Favorite Quotes- Add Yours
"The first requisite for a party is good liquor and plenty of it. Good liquor is not cheap. Cheap liquor is not good."
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"There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and those who have met them in battle. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion."
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"There is nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes"
-unknown author |
you can't drink all day ...
if you don't start in the morning ... |
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"Man will not be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest" Denis Diderot
With apologies to Stefano for putting this right after his post. |
I have two.
First and always:
"The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects the wind to change, and the realist adjusts his sails." ^^ I can't tell you how true that is. I can apply that to each person I have ever known. And I can measure their success in life almost perfectly by it. Second, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" When all else fails... look for the weak-spot. |
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"Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better. If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough."
Sir Henry Royce, co-founder of Rolls Royce |
"Just because you understand it doesn't mean that it won't work."
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"Jane -- you ignorant slut."
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" Put something exciting between your legs, ride a Harley." my brother had a 59' shovelhead and an Indian....
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Varied and incessant as was Diderot's mental activity, it was not of a kind to bring him riches. He secured none of the posts that were occasionally given to needy men of letters; he could not even obtain that bare official recognition of merit which was implied by being chosen a member of the Académie française. When the time came for him to provide a dowry for his daughter, he saw no other alternative than to sell his library. When Catherine II of Russia heard of his straits, she commissioned an agent in Paris to buy the library, and then requested the philosopher to retain the books in Paris until she required them, and to constitute himself her librarian, with a yearly salary. In 1773 and 1774 Diderot spent some months at the empress's court at St Petersburg. ------------------------------------------ Now a return to the subject of this thread. ------------------------------------------ I can resist anything but temptation. Oscar Wilde |
The surest sign that there is intelligent life out there, is that they haven't bothered to contact us yet.
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I didn't know that. That's quite a sacrifice on behalf of his daughter. David Hume and Lao Tzu were also librarians. Any other worthy librarians that should join the list? |
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