# List of Quotes A little bit of humble pie is good for everyone. -Great Grandpa A man is known by the silence he keeps. -Oliver Herford A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance. -Gian Carlo Menotti Italian Composer (1911-2007) A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. — Bruce Lee Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy. -Unknown Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own. — Bruce Lee Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own. — Bruce Lee After all is said and done, more is said than done. — Aesop `???` Afternoon very favorable for romance. Try a single person for a change. — fortune-mod All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. -Kahlil Gibran Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. — Arthur C. Clarke Average is the enemy -Hanging in the BOH at Bistro Z in Sussex # B Be happy, but never satisfied. -Bruce Lee Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. — Dr. Seuss Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. -Jean de La Fontaine # C Collecting data is only the first step towards wisdom, but sharing data is the first step towards community. -Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Linux commercial) Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining. — Teddy Roosevelt Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. — Winston Churchill Courage is grace under pressure. ⸺ Unknown # D Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. — Bruce Lee Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once the things you only hoped for. -Epicurus Do not try and fix a problem at night. -Unknown Do nothing unless you must, and when you must act — hesitate. — fortune-mod Don’t be sorry, be yourself. -Chef David Brinkman Don’t relax! It’s only your tension that’s holding you together. — fortune-mod # E Enlightenment is when the wave realizes it is the ocean. -Unknown Everybody does better when everybody does better. — Unknown Excellent day for putting Slinkies on an escalator. — fortune-mod Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. -Oscar Wilde # F For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime. – Bruce Lee Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. — Francis Bacon # G Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. — Abraham Lincoln Good design is as little design as possible. — some German motherfucker Good enough for who it’s for. -Great Grandpa # H Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. -Gandhi/Unknown # I I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ― Evelyn Beatrice Hall I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times. -Bruce Lee I will hurt you for this. A day will come when you think you are safe and happy, and your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth. And you will know the debt is paid. — Tyrion Lannister I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine. — Bruce Lee I’m not saying I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world. -Tupac Shakur I’m still a boy at heart. At the same time, I carry the weight of the world around with me, as any of my girlfriends would testify to. -Robert Del Naja If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. — Tony Robbins If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of. – Bruce Lee If you run naked around a tree, at about 87 km/h, there is a possibility of fucking your self. -Albert Einstein If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. — Bruce Lee If you start feeling sorry for yourself, you lost the battle. -Great Grandpa (as told by Grandma Aumann) If you think last Tuesday was a drag, wait till you see what happens tomorrow! — fortune-mod If you want to learn what someone fears losing, watch what they photograph. -Unknown In the middle of chaos lies opportunity. – Bruce Lee It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -Harry Truman It is no measure of health to be well-adapted to a profoundly sick society. It was all so different before everything changed. -Unknown # K Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do. – Bruce Lee # L Let me put it this way: today is going to be a learning experience. — fortune-mod Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like — Lao Tzu Life can only be understood backwards; but must be lived fowards. Soren Kierrkegaard Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can. – Bruce Lee Love is a serious mental disease. — Plato Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty. -George R.R. Martin Love is the death of duty. — Jon Snow Love Many, Trust Few, and Always Paddle Your Own Canoe Love people, use things. The opposite never works. -The Minimalists # M Many pages make a thick book, except for pocket Bibles which are on very very thin paper. — fortune-mod Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. — Bruce Lee # N Never forget what you are, the rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor and it can never be used to hurt you. -Tyrion Lannister None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe # O Of course you have a purpose — to find a purpose. — fortune-mod One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. — C.G. Jung Only the curious whisker gets caught in the closing door. -The Elder Scrolls Online loading screen # P Passion is one half love, one half obsession. So what would you love to do each day? What would you be obcessed by? Where those intersect, that is your passion. -Unknown Peace in the World or the World in Pieces — song heard on [[YT Stations 📻 🔴#^a6bfe2|Vintage Radio]] People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. -Unknown # Q Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. — Henry Ford # R Real living is living for others. – Bruce Lee # S Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory. – Bruce Lee Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. — Leonardo Da Vinci Someone whom you reject today, will reject you tomorrow. -Unknown Sometimes I feel like a frog in the murky pond of life. Statistics are math lies manipulated to cater to the opinions of the men who calculate them. -kapes (IRC) # T The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. -Winston Churchill The grass is greener where you water it. -Unknown The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty. -my late friend Craig Fohr told me this on Google Hangouts The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. -Bruce Lee The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. — Maureen Dowd The more we value things, the less we value ourselves. – Bruce Lee The reason some people don't like to be alone is they find themselves in bad company. — Mark Twain The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. – Bruce Lee The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. — Franklin P. Jones The truth is always a threat to evil men. -The Elder Scrolls Online – The Prophet To err is human, but when the eraser wears out before the pencil, you’re overdoing it a little. — fortune-mod To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. – Bruce Lee Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I shall be remembered. -Unknown Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. -Dr. Seuss Tonight you will pay the wages of sin; Don’t forget to leave a tip. — fortune-mod True freedom lies in surrendering to whatever is ahead. — Doesn't Matter Whom Because It's Wise and Don't Think Too Much About It Use it up. Wear it out. Make it do, or do without. -Unknown # W We all have a story we will never tell. -Unknown We are all made of star soot. Merely hydrogen and helium atoms fusing together to make heavier atoms. We are citizens of the cosmos. -Unknown We buy shit we don’t need, with money we don’t have, to impress people we don’t like. We could concentrate on building the future instead of criticizing the past. When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right. -Henry Ford Why fit in when you were born to stand out? -Unknown Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything. Work is who I am. It’s who I want to be. I sometimes think if I were to stop, I’d seize to exist. -Gordon Ramsay (Humble Pie) # Y Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present. You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. — Unknown You may worry about your hair-do today, but tomorrow much peanut butter will be sold. — fortune-mod You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. -Unknown You never know what worse luck your bad luck saved you from. You recoil from the crude; you tend naturally toward the exquisite. — fortune-mod You worry too much about your job. Stop it. You are not paid enough to worry. — fortune-mod You would if you could but you can't so you won't. — fortune-mod You’ll wish that you had done some of the hard things when they were easier to do. — fortune-mod You’re only as good as the person who trained you. -my former Executive Chef and mentor Dave Riemer Your objective is to save the world, while still leading a pleasant life. — fortune-mod # U Use It Up, Wear It Out, Make It Do, Or Do Without — adage ----