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Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 9:34 am
by Loredoctor
Pride and Prejudice wrote:"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:26 am
by sgt.null
may implies permission
can implies ability.
- sgtwood
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:27 pm
by Plissken
...and it's always better to ask for forgiveness than permission!
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:32 pm
by Zarathustra
"Mankind is a statutory ape."
"Genesis is exactly backwards. Our troubles started from obedience, not disobedience. And humanity is not yet created."
(Both from Robert Anton Wilson.)
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:45 pm
by Lord Mhoram
“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” – Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
“And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.” Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
"It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true." – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
My signature as well.
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:12 am
by Sunbaneglasses
Well here are three that I use quite often(vulgarity warning).
shit happens
this place is a God forsaken hellhole
damn it to hell!
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:54 pm
by [Syl]
Darth's topic, but I don't think his intention was a list of colloquialisms and epithets.
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:57 pm
by lucimay
my fault...i didn't read the first post to see what it was about...just started posting my favorite "sayings".
i guess i've been bad. i guess i'm going to need a spanking.
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:18 pm
by [Syl]
You'll notice I split the topic. I'm not saying it's a perfect split (for instance, I left in one of DLBs post just because I think "shit happens" is a profound, philosophical statement... have to find an old religious joke along those lines), but I used my best judgement.
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:54 pm
by sgt.null
"If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him."
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 3:24 am
by Mr. Fishfinger
"When I shout 's**t' - you bob up"
Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:04 pm
by hierachy
Ayn Rand, Anthem wrote:This god, this one word:
"I".
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 4:36 am
by Avatar
Nice one Hier.
Heinlein wrote:Thou art god
--A
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 7:27 am
by The Laughing Man
it's better to get something worthwhile done using deception than to fail to get something worthwhile done using truth.
Don Juan (Carlos Castaneda)
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 7:49 am
by Edinburghemma
What doesn't kill you, cripples you.
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 8:08 am
by Prebe
The Esmer, quoting Don Juan wrote:it's better to get something worthwhile done using deception than to fail to get something worthwhile done using truth.
Isn't that the favourite saying of the Bush administration, and the JCS???
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 8:17 am
by The Laughing Man
depends on your definition of "worthwhile", I guess....like anything else, the value of the statement rests upon the worth of the individual....
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 8:45 am
by Prebe
I thought about adding that
