• the_infernal_optimist said on Aug 24, 2007....

  I don't think I posted/saw these last time, though now I'm too lazy to go back and check:
  
  "In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."
  -Kahlil Gibran
  
  "Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."
  - also Kahlil Gibran
  
  ~Infernal
  

• silverwhisper said on Aug 25, 2007....

  i recently observed this to someone else:
  
  

  william wordsworth quoth:
  poetry is the spontaneous overflow of emotion, recollected in tranquility.

  
  what i love about this is that it marries the twin keys of both inspiration and wordcraft.
  
  i am also fond of:
  
  

  william blake quoth:
  no bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

  
  

  william blake quoth:
  the most sublime act is to set another before you.

  
  

  william blake quoth:
  expect poison from the standing water.

  
  
  
  ah...it feels good to flex my blake-fu. :>
  
  ed

• beyondtheveil said on Aug 25, 2007....

  "The best things in life are little children, old dogs, and watermelon wine".

• rightwingwizard said on Aug 25, 2007....

  "There are only two ways to live your life.
  One is as though nothing is a miracle.
  The other is as if everything is." 

  Albert Einstein

   

   

• TamareE said on Aug 25, 2007....

  "And ever has it been that love not knows its own depth until the final hour of seperation"   Kahlil Gibran~
  
  "With what dreams may gather, wakefulness scatters"
  Kahlil Gibran~
  
  Hey Infernal, I see that you are a Kahlil fan as well! Rock on! I think he is a great poet and writer :)
  
  Tamare
  

• mOOn_platOOn said on Aug 25, 2007....

  "With great power comes great responsibility."
  - Stan Lee

• harriedpsychmajor said on Aug 26, 2007....

  "There are two things that are infinite: the universe and the stupidity of men...
  and I'm not sure about the universe."
  -Albert Einstein
  
  "Until lions have historians, hunters will be heroes."
  -Kenyan proverb
  
  "If you have no critics you'll likely have no success."
  -Anonymous
  
  "Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and you weep alone."
  -George Formby
  
  "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws."
  -Douglas Adams
  

• Expendable said on Aug 27, 2007....

  A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
   
  Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
   
  Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate, and quickly.
  --Robert Heinlien, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
   
  The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
   
  We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
  --Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
   
  In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
   
  Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
   
  Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
   
  The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
   
  Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.
   
  - "Surely you have considered terrorist activity?"
  There was another pause. Then the spokesman said, in the quiet tones of someone who has had enough and who is going to quit after this and raise chickens somewhere, "Yes, I suppose we must. All we need to do is find some terrorists who are capable of taking an entire nuclear reactor out of its can while it's running and without anyone noticing. It weighs about a thousand tons and is forty feet high. So they'll be quite strong terrorists. Perhaps you'd like to ring them up, sir, and ask them questions in that supercilious, accusatory way of yours."
   
  It wasn't a dark and stormy night. It should have been, but there's the weather for you. For every mad scientist who's had a convenient thunderstorm just on the night his Great Work is complete and lying on the slab, there have been dozens who've sat around aimlessly under the peaceful stars while Igor clocks up the overtime.
  --Terry Pratchett, random quotes
  

• Twylarants said on Aug 27, 2007....

  "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people" - Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, U.S. Navy
   
  

• OutOfIdeas said on Aug 28, 2007....

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

• Pontius_Pilate said on Aug 30, 2007....

  Expendable said...
  "Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind."
  
  Ok, so I'm a bit curious, what does 3 (three) !!! exclamation points mean? Or what about !~! ? I use those two rather often... lol
  
  Couple of my favs
  
  Pain can be controlled, Just disconnect it.
  
  Another
  
  Love is the slowest form of suicide.

• harriedpsychmajor said on Sep 01, 2007....

  Expendable: Ah, more Douglas Adams! But the quote that especially catches my eye is: "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
  
  It brings up a big point in my issue with most people's definitions of open-mindedness.
  

• silverwhisper said on Sep 02, 2007....

  pontius pilate, is there an attribution for your second quotation? it feels naggingly familiar.
  
  ed

• Pontius_Pilate said on Sep 04, 2007....

  I have used it before, but I honestly do not know where it came from originally.
  

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