Favorite Quotes or Sayings

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”


― Mark Twain

The more horses you yoke, the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundations, which is impossible, but the snapping of the traces and with that the gay and empty journey.

Nazaretti wrote:

The more horses you yoke, the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundations, which is impossible, but the snapping of the traces and with that the gay and empty journey.

Naz-can you translate?

10 from Albert Einstein....

http://www.brainyquote.com/slideshow/authors/top_10_albert_einstein_quotes.html

HonkyTonkRunner wrote:

Great one!! So true!!

"Nothing is foolproof. Fools are too ingenious." Various attributions, none confirmed.

"Is this a game of chance?"
"Not the way I play it, no."

W. C. Fields responding to a newcomer to a poker game in My Little Chickadee.

HonkyTonkRunner wrote:

Nazaretti wrote:

The more horses you yoke, the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundations, which is impossible, but the snapping of the traces and with that the gay and empty journey.

Naz-can you translate?

It is a good statement of Zen koan practice leading to satori ( the gay and empty journey"). The mystery is how Franz Kafka, writing in the very early 20th century in Prague and apparently with no awareness of Zen, came up with it.

The boy's more mixed up than a feather in a whirlwind.

-Foghorn Leghorn

“The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Birds

Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.
--June 28, 1862 Letter to Quintin Campbell
`Abraham Lincoln

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass. - Frank Sinatra

"And now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." - The Bhagavad Gita

"I wish I could become the person my dog thinks I am"

Spunkybubbles5 wrote:

"I wish I could become the person my dog thinks I am"

That's a good one. Mark Twain maybe?

Poppy Ott wrote:

Spunkybubbles5 wrote:

"I wish I could become the person my dog thinks I am"

That's a good one.  Mark Twain maybe?

I don't know. I saw it on a bumper sticker yesterday.

Spunkybubbles5 wrote:

Poppy Ott wrote:

Spunkybubbles5 wrote:

"I wish I could become the person my dog thinks I am"

That's a good one.  Mark Twain maybe?

I don't know. I saw it on a bumper sticker yesterday.

Mark Twain wrote a lot of bumper stickers.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -Robert A. Heinlein

   

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BIS wrote:

^ fixed it. and

When I insert the link-in the hyperlink-the image won't come up. However, the others (above) worked. Maybe I forgot how. Or, maybe this one was meant to be.



If you are going to hyperlink an image you need to open the image. The link you posted was to the preview page, and it did open to that page.

Or you can post the image rather than linking to it as described in the video which is probably better (if it's safe for work) for easy viewing without having to flick a link for threads like this one.

BIS wrote:

^ fixed it. and

How did you do that? And, what the hell do you think this dude meant?