Wise Sayings

[Tsuyoiko]

Better to be silent and be thought a fool, then to speak and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln.

If you Google your saying inside quotation marks, making sure you have spelled it correctly of course, you can usually find out who it's attributed to.

Some more from Abe:

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to Infidelity

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves

 

[ninjacatman]

That was Lincoln!? Cool!

When a fish has seen the ocean, he can't go back to the pond.
(not sure; this one's probably very old though)

 

[Pachipro]

Better to be silent and be thought a fool, then to speak and remove all doubt.
(I don't know who first said that, but I'd love to shake his hand)

Voltaire said it. If you read the previous posts you'd see that I quoted it above.

ﾂ"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despotﾂ…maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.ﾂ" - Frank Herbert

 

[Tsuyoiko]

Voltaire said it. If you read the previous posts you'd see that I quoted it above.

So it looks like Lincoln was quoting Voltaire when he said it! Thanks for the correction Pachipro

 

[Pachipro]

ﾂ"When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.ﾂ" – Thomas Jefferson

Sadly, today many people fear the government.

 

[ArmandV]

ﾂ"When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.ﾂ" – Thomas Jefferson

Sadly, today many people fear the government.

How could that be? Didn't The Messiah just get elected?

 

[ninjacatman]

Hmm, lets see.... Education breeds the desire for freedom
(I think it was confussious)

 

[ninjacatman]

Hi all, sorry I took so long to post.

Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion.
Proverbs 11:22 ( I think I once read a version that said, '...a beautiful woman
without virtue is..)

 

[Jericho Desu]

I like this saying but I don't remember where I got it from:

"If you fall down, you have the whole world behind you"

 

[ShadowSpirit]

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." ~ Winston Churchill

"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water." ~ Bruce Lee

"Spare thy soul a naive libation, nirvana is chance to cruel. Although fate is the inevitable conclusion, the choices there follow you." ~ Myself

 

[Jericho Desu]

I just remembered another one although I don't remember the exact saying, but its on the front cover of Yes Japan vol1, it was something like "Even dust piled up creates a mountain"

 

[ninjacatman]

Great is he that can conquer others, even greater is he who can conquer himself!
(himself being his own selfish, hurtful wants)
me, but I kind of doubt that I am the first to say this...

 

[foxtailsthree]

Here's one of my favorites:

"Many a true word is spoken in jest."

No source sadly, D:

Also: "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistant one."

 

[Haruspex]

"Ordinary morality is for ordinary people" Aleister Crowley

 

[Kinsao]

don't know if it's a saying as such but 'you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear'!

 

[ninjacatman]

Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. He springs up like a flower
and withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
Job 14:1-2

 

[ninjacatman]

"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine."
--Nikola Tesla

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
--Albern Einstein

NOTE: Nikola Tesla was a Russian immigrant to America and a brilliant
scientist. He was mentor and employer to Thomas Edison, Nikola had
created light bulbs years before Edison 'invented' them.

 

[ninjacatman]

Hi guys, I just found this one and I just HAD to add it!

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the the universe."
- Albert Einstein

 

[Pachipro]

Nikola Tesla was a Russian immigrant to America and a brilliant
scientist.

He was also the true inventor of radio and NOT Marconi who is falsly given the credit. The biography of Tesla is one any serious person interested in science should study as he touched on things that the US government consficated upon his death and will not even release to this day due to "national security reasons". Tesla was way ahead of his time and a true genius. It's sad he had to die broke and broken by the very people that encouraged him to continue his research. Much of what we know today in the field of electricity and such, as well as many other fields of science, can be credited to him, but he is sadly not given the credit.

 

[ninjacatman]

get this, he also said, (I won't use quotes 'cause I'm not sure of the exact wording)
The world will drastically change when information can be passed through electricity.

MAN the lightbulb was just invented, and the guys talking about computers and email!

 

[ninjacatman]

But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.
Nikola Tesla
(I wonder if he was talking about women)

 

[Tsuyoiko]

I wanted this for my signature but it's too long:

Jack Kerouac

"Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life."

btw, Tesla was Serbian, not Russian.

 

[XpHoBiaX]

"You're only as good as the company you keep."

"Judge not, lest ye be judged."

"Eyes open, mouth closed."

and my favorite for lols:

"You can't fix stupid."

 

[Pachipro]

The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if we do not want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

Was he way, way ahead of his time or what? 55 BC?

 

[Flashjeff]

"Do not resent getting old. Many are denied the privilege."
---Old Irish proverb