"I've found that evil usually triumphs...unless good is very, very careful" - Dr. Leonard McCoy.

“Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.”

Alvin Plantinga

Five favorite Twain quotes
 

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”

“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”

“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”

"A man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind."
-James Truslow Adams

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

Favourite Sayings / quotes
 

Apropos of nothing at all, other than a pleasant evening sinking allied shipping and drinking Frascati, what are your favourite sayings, quotes?

One of mine would be (translation from Gaidhlig):

No knowledge have the men of the land, of how the men of the sea live. (naturally "men" = "adult human")

"Only a fool fights in a burning house."

--Captain Kang

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Sláinte!

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"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx

To be wise, observe for observation is the source of all wisdom.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis


"This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years" - Ferdinand Foch on the Treaty of Versailles.


"Of all the machines mankind has ever made the steam engine was the only one to ever have a soul." - Me.

Hey, I resemble that remark! :D

"Who's the bigger fool? The fool or the one that follows him?" Obi-Wan Kenobe

You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.

Mike Leigh (from Naked)

Semper in merda sumus
altitudo solum variat

Should roughly translate to we are always in ****, only the depth varies.
And there is a Estonian phrase to go with it

Kui oled kaelani sitas, ära lase pead norgu

Which would be if you are up to your neck in ****, don't let your head drop

"The search function is your friend."
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