"If wishes were fishes, beggars would be riding winners at Santa Anita!"
Old proverb 1940's?
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"If wishes were fishes, beggars would be riding winners at Santa Anita!"
Old proverb 1940's?
A conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.
Chairman Mao
"You can't be curious and angry at the same time" from Seth's Blog
"Another has done me wrong? Let him see to it. He has his own tendencies, and his own affairs. What I have now is what the common nature has willed, and what I endeavor to accomplish now is what my nature wills"
Marcus Aurelius
“There is little that is as simple as you think or as complicated as you can make it.”
Anon
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."
Albert Einstein
"I smile because I have no idea what's going on."
~Richard
“Of course truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”
Mark Twain
I sometimes smile and nod.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Geezer
“How to act:
Never under compulsion, out of selfishness, without forethought, with misgivings.
Don’t gussy up your thoughts.
No surplus words or unnecessary actions.
Let the spirit in you represent a man, an adult, a citizen, a Roman, a ruler. Taking up his post like a soldier and patiently awaiting his recall from life. Needing no oath or witness.
Cheerfulness. Without requiring other people’s help. Or serenity supplied by others.
To stand up straight—not straightened.”
Marcus Aurelius
"He who reads and don't reflekt iz like the one who eats and don't exercise."
Josh
If you have type O– blood, you can donate to anyone. Just make sure you save some for yourself.
"Life is a constant class, Once you think you know it all you'r due to decay."
Clint Eastwood
“Every day and night keep thoughts like these at hand - write them, read them aloud, talk to yourself and others about them.”
Epictetus
"Perfection is the enemy of perfection."
Anon.
“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”
Will Rogers
" I don't believe in pessimism, f something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will"
Clint Eastwood
“The secret to a good sermon is having a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.”
- George Burns
" It makes no difference how long it takes or how difficult it is. if the final product is marvelous,it is worth the effort."
Julia Child..America's first celebrity chef.
Printing that one out Richard
G’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
-Let a man not be corrupted by external things
-Let him be unconquerable and admire only himself
-Let him be courageous in spirit and ready for any fate
-Let him be the molder of his own life
-Let not his confidence be without knowledge, nor his knowledge without firmness
-Let his decisions once made abide
-Let not his decrees be altered by any alteration
-Let him be poised and well-ordered
-Let him show majesty mingled with courtesy in all his actions
Seneca
" He who will not be hammer will be anvil..."
Is this a paraphrase of Bulows Hammer and Anvil speech, or is it something of which I am not familiar?Quote:
Originally Posted by Geezer
I found it without any attribution...
~Richard
As a history teacher, I love any little quotes from anywhere.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”
― Groucho Marx
" Each action creates multiple reactions; act seldom and well!"
LEModesitt author Gravity Dreams
~Richard
Quote:
" He who will not be hammer will be anvil..."
This one gave me a LOT of thought! Still digesting it.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrZ
If I am not a hammer, I can be the anvil...meaning that without my support, nothing can be accomplished.
Kinda important for all of us to consider........
JMO, YTMV
~Richard
Richard, you’re not th only one chewing on that quip.
It’s been on my mind as well, and I agree with your summation.
I appreciate you adding your thoughts there
“From good people you’ll learn good, but if you mingle with the bad you’ll destroy such soul as you had”
Musonius Rufus quoting Theognis of Megara