Via Lara, a "meme" calling for the posting of random quotes. Because why not?
"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. "
Ray Bradbury (1920 - )
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. "
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. "
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough For Love
"Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions. "
Cullen Hightower
"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. "
Japanese Proverb
I have no idea who Cullen Hightower is or in what context that was said, but I like it.
Comments
# 1 | Uncle Al | May 25, 2008 2:15 PM
The Seven Dreadful Sins: stupidity, insanity, fetish, religiosity, malice, irresponsibility, and mandated charity.
When an Enviro-whiner feels threatened it excretes a foul exudate forming a protective layer of disingenuous stupidity to deflect dissonant facts and beliefs damaging to said Enviro-whiner's tender underbelly of pure ignorance.
Faith is God dictating your thoughts. Philosophy is logic setting the rules. Science is observed fact being observably factual.
Sometimes tolerences average - that's freedom. Sometimes tolerences multiply - that's management.
# 2 | Eric Lund | May 25, 2008 2:27 PM
Among the quotes that random quote site served up for me was the following gem:
"A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion."--Robert Chapman
# 3 | asad | May 25, 2008 6:19 PM
The Robert Heinlein quote is brilliant. I'm going to have to remember that one.
# 4 | Simple Country Physicist | May 26, 2008 8:42 AM
"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. "
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough For Love
If one examines the demographics, there are more lazy early risers than industrious early risers. Early risers want to find easier ways of doing things so they can get things done and out of the way of late risers who think that early risers should stay around and help them. The trick is to get things doen and away before the late risers have their coffee.
# 5 | Wilson Fowlie | May 26, 2008 2:27 PM
I have a favourite quote like that myself. No idea who Robert Brault is (other than he seems to be a software developer), but I like this:
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. -- Robert Brault
I like a different Heinlein quote, too:
When faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again. -- Robert A. Heinlein,(The Moon is a Harsh Mistress)
And in the vein of Mark Twain:
'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college. -- George Ade, "The Steel Box", 1898
# 6 | Kevin W. Parker | May 27, 2008 3:49 PM
- http://www.conservativeforum.org/authquot.asp?ID=1599
# 7 | Robert Brault | June 1, 2008 11:36 AM
Regarding, "Today I bent the truth to be kind and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true."
This is one of about 300 items I wrote for National Enquirer between 1973 and 1987. At the time the Enquirer used quips and anecdotes as column fillers.
I did it strictly as an avocation and had no motive except the $20 I received for each item. Due to some glitch in my brain circuitry, I found that I could sit in front of a typewriter for two hours on a Sunday afternoon and easily come up with a page of original thoughts.
It now appears, thanks to the Internet, that I am quoted on 50,000 or more sites by people who have idea who I am and would be most disappointed to find out. I find, whenever I quote myself, that people will accept wisdom from the famous or the anonymous but not from the fellow next door.