quotation game

Originally posted by moonbus
"All that one knows which is not merely rushing and roaring, can be said in three words." Kuernberger

Originally posted by moonbus
"All that one knows which is not merely rushing and roaring, can be said in three words." Kuernberger
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Here are Thomas Sterns Eliot's three word summation of the meaning of life in one sentence: "Birth; Copulation; death."
(Possibly to be found in his "Wasteland" or "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock;
or in the poem by Ezra Pound's poem which contains the memorable line:
"I mate with my own kind upon the crags."

Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
-James Russell Lowell

Originally posted by rookie54
Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
-James Russell Lowell

"The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear."

Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
- Frank Leahy

Originally posted by rookie54
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
- Frank Leahy

"Stupid is as stupid does."

Forrest Gump

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
"Stupid is as stupid does."

Forrest Gump

“Forrest Gump had gotten it all wrong. Life wasn't a box of chocolates. It was a box of ex-lax, and I felt like I'd consumed the entire thing.”
― Jana Deleon, Louisiana Longshot

Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
“Forrest Gump had gotten it all wrong. Life wasn't a box of chocolates. It was a box of ex-lax, and I felt like I'd consumed the entire thing.”
― Jana Deleon, Louisiana Longshot

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie Chaplin

Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
“Forrest Gump had gotten it all wrong. Life wasn't a box of chocolates. It was a box of ex-lax, and I felt like I'd consumed the entire thing.”
― Jana Deleon, Louisiana Longshot

"The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."

Thomas Henry Huxley

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
"The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."

Thomas Henry Huxley

"Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome."

Jerry Seinfeld

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
"Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome."

Jerry Seinfeld

Jerry was married to my wife??

Originally posted by FreakyKBH
Jerry was married to my wife??

Come sir, this thread has rules. (Just like the Earth).

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
"Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome."

Jerry Seinfeld

fumum vednit

(inscription on the Barber's tombstone, from The Physician)

Originally posted by moonbus
"All that one knows which is not merely rushing and roaring, can be said in three words." Kuernberger

"be; think; do." ~anon

Originally posted by Ponderable
fumum vednit

TV? Medium fun.