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Your Favorite Quotes and Sayings

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits"
Albert Einstein

"You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus."
Mark Twain
 
Probably because I read it at an impressionable age (11 years old) the Bene Gesserit Litany against fear from Frank Herbert's Dune always stuck in my mind...
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
 
Nice, Janine. I remember that text from that source.

It reminds me of another :

“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.” ~ William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

And, asnakecalled?, the first of yours is one of my all time personal favorites.
 
"Nomal is an Illusion. What is normal to the spider, is chaos to the fly" -Morticia Adams

"The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist. Fear, doubt, and hate have hamstrung more people than beasts ever have." - Christopher Paolini

"The universe is hostile, so impersonal. Devour to survive, so it is, so it's always been." -MJK

"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." – Immanuel Kant“

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley

"Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to." – Alfred A. Montapert

“When your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head on, the only way is forward and through it.”
― Stephen Richards
 
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“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?" -- Richard Feynman
 
rich333 said:
Confucius says:

Man Who Scratches Ass, Ought Not chew fingernails
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Rich, that reminds me of another Confucius quote : "Man who goes to bed with itchy @$$, wakes up with sticky fingers."
Rich made me do it. It is his fault entirely that I remembered such a vile disgusting long ago saying. Which evidently was lodged intact and verbatim in a very special place in my brain.

I am so glad Confucius focused on even the remotest details. He evidently pondered many and sundry subjects, no matter how tedious, regarding human hygiene...and potential wrongness.
 
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"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."
-Robert Orben
 
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” C.S. Lewis
 
"Those who are most worthy of love are never made happy by it ." ~ Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1782), Madame de Rosemonde.

"Revenge is a dish best served cold." ~ Author Unknown
(Often attributed to Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, 1782, but erroneously so.)
 
“Remember, kids, the only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.”
Adam Savage
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vetusvates said:
"Revenge is a dish best served cold." ~ Author Unknown
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Unless your Walter White, whose end 'victory' in Breaking Bad was serving revenge to his (final) arch nemesis (a little woman in office clothes), in the form of hot coffee laced with ricen. Perhaps she would not have gone for cold coffee, and thus a major flaw in the plot.

I digress.. this was off topic. And do not start to watch the show Breaking Bad (or again). You may find that you're up way too late on the weekends watching it (I've heard).

About your 'unknown author', though.. I believe that was DMX (esquire) in the gripping movie 'Exit Wounds' (w/Officer Steven Seagal).. I seriously and literally recommend you avoid that movie, though.
 
vetusvates said:
"Revenge is a dish best served cold." ~ Author Unknown
(Often attributed to Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, 1782, but erroneously so.)
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Michael823 said:
About your 'unknown author', though.. I believe that was DMX (esquire) in the gripping movie 'Exit Wounds' (w/Officer Steven Seagal).. I seriously and literally recommend you avoid that movie, though.
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Michael, what I highlighted in blue above...was to emphasize, without stating the obvious--although now I will, that the quote existed before 1782.
Perhaps even as early as Tudor times (Henry VII thru Elizabeth I) in some wording or another.
At any rate, it was already in common/frequent usage by the 19th century.

And I avoid all things DMX and Steven Seagal.
And I would never be so careless as to under- (or over- ) estimate the sagacity of any profound quote by either Mr. DMX or Mr. Seagal.
 
Michael823 said:
Unless your Walter White, whose end 'victory' in Breaking Bad was serving revenge to his (final) arch nemesis (a little woman in office clothes), in the form of hot coffee laced with ricen. Perhaps she would not have gone for cold coffee, and thus a major flaw in the plot.

I digress.. this was off topic. And do not start to watch the show Breaking Bad (or again). You may find that you're up way too late on the weekends watching it (I've heard).
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Great comparison, but remember she only drank tea, fancy blends made with filtered water, and Stevia. I loved when she ordered this from the waitress at the diner with Mike and the waitress stared at her for a moment and said "We have Lipton's.". Such a great show, was SO sad to see it end! I want to buy the big set for my husband for Christmas, with all the bonus footage.
 
"If it weren't for getting to the underwear you don't like, how would you know it is time to do laundry?"

-Smigon
 
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