Phrases - part I
Phrases with some humor or wisdom in them
Another megabytes the dust.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Berlioz
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real
with the ideal never goes unpunished.
-- Goethe
With reasonable men I will reason;
with humane men I will plead;
but to tyrants I will give no quarter.
-- William Lloyd Garrison
When the ax entered the forest, the trees said, "The handle is one of us!"
-- Turkish proverb
"Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is
because we are not the person involved"
-- Mark Twain
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door...~
Intiaani keskusteli lapsenlapsensa kanssa.
Hän sanoi: "Kaikissa meissä asuu kaksi taistelevaa sutta.
Toinen niistä on paha. Se on viha, pelko, kateus, mustasukkaisuus, suru, ylimielisyys, itsesääli ja valhe.
Toinen on hyvä. Se on ilo, rauha, rakkaus, toivo, tyyneys, nöyryys, hyväntahtoisuus, empatia, totuus ja luottamus ".
"Kumpi susi voittaa?", kysyi lapsi.
"Se, jota ruokit", vastasi vanhus
God gave man two ears and one tongue so
that we listen twice as much as we speak.
-- Arab proverb
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get
much sleep.
-- Woody Allen
If it smells it's chemistry, if it crawls it's biology, if it doesn't work
it's physics.
Hope is a waking dream.
-- Aristotle
Never, ever approach a computer saying or even thinking "I will just do this quickly."
Thanks to all people for saying, sending or writing these.
Big thanks to GNU/Linux fortune, that provides a lot of good phrases and a little piece of joy to everyday administration of 01 scene.
Sami
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