April 2009
20 posts
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“A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens...”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
“You can complain that the roses have thorns, or rejoice that the thorns have...”
“He could have added fortune and fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness...”
– Inscription on tombstone of George Washington Carver
“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom...”
– Muhammad Ali
“If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would...”
– Montesquieu
“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby...”
– Mark Twain
“It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.”
– Winston Churchill
No soap, radio →
Two polar bears are sitting in a bathtub. The first one says, “Pass the soap”. The second one says, “No soap, radio!”
Mensch →
A person of integrity and honor.
Pascal's Wager →
is a suggestion posed by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal that even though the existence of God cannot be determined through reason, a person should “wager” as though God exists, because so living has everything to gain, and nothing to lose.
“Do I not most effectually destroy my enemies, in making them my friends?”
– Sigismund
“I don’t care if she doesn’t know how to cook - so long as she...”
– Errol Flynn
“I like my whisky old and my women young.”
– Errol Flynn
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
– Sir Francis Bacon
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.”
– Gore Vidal
Mise en abyme →
originally from the French and means, “placing into infinity” or “placing into the abyss”. The commonplace usage of this phrase is describing the visual experience of standing between two mirrors, seeing an infinite reproduction of one’s image.
Sacrebleu →
is an old French profanity, meant as a cry of surprise or anger.