Interesting Quotes

[Always Wary]

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Stendhal

[NinaRocks]

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!
-Dennis, Monte Python and the Holy Grail

(might be as good as any other, though)

[milwaukee69]

"I believe everyody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have all the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn't trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string."

-Scott Adams

[Ashelah]

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."
Albert Einstein

[Old Sam]

"We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done."

Theodore Roosevelt

[SLY WEST]

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

~Kin Hubbard

[Ashelah]

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
Albert Einstein

[La Sunshine]

Humhainna wrote:

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How right.

I wish that I had learned that back in 2006/2007.

[La Sunshine]

“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”
&#8213; Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

[Ashelah]

"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree."
Albert Einstein

[Phaerae]

Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe. ~ Pema Chodron

[Ashelah]

"God is subtle but He is not malicious."
Albert Einstein.

[Always Wary]

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
Edith Wharton

[SLY WEST]

An alliance in international politics is the union of two theives who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot seperately plunder a third.

~ Ambrose "Bitter" Bierce

[NinaRocks]

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

J. Russell Lynes, American historian and author

[Old Sam]

"I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man."

Theodore Roosevelt

[Ashelah]

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Albert Einstein.

[Rose of Tralee]

"Be humble, for you are made of earth, be noble, for you are made of stars" – Serbian proverb

[Stephen J Dawson]

I have seen this one here on several stickers and a poster on here has it above and below their picture. I like people who are real.

"In a world where you can be anything, be yourself." Etta Turner

And I like this one.

"Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else."
&#8213; Judy Garland

[Ashelah]

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
Albert Einstein.