Quotes

[Scenicdrive]

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his stand, and from it philosophy starts in its study of the universe of mind as well as the universe of nature.

(Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), Philosophy of Right, preface, p. 10, Oxford University Press (1952).)

 

[boffo]

Do what's right, and do it now.

Lou Lamoriello, NJ Devils GM

 

[friendz4evr]

When you are born, you cry and the world rejoices. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice!

 

[MississaugaBoy]

"Money's good...more you have it...happier you are."
Gene Simmons, KISS (I've heard it on TV recently)

 

[friendz4evr]

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Einstein

 

[lasslicker]

May there only be peaceful and cheerful Earth Days to come for our beautiful Spaceship Earth as it continues to spin and circle in frigid space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life.

U Thant

 

[Berlin]

I believe in kindness.

- June Callwood

 

[boffo]

"If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say."
Bob Marley

 

[Viewer]

"Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. "
Immanuel Kant

 

[friendz4evr]

It's not the size of the dog in the fight...it's the size of the fight in the dog.

 

[Berlin]

...ok, kit

If people only spoke when they had something to say, the human race would soon lose the power of speech.

- Kitty Fane, The Painted Veil

 

[lasslicker]

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Oscar Wilde

 

[onthebottom]

The best argument against democracy is a ten minute conversation with the average voter

Winston Churchill

OTB

 

[a 1 player]

Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom."

Greek Proverb

 

[onthebottom]

Lead, follow or get the hell out of the way....

 

[LatinDancer]

A man is at his tallest when he stoops to help another.

 

[a 1 player]

Shut up and eat your god damn vegetables.

a 1 players mom.

 

[Falconer]

Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.

Mary Parrish

 

[K Douglas]

"I never went to bed with an ugly woman, but I sure as hell woke up with a few" - Will Rogers

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody" - Bill Cosby

"How do you tell a Communist? Well its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin." - Ronald Reagan

Clement Atlee, Labour Party leader in Britain walks into a bathroom where Winston Churchill is relieving himself. As he walks towards the urinal Winston quickly zips up his fly to which Atlee jokes "Winston, I didn't realize you were so modest?" Upon which Churchill replies:
"I'm not. I just thought if you saw something so big and running freely you'd want to nationalize it". Priceless!

 

[kbluejayk]

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."--John Wayne