OT: Quotes

[DreamDiver]

http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/hu ... haiku.html

Computer haikus...

Three of my favorites:

A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.

A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.

You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.

[andyw715]

"May the best of your todays, be the worst of your tomorrows" - Jay Z

[echo]

Be like the sun in love
Be like an ocean in friendship and brotherhood
Be like the night in covering the faults of others
Be like the black earth in humility and modesty
Be like a dead person in anger and hatred
Whatever you become,
Either be who you appear to be, or appear as who you really are
[Ya oldugun gibi görün, ya göründügün gibi ol]

Typically attributed to Mevlana (Rumi) but supposedly composed by a turkish poet based on a saying attributed to him (the last line: "Either be who you appear to be, or appear as who you really are"). And the words of the poem flow better Turkish....
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If you want to be happy, either lower your expectations or increase your opportunities.
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. (re-take on TorontoCpapguy's quote).
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I love those computer Haikus!
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And MY personal favorite: "I'll be back"

[ozij]

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Sir Winston Churchill

[2flamingos]

"you can't fix stupid"

"karma is a wonderful thing"

[lktnky]

"I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure that what you heard was what I really meant."

"When all else fails, lower your expectations."

"Don't get mad, get even."

"'No' is just the beginning of the negotiations."

"It's easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission."

"The floggings will continue until morale improves."

[Sleepy Taz]

I live for inspiring quotes;

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T.S. Eliot

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
- Andre Gide

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry J. Kaiser

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Trust your hopes, not your fears.
- David Mahoney

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.
- Frank L. Gaines

We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions.
- Richard Steele

Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
- Elbert Hubbard

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. -Thomas Jefferson

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
- General George S. Patton

Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today.
- James Dean

Failures are but the pillars of success.
- Welsh Proverb

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
- George Washington

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
- Gerald Brenan

[Mikosiko]

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." Buddha

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. Buddha

The tongue is like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood. Buddha

[newhosehead]

I love this thread!

This is my favorite metaphor...somebody always has to go off topic dont they??
It was used in reference to preparing for a wedding, but, wow, it could apply to so many things!


"Like polishing firewood" Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

[dreamchaser]

Great Subject Matter

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Jim Rohn


Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Cardinal

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.
Montaigne

[roster]

"Until I came here, I thought CPAP was just a machine that helps you sleep." - Anonymous new member

[rosiefrosie]

My goal in life is to be the person my dog thinks I am.

[chunkyfrog]

Don't get even--Get ahead. --my brother (the hockey fan)

[kempo]

It's not the mountains ahead that will wear you out, it's the rock in your shoe.

[elena88]

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"I will be your friend, till the ocean has to wear rubber pants to keep its bottom dry."

my mom wrote that in my autograph book, when I was four years old