Thread: Quip Of The Day

" The writing of history is often, not what occurred but the views of a person with something to gain."

Again.

Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead.  Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow.  Do not walk beside me either.  Just pretty much leave me the hell alone.



Ha! Thought that was going somewhere profound didn't you?

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Life is like topography Hobbes, there are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure
-Calvin

"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different."
--Aldous Huxley

" Half the time the problem is not ' doing something," The problem is figuring out 'HOW.'"

Usual source

~Richard

Originally Posted by Geezer

" Half the time the problem is not ' doing something," The problem is figuring out 'HOW.'"

Usual source

~Richard

Its like my Grandpappy always said...
"Where there is a will, there's some crazy guy in a dark basement somewhere, trying and failing a thousand times to free random ideas from his clutches."

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”


― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

Originally Posted by DZEC

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”


― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

This is a good quote. I wonder how many, of the people who have read it, applied the concept to the worst "bad-guys" in agreed upon history... instead of the more comfortable correlations.

Originally Posted by Geezer

" Half the time the problem is not ' doing something," The problem is figuring out 'HOW.'"

Usual source

~Richard

I would rather get in trouble for doing something than for not doing anything.

Tim