"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend."

-Laertius Diogenes

"One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star."

-G.K. Chesterton

"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."

-Benjamin Franklin

"Only man, among living things, says prayers. Or needs to."

-Peter Bowman

"Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens."

-Arthur Gordon

"Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."

- Mark Twain

If our nation can issue a dollar bond, it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good, makes the bill good, also. The difference between the bond and the bill is the bond lets money brokers collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%, whereas the currency pays nobody but those who contribute directly in some useful way. ... It is absurd to say our country can issue $30 million in bonds and not $30 million in currency. Both are promises to pay, but one promise fattens the usurers and the other helps the people.

thomas edison

Been rather busy of late so I haven't had much time post. Here is today's quote.

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

- Reinhold Niebuhr

This may be somewhat painfuly topical, but the mention of Twain reminded me of it.

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself."

- Mark Twain

Well if we're on the subject of Twain and government I think this one relates a little as well.

"Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid."

- Mark Twain

@kramerkov - the serenity prayer is anonymous, Niebuhr may have wrote it down, but that doesn't make it his quote.

@Maniac True, he was just the name that happened to be attached to it when I found it. I know the quote has been identified with others and the original is anonymous, but I figured it wouldn't be a big deal. I can always put anonymous next time if the original source cannot be identified.

"I believe I found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us."

-- Konrad Lorenz

"Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it."

- Kathleen Casey Theisen

"You've only proven YOU'RE A STUPID LIBERAL FUCKTARD!"

-krellin

Eisenhower 12/1942:

Through all this I am learning many things, that waiting for other people to produce is one of the hardest things a commander has to do. . .An orderly, logical mind [is] absolutely essential to success. . .The flashy, publicity-seeking type of adventurer can grab the headlines and be a hero in the eyes of the public, but he simply can't deliver the goods in high command. On the other hand, the slow, methodical, ritualistic person is absolutely valueless in a key position. There must be a fine balance. . . . To find a few persons of the kind that I have roughly described is the real job of the commander.

"Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct."

- Arthur Helps

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."

"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind."

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"One owes respect to the living; to the dead, one owes only truth" - Voltaire

"You know what happens when you make a speculation? You make a speck out of you and some guy called Lation." Gregory House MD.

"There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." - Mark Twain

“Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?“

Winnie the Pooh

"Dating a woman may be the only context where words speak far louder than actions."

-Yellowjacket

....says YellowJacket, sweat glistening from his brow as he takes the defense stand for pinching a woman's nipples at the bar after, in a drunken slur, announced to his date, "I love you!"

"Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest."

- William Shakespeare

haha krellin ;)

" 'Be yourself!' is about the worst advice you can give to some people."

- Tom Masson

*Figured some of you would appreciate this one.

"Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension."

- Joshua L. Liebman