"I do not believe in God because I believe in man."
-Emma Goldman
I think that sums up my outlook on life far better than anything I could ever compose.
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"I do not believe in God because I believe in man."
-Emma Goldman
I think that sums up my outlook on life far better than anything I could ever compose.
George Carlin said that, if anybody's interested.Quote:
Originally Posted by way back on page 2
"The devil lurks behind the cross"
as quoted by Sancho Panca from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
not sure what page
probably on old saying before hand, still, i first heard it in this book.
reason:
as in Jesus day. some of the most evil people knew the Bible like the back of their hand. something to be weary of today
"With great power comes great responsibility" - spiderman
"I am ready to meet my Maker, but whether my Maker is ready for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter entirely." -- Winston Churchill (or so I heard)
Big Churchill fan.
the trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt
bertrand russell
[QUOTE Robinhood 3000 = Big Churchill fan.[/QUOTE]
Me. too. Boy I wish I were as good at "comebacks..."
To Liverpool socialist MP Bessie Braddock, who told him, "Winston, you're drunk." :
"Bessie, you’re ugly. And tomorrow morning I’ll be sober, but you’ll still be ugly."
"Lord Churchill, if you were my husband I should poison your coffee."
"Madame, if you were my wife, I should drink it."
"Lord Churchill, you're drunk."
"Well that may be so madame, but...(passes out into his cognac)"
Hahaha!
For those of you who haven't heard it before...
"...in the morning, I will be sober, but you will still be ugly." No longer always the case in today's shallow world of Botox, but at the time, a marvelously done BURN.
"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval." Mark Twain
"if the end of wisdom is to add star to star our foolishness is pleasing"
- Auda Abu Tayi
the quote stems from a conversation between T. E. Lawrence and Auda Abu Tayi while gazing at the stars and talking about telescopes. Auda was saying how hundreds of years from now man will create a telescope greater than we can even imagine building today, and generations after generations later man will create an even greater telescope than thought possible by thier ancestors before them. This cycle will continue and continue so man can gain all knowledge.
Mankind thousands of years ago might of looked up at the stars as I do and although they didn't know the names or lacation of all the stars, he was still content in life, still truley happy. You don't need to study and study for the sake of knowlege, for knowlege does not equate wisdom, and it does not bring happiness.
"I will live forever or die in the attempt." - Yossarian, Catch 22
"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture"
Im not sure if it was Varese or John Cage.
"If music be the food of love, play on." from Twelfth Night
see my sig, its from romeo and Juliet
"I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians—I will not speak of my own trade—soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell, and so I shall go on till I have done with them." Jonathan Swift in a letter to Alexander Pope
September 29, 1725