Saying Of The Day

[miguel]

"we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation."

 

- Martin Luther King

Edited August 28, 2006 by miguel

[Gaius Octavius]

Da veniam puellae.

 

Give women pardon. :wub:

 

[Rameses the Great]

He who keeps the old Ikindo and adds new knowledge is fit to be a teacher.

 

--Confusius

 

BAM!

 

--Emeril Lagasi

[Moonlapse]

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. - Albert Einstein

[L. Quintus Sertorius]

An old favorite:

 

"I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,

Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown

And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,

The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.

And on the pedestal these words appear:

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains: round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,

The lone and level sands stretch far away." - Shelley.

 

And also:

 

"The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning,

His fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air;

And him that stands will die for naught, and home there's no returning.

The Spartans on the sea-wet rock sat down and combed their hair." - A.E. Housman

 

And for a funny one, the last words of Vespasian - "Dear me! I think I'm becoming a god!"

Edited September 20, 2006 by L. Quintus Sertorius

[Gaius Paulinus Maximus]

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. - Albert Einstein

 

Here's some more gem's from old brain box

 

Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts

 

I am neither especially clever or especially gifted. I am only very, very, curious.

 

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

 

Albert Einstien

[Antiochus of Seleucia]

"Julius Caesar was the only man who ever decided to overthrow the state while he was sober."

 

M. Cato

[Germanicus]

Forgiveness is giving up the hope for a better past.

[Rameses the Great]

Who does not give thanks for the few is a liar if he says he thanks for the many. Who does not give thanks for a penny cannot give thanks for a thousand pennies.

 

--St. Isaac the Syrian

[The Augusta]

Tantae religio potuit suadere malorum

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by superstition. - Lucretius

[Rameses the Great]

What you leave behing is not what is engrained in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

 

--Pericles

[Antiochus of Seleucia]

"World War III will be fought with sticks and stones" - Albert Einstein

[Rameses the Great]

I have one that will appeal to most of the UNRV members.

 

Beer makes you smarter, it made Bud-weiser!

 

--Anonymous

[Rameses the Great]

I will give this thread the proverbial 'bump.'

 

Just because you're paranoid, does not mean no one's after you.

 

--Regular saying

[Ursus]

An eagle may soar, but a weasel will never get sucked into a jet engine. - Anon