Words Of Wisdom

[Prometheon]

Basically, you just post cool little sayings or quotes. Go!

 

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."

- Oscar Wilde

 

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

-Albert Einstein

Edited October 8, 2006 by Prometheon

[Shiri]

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him... The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself... All progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw

[borntohula]

"When no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies." Alan Watts, Zen Buddhist and Philosopher

[cringleman]

'Before enlightenment, there is chop wood and carry water; after enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.'

 

(attributed to Wu Li)

[silentshadow]

"To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage and principle."

 

-Confucious

[Some Random]

All you do is head straight for the grave, a face just covers a skull awhile. Stretch that skull-cover and smile. -Jack Dulouz (Kerouac), Visions of Cody.

[Spritzup]

Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive. -Bugs Bunny

and

"Live Life" I don't know who said it, but it's simple and true.

[hum-an-ole]

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[supercanuk]

What's popular is not always right, whats right is not always popular. (i found it on a bumpersticker)

[dancing_invisible]

"Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil" -Exodus 23:2

 

"It's only high school." -a friend

 

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves." -Confucius

[heyrabbit]

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

-Albert Einstein

Einstein has dozens of good quotes but I always thought that one to be one of his dumbest. it's not as clever as it sounds and it doesn't really say anything

 

 

 

"It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go."

 

"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time"

 

-Bertrand Russel

 

 

"Do your own shit man, do your own shit" - Garth

 

 

"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? "

 

-Ayn Rand

Edited October 8, 2006 by heyrabbit

[Azalroth]

"Shit Happens" - Forrest Gump

 

And whatever is in my Signature...

[Azalroth]

"men aren't fat, only fat women are fat" - Peter Griffin

[Prometheon]

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

-Albert Einstein

Einstein has dozens of good quotes but I always thought that one to be one of his dumbest. it's not as clever as it sounds and it doesn't really say anything

Fine, here's a better one:

 

"To punish me for my contempt of authority, fate made me an authority myself"

[Shakakahn]

beans, beans the musical fruit...

-unknown

[ecnarf]

"It's only high school." -a friend

So very true.

 

Things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

 

-Einstein

 

The only easy day was yesterday

 

-Navy SEALS motto.

[Spritzup]

Navy SEALS kick ass.

[Some Random]

"The good are good without reward"

"to be king you don't need a castle" - both from 'everybody's better' by mighty mighty bosstones

[Prometheon]

The man with a watch always knows what time it is; the man with two is never sure.

[heyrabbit]

"To punish me for my contempt of authority, fate made me an authority myself"

yea that's a better one.

 

 

 

"That's all your house is. It's a place to hold your stuff while you go out and get more stuff."

 

George Carlin

[Prometheon]

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

-John Locke

[Some Random]

"i'll call you on your shit, please call me on mine" -from "apparently i'm a p.c. fascist" by propagandhi

-i love that line.

[Ravenous megin-sane]

"you can't change the way you feel"

-good charlotte

[ecnarf]

"you can't change the way you feel"

-good charlotte

That really ought to be a banning offense right there. Quoting Good Charlotte as words of wisdom.

 

P.S. To continue with Meg's idea..

 

"Ooh ooh ah ah ah!"

-A chimpanzee.

[xAequitas]

"Last words are for fools who haven't said enough"

 

Karl Marx