Thread: Quip Of The Day

"Beware of gifts bearing Greeks!" Mad Magazine.
...Too late to save Troy!

~Richard
Or in these days maybe, Beware of Geeks bearing gifts!.....

“If something external distresses you, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your estimate of it, and this you have the power to revoke at any moment”

Marcus Aurelius

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

Seneca

“Heraclitus called self-deception an awful disease and eyesight a lying sense”

Diogenes Laertius

"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare

"Morals allow man to live in a society; ethics allow a man to live with himself!" Anon

“Material things are indifferent, but how we handle them is not indifferent “

Epictetus

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

—Oscar Levant

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

—Thomas Szasz