Quotable Quotes

[qkslvr]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Benjamin Franklin wrote that 90% of everything you read on the internet is inaccurate.

Did he write it on his iphone?

 

[TheRealTMA]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Benjamin Franklin wrote that 90% of everything you read on the internet is inaccurate.

JT - can you provide a reference for this quote?

 

[Major]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Reason well from the beginning, and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt

Tenzin Gyatso
14th and current Dalai Lama

 

[JessicaTam]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

JT - can you provide a reference for this quote?

I am glad you asked. It was actually Abraham Lincoln. memes | quickmeme

Sorry for any confusion.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

I am glad you asked. It was actually Abraham Lincoln. memes | quickmeme

Sorry for any confusion.

So your original statement was true but perhaps low by a few % then.

 

[Major]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Take calculated risks... That is quite different from being rash

George S Patton

 

[Foreigner]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

George Burns

 

[Major]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Never let the future disturb you

You will meet it with the same weapons of reason, which today arm you against the present.

Marcus Aurelius
Roman Emperor

 

[anat0l]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

"Sit your opponent with the sun in his eyes."

- Rodrigo "Ruy" Lopez de Segura, c. 1530-1580, Spanish priest, discovered and analysed the namesake chess opening system, also known as the "Spanish Game" or "Spanish Torture"

 

[Major]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.

Indira Gandhi

 

[JohnK]

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you....

 

[Foreigner]

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you....

Did you make that one up Johnny?

 

[Foreigner]

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.

- John Gielgud

 

[JohnK]

Did you make that one up Johnny?

Nope. Definitely a quotable quote. Personal experience too.

 

[Foreigner]

Nope. Definitely a quotable quote. Personal experience too.

Got it! (That's not a quote )

 

[Foreigner]

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

- Martin Luther King, Jr.


(18 January in the US is Martin Luther King, Jr Day)

 

[codash1099]

[h=1]“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”[/h] ― Isaac Asimov

(Substitute the country of your choice)

 

[drron]

“He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.”

Groucho Marx.

[video=youtube_share;xsOf0TZPPWY]https://youtu.be/xsOf0TZPPWY[/video]

 

[drron]

Why is American beer served cold?
So you can tell it from urine.

David Moulton

 

[JohnM]

Peter Drucker (1909-2005), management expert:

So much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work.

Meetings are by definition a concession to a deficient organization. For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.