“Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.” Samuel Butler
Ealier found under the Strong Words section here on t.net.
I like to remind myself this sometimes.
Danny
“He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who
is a scholar only is too soft. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.”
-Plato
Gotta love Mary Shelley:
“Wealth was an inferior object; but what glory would attend the discovery, if I could banish disease from the human frame, and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!”
-Victor Frankenstein
“The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind”
-Prof. Waldman (Victor’s Mentor)
One of my favorites:
“Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight or the open apple-blossom, the toiling work-horse, the blithe swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun, form ever follows function, and this is the law. It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all things superhuman, of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever follows function. This is the law. – Shall we, then, daily violate this law in our art? Are we so decadent, so imbecile, so utterly weak of eyesight, that we cannot perceive this truth so simple, so very simple?”
-Louis Sullivan
Talent does what it can - genius does what it must.
Chinese Fortune Cookie
You can’t get shot in the back if you don’t run.
“Never in the course of human events have so many, owed so much, to so few”.
W. Churchill speaking of the RAF after the Battle of Britian in 1941.
[quote]the MaxX wrote:
“Fear is the mind killer. I will face my fear; I will let it pass through me”.
- Frank Herbert’s Muordib (sp?) in Dune
quote]
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone I will turn inner eye and see it’s path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
– Bene Geserit Littany on Fear, Dune by Frank Herbert.
I memorized that one in high school, and it has stuck with me ever since.
“Strain is effort burdened by emotion.”
– Yoga instructor
“How you do anything is how you do everything.”
– Same Yoga instructor, talking about integrity of effort, and how your own personal morals permeate your entire life.
‘Try not…do or do not…there is no try’- YODA
“The man did not fall on top of the mountain.”
- not sure where that one came from.
I made this one up myself, in regards to water intake. “If the urine’s clear, You’re in the clear.”
Walk heavy, talk wild, kick ass in every direction
-HST
When the character of a man is unclear, look to his friends
A life without regret is a life worth respect
Our Business is Pain. And Business is Good
-AT unofficial motto
Never lie about emotions or penis size. If you are with someone long enough they will find out the truth about both.
Me Solomon Grundy
Consciousness of self is the greatest inhibition to all physical movement.
Pain is the best instructor but nobody wants to take its class.
In a crisis man does not rise to the challenge, he sinks to the level of his training.
Know thyself.
Socrates
He who knows why will overcome any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Violence is usally the quickest and best answer
Arthur Jones
No one on their death bed wishes they had rested more or done less.
Xalfred
There’ll be time to sleep when I’m dead
Grandma Callahan
My dear departed grandfather:
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Life’s too short to dance with ugly women.
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Why be a pussy if you don’t have to be?
Damn, I miss that guy.
"What makes you different makes you beautiful? unless, of course, you’ve got some sort of cartilaginous growth coming out of your head that makes you look like a moose.
Or?
There is no blade that can cut as deep as the words from one’s mouth? unless it’s one of those military serrated-edge jobs, like the one I was using to cut a hunk of salami when it slipped and cut my femoral artery."
By TC
The person with poor self-esteem acts out of fear rather than confidence. Not to live, but to escape the anxiety of living, becomes the basic goal. Not creativity, but safety, becomes the ruling desire. It is the gravitational pull of these feelings that must be overcome if such a person is to rise. ? Nathaniel Branden
“I contend we are both atheists I just believe in one fewer gods than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
Stephen Roberts
Know why your parents are so good at pushing your buttons? It’s because they installed them. (dont remember)
The wisdom in the ?The Simpsons?:
Flight, the dream of man and flightless bird alike.
-Homer Simpson:
Lisa, if the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn’t, it’s that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling and foxy boxing and such and such.
Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.
Old people don’t need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.
Trying is the first step towards failure.
-Bart Simpson:
Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
Aren’t we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.
-Marge Simpson:
Shoot 'em all, and let God sort them out.
-Principal Skinner:
There’s no justice like angry-mob justice.
-Moe Szyslak:
Just like my dad used to say, ‘Sooner or later, everybody gets shot.’
Man, you go through life, you try to be nice to people, you struggle to resist the urge to punch 'em in the face, and for what?
Geez, who’d a thought a whale would be so heavy.
Mr. Burns:
Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. When opportunity knocks, you don’t want to be driving to a maternity hospital or sitting in some phony-baloney church. Or synagogue.
“Failure to prepare is preparation to fail”
- unknown
The myth that women should not lift heavy is advanced by women who fear effort and men who fear women.