Words of Wisdom

[Anonymouse]

The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else.

~ Frederic Bastiat

[Anonymouse]

"If everybody minded their own business," the Duchess said, in a hoarse growl, "the world would go around a great deal faster than it does."

- Lewis Carroll

[Anonymouse]

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."

- Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

[Anonymouse]

If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.

-William James

There seems no plan because it's all plan.
There seems no center because it's all center
-C.S. Lewis

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other human invention in history…
…with the possible exception of handguns and tequila.

-Mitch Ratcliffe

[Anonymouse]

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?
We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

-Henry David Thorough’s Walden

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere 'being'.

-Carl Jung

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

-Albert Einstein

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

-Blaise Pascal

[Anushik]

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.Elbert Hubbard

Judge of you natural character by hat you do in your dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.
Mason Cooley

[Anonymouse]

What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
-Niels Bohr

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
-Albert Einstein

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.-Henry David Thoreau

[Anushik]

The public will believe anything, so long as it's not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
General George Patton

A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.
Louis A. Berman

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold Glasow

[Anushik]

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Robert Brautt

All truth are easy to understand once they are discoverd; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
JFK

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
Wally "Famous" Amos

If the minimum wasn't acceptable it wouldn't be called the minimum.
George Muncaster

[Siggie]

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
-Albert Einstein

I really like this one. So true.