Quote of the day

C. Northcote Parkinson
(Parkinson's Laws)

-Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

-Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

-Expenditure rises to meet income.

-Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

-The effectiveness of a telephone conversation is in inverse proportion to the time spent on it.
 
A few from George Savile, Marquess of Halifax (1633-16950

-They who are of the opinion that money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for money.

-There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular is ill-natured.

-The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

-Liberty can neither be got nor kept, but by so much care that mankind are generally unwilling to give the price for it.

-When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything for their victory but new masters.
 
Bagumbawalla said:
C. Northcote Parkinson
(Parkinson's Laws)

-Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

-Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

-Expenditure rises to meet income.

-Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

-The effectiveness of a telephone conversation is in inverse proportion to the time spent on it.
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I really like that last one on telephone conversations! :)
 
Freud...

-The mind is an iceberg-it floats with only one seventh of its bulk above water.

-The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of the subconscious from which it rises.

-A neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and the id; the person is at war with himself. A psychosis is the outcome of a similar disturbance in the relationship between the ego and the outside world.
 
Random Quotes

It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.
-John Tyndall, English Physicist (1820-1893)

True science teaches, above all, to doubt, and to be ignorant.
-Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer (1864-1936)

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
-Mark Twain (1835-1910)

As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it?
(and)
The way to have power is to take it.
-William Marcy "Boss" Tweed (1823-1878)
 
More random pith

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy.
-Anon.

I have lived over seventy years. I had enough to eat. I enjoy
many things- the comradeship of my wife, my children, the
sunsets. I watched the plants grow in the springtime. Now and then
the grasp of a friendly hand was mine. Once or twice I met a
human being who almost understood me.
-Freud

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same
the world over- except when they are different.
-Nancy Banks Smith

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can...
-Samuel Butler

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
-JK Galbraith
 
Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.
-Douglas Hofstadter

Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people.
-Not sure who said this first
 
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“When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him..”
― Thomas Stephen Szasz



“I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously."
― Ray Bradbury



“One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.”
― Oscar Wilde


“I am so tired.
I have grown old from being serious.
I have grown ill from being serious.
I want to laugh at myself.
I want to forget myself.
I am so tired.”
― Kamand Kojouri


“It is easy to be solemn, it is so hard to be frivolous.”
― G K Chesterton


“The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.”
― Nicholas Butler


“The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.”
― G.K. Chesterton


“Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.”
― P.J. O'Rourke
 
That's absurd

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
-Voltaire

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
-Julio Cortazar

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
-Albert Camus

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
-Cervantes

Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost:
all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
-Eugene Ionesco

All that we see or seem is bur a dream within a dream.
-EA Poe
 
If you can't be kind, at least be vague.
-Judith Martin (Miss Manners)

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
-Oscar Wilde

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
-Rita Mae Brown
 
Federico Garcia Lorca Quotes
  • As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die. ...
  • In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world. ...
  • The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails.
 
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death,
our thirst from the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition- not vice versa.
-Eugene Ionesco
 
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself
from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
-Martin Heidegger
 
Good old Marty repudiated his early philosophy in the thirties, whereas this is the stuff Sartre loved.

Bagumbawalla said:
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself
from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
-Martin Heidegger
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It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.
For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
-Luther Burbank.

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject.
The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
-LB

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
-LB
 
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Some Abigail Adams quotes-

-Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

-Do not put such unlimited power in the hands of husbands, remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

-If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
 
''Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid. In mathematics, the truth is somewhere out there in a place no one knows, beyond all the beaten paths. And it’s not always at the top of the mountain. It might be in a crack on the smoothest cliff or somewhere deep in the valley.''

― Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor [2003; translated by Stephen Snyder in 2009]
 
Some random (easy to copy) Frank Zappa Quotes-

1. “Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.”

2. “Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.”

3. “Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.”

4. “Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.”

5. “One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.”

6. “You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.”

7. “All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.”

8. “There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.”
 
Anais Nin


“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anais Nin

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing."
― Anais Nin

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
― Anais Nin

“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
― Anais Nin

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
― Anais Nin

“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
― Anais Nin

“Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
― Anais Nin
 
Quotes from cartoon characters

Never look back, darling, it distracts from the now.
-Edna Mode (The Incredibles)

Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand.
-Homer Simpson

You will find that if you look for the light you can often find it.
But if you look for the dark that is all you will ever see.
-Uncle Iroh

Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere,
everybody's going to die... come watch TV.
-Morty (Rick and Morty)
 
Famous Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
  • “The future depends on what we do in the present.”
  • “It's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.”
  • “Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world, but to change ourselves.”
  • “Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.”
 
I recently picked up a copy of Freud's Civilization and its Discontents.
Only on page 53, so far. Here is a brief quote-

The religions of humanity, too, must be classified as mass delusions...
Needless to say, no one who shares a delusion recognizes it as such.
 
Some quotes about money

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
-Ben Franklin

If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man.
-J. Paul Getty

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
-Dorothy Parker

When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.
-Voltaire

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
-Alan Alda
 
Bagumbawalla said:
Anais Nin


“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anais Nin

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing."
― Anais Nin

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
― Anais Nin

“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
― Anais Nin

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
― Anais Nin

“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
― Anais Nin

“Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
― Anais Nin
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