Quote O' The Day

[Spartan]

[Today at 06:32:02 PM] Chillomar: man wen i didnt know anything about computers my computer wuz blown up with trojans n alot of spam
[Today at 06:32:15 PM] Chillomar: windows kept opening alot
[Today at 06:32:21 PM] Spartan727:  that's what happens when you surf porn 24/7 Omar

[Magz]

That's a myth pat, pornsites dont give you spam and viruses.

[Spartan]

Yes they do...that's all I'm saying

[Krandall]

'Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.'  -John Donne


English poet John Donne, mostly known as a pioneer of new poetic techniques and the foremost of the metaphysical poets, also wrote a series of meditations while a chaplain in the Church of England. "Meditation XVII" is responsible for several well-known phrases: "No man is an island, entire of itself," writes Donne, "every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main." Frequently ill in his later life, Donne concentrated on more somber subject matter in his Devotions upon Emergent Occasions than his poetry had hitherto been known for -- after the above quote, Donne, writing about the ringing of a church bell, concludes, "and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee."

[Peelz]

[Today at 01:26:14 PM] Spartan727: Opinions are like assholes...funyun wants to be in all of them

[Krandall]

'Men should be mourned at their birth and not their death.'  -Montesquieu
The Enlightenment political philosopher -- properly Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu -- wrote this line in Persian Letters, a work composed of the correspondence between two fictional Persian characters describing contemporary Europe. The character Usbek, writing in Paris, describes a funerary procession mourning the death of a great man: "The very tears of his family and the grief of his friends exaggerate for him the loss he is about to sustain... We are so blind that we know neither when to mourn, nor when to rejoice; our mirth and our sadness are nearly always false."

[Krandall]

'In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.'  -Clarence Darrow
One of the most influential lawyers in history, Darrow -- who defended schoolteacher John Scopes in the Scopes Monkey Trial, as well as killers Leopold and Loeb -- spoke this line at the funeral of John Altgeld, Governor of Illinois, who was responsible for advances in workplace safety and child labor laws. Altgeld had lied about his age in order to join the Union Army at 16, where he was wounded, and eventually partially lost the ability to walk. He died of a stroke while giving a speech at the age of 54.

[Magz]

[Today at 06:49:27 AM] kamakazi: went to a rally yesterday, 350 quads registered lol, and prob about 100 that didnt

[Today at 06:49:41 AM] maguilar496: NICE!

[Today at 06:49:53 AM] Spartan727: That's a lot of maple syrup

[Today at 06:50:12 AM] kamakazi: actually thats alot of chilli

[Today at 06:50:30 AM] Spartan727: Hope the facilities were up to par

[Today at 06:50:39 AM] kamakazi: and alot of hotdudes, everybody had 2 at the half way point

[Spartan]

2 hot dudes...wow I've been going to the wrong rallies

[Krandall]

uhhhhh

I knew it... Kama is a

[Krandall]

'There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.'  -Thomas Carlyle
Referencing a Milton quote -- "Let him who would write heroic poems make his life a heroic poem" -- Scottish writer Carlyle wrote this line about Sir Walter Scott, the immensely popular novelist (Ivanhoe, Rob Roy) who was beloved both in his country and abroad (Scott is still featured on Scottish banknotes). "When he departed, he took a Man's life along with him," wrote Carlyle. "No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that 18th century of Time."

[Krandall]

'Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?'  -Robert Browning


The young husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert was not especially known as a writer until late in his life. This quote is from Men and Women, which he wrote after the couple's secret courtship, when they had fled to live in Italy -- "I know both what I want and what might gain/And yet how profitless to know," Browning wrote. Elizabeth, who had been an invalid, died in 1861, and Robert returned to England, finally achieving literary success with The Ring and the Book (at that point well into his 50s).

[Krandall]

The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me.'  -George Bernard Shaw


This line is spoken by character John Tanner in Shaw's Man and Superman, the introduction of which Shaw dedicates to explaining this "Don Juan play" to a drama critic. "I never dream of reforming," Shaw explains, "knowing that I must take myself as I am and get what work I can out of myself." The writer himself was incredibly popular in his time; though known mostly as a playwright, Shaw had wide-ranging interests and was influential in other fields (he co-founded the London School of Economics, for example, and was an avid photographer).

[Krandall]

'The character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.' -Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


Georg Lichtenberg was a German scientist and intellectual who left behind a collection of Sudelbucher ("waste books") upon his death, which were eventually published. The books contained his ruminations on science and philosophy -- some rational, some lighthearted and speculative -- collected over the course of his life. He is responsible for, among other things, a standardized paper size and the physical principle that would eventually be used for the Xerox machine, but his aphorisms are often disconnected musings unlike the practical nature of his accomplishments ("Man is to be found in reason, GERD in the passions").

[Peelz]

I like that one Krandall.

in short: Learn to take a joke. 

and yes... I know who he is. Hooray for standard paper sizes