Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[HomeInMyShoes]

Originally Posted by crich70

I forget the title of the book where I read it originally.

“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.” – Arab proverb

Hmmm....I think some of the gardens I've been carrying around are full of creepy crawly things and thorny plants. It is a great quote though.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

Hmmm....I think some of the gardens I've been carrying around are full of creepy crawly things and thorny plants. It is a great quote though.

like those fuzzballs I find in my jeans pockets......quick everyone clean out your pockets!

only sort of but I found a half-handful of birdseed in my sweatshirt pocket yesterday.....musta spilled some when filling the feeders....

[BenG]

“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

[UnderControl]

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

[kennyc]

I didn't know Einstein believed in a DIGITAL world.

[BenG]

“Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, that the greenhouse effect will raise the sea level 200 feet, that overpopulation is choking us, that pollution is killing us, that nuclear war may destroy us - and they yawn and settle back for a comfortable nap. But tell them that the Martians are landing, and they scream and run.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Secret of the Universe

[gmw]

The Martians are coming? What didn't someone tell me?

( P.S. I like the quote. )

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by gmw

The Martians are coming? What didn't someone tell me?

( P.S. I like the quote. )

[Apache]

The Martians Are Coming??????
Apache

[Vector]

The Martians aren't that stupid.

[guanaco]

In Saïs the statue of Athena, whom they believe to be Isis, bore the inscription: "I am all that has been, and is, and shall be, and my robe no mortal has yet uncovered."

Plutarch, Moralia - On Isis and Osiris (paragraph 9)

[guanaco]

I can be in Japan, I can be in Edinburgh, I can be in Texas, I can be in Venice; but at night, when I dream, I am always in Buenos Aires on the South Side: the Monserrat parish, to be more precise.

Jorge Luis Borges, "En Diálogo I" with Osvaldo Ferrari.

[Apache]

"Where do you put the bayonet?"
Chesty Puller (upon seeing a flamethrower for the first time)

I am all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Lets start with typewriters.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Apache

[kennyc]

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
- Carl Sandburg

[gmw]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
- Carl Sandburg

Neat. Though the tax man has just arrived here - sleep beckons.