Quote of the day

I should frame it on my wall

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:+1:

We’ve been trying to reach you concerning your vehicle’s extended warranty.
- Unknown

Quotes of the year:

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  • Please Mute your mic when you aren’t speaking to the group
  • Your cam is still on, we can see what you’re doing
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I was recently reminded of this.

https://www.chesterton.org/

  • “A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.” – “Maycock,” The Man Who Was Orthodox

I would add that realists are often mistaken for pessimists, but occasionally they’re mistaken for optimists. :2cents:

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“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
Theophrastus.

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What’s this!?

Either it’s a Vietnamese word :wink: or it’s something you should look up in a very modern English dictionary.

or possibly, that TT is not this TT, because I wasn’t here in 2019!

Oh, now I get your question!

Nelson noob

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I’ll have to add that to the list

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It seems like we could all use a little inspiration, so I’m starting this thread with an inspirational quote. But feel free to post any quote that you find interesting or edifying.

“To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious.”

– Albert Einstein

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You can only milk a cow so long, then you’re left holding the pail. -Hank Aaron

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“Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

H.L.Mencken

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And if we’re going to do physicists:

“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”

Richard Feynman

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Feynman is a treasure trove…as is Mencken, of course.

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“There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.”

Robert Evans

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“If You Don’t Have Time to Do It Right, When Will You Have Time to Do It Over?”

John Wooden

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Good advice, I use it. Learned it as: “slow is smooth, smooth is fast”

  • Marky Mark, in the movie ‘Shooter’ (and probably someone else before that)
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