Random Quotes

[John]

Persistance

Nothing in the world can take the place of PERSISTENCE
Talent will not...nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with Talent
Genius will not....unrewarded genius is almost a proverb
Education alone will not.....the world is full of educated failures.
PERSISTENCE and DETERMINATION alone are OMNIPOTENT

~Calvin Coolidge

[Demetrius]

My mother gave birth to twins: myself and fear.

-Thomas Hobbes

I'm tired of being patient...

-The Knack

[Anna Iram]

Thinking on convictions this fine morn....



"Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions which move with him like flies on a summer day"
Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)



Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually rubbing even the most altruistic nose in a steaming pile of "F**k that"."
glyphic30 Anthony Beal quotes (Horror book writer American Author, Poet and Editor, b.1974


"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."
Samuel Butler quotes (English novelist, essayist and critic, 1835-1902)

[Rani Zemirah]

Seduce my mind and you can have my body,
Find my soul and I'm yours forever.
~ by Anonymous ~

[Demetrius]

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.         

-Ambrose Bierce (American Author, a favorite of H. P. Lovecraft)

[Welsh Wench]

Oogum oogum boogum boogum
boogum now baby you're castin' your spell on me

~~Brenton Wood

*OK so it is not exactly a quote. I just felt like typing it!*   

[Richard de Graeme]

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
Kurt Vonnegut
US novelist (1922 - 2007)

[Tygrkat]

"Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance."


                               ~ Benjamin Franklin

[Richard de Graeme]

Games are a gauge by which we measure life.

Maurice Carlisle Watson (Unknown philosopher and member of the Gardner Lane Boys)

[Rani Zemirah]

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
Aristotle

[Richard de Graeme]

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Lord Byron

[maelstrom0370]

"Hyperbole is the best thing ever!"

"Fibonacci: It's as easy as 1,1,2,3"

"There's no right way to eat a Rhesus"

"Simple as 3.141592"

"Pavlov: The name that rings a bell"


~All of the above are courtesy of Mental_Floss.  Quite possibly the awesomest magazine in the history of awesome magazines

[Rani Zemirah]

"Hyperbole is the best thing ever!"

"Fibonacci: It's as easy as 1,1,2,3"

"There's no right way to eat a Rhesus"

"Simple as 3.141592"

"Pavlov: The name that rings a bell"


~All of the above are courtesy of Mental_Floss.  Quite possibly the awesomest magazine in the history of awesome magazines

Aaaaahahahahahahaha!!!!!! Nerd humor is soooo much funnier if you're actually nerdy enough to get it!!!

Of course, being nerdy enough to admit you get it can be pretty funny, also, I guess...     

[Demetrius]

How happy is the blameless vestals lot,
The world forgetting,
by the world forgot;
Eternal sunshine
of the spotless mind...


-Alexander Pope (Eloisa to Abelard 1717)

[Rani Zemirah]

And think not you can
Direct the course of love,
For love,
If it finds you worthy,
Directs your course.

~ by Gibran Kahlil Gibran ~