What are some of your favorite Quotes

[donquixote99]

"Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life."

--Thomas Mann, 1875 - 1955




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[merrylander]

O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us
An foolish notion:
What airs in dress an gait wad lea'es us,
An ev'n devotion!

Robbie Burns

[HarmanKardon]

"A priest's daughter asked him where he got his ideas for his sermons. 'From God', he replied. 'Then why do I see you scratching things out?', asked the girl."

(Anthony De Mello)

[BlueStreak]

"I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active --not more happy --nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."

Edgar Allan Poe

[HarmanKardon]

Dogen (1200 - 1283):

"To study the Zen-way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things your body and mind as well the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trap of realization reminds, and this notrace continues endlessly."

[donquixote99]

Dag Hammarskjold is a person mostly forgotten, but who deserves not to be:

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

Setbacks in trying to realize the ideal do not prove that the ideal is at fault.

All from Dag Hammarskjold, 1905 - 1961

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[nailer]

"Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe."

Last sentence of Vonnegut's Hocus Pocus.

[donquixote99]

I'm always delighted to newly find that a person like Walter Scot produced many sayings that I like a lot. Also, it seems that he founded the modern Scot cult of tartans and kilts....

Walter Scott was born at Edinburgh, Scotland on this day in 1771. Originally trained as a lawyer, he became such a well-known poet that he chose to publish his novels anonymously. Raised on tales of the Border country, he created the historical novel with works such as Waverley, Ivanhoe, and Rob Roy. When King George IV visited Scotland in 1822 it was Scott that organized the royal visit, for this event he brought back the long-lost wearing of kilts and encouraged Edinburgh's tailors to invent most of the supposedly-traditional clan tartans.

Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.

Fidelity, purchased with money, money can destroy.

It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.*

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
All from Walter Scott, 1771 - 1832


* MISATTRIBUTED--turns out this one is really from Henry David Thoreau.


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[Ike Bana]

New sig line below. Attributed to Finley Peter Dunne, "Mother" Mary Jones, Clare Boothe Luce, Lucille Clifton, Larry Harless, and others.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

New sig line below. Attributed to Finley Peter Dunne, "Mother" Mary Jones, Clare Boothe Luce, Lucille Clifton, Larry Harless, and others.

E.K. Hornbeck isn't real.