day of university
I know.
- Han Solo (to Princess Leia)
... and this one is prominently displayed in my cubicle at work:
Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
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A reporter is interviewing The Beatles:
Reporter: "John, what kind of women do you like?"
John:"I like my wife."
Reporter:"George, what kind of women do you like?"
George:"I like John's wife."
Reporter:"Is Ringo the best drummer in the world?"
John:"Ringo isn't even the best drummer in The Beatles."
Reporter:"How did you find America?"
John:"Turn left at Greenland."
Reporter: "John, what kind of women do you like?"
John:"I like my wife."
Reporter:"George, what kind of women do you like?"
George:"I like John's wife."
Reporter:"Is Ringo the best drummer in the world?"
John:"Ringo isn't even the best drummer in The Beatles."
Reporter:"How did you find America?"
John:"Turn left at Greenland."
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"If you're young and conservative, you have no heart. If you're old and liberal, you have no brain". Winston Churchill
After Monday andTuesday, even the rest of the week goes W T F
Horse power is how hardyou hit the wall. Torque is how far you drag it behind you
You are only paranoiduntil you are right - then you are a visionary.
'If you lend someone$20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.'
Pity the poor agnosticdyslexic insomniac who lies awake at night wondering if there really is a Dog.
'If you lend someone$20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.'
Pity the poor agnosticdyslexic insomniac who lies awake at night wondering if there really is a Dog.
"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." -- Sinclair Lewis
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." -- Dorothy Parker, reviewing Atlas Shrugged
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." -- Dorothy Parker, reviewing Atlas Shrugged
The Parker quote reminds me of the famous line from Clive James' review of Brezhnev's biography:
"If you were to recite even a single page in the open air, birds would fall out of the sky and dogs drop dead. "
I just spit soda all over my tablet!
No issues. I post in both threads. Wisdom abounds in theist and secular works.
Last chance to self edit, guys.
Life is suffering - Dhammapada
I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
-Stephen Hawking
-Stephen Hawking
The Dorothy Parker quotation was about another novel, alas.
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"Never argue with the movies."
--Frank O'Hara
--Frank O'Hara
"Nobody snuggles with Max Power, you strap yourself in and feel the G's."
- Homer Simpson
- Homer Simpson
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Dans ses écrits, un sage Italien
Dit que le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.
-Voltaire
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
-Confucius
General form:
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Dit que le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.
-Voltaire
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
-Confucius
General form:
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
