Aliquid melius quam pessimum optimum non est.
Aliquid melius quam pessimum optimum non est.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
-- (Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.)
“No Quid Pro Quo.”
(I'm Sorry, We're All Out of Quid.)
Fortune presents:
USEFUL PHRASES IN ESPERANTO, #1.
^Cu vi parolas angle? Do you speak English?
Mi ne komprenas. I don't understand.
Vi estas la sola esperantisto kiun mi You're the only Esperanto speaker
renkontas. I've met.
La ^ceko estas enpo^stigita. The check is in the mail.
Oni ne povas, ^gin netrovi. You can't miss it.
Mi nur rigardadas. I'm just looking around.
Nu, ^sajnis bona ideo. Well, it seemed like a good idea.
Adde parvum parvo manus acervus erit.
[Add little to little and there will be a big pile.]
-- Ovid
Hodie natus est radici frater.
Useful Latin Phrase:
Romani quidem artem amatoriam invenerunt.
You know, the Romans invented the art of love.
Useful Latin Phrase:
Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur
ad necem.
In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept
crags.
Fortune presents:
USEFUL PHRASES IN ESPERANTO, #2.
^Cu tiu loko estas okupita? Is this seat taken?
^Cu vi ofte venas ^ci-tien? Do you come here often?
^Cu mi povas havi via telelonnumeron? May I have your phone number?
Mi estas komputilisto. I work with computers.
Mi legas multe da scienca fikcio. I read a lot of science fiction.
^Cu necesas ke vi eliras? Do you really have to be going?
Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.
Fortune presents:
USEFUL PHRASES IN ESPERANTO, #5.
Mi ^cevalovipus vin se mi havus I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.
^cevalon.
Vere vi ^sercas. You must be kidding.
Nu, parDOOOOOnu min! Well exCUUUUUSE me!
Kiu invitis vin? Who invited you?
Kion vi diris pri mia patrino? What did you say about my mother?
Bu^so^stopu min per kulero. Gag me with a spoon.
“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.”
-- Albert Einstein
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having
both at once.
-- Lazarus Long
Azh nazg durbatal^uk, azh nazg gimbatul,
Azh nazg thrakatal^uk agh burzum ishi krimpatul!
-- J. R. R. Tolkien
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it
seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the
fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving
after rational knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
[War] is instinctive. But the instinct can be fought. We're human
beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands! But we
can stop it. We can admit that we're killers ... but we're not going
to kill today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to
kill today!
-- Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon", stardate 3193.0
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that
goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
[Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.]
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein
Remember: the average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.
-- Anonymous
I see them stark mute, but inwardly I prate
I am, and am mot, I freeze and yet am burned,
Since from myself my other self I turned.
-- Elizabeth 1 (1553 - 1603), Finis, Eliza regima, Ashmoles
Museum Manuscript
We may not be able to persuade Hindus that Jesus and not Vishnu should
govern their spiritual horizon, nor Moslems that Lord Buddha is at the
center of their spiritual universe, nor Hebrews that Mohammed is a major
prohpet, nor Christians that Shinto best expresses their spiritual
concerns, to say nothing of the fact that we may not be able to get
Christians to agree among themselves about their relationship to God.
But all will agree on a proposition that they possess profound spiritual
resources. If, in addition, we can get them to accept the further
proposition that whatever form the Deity may have in their own theology,
the Deity is not only external, but internal and acts through them, and
they themselves give proof or disproof of the Deity in what they do and
think; if this further proposition can be accepted, then we come that
much closer to a truly religious situation on earth.
- Norman Cousins, from his book "Human Options"
Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.
[Confound those who have said our remarks before us.]
or
[May they perish who have expressed our bright ideas before us.]
-- Aelius Donatus
The Psblurtex is an 18-inch long anaconda that hides in the gentlemen's
outfitting departments of Amazonian stores and is often bought by
mistake since its colors are those of the London Reform Club. Once
tied around its victim's neck, it strangles him gently and then claims
the insurance before running off to Germany where it lives in hiding.
-- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac"
A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with
-- even if he drank.
-- H.L. Mencken
“Seven years and six months!” Humpty Dumpty repeated
thoughtfully. "An uncomfortable sort of age. Now if you'd asked MY
advice, I'd have said `Leave off at seven' -- but it's too late now."
"I never ask advice about growing," Alice said indignantly.
"Too proud?" the other enquired.
Alice felt even more indignant at this suggestion. "I mean,"
she said, "that one can't help growing older."
"ONE can't, perhaps," said Humpty Dumpty; "but TWO can. With
proper assistance, you might have left off at seven."
-- Lewis Carroll
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
“I'm an idiot.. At least this one [bug] took about 5 minutes to find..”
(Linus Torvalds in response to a bug report.)
> I'm an idiot.. At least this [bug] took about 5 minutes to find..
Disquieting ...
(Gonzalo Tornaria in response to Linus Torvalds's mailing about a kernel bug.)
> I'm an idiot.. At least this [bug] took about 5 minutes to find..
We need to find some new terms to describe the rest of us mere mortals
then.
(Craig Schlenter in response to Linus Torvalds's mailing about a kernel bug.)
> I'm an idiot.. At least this [bug] took about 5 minutes to find..
Surely, Linus is talking about the kind of idiocy that others aspire to :-).
(Bruce Perens in response to Linus Torvalds's mailing about a kernel bug.)
I THINK THERE SHOULD BE SOMETHING in science called the “reindeer effect.”
I don't know what it would be, but I think it'd be good to hear someone say,
"Gentlemen, what we have here is a terrifying example of the reindeer effect."
-- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.
I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.
-- Groucho Marx