Quotable Quotes

[Foreigner]

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

– Aristotle

 

[Foreigner]

"Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance."

- James Baldwin

 

[drron]

'There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.'

Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corp.1977

 

[TheEmu]

"Why strive for perfection when mediocrity will get you a pass mark?"

More my motto than a quote. *

* Posted as I spend 15 mins learning a few jargon words to get me through two days of technical bollox.

Or, as a veterinarian friend of mine with multiple degrees was wont to say, "If the pass mark is 50%, 51% is 1% wasted effort."

 

[drron]

"A controversial decision will merely lose you votes; a courageous decision will lose you the election”.
Sir Humphrey.
Yes Minister.

 

[Foreigner]

The Soul Of Wine

A poem by Charles Baudelaire



One night, from bottles, sang the soul of wine:
'0 misfit man, I send you for your good
Out of the glass and wax where I'm confined,
A melody of light and brotherhood!

I know you must, out on the blazing hill,
Suffer and sweat beneath the piercing rays
To grow my life in me, my soul and will;
I'm grateful to you, and I will not play

You false, since I feel joy when I can fall
Into the throat of some old working man,
And his warm belly suits me overall
As resting place more than cold cellars can.

And do you hear the songs that hope believes,
The Sunday music, throbbing from my breast?
Elbows on table, rolling up your sleeves
You praise me, and I'll put your cares to rest;

I'll fire the eyes of your enraptured wife;
I'll grant a force and colour to your son,
And will for this frail athlete of life
Be oil that makes the straining muscles run.

My nectar falls in your fertility,
A precious seed whose Sower is divine,
So from our love is born rare poetry,
Thrusting towards God the blossom on its vine!'

 

[drron]

'In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.'

Yogi Berra

 

[drron]

An honest politician?

'We all know what to do, we just don't know how to get re-elected after we have done it.'
prime minister of Luxembourg, Jean-Claude Juncker,

on the financial crisis.

 

[codash1099]

Women are nothing but machines for producing children. Napoleon Bonaparte

 

[Foreigner]

Women are nothing but machines for producing children. Napoleon Bonaparte

Could have been his worst quote.

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

" Money controls people. People with money control the world " anon

 

[Foreigner]

'How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.'

-Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

 

[Major]

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled,
public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should
be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands
should be curtailed, lest Rome will become bankrupt.

People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance."

- Cicero , 55 BC


So, evidently we've learnt bugger all over the past 2,068 years.

 

[drron]

To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.

Pierre-joseph Proudhon.
1851

 

[Foreigner]

"There is no love sincerer than the love of food."

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

 

[Hvr]

Or, as a veterinarian friend of mine with multiple degrees was wont to say, "If the pass mark is 50%, 51% is 1% wasted effort."

P's get degrees.


Q: What do you call the person with the lowest pass mark in medical school?

A: Doctor.

 

[TheEmu]

P's get degrees.


Q: What do you call the person with the lowest pass mark in medical school?

A: Doctor.

True - they just practise...

 

[Foreigner]

"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity"

- Simone Weil

 

[Foreigner]

"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food."

— Hippocrates, father of medicine.

 

[Foreigner]

"If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity."

― Albert Einstein