| Quote of the Day | |
| BorisVM | Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. - Samuel Johnson No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. - W. H. Auden Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all. - Woody Allen It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. - Henry Allen The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. - Henry James |
| mako | Forgive your enemies but never forget their names. John F. Kennedy May you have the foresight to know where you're going, the hindsight to know where you've been, and the insight to know when you've gone too far. Irish Toast |
| mako | Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table. HH Dalai Lama |
| mako | Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. |
| mako | Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict from life, but the ability to cope with it. |
| mako | True journey isn't visiting new places, it is seeing with new eyes. |
| AaaAa | Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. John Quincy Adams |
| mako | Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. JFK |
| mako | Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. Sydney Smith |
| mako | All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer |
| mArInCe | Êóêàâèöè íå ñå îíèå êîè ñå ïëàøàò, òóêó îíèå êîè îäáèâààò äà ãî ïðèçíààò òîà. |
| mako | ‘Politics’ comes from the Greek ‘poly’ meaning ‘many’ and ‘ticks’, which are blood-sucking parasites. Andre Marrou Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. H.L. Mencken |
| BorisVM | People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them. - Anatole France It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. - Robert Benchley The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. - Lewis Thomas The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar |
| mako | If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid a hundred days of sorrow. Tibetan proverb |
| melpomena | To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. Henri Frederic Amiel Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. Chili Davis |