Funny Christmas Quotes
Agathon 447?-401 B.C.Quoted in Aristotle’s Nicomachaean Ethics, 6
Education is not filling a pail, but lighting a fire.
William Butler Yeats
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens
I asked for riches, that I may be happy; I was given poverty, that I might
be wise.
Lazlo’s Chinese Relativity Axiom
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who
have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw
This month’s “What I learned …” is up and the topic is
What I Learned From… The World of Sports
I played soccer (that other kind of football) in High School and College and I learned many things about teamwork and fair play and following the rules but the most important thing I learned was learned too late and was much more physical than mental.
Protect your knees and ankles. You only get one natural pair. Keep them strong and don’t do stupid things that can hurt them badly.
I have nearly constant knee and ankle pain to this day due to things I did back then.
About every five years I go into see my Doctor (General Practicioner) and he does x-rays, and things to look at how the knees are holding up. Then he says “Well, it looks like they will last you about five more years before we have to replace them.” He has been saying that for about thirty years.
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.
Translation:
Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Meditationes Sacrae, De Haeresibus
Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.
Francis C. Farley
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy
Correct morals arise from knowing what man is - not what do-gooders and
well-meaning old Aunt Nellies would like him to be.
Robert A Heinlein - Starship Troopers
God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Seth Godin Quotes
“Along the way, we bought the story that giving someone a hundred dollar bill as a gift (”go buy what you want”) is callous, insensitive, a crass shortcut. Buying them a $100 Best Buy card, on the other hand, is thoughtful. Even if they spend $92 and have to waste the rest.”
-Seth Godin
Gift cards are for chumps.
- Seth Godin
A wakeup call about the Gift Card Industry and how much money goes to waste each year.
Seth provides a brilliant idea for non-profits to market alternative gift cards for when you give cash.
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to
govern but impossible to enslave.
Baron Henry Peter Brougham
Seth Godin posted this morning about The end of misogyny? and had this to say:
“It’s sort of astonishing… in my lifetime, we’ve seen the end of public (but certainly not private) attacks on people because of race or mainstream religion (fringe beliefs and sexual orientation are still fair game, apparently)… but trying to humiliate half the population because of their gender seems just fine.”
- Seth Godin
It looks kind of like pimping for Robert Greenwald and a website called “Fox News Porn” which is selling a video of racy, sexy videos from segments shown on the Fox News channel.
More on Seth Godin
Oh, blank confusion! true epitome
Of what the mighty city is herself,
To thousands upon thousands of her sons,
Living amid the same perpetual whirl
Of trivial objects, melted and reduced
To one identity, by differences
That have no law, no meaning, and no end
William Wordsworth (1770–1850), British poet. The Prelude; VII. Residence in London (l. 722–728).
the shadow of a difference
falling between
note and note,
a hair’s breadth
defining them.
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo–U.S. poet. ‘Claritas.’
Jeremiah Owyang - Web Strategist posted a really concise explanation of The Social Graph and why it matters, including how the implementation can be improved.
Executive Summary
The Social Graph is the representation of our relationships. Today, these graphs define our personal, family, or business communities on social websites. Unfortunately, we’re duplicating our same Social Graph on multiple websites, resulting in inaccurate data and time spent managing it. Despite many challenges, our Social Graphs should be self-managed from a single trusted source, replicated to websites of our choosing, thus resulting in accurate, efficient, relationship management.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Read More Details at Explaining what the “Social Graph” is to your Executives
Definition: The Social Graph is the representation of our relationships. In present day context, these graphs define our personal, family, or business communities on social networking websites
- - Jeremiah Owyang
I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist. “On Some Verses of Virgil,” The Essays (Les Essais), bk. III, ch. 5, Abel Langelier, Paris (1588)
Josh: Maybe it’s better not to be the best. Then you can lose and it’s OK.
Fred Waitzkin and Steven Zaillian Searching For Bobby Fischer, 1993
There are fools everywhere, even in asylums.
George Bernard Shaw
Americans always try to do the right thing — after they’ve tried everything
else.
Winston Churchill
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a
mystery inside an enigma.
Winston Churchill radio speech, Oct. 1, 1939
Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
David Fasold
Voting is now open for the 2007 weblog Awards.
The only blogs that we nominated that are in the finals are those in the Best Food Blog Category.
Out friend PJ over at DUmmie FUnnies is a finalist and is currently winning in the Funniest Blog category.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other
bastard die for his.
No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making
other bastards die for their country.
General George Smith Patton 1885-1945
Categories:
Christmas
0 komentar:
Post a Comment