Cool sayings and quotes thread

[Bluewolf]

3 minutes ago, Khan of TF365 said:

" I did not say this "

- Winston Churchill

[CaaC (John)+]

[Azeem]

' What's the difference between a cardiologist and a mechanic both fix engines mechanical or human ones? '

' Their pay scale and one does while the engine is running '

[Tommy]

On 03/10/2021 at 14:48, CaaC (John) said:

That's Einstein, isn't it?

[CaaC (John)+]

7 minutes ago, Tommy said:

That's Einstein, isn't it?

Don't know?

Got it from here 

[Tommy]

1 minute ago, CaaC (John) said:

Don't know?

Got it from here 

[CaaC (John)+]

Just now, Tommy said:

I know, I was waiting for you to post that 

[Azeem]

" Don't get in dispute with someone whose funeral you would feel guilty of not attending "

- Wasif Ali Wasif

[Azeem]

Socialism has never taken foot in America because the poor see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires

[Tommy]

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly" - Richard Bach 

 

I absolutely love this quote. 

[Inverted]

When I'm having a stressful time I like to think of a quote from Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. 

"What stands in the way, becomes the way"

Which I understand as meaning that when you fail, or where you find yourself kept from where you want to be, there is nothing better that you can be doing with your time apart from fixing the situation. Embracing difficulty rather than regretting that it's happened.

There's also a passage from Milton that comes to mind when I find myself struggling to keep difficulties in perspective, and think realistically about problems instead of panicking. 

"The mind is a realm of its own, and can make a heaven of hell, and a hell of heaven". 

Which also seems to echo the old stoics, in terms of emphasising the minds power to shape (or distort) our response to reality. 

Those two phrases have been bouncing around in my mind a lot for the last few weeks.

[Azeem]

I read that quote of Milton I think it's in his Paradise Lost

[Inverted]

Just now, Aladdin said:

I read that quote of Milton I think it's in his Paradise Lost

It is, same as the quote from my signature. I've never read anything else from Milton, apart from maybe a few small poems.

 

[Azeem]

" A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in "

- Greek proverb

[Tommy]

36 minutes ago, Beelzebub said:

" A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in "

- Greek proverb

That is actually one of the quotes I think about from time to time. When I see an old picture of my city, and the same trees are still there. Or when I walk over the cobblestone in our old town, I think about the workers that must have put it there many years ago. Are they still alive? Very old? Long dead? Very profound. 

[Spike]

28 minutes ago, Tommy said:

That is actually one of the quotes I think about from time to time. When I see an old picture of my city, and the same trees are still there. Or when I walk over the cobblestone in our old town, I think about the workers that must have put it there many years ago. Are they still alive? Very old? Long dead? Very profound. 

Did Dusseldorf remained relatively unharmed from the WW1/2?

[Tommy]

2 hours ago, Spike said:

Did Dusseldorf remained relatively unharmed from the WW1/2?

Nope, quite a lot of air raids since we had oil facilities and Rheinmetall (who manufactured a lot of World War II gear for the Wehrmacht). All in all a lot less damage than Cologne, Essen etc. though. 

[Azeem]

" Privacy cannot be important for a company that makes money by showing users ads "

- YouTube tutorial guy

[Azeem]

" The present is only different from the past in that it understands the past in a way that the past can’t understand itself "

- T.S Elliot

[Tommy]

“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”  ― Epictetus

[Stan]

Something I heard a lot over the past few days/week after Queen's death.

'Grief is the price we pay for love'. Found that quite moving and profound, and deep, when you think properly think about it.

 

I've no shame in repeating what the Archbishop of Canterbury said as well, as it's quite current and it did make me wonder if he was indirectly including certain political figures when he said the below:

'Those who serve will be loved and remembered longer than those who cling to power and privilege are long forgotten'

[Azeem]

" Trust and respect are like stickers once they come off they don't stick back as the same "

[Azeem]

" A successful marriage does not ride on total honesty and complete harmony, but rather selective concealment and complimentary differences "

[Waylander]

On 25/03/2022 at 12:45, Inverted said:

When I'm having a stressful time I like to think of a quote from Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. 

"What stands in the way, becomes the way"

Which I understand as meaning that when you fail, or where you find yourself kept from where you want to be, there is nothing better that you can be doing with your time apart from fixing the situation. Embracing difficulty rather than regretting that it's happened.

There's also a passage from Milton that comes to mind when I find myself struggling to keep difficulties in perspective, and think realistically about problems instead of panicking. 

"The mind is a realm of its own, and can make a heaven of hell, and a hell of heaven". 

Which also seems to echo the old stoics, in terms of emphasising the minds power to shape (or distort) our response to reality. 

Those two phrases have been bouncing around in my mind a lot for the last few weeks.

Sometimes when I would wake in the middle of the night I would read that book and after a couple of points would be able to go back to sleep.

Loads of clever quotes there too.

[Azeem]

" There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen "

– Vladimir Lenin