Brainy Quotes

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Also from Heinlein: TANSTAAFL -- "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."

"Living well is the best revenge." George Herbert

And one of my favorites, from 5,000 years of human wisdom, for life is fleeting indeed: "And I commend joy, for man has nothing better under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun." (Eccl. 8:15)
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Also from Heinlein: TANSTAAFL -- "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."

"Living well is the best revenge." George Herbert

And one of my favorites, from 5,000 years of human wisdom, for life is fleeting indeed: "And I commend joy, for man has nothing better under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun." (Eccl. 8:15)
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Agreed on all three! :thup:

An Army is a team. It lives, sleeps, eats, and fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is pure horse shit. The bilious bastards who write that kind of stuff for the Saturday Evening Post don't know any more about real fighting under fire than they know about fucking!
-- General George S. Patton
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Also from Heinlein: TANSTAAFL -- "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."

"Living well is the best revenge." George Herbert

And one of my favorites, from 5,000 years of human wisdom, for life is fleeting indeed: "And I commend joy, for man has nothing better under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun." (Eccl. 8:15)
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First existentialist philosopher?

1 The words of the Teacher,[a] son of David, king in Jerusalem:

2
“Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”

3
What do people gain from all their labors
at which they toil under the sun?
4
Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.
5
The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises.
6
The wind blows to the south
and turns to the north;
round and round it goes,
ever returning on its course.
7
All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.
8
All things are wearisome,
more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,
nor the ear its fill of hearing.
9
What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
10
Is there anything of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
11
No one remembers the former generations,
and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow them.
 
Dutch Uncle said:
Agreed on all three! :thup:

An Army is a team. It lives, sleeps, eats, and fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is pure horse shit. The bilious bastards who write that kind of stuff for the Saturday Evening Post don't know any more about real fighting under fire than they know about fucking!
-- General George S. Patton
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