cool quotes

[TheOriginalWhitehorse]

After being corrected for the faulty grammar of putting a preposition at the end of a sentence, Winston Churchill is rumored to have said:

"That is the sort of thing up with which I will not put."

 

[tulc]

Nothing can excuse or justify an act of terrorism, whether it is committed by religious fundamentalists, private militia, people's resistance movements -
or whether it's dressed up as a war of retribution by a recognised government.
-Arundhati Roy

 

[tulc]

In paradisum deducant te angeli, in tuo adventu suscipiant te martyres, et perducant te
in civitatem sanctam Jerusalem.
Chorus angelorum te suscipiat, et cum Lazaro quondam paupere aeternam habeas requiem.

"May the angels lead you into paradise, may the martyrs receive you in your coming, and may they guide you into the holy city, Jerusalem.
May the chorus of angels receive you
and with Lazarus once poor may you have eternal rest."

tulc(who loves Latin quotes!)

 

[Aryzah]

"You can't look dignified when you're having fun." - Wes Janson, "Solo Command"

"I find your lack of faith disturbing." - Darth Vader

 

[tulc]

Hope in Suffering
If we could read the secret history of our
enemies, we would find in each person's life
sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all
hostility.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

[Siliconaut]

"Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses" (Boethius)

"If you had kept quiet, you'd have remained a philosopher" (in the sense of "people would still suffer from that misperception" )

Sil' (who loves latin quotes, too!)

 

[tulc]

Pars Acuta in Alio
(The Pointy End Goes into the Other Man)
tulc(who has a friend with this engraved on his quiver)

 

[SlowRoasted]

the one in my sig is cool

 

[tulc]

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
-Anna Sewell

 

[tulc]

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy.
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple;
the philosophy is kindness."
- The Dalai Lama

 

[Sign Of The Fish Burger]

Curiosity didnt kill the cat... Curiosity made the kittens

 

[tulc]

ODE

We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.

We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy

 

[beetlequeendiva]

I love quotes - they're great!!!!
Here are a few:
Life's too short to eat brown bananas
Be more cheerful .......... more!!!
A bird in the hand will poop in your palm

 

[Plan 9]

Curiosity didnt kill the cat... Curiosity made the kittens

This is what my mother always told me:

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back!

 

[RED that's ME]

It takes sunshine and rain to make a rainbow!
even when it rains the sun is always shining
don't pray for a ligher load...but a stronger back!


The reason God put spaces in between your fingers was so another person's hands could fill it up.

 

[tulc]

"When a man makes a promise, ... he puts himself into his own hands, like water.
And if he opens his fingers to let it out, he need not
hope to find himself again."
Sir Thomas More
In "A Man for All Seasons"
by Thomas Beckett

 

[tulc]

The Golden Rule has been a part of human ethics for a very long time and no group can claim ownership of it. It's generally found within most religions across history as well as the thoughts of secular ethical philosophers.

The first known enunciation of the Golden Rule is from around 4500 years ago by the Mesopotamian King Ur-Nammu.

After that it is found in ancient Hindu texts. The Brahman version dating back to 1000 BCE was
"This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain done unto you."

In the 5th century BCE Socrates said
"Do not do to others that which would anger you if others did it to you."

In the 4th century BCE Plato said
"May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me."

One of my favorite versions is from Confucius in 500 BCE
"Do unto another what you would have him do unto you, and do not do unto another what you would not have him do unto you. Thou needest this law alone. It is the foundation of all the rest."

This is what Aristotle said
"We should conduct ourselves toward others as we would have them act toward us."

According to ancient Roman Paganism it's
"The law imprinted on the hearts of all men is to love the members of
society as themselves."

Under Taoism it's:
"Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as
your own loss."

Under Zoroastrianism
"Whatever is disagreeable to yourself do not do unto others."

More close to home, in Judaism it's
"What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man. This is the law: all the
rest is commentary."

Under Islam it's
"No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he
desires for himself."

And finally this is what Matthew claimed that Jesus said in his writings
from around 70 CE,
"Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye
even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets."

Different ways to say this very simple but important human value go on and
on. It's universal to nearly all beliefs.

I think that it's safe to say that there will never be agreement on which
religions are true and which are false or if any are true at all. But I hope
that we can agree that a more universal acceptance of the Golden Rule would
make this world a much better and safer place.

I have one more quote to end with. It's from the man who more than anyone
else gave us freedom of religion in this country. Our 3rd president, Thomas
Jefferson, a nonChristian back in a time when it was possible for a
nonChristain to be elected President, once said.
"it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no
God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
-crazyfingers (part of 9-11 speech he was asked to give)

 

[tulc]

Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis ad capul tuum saxum immane mittam.
(I have a catapult. Give me all the money or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.)

 

[joguy923]

just look at my signiture

 

[kdet]

When you have become penetrated with the joy of God, all of your sorrows will turn into joy, all of your trials will be graces; you will recognize your faults, you will be sorry for them, and they will be forgiven so that they may become happy faults. They will remind you only of the goodness, the tenderness, the joy with which God forgives them.

Louis Evely ​