Favorite Quotes: Lets Share

[ThePlot]

This is a thread for our favorite quotes:

"There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures."

Julius Caesar Act 4, scene 3, 218–224 by Shakespeare

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[kingbee]

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
― Winston Churchill

[Moots]

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those timid spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
-  Theodore Roosevelt

[Keith13]

Nuts

General McAuliffe

[Keith13]

Veni Vedi Vici

Caesar

[gdoten]

“Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.”

—Winston Churchill

[kathyp]

"If you are going through hell, keep going."

Winston Churchill

[Bee Happy]

"Why would we lie to ourselves?" - Theodore Logan (in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.")

[Vance G]

"I am in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools!  Let's start with typerwriters!"

Frank Loyd Wright

[iddee]

Do not pretend what you do not intend.

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[Sundog]

I believe in moderation, as long as there’s a lot of it. – Tim Allen

 

[Vance G]

"The art of accurate observation is often called cynacism by those who do not have it"  George Bernard Shaw

[kathyp]

Now what is the message there? The message is that there are no "knowns." There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know. So when we do the best we can and we pull all this information together, and we then say well that's basically what we see as the situation, that is really only the known knowns and the known unknowns. And each year, we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns.

Don Rumsfeld

[kingbee]

“Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.”
― Winston Churchill

[gdoten]

“Liberals are worried that someone, somewhere, is doing something without permission. And they worry that someone is doing something without paying a tax on it.”

—Apparently the first part is Bill Buckley and the second part was amended by Dr. Pournelle.

[Michael Bush]

"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."-George Bernard Shaw

"The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing." --Laozi, Tao Te Ching

"Perfection in beekeeping is not found in a multiplicity of appliances, but in simplicity and the elimination of everything not absolutely essential" --Brother Adam, In Search of the Best Bee Strains

My grandpa used to say that every great invention came from a lazy man. One of my favorite authors said something similar:

"Progress doesn't come from early risers - progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." --Robert Heinlein

"It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential."--Bruce Lee

"In general, the simpler the system, the more efficient and the larger the amount of work which can be accomplished in a given time."--Frank Pellet, Practical Queen Rearing

"The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction."--Helen Keller

"It will be readily appreciated that in the course of many years and daily contact with bees, the professional bee-keeper will of necessity gain a knowledge and insight into the mysterious ways of the honeybee, usually denied to the scientist in the laboratory and the amateur in possession of a few colonies. Indeed, a limited practical experience will inevitably lead to views and conclusions, which are often completely at variance to the findings of a wide practical nature. The professional bee-keeper is at all times compelled to assess things realistically and to keep an open mind in regard to every problem he may be confronted with. He is also forced to base his methods of management on concrete results and must sharply differentiate between essentials and inessentials."--Beekeeping at Buckfast Abbey, Brother Adam

"Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it."--Bruce Lee

"One does not divine the ways of nature, it lays out methods that confound our science, and it is only by studying it carefully that we may succeed in unveiling some of its mysteries."--Francis Huber, New Observations on Bees Volume II

"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble." --Blaise Pascal

"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth." --Blaise Pascal

"People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others."--Blaise Pascal

"'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own." --Alexander Pope

"When we wish to correct with advantage and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true, and admit that truth to him, but reveal to him the side on which it is false. He is satisfied with that, for he sees that he was not mistaken and that he only failed to see all sides. Now, no one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true." --Blaise Pascal

"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such trifling investment of fact."--Mark Twain

"All models are wrong, but some are useful" --George E.P. Box

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure." --Helen Keller

[Michael Bush]

"I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil
is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to
paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In
those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved,
seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and
well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut
fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their
voice."--C.S. Lewis, Screwtape Letters

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its
victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under
robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's
cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated;
but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end
for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." --C.S. Lewis,
God in the Dock

[Michael Bush]

"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could
write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn
pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and
could never happen. "--Robert Heinlein

"Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly
and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky.
Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday
won't happen tomorrow." -- Robert Heinlein

"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why.
Then do it." --Robert Heinlein

"If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion.
It has long been known that one horse can run faster than another - but
which one? Differences are crucial." --Robert Heinlein

"The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And
vice versa." --Robert Heinlein

[Old Blue]

All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

It was so cold this morning that I saw a liberal with his hands in his own pockets!

We have to sign the bill to find out whats in it!
Shameless Pelosi



Sorry guys, I don't know who said em, I just remembered them.

Old Blue
Taxed, fined, fee'd, regulated overburdened and beaurocratically screwed out of the pursuit of happiness. In.......
Kali-bone-ya

[Steel Tiger]

"Say what again.
 Say what again.
 I dare you.
 I double dare you motherf$%#r.
 Say what one more g@$d#^% time"

~Jules Winnfield~ 1994 Pulp Fiction