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[xman]

Where else can I go to for advice, but among the friendly people of LoR.

I've been using the same signature for many years now and I think it's time to change it up. "Super" just doesn't mean what it used to. I don't know where to take it though. I thought of a Shakespeare quote, but can't pick one. I like Socrates and Aristotle bytes but none seem appropriate.

Suggestions are appreciated.

X

 

[Andiferous]

Jonathan Swift is my hero. I think he's much cooler than Shakespeare or Aristotle.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same.

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.

Poor Nations are hungry, and rich Nations are proud, and Pride and Hunger will ever be at Variance.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Anyway, it's endless.

 

[TheFearmonger]

What of epicurus' famous lines of wisdom? The vernacular is befitting of an actor.

 

[borrofburi]

Pick up a copy of marcus aurelius' meditaions, he's bound to eventually say something you find interesting and meritorious enough to quote.

E.g., I rather like:
"[learned from my father to be] moderately careful of one's own bodily health, not like a man in love with living or with a view to beautifying oneself, yet at the same time not despising one's body, so that by paying attention to details oneself, one very rarely needs medical help"
"The universe is change, life is understanding."

which was simply underlined within the first few pages. He says a lot of stuff, most of it is alright, some of which I find I particularly like as a rather simple way of saying something.

 

[Durakken]

"Now you know, and knowing is half the joke!"

"The only reason humans aren't dead is because god broke the die button on the dinosaurs."

I love those quotes of mine ^.^

 

[MRaverz]

If I were you, I'd include a quote of your own making.

Sure beats ripping off famous dead people. :lol:

 

[Prolescum]

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so


Douglas Adams.

 

[Aught3]

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Ha! Douglas Adams was mistaken, you can escape from jail (which I assume counts as solving a major problem) using a potato.

 

[Durakken]

"This does not appear to be a UFO.
Just because they don't know what it is and it's up in the sky doesn't mean we can jump to the conclusion that it's a UFO."

just saw this on a comment to an article and thought that it would be an awesome quote.

 

[obsidianavenger]

"This does not appear to be a UFO.
Just because they don't know what it is and it's up in the sky doesn't mean we can jump to the conclusion that it's a UFO."

just saw this on a comment to an article and thought that it would be an awesome quote.

LOL

 

[Shaedys]

Any problem caused by a tank can be solved by a tank.

 

[xman]

What of epicurus' famous lines of wisdom? The vernacular is befitting of an actor.

Like what?

"The universe is change, life is understanding."

That's not bad.

If I were you, I'd include a quote of your own making.

That's what I've been doing and it's unsatisfying now. I might develop a new one in time.

Douglas Adams.

A good consideration.

 

[Aught3]

"Don't plan on any second coming, God got his ass kicked the first time he came down here slumming" - Andy Prieboy

 

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

"Perhaps we can find some middle-ground. I suggest the following for any Evolutionists approached with the Christianic dogma on science:
I evolved. You didn't."
-Anon.

I also have some lovely quotes from Voltaire:

"Man is free at the instant he wants to be."

"hat we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."

Le paradis terrestre est o๠je suis.
"Paradise is where I am."

"Love truth, but pardon error."

"The secret to being a bore is to tell everything."

"May we not return to those scoundrels of old, the illustrious founders of superstition and fanaticism, who first took the knife from the altar to make victims of those who refused to be their disciples?"

"Clever tyrants are never punished."

"To hold a pen is to be at war."

"To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature."

"We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one."

"If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor."

"It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong."

"Every man is guilty of the good he did not do."

"While loving glory so much how can you persist in a plan which will cause you to lose it?"

"Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours."

"There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times."

"Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one."

"I always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: "O Lord, make our enemies quite ridiculous!" God granted it."

"A witty saying proves nothing." (The irony? It's a commonly quoted saying.)

"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."

"I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition." (You can customize the quote and say "adoring Logic")

"Man ought to be content, it is said; but with what?"

"What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly , that is the first law of nature."

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."

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Enjoy.

 

[Doc.]

you reminded me, just changed mine.

It depends what are you looking for... Churchill has really good stuff

A joke is a very serious thing.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

(one of my fav)

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

(famous one)

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Never, never, never give up.

"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

(LOL)

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.