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[Tomk]

These words are so true... and why I'm always tired.

"This life's hard, man, but it's harder if you're stupid!" - Peter Yates

[Ztruker]

Tom, I love that one. Think I'll use it next time I update my siggy.

[Tomk]

Then, Rich, you might like a couple others that speak to my life so much...

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

"A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice." - Bil Cosby

[Lee]

I forget who wrote these, but they are some of my favorites.

I am going to call my kids Ctrl, Alt and Delete. Then if they muck up I will just hit them all at once.

You know you have a small apartment when Coco Pops echo.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Sometimes I wake up grumpy; other times I let her sleep.

Depression is just anger without enthusiasm.

I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it.

[Lee]

"A bit of Necrophilia never killed anybody"

[Jkc73]

I will have to try this one, see if it fixes my blue screen.

I am going to call my kids Ctrl, Alt and Delete. Then if they muck up I will just hit them all at once.

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A few from my collection.

I like to keep this one in mind.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. -Albert Einstein.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

I am a part of all that I have met.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

When the student is ready, the master appears.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

There's more to the truth than just the facts.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

How long has it been since someone touched part of you other than your body?

It is easy to stand a pain, but difficult to stand an itch.

We are never prepared for what we expect.

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

[Jkc73]

I like using interesting quotes as my siggy and have used these at one time or another.

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. - Benjamin Franklin

Common sense isn't - Me

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. But so was yesterday, and look how you messed that up. - Unknown

That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse. - Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes)

No problem is so big or so complicated that it can't be run away from! - Charlie Brown

Here's a couple quotes you may like.

• Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. - Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
• Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. - Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

[Doug]

On Bio/planetary Conservation from the late/great US Congressional Representative from the State of Arizona: "'Growth' and 'progress' are among the key words in our national vocabulary. But modern man now carries Strontium 90 in his bones ... DDT in his fat, asbestos in his lungs. A little more of this 'progress' and 'growth,' and this man will be dead." — Morris K. "Mo" Udall

[Lee]

"I may die early eating unidentified beef byproducts soaked in waste chemicals, but I'll die owning a 65-inch HDTV and a new five speed automatic Dodge Durango with a 5.7 L Hemi V8 under the hood!"
Joe Bageant


"79.6% of respondents to a Scientific American poll are unwilling to forgo even a single penny to forestall the risk of catastrophic climate change".
Professor Emeritus Guy R. of Natural Resources and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.

[Tomk]

Inspirational quotes????

[Jkc73]

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage or of principle. - Confucius

[Lee]

Tomk
Inspirational quotes????

"One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments."
- Aldous Huxley.

Edited by Lee, 09 December 2010 - 04:13 PM.

[Jkc73]

"To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find ourselves in nirvana." - Suzuki Roshi

[Ztruker]

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
Bertrand Russell

[Lee]

"I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder"