Quotes that rock your world
"The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always been derided as fools and madmen."
Aldous Huxley
“El dolor hace pensar al hombre.
El pensar lo hace sabio,
Y la sabiduría le abre las puertas del cielo.”
“Pain makes man think.
Thinking makes him wise,
And wisdom opens heaven’s doors to him.”
Proverb
“To the class of '04: Why did you graduate? Or, phrased another way—To the class of 05: why do you suck so much? Like, seriously, why?”
Street Shoutouts, 18/11/2004
"If you believe everything you read, better not read."
Japanese Proverb
"A clean desk is a sign of a sick mind."
Albert Einstein
"The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogren and stupidity."
Harlan Ellison
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
Winston Churchill
"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak."
Epictetus
"Wit is educated insolence."
Aristotle
“They are all dead
they just don't know it yet”
The Crow
"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes."
George H.W. Bush
"Don't let school interfere with your education."
Mark Twain
"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter."
Winston Churchill
"Whenever anyone says 'theoretically' they really mean 'not really.'"
Dave Parnas
"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."
Winston Churchill
"The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it."
Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
"When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice."
Bismarck
"America is a mistake, a giant mistake."
Sigmund Freud
"If you cannot convince them, confuse them."
Harry S. Truman
"The quickest way to end a war is to lose it."
George Orwell
"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers."
Scott Adams
"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking."
Thomas Edison
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good that men do is often interred with their bones.”
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
“O Judgement, thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason!”
Ibid.
“Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.”
Exodus 34:17
“I fall upon the thorns of life. I bleed.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind, 4:54
“No matter how much you study, if you cannot invent, you are still zero. No matter how much you play, if you are inventive, you are the king.”
Alex Chiu
“All events in history happen twice: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.”
Marx
“No morirá la flor de la palabra. Podrá morir el rostro oculto de quien la nombra hoy, pero la palabra que vino desde el fondo de la historia y de la tierra ya no podrá ser arrancada por la soberbia del poder.
“Nosotros nacimos de la noche. En ella vivimos. Moriremos en ella. Pero la luz será mañana para los más, para todos aquellos que hoy lloran la noche, para quienes se niega el día, para quienes es regalo la muerte, para quienes está prohibida la vida. Para todos la luz. Para todos todo. Para nosotros el dolor y la angustia, para nosotros la alegre rebeldía, para nosotros el futuro negado, para nosotros la dignidad insurrecta. Para nosotros nada.”
El Sup
“MANKIND. Basically, it’s made up of two separate words—‘mank’ and ‘ind’. What do these words mean? It’s a mystery, and that’s why so is mankind.”
Jack Handy
“Go to now, rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
“Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
“Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as if it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.”
James 5:1
“A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still.”
Unknown
“Diplomacy is to do and say
The nastiest thing in the nicest way.”
Isaac Goldberg
“Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.”
“Let justice be done, though heaven fall.”
Latin proverb
“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”
Emerson
“Simple things amuse simple people.”
Happy
“Los necios e insensibles se obstinan en ver las manchas del sol, mientras que los sensibles prefieren ver la luz.”
José Martí
“Yo prefiero ver la luz.”
Joaquín Guzmán
“Si la montaña no viene a mi... La montaña que vaya y chingue a su madre.”
Mexican Proverb