Quotes to ponder...

[egb_hibs]

'"My name is Legion", he replied, "for we are many"'

Mark 5:9

 

[Sancho Panza]

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Mark Twain

 

[Young porty]

So so true especially today. As long as you sound plausible,no problems.

 

[Sancho Panza]

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

Jonathan Swift

 

[blue toon hibby]

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

Native American proverb

 

[HaarlemShuffler]

One can only hear what one understands.

Goethe

 

[HaarlemShuffler]

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

Albert Camus

 

[numptyploom]

He came!

 

[Young porty]

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

Albert Camus

One of my sons fav writers. Fascinating guy.

 

[Mr Hibs]

"Whoever battles monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster himself. And when you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you." - Nietzsche

 

[blue toon hibby]

“That’s the game buggered, son.”

Jim Finnie (31/10/1968)

 

[HaarlemShuffler]

It is a hallmark of failing societies, I've learned, this requirement that one always be in possession of a valid reason to exist.

Omar El Akkad

 

[Braehead Cabbage]

If you want to kill in the name of your religion then start with yourself

 

[HaarlemShuffler]

If you want to kill in the name of your religion then start with yourself

Who said that then if not your good self?

 

[Braehead Cabbage]

Who said that then if not your good self?

Nae idea but I've always liked it

 

[Braehead Cabbage]

 

[Cavalier]

 

[Cavalier]

 

[HaarlemShuffler]

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

Rene Descartes

 

[Young porty]

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

 

[WJC1848]

My favourite line from a song:
"I talk to the trees" - and that's why they put me away!

 

[Beagle]

My favourite line from a song:
"I talk to the trees" - and that's why they put me away!

Spike Milligan in the Goon Show

 

[WJC1848]

Spike Milligan in the Goon Show

Ach, rumbled!

 

[Westside Green]

“As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

HL Mencken

 

[roorky]

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

"You will go blind doing that"

My Mum

 

[EH17 Jimmy]

‘If we extend unlimited tolerance to those who are intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.’

Karl Popper

 

[blue toon hibby]

“I wanted to be a songwriter of the old school. I didn’t want my name in lights, I wanted it in brackets.”

Michael Marra