"QUOTES" of the day

[Northern Boy]

Most Prisons Are Created in the Mind

[Lifesong]

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? ~Frank Scully

[magamud]

"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."
James Madison

[magamud]

"What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?"
Mark 8:36

[magamud]

1775 — John Adams, Novanglus Essays, No. 3
This language, “the imperial crown of Great Britain,” is not the style of the common law, but of court sycophants.

1787 — Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 71
They know from experience that they sometimes err; and the wonder is that they so seldom err as they do, beset, as they continually are, by the wiles of parasites and sycophants, by the snares of the ambitious, the avaricious, the desperate, by the artifices of men who possess their confidence more than they deserve it, and of those who seek to possess rather than to deserve it.

1841 — Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, Ch. 43
this man, who has crawled and crept through life, wounding the hands he licked, and biting those he fawned upon: this sycophant, who never knew what honour, truth, or courage meant...

1927-29 — Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, Part II, Preparing for South Africa, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai
Princes were always at the mercy of others and ready to lend their ears to sycophants.

[magamud]

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
Thomas Jefferson

[magamud]

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
Alexander Pope

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Alexander Pope

[magamud]

?Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.?

Plato

?A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.?
Gian Carlo Menotti

[magamud]

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
~Herodotus

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
~Heraclitus

[fossileyesed]

if we reap what we sow
why are we so grim

peace

[magamud]

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace

[magamud]

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
Plato

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
Karl Marx

[magamud]

“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”
Dr. Seuss quote

[magamud]

"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards"

Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, in which the White Queen says to Alice

[magamud]

"He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you" —
Friederick Nietzsche,

[andywight]

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.” -Oogway

[Khaleesi]

"You would argue with a fence post and kick it for not arguing back." ~my grandmother~ maybe I should post this over at PA?

[Janos]

(Said with a heavy Scottish accent...) "Rape the women and kill the horses, and get it RIGHT this time!" - Unknown

[magamud]

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Karl Marx

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[norman]

You're obliged to pretend for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires, and all the dead formalities and vain pretences of your civilisation which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilised world.

from ....The Torture Garden..... Octave Mirbeau

[BeYonder]

that was a good one norman

?one should indeed be silent, but not about anything? - Otto Neurath

[BeYonder]

Each person comes into this world with a specific destin
y--he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered,
some work has to be completed.

You are not here accidentally--you are here meaningfully.

There is a purpose behind you.

The whole intends to do something through you.

~~Osho

[magamud]

He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Lao Tse........

[magamud]

All war is deception.

Sun Tzu....

[magamud]

"Show me the stone that the builders rejected: that is the keystone."

Jesus Gospel of Thomas