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Off topic: In the end, everything is a gag....some quotes to think about
Thread poster: cotasur
cotasur
cotasur
Chile
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Jun 24, 2003

Hello Proz people:

Although I don´t participate much, I often "walk through" Proz in order to learn something new from the pros. As a form of gratitude, here go a few quotes for you to enjoy.

Quotes
>
> Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
> - Brendan Gill
>
> Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.

> Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like
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Hello Proz people:

Although I don´t participate much, I often "walk through" Proz in order to learn something new from the pros. As a form of gratitude, here go a few quotes for you to enjoy.

Quotes
>
> Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
> - Brendan Gill
>
> Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.

> Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
> - Albert Einstein
>>
> He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
> - Lao Tsu
>>
> Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
> - Oscar Wilde
>>
> A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
> - Arthur Block

>>
> Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
> - Erica Jong
>
>>
> "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
> - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
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> "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
> - Albert Einstein
>
> "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
> - Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
>
> >
> "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
> - Henry Ford
>
> >
> "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
> - Yoda
>
>
> "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
> - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
>
> >
> "If you are going through hell, keep going."
> - Sir Winston Churchill
>
> >
> "Facts are the enemy of truth."
> - Don Quixote -
>
> >
> "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
> - Thomas Alva Edison
> >
> "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how
> improbable, must be the truth."
> - Sherlock Holmes
>
> "It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
> - Walt Disney
> >
>
> "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
> - Samuel Johnson
> >
> "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
> - Antoine de Saint Exupery
>
>"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
> - Jimi Hendrix
>
> >
> "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
> - Will Durant
>
> >
> "If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
> - Mario Andretti
>
> "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when
> you take your eyes off > your goal."
> - Henry Ford
>
> >
> "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it"
> - Henry David Thoreau
> >
>
> "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then
> you win."
> - Mahatma Gandhi
>
> > "Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me."
> - Ambrose Bierce
>
> >
> "A narcissist is someone better looking than you are."
> - Gore Vidal
>
> >
> "The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."
> - Aristotle Onassis
>
> >
> "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
> - Albert Einstein
>
> >
> "In the end, everything is a gag."
> - Charlie Chaplin
>
> >
> "Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."
> - Voltaire
>
> >
> "Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."
> - Henry David Thoreau
> >
>
> "Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list > of the richest people in America . If I'm not there, I go to work."
> - Robert Orben
>
> >
> "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying."
> - Woody Allen
>
> >
> "Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."
> - Wilson Mizner
>
> >
> "Silence is argument carried out by other means."
> - Ernesto"Che"Guevara
>
> >
> "The difference between fiction and reality?
> Fiction has to make sense."
> - Tom Clancy
>
> >
> "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
>
> >
> There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.
> - Mark Twain
> >
>
> It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
> - Mark Twain
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Aurora Humarán (X)
Aurora Humarán (X)  Identity Verified
Argentina
Local time: 14:45
English to Spanish
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Thank you Chile! Some are really great... Jun 24, 2003

And, yes, Charlie was right..."Everything is a gag"...

Some very good ones for you, my proZfriend.



* My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God and I didn't.

* Some people are alive only because it is illegal to kill them.

* You're just jealous because the voices talk only to me. (I love this one...)

* Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder (for JL...)

* Earth is the insa
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And, yes, Charlie was right..."Everything is a gag"...

Some very good ones for you, my proZfriend.



* My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God and I didn't.

* Some people are alive only because it is illegal to kill them.

* You're just jealous because the voices talk only to me. (I love this one...)

* Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder (for JL...)

* Earth is the insane asylum for the universe. (hum...why not?)

* God must love stupid people, he made so many.(yesss, yesss, yesss...)

* I took an IQ test and the results were negative...

* Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.

* Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?


Au
Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
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sylver
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Local time: 01:45
English to French
GREAT ONES! Jun 25, 2003

Thanks for posting, you both.

 


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