Words Of Wisdom

[RicardoObviouso]

"there's no i in team, but there's a u in cunt"

[Prometheon]

"We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that we are only 6 percent of the world's population; that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind; that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity; and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem." - JFK

[Prometheon]

"Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing."

 

- H. L. Mencken

[Prometheon]

"Don’t say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really was a boy, in which case you have probably thrown away a better intro." - Christopher Hitchens

Edited May 11, 2011 by Prometheon

[Prometheon]

The most heartbreaking 6 word sentence I've ever read. Friggin Hemingway!

 

For Sale: Baby Shoes - never used.

[bishopx]

That is brutal, O. Been there.

 

At the sushi restaurant we usually do sunday brunch, today. "We have no more Tuna, scallops, and crab." We looked at each other, and left.

[Prometheon]

‎"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." - H. L. Mencken

[Doormat]

"Don't stick your dick in crazy."

[Sparq]

"When in doubt, deny all terms and definitions."

 

-Calvin

 

(-Bill Watterson)

[Prometheon]

"Holding a grudge is letting someone live in your head rent free."

[Prometheon]

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." -Jan van de Snepscheut

[Prometheon]

'Tis true my form is something odd,

But blaming me is blaming God;

Could I create myself anew

I would not fail in pleasing you.

 

If I could reach from pole to pole

Or grasp the ocean with a span,

I would be measured by the soul;

The mind's the standard of the man.

 

 

[Prometheon]

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

-John Steinbeck

[Prometheon]

[Prometheon]

"The information that comes from deep in the evolutionary past we call genetics. The information passed along from hundreds of years ago we call culture. The information passed along from decades ago we call family, and the information offered months ago we call education. But it is all information that flows through us. The brain is adapted to the river of knowledge and exists only as a creature in that river. Our thoughts are profoundly molded by this long historic flow, and none of us exists, self-made, in isolation from it." - David Brooks

[Prometheon]

[Prometheon]

"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience." - Julius Caeser

[Prometheon]

The Old Astronomer to His Pupil Tycho Brahe - Sarah Williams

 

"Reach me down my Tycho Brahe, I would know him when we meet,

When I share my later science, sitting humbly at his feet;

He may know the law of all things, yet be ignorant of how

We are working to completion, working on from then to now.

/

Pray remember that I leave you all my theory complete,

Lacking only certain data for your adding, as is meet,

And remember men will scorn it, 'tis original and true,

And the obliquy of newness may fall bitterly on you.

/

But, my pupil, as my pupil you have learned the worth of scorn,

You have laughed with me at pity, we have joyed to be forlorn,

What for us are all distractions of men's fellowship and smiles;

What for us the Goddess Pleasure with her meretricious smiles.

/

You may tell that German College that their honor comes too late,

But they must not waste repentance on the grizzly savant's fate.

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."

Edited December 19, 2011 by Prometheon