US Coin Forum Words of Wisdom -- Or Not.
Clankeye
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Many of you have little tag lines at the bottom of your posts. Some are words of wisdom, some are concepts, some are jokes, lines from movies or literature... some are things you might collect or items you are looking for. I would like to compile a thread of aphorisms from board members. What's a line you would use other than the one you are using now? For example here are a couple I will share:
"If I diminish one human, I am more greatly diminished than that person." ---Alan Paton.
Or:
"If in the House of Hades, men give up their dead, yet will I even there, remember my dear companion." --Thomas Jefferson
(He wrote that in Latin on his wife's tombstone)
Or:
"Seems to me, if two partners always agree, one of 'em ain't necessary!" --Paul Newman as Wild Bill Hick*ock.
Anybody care to share what you might put at the end of your posts, that you don't use now? Serious, funny, sad, instructional, idiotic... anything. I used to enjoy Airplanenuts's quote from Billy Madison, and I still like Dorkkarl's explanation of Occam's razor.
Clankeye
"If I diminish one human, I am more greatly diminished than that person." ---Alan Paton.
Or:
"If in the House of Hades, men give up their dead, yet will I even there, remember my dear companion." --Thomas Jefferson
(He wrote that in Latin on his wife's tombstone)
Or:
"Seems to me, if two partners always agree, one of 'em ain't necessary!" --Paul Newman as Wild Bill Hick*ock.
Anybody care to share what you might put at the end of your posts, that you don't use now? Serious, funny, sad, instructional, idiotic... anything. I used to enjoy Airplanenuts's quote from Billy Madison, and I still like Dorkkarl's explanation of Occam's razor.
Clankeye
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--Rediculous new saying.
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
Don't know where that one came from.
Here's one from George Bernard Shaw that I've always liked:
The reasonable man tries to adapt himself to the world.
The unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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Well, if we're bringing wives into it... my wife's words of wisdom would be like in the scene from the movie Moonstruck, where Cher smacks Nicolas Cage across the face and shouts "SNAP OUTTA IT!!!!"
And let me add:
"Deepest need in man is the need to overcome his separateness, to leave the prison of his aloneness. What satisfies that need, is bound to be the most powerful force in human relations -- mature love." --Erich Fromm
each of us arrives here unintentionally and uninvited for a short while and wonders why. for me, it is enough to marvel at the miracles!
one that i think is a quote from a biblical character:
a man who can conquer himself is more powerful than a man who conquers nations.
and one from an indian:
nothing that i ever do will be very important, but it is very important that i do it anyway.
al h.
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How about "No statue has ever been comissioned for a critic." or "I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.", Harry Truman.
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I don't know half of youhalf as well as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
-- Bilbo Baggins, "The Fellowship of the Ring"
"A young man came to me to defend him for a case of robbery. He said he didn't have any money at the moment but did expect he could raise some pretty quickly. I told him he better find another lawyer. I don't like to accept any money that has been stolen....so recently." Clarence Darrow, attorney.
"When I die, I want to go peacefully, in my sleep, like my grandfather did. Unlike the poor, screaming *astards in his car at the time." Unknown twisted person.
"In The Vanities, No one wears panities." Ogden Nash, poet (misspelling intentional)
"I finished my house with two hundred dollars in the bank only because the plumber didn't know about it." Mark Twain.
"I could be Councillman Bernard...Mayor Bernard...Sentator Bernard!....President Bernard!!.... KING BERNARD!!!...CZAR BERNARD!!!! I could meet a lot of girls that way." Jules Pfeifer.
"I will speak no words that are not my own" F. Crane, Md.
Hope you got a smile.
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Captain Picard says this at the end of the Cardassian torture by Gul Madred. Gul Madred tries to break Picard by having him state there are either 3 or 5 lights, can not remember off hand. However Picard is about ready to break when he hears another Cardassian state he is going back to the Enterprise.
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The wording is a little off, but the meaning is clear...
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<< <i>another from Albert Einstein:
each of us arrives here unintentionally and uninvited for a short while and wonders why. for me, it is enough to marvel at the miracles!
one that i think is a quote from a biblical character:
a man who can conquer himself is more powerful than a man who conquers nations.
and one from an indian:
nothing that i ever do will be very important, but it is very important that i do it anyway.
al h.
albert einstein failed math in school..hard to beleive but true
My 1866 Philly Mint Set
"On the whole, I think I'd rather be in Philadelphia" yeeeeeeesss"
"If the smartest man on earth risks nothing and ventures nowhere, he is little better than an idiot - or at least their achievements tend to be on the same scale"
"When this short life is past, only that which was done for the Lord will last"
"And this too shall pass."
Clankeye
"Golf is a good walk spoiled." --Mark Twain
"I spent this last week trying to figure out why my dog keeps drinking out of the toilet. I tried it, and it wasn't that great."
"If a mute swears, does his mothers wash his hands with soap?"
"Are three-way light bulbs kinky?"
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