"The humble improve."

-Winton Marsalis,
printed on a starbucks cup

"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." --Winston Churchill :D

Parallel lines of thought
 

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. -- Phillips Brooks, bishop and orator (1835-1893)

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. -- John F. Kennedy

This is one of my favorite quotes - mainly because I've lived through a few situations in the last few years that proved it to be true:

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
-- George Washington

A reporter interviewing A.J. Muste, who during the Vietnam War stood in front of the White House night after night with a candle, one rainy night asked,"Mr. Muste, do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night with a candle?" Muste replied, "Oh, I don't do it to change the country, I do it so the country won't change me."

Quote of the Day
 

Sorry for the delay. I've been having muscle spasms in my neck. Way up there on the pain index. So I've been loopy on a couple of medicines.

In any case, here it is:

"If you won't be better tomorrow than you are today,
what need have you for tomorrow?"
R' Nahman of Bratslav

We laugh at honor but are shocked to find traitors in our midst. -- C.S. Lewis

Sad and true, like so many of these bits of wisdom.

"There are only two things I can't stand in this world; People who are intolerant of other people's cultures; and the Dutch."

Nigel Powers - in Goldmember

I like the first one better - the one about the spasms.

December 9, 2005(CNN) While interviewing an anonymous US Special Forces soldier, a Reuters News agent asked the soldier what he felt when sniping members of Al Quaeda in Afghanistan.
The soldier shrugged and replied, "Recoil." :cool:

Quote of the Day
 

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
-- H L Mencken

dar512, that is:

The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. -Thomas Huxley, biologist and writer (1825-1895)

"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." -- Muhammed Ali ;)

One to live by --

Wow, great quotes, particularly the R' Nahman one (and the Nigel Powers one :))

One of my favourites:
"Live forever or die trying" - Yosserian, Catch 22

Plus the quote in my signature: