My Favorite Quotes

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home."

~ Ken Olsen circa 1977 (shortsighted former President of former computer giant, DEC)


*Both Unix and C first ran on this idiot's computers.
 
Seneca, Roman philosopher and politician

Wild animals run from the dangers they actually see, and once they have escaped them worry no more. We however are tormented alike by what is past and what is to come.
 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though we travel the world over
to find the beautiful, we must
carry it with us, or we find it not.​
 
Anaïs Nin

Fear less, hope more.
Eat less, chew more. Snivel less, breathe more.
Talk less, say more. Love more, and good things will come.​
 
Charles Dickens

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of youthful looks.
 
Rumi

Those of you who are scattered,
simplify your worrying lives. There is one
righteousness: Water the fruit trees,
and don't water the thorns.​
 
"Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. - Sarah Bernhardt


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"Those pig-stickers may scare the barroom bullies; but to me, you're a joke."

~ your friendly neighborhood Spiderman (to Wolverine, when Spidey simultaneously kicked the entire assembled Xmen's collective ass in the Marvel Secret Wars series)
 
Dalai Lama

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
 
Mark Twain

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the
violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.​
 
Ovid

Years pass and go by as the water; the wave that has moved before our eyes, like the time that passes, will not return again. One must take advantage of his youth. No matter how happy we are, age escapes from us rapidly, and nothing is as before.
 
William Butler Yeats (Poem)

I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But the fools caught it,
Wore it in the world’s eyes
As though they'd wrought it.
Song, let them take it,
For there’s more enterprise
In walking naked.​
 
"Twitter is dead; its oh so au courant fraîcheur cut down in the summer of its youth at the hands of a douche bag named Ashton."
~Me
 
C.S. Lewis

When you have found your own room,
be kind to those who have chosen different doors
and to those who are still in the hall.​
 
"I'd play 'Sally Goodin' all day if I could.
But the Lord and my wife wouldn't take it very good.
So I fiddle when I can and I work when I should."
~John Denver
 
John Squadra

If you listen,
not to the pages or preachers
but to the smallest flower
growing from a crack
in your heart,
you will hear a great song
moving across a wide ocean
whose water is the music
connecting all the islands
of the universe together,
and touching all
you will feel it
touching you
around you ...
embracing you
with light.
 
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