Quotes that make you think.

[big4life]

Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.
-- Baudouin I

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
-- Charles F. Kettering

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
-- Walter Lippman


These are just a few that I think should guide you through life.

Please post any that you know or enjoy.

 

[GLADIATOR351]

"A closed mouth collects no feet"

 

[big4life]

Here's some more.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt


Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.
-- H.G. Wells

 

[HumorMe]

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
-- Charles F. Kettering

I'll take RyanH for $800 Alex!

 

[Rex]

-I read this in Flags of Our Fathers:

When you go home
Tell them for us and say
'For your tomorrow
We gave our today'

-All the hours wound us; the last one kills.

 

[Latimer]

“I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?”

"Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization."

"Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?"

"Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses; whence it follows that religious principles bear upon nothing whatever and are not in the slightest innate. Ignorance and fear, you will repeat to them, ignorance and fear -- those are the twin bases of every religion."

"No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain; its impressions are unmistakable."

"We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves."

"Has not Nature proved, in giving us the strength necessary to submit them to our desires, that we have the right to do so?"

- Donatien Alphonse Francois, Comte de Sade (AKA the Marquis de Sade)

 

[Austin316]

"People are stupid"

 

[polarpixie]

These hit home a little

"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her."


"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


"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive."
-Henry Miller

 

[guards]

you can't fix stupid