Great Quotes by Great Men~ (69)
Indyfellaindianapolis, Indiana USA152 Threads 8 Polls 18,150 PostsNot a beer drinker.........but Long Islands have the same application...only quicker 
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.
-Abraham Lincoln-
-Abraham Lincoln-
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We don't bring the new to confuse the minds but to clarify.
Not to destroy the science but to truly substantiate.
But our enemys call all, what they couldn't confute as false and heretical, whilst they made a shield from hypocritical, religious zeal without knowledge and they do degrade the Holy Scripture to one of their delegates.
Galileo Galilei
(I hope I had translated it right)
Not to destroy the science but to truly substantiate.
But our enemys call all, what they couldn't confute as false and heretical, whilst they made a shield from hypocritical, religious zeal without knowledge and they do degrade the Holy Scripture to one of their delegates.
Galileo Galilei
(I hope I had translated it right)
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"I didn't do it"
Everyone in prison......
Everyone in prison......
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Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
Andre Gide
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* "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
* "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
Albert Einstein
* "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
Albert Einstein
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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Confucius
Confucius
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The Americans will always do the right thing… after they’ve exhausted all the alternatives.” - Winston Churchill
“It is better to die on your feet, than to live a lifetime on your knees” - Emiliano Zapata
“Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity” - Author unknown. Heard a radio DJ say it : )
“I would rather fail in the cause that someday will triumph, rather
than triumph in a cause that someday will fail” - Woodrow Wilson
“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” - Albert Einstein
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone
in the light” - Helen Keller
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free … it expects what never was and never will be …” - Thomas Jefferson
“If you are thinking a year ahead, sow a seed. If you are thinking ten years ahead, plant a tree. If you are thinking one hundred years ahead, educate the people.” - Chinese Proverb
Perhaps the most famous put down in English is the retort made by John Wilkes when the Earl of Sandwich, (yes, it is after him that the popular snack is named) shouted at him:
“You, Wilkes, will either die on the gallows or from the pox.”
“That depends, my Lord,” said Wilkes, “on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.”
“Only two things are infinite; the universe and human stupidity, and I am not sure about the former.” - Albert Einstein
“We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - (An 87 yr old lady named Rose who had gone back to College to get an education.)
“There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up.” - (Rose again)
“If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” - Helen Keller
“Education is the progressive realisation of our ignorance” - Albert Einstein
“The only thing needed for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing” - Edmund Burke
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the
value of nothing” - Oscar Wilde
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” - Winston Churchill
“It is better to die on your feet, than to live a lifetime on your knees” - Emiliano Zapata
“Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity” - Author unknown. Heard a radio DJ say it : )
“I would rather fail in the cause that someday will triumph, rather
than triumph in a cause that someday will fail” - Woodrow Wilson
“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” - Albert Einstein
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone
in the light” - Helen Keller
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free … it expects what never was and never will be …” - Thomas Jefferson
“If you are thinking a year ahead, sow a seed. If you are thinking ten years ahead, plant a tree. If you are thinking one hundred years ahead, educate the people.” - Chinese Proverb
Perhaps the most famous put down in English is the retort made by John Wilkes when the Earl of Sandwich, (yes, it is after him that the popular snack is named) shouted at him:
“You, Wilkes, will either die on the gallows or from the pox.”
“That depends, my Lord,” said Wilkes, “on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.”
“Only two things are infinite; the universe and human stupidity, and I am not sure about the former.” - Albert Einstein
“We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - (An 87 yr old lady named Rose who had gone back to College to get an education.)
“There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up.” - (Rose again)
“If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” - Helen Keller
“Education is the progressive realisation of our ignorance” - Albert Einstein
“The only thing needed for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing” - Edmund Burke
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the
value of nothing” - Oscar Wilde
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” - Winston Churchill
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It's better to try and fail, than fail to try..
By Daniel
By Daniel
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It is better to remain silent and appear to be a fool then to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
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+How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
Plato
+Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where tho' all things differ, all agree.
Alexander Pope
+Doubt grows with knowledge.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
+Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
+Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
Bob Marley
+I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.
Che Guevara
Plato
+Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where tho' all things differ, all agree.
Alexander Pope
+Doubt grows with knowledge.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
+Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
+Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
Bob Marley
+I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.
Che Guevara
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Here's to removing all doubt!!!
I should have listened to that Mark Twain guy...dang it anyway!
I should have listened to that Mark Twain guy...dang it anyway!
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"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, con a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
-Robert A. Heinlein
"What lies behind you and what lies before you are small matters compared to what lies within you!"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-Robert A. Heinlein
"What lies behind you and what lies before you are small matters compared to what lies within you!"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
-Theodore Roosevelt-
-Theodore Roosevelt-
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Cool thread.
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"Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-
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