Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....Woman was God’s second mistake.
..........— Friedrich (Wilhelm) Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher. The Antichrist (1888), Aphorism 48.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Only a misanthrope would agree with that! I thought better of you!

But I suppose I can't blame you, with half the MR members constantly on your tail in hopes of a free dinner!

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....Woman was God’s second mistake.
..........— Friedrich (Wilhelm) Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher. The Antichrist (1888), Aphorism 48.

What was the first !

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

What was the first !

Creating the otters, of course! All the evil in the world is caused by otters, that's a known fact.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

What was the first !

I'm assuming man was. It's not the most charitable comment on the human race ever penned.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

What was the first !

I was afraid to ask....

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by James_Wilde

I like the quote that someone in here has as a signature. Something like:

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

The "someone" is Astra

[WT Sharpe]

.....When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
.....'His sins were scarlet, But his books were read.'
..........— Hilaire Belloc [Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc] (1870 –1953), British writer and poet. "On His Books".

[poohbear_nc]

"Troubles always create a great exertion of my mind and give it a force to which at other times it is incapable." Elizabeth Seton

[FlorenceArt]

"If a dancer dances - which is not the same as having theories about dancing or wishing to dance or trying to dance or remembering in his body someone else's dance - but if the dancer dances, everything is there... our ecstasy in dance comes from the possible gift of freedom, the exhilarating moment that this exposing of the bare energy can give us. What is meant is not license, but freedom..."

Merce Cunnigham

[BenG]

PRINCESSES come in two main kinds:
1. Wimps.
2. Spirited and wilful. A spirited Princess will be detectable by the scattering of freckles across the bridge of her somewhat tiptilted nose (OMT). Spirited Princesses often disguise themselves as boys and invariably marry commoners of sterling worth. With surprising frequency these commoners turn out to be long-lost heirs to Kingdoms (See PRINCES).

- Diana Wynne Jones, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland

[SeaBookGuy]

"The front door was opened by a slut. I had never seen a slut before, but recognized the genus without difficulty as soon as I set eyes on this one."

Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford

[WT Sharpe]

.....All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly. It is ready to pay up. In other words, there may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones, in its opinion. At very most, such a mind will consent to use past experience as a basis for its future actions.
..........— Albert Camus (1913 – 1960), Algerian–French author, philosopher and journalist.The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), "The Absurd Man".

[WT Sharpe]

.....Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [peace] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.
..........— Alfred [Bernhard] Nobel (1833-1896), Swedish chemist, engineer, munitions manufacturer, philanthropist. To Bertha von Suttner, peace congress, Switzerland (1892). Quoted in The Great Thoughts (1985, Introduction and a new compilation © 1996 by David Laskin) by George Seldes.

[kennyc]

and computers will never need more than 4K of memory...