page index:
Birthday card text
Christmas card text & stocking stuffers for MB
Insults
Latin phrases
Princess Bride Quotes
McDonald's Survey Text
Misc Quotes
Frequently Mispronounced Words & words whose definitions I can't remember
Rational
Thought Belief & Faith
Stupid Quotes
ask biggest misconception about
something to get true viewpoint
petrichor - smell after rain from
plant oils on hard surfaces
2018 card I saw for Michele I really liked, don't know why i didn't buy it 1 2 3
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
MAY LOVE BE IN YOUR LIFE,
MAY HOPE BE IN YOUR HEART,
MAY PEACE BE IN YOUR WORLD.
- me in either Daniel's or Robert's mutli-year card
WISHING YOU MUCH JOY AT CHRISTMAS AND ALL THROUGH THE COMING YEAR!
-
me for 2022 Christmas cards
"Wishing you many blessings today and throughout 2022." - Gannon Alumni email 2021-12-21
"Wish you a Merry Christmas. May God shower His blessings on your family. Love Always" - Seen on decorative pillow 2012-09-22
Sending wishes to you and yours for a beautiful Holiday Season and a peaceful New Year.
May the season bring you the music of laughter, the warmth of friendship, and, always, love.
May this season hold for you the hope, wonder, and amazement that you felt as a child.
May all that is beautiful, meaningful, and brings you joy be yours this Holiday Season.
May love be in your life, May hope be in your heart, May peace be in our world.
Wishing you all the timeless treasures of Christmas… The warmth of home, the love of family and the company of good friends.
Wishing you and yours a happy Holiday Season & a successful, prosperous New Year.
May health, happiness, and good times greet you each day of the new year.
More formal:
All The Brightest And The Best Of The Season
Wishing all of you the very best of the Christmas season.
Best Wishes for a Happy Holiday Season and a Joyous New Year.
used in 2017 from pic of decorative pillow i saw in 2012
Dear ...
Wish you a Merry Christmas. May God shower his blessings on your family.
Love Always or Love or just our names
gum
calendar
peanut m&ms
soduku book
curve crush perfume
dept 56
anything with a red truck
Dept 56 Possible Dreams Santa (good sale at Boscov's one year)
see "gift ideas" list in google notes
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"He has never been know to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
"I refused to attend the funeral, but I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approve of it." - Mark Twain
"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." - Forrest Tucker
"He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them." - James Reston (about Richard Nixon)
If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.
creskin
nice play shakespeare
sarcasm: first of the many services i offer
good idea fairy
"my other ride is your girlfriend" bumpersticker on cutlass in this burnout video
why don't you make like a woman driver and get lost?
suck stick; cocktard
long answer or short answer - long answer = hell no
I will smack those teeth straight - Jack on 30 Rock Season 5 episode 5 "Reaganing" -
TRUST THE SIENCE [sic] - SNL Weekend Update
dirtgrub - charlie kelly sunny philly
Latin Phrases [404] archive.org version
festina lente = "make haste slowly" Augustus Caesar
il divino (the divine one) Michaelangelo
il magnifico - lorenzo de medici
Amor vincit omnia - Love conquers all. (Virgil) c.f http://www.yuni.com/library/latin.html
"Vivere senza rimipianti," which means "Live without regrets" in Italian
"Actorum memores simul affectamus agenda." ("We look back but go forward.") motto of The Newcomen Society.
Deus Nobis Haec Otia Fecit—a quotation from Virgil's Eclogues translating to "God hath granted us this ease" or "God has bestowed these blessings upon us"- motto of Liverpool, England
terms
cry craven = to yield; capitulate; give up related to Liberam Legem Amittere and Embracery
"Per aspera ad astra" (or, less commonly, "ad astra per aspera") is a popular Latin phrase meaning "through hardships to the stars" - seen at windirstat website
"Arte et Labore", meaning "By Skill and Hard Work" is the motto of the Blackburn Rovers FC
I don't recommend McDonald's because who doesn't know about McDonald's? Really people just go there for a quick gut stuffer, not for great food.
2024-12-10 MB "makes sense to me" after she said Friends must be on netflix or amazon prime
"If we do not start with a specification, every line of code we write is a patch." - Leslie Lamport (LaTeX creator & 2013 Turing Award winner)
"No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one." - Dwight D Eisnehower
"There never was a good war or a bad peace" - Benjamin Franklin, 1783 letter to Josiah Quincy
Fidelis Constans, meaning "loyal and steadfast" - motto of Legio VI Ferrata
"il dolce far niente" Italian, literally means "sweet doing nothing" = "Delicious idleness"
"Try more best"
"What a clanger." - FIFA '15
"Four dollars a gallon. Thanks Obamacare." - Molly from Mike & Molly in the movie Tammy
"Hey, smells like a party" - 2015-01 eldest daughter Haley Dunphy on Modern Family regarding boat parked in driveway of neighbors
"Let me give you a nickel's worth of free advice" - principal on Back to the Future
"It's already mutated into human form. Shoot it." - little kid in Back to the Future after barn crash
Chillax
"If not us, who?" - Dag Hammarskjold
"If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and every day you have the opportunity to write a new page." - Mark Houlahan
"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching." - Thomas Jefferson
"You can learn from anyone." - Clayton Christensen
"Have the courage to stick with a tough job." A.G. Lafley
"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." - Mark Twain
"Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day" - Harry S. Truman (find out if he really said this)
"Never let the search for the perfect get in the way of the perfectly good." - John Elson Time Magazine writer and editor.
"I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead." variously attributed to Mark Twain, Pascal, and George Bernard Shaw c.f sufficiency Braude p. 83
"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." ~by Henry David Thoreau~
“Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle.” - Abe Lincoln
“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax” - Abe Lincoln
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” - Abe Lincoln
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” - Abe Lincoln
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." - George Bernard Shaw
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval" Gorege Santayana
"It's not whether you win or lose that counts. It's whether I win or lose..." golf tee shirt
"Hence the saying that stocks have correctly predicted 15 of the past 9 recessions." Zachary Karabell "The curious Capitalist" column, Time, Aug 2, 2010
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Every day is just another chance to change your life."
"A good friend will come and bail you out of jail... but a true friend will be sitting next to you saying "Damn... that was fun!"
"There are montents where we can affect change. For a few seconds every decade, we exist. These are those seconds. Let us storm his castle." - Dwight Schrute
"Ass, Grass or Gas: Nobody Rides Free" - sticker on Jerry Garcia guitar
"They will beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation,
nor will they train for war anymore.
Everyone will sit under their own vine
and under their own fig tree,
and no one will make them afraid,
for the Lord Almighty has spoken." Micah 4:3-4 New International Version (NIV) [ ~= Isaiah 2:3-4]
"The wise know their weakness too well to assume infallibility; and he who knows most, knows best how little he knows." - Thomas Jefferson
"If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck." - Clint Smith
"Actorum memores simul affectamus agenda." ("We look back but go forward.") motto of The Newcomen Society.
"All this story needs is an ending." - David Letterman speaking with Regis
"Let us away." - unknown
"Everything should be made as simple as possible
But no simpler." - Albert Einstein
“There is no greater difference in number of fish caught than zero to one.” - Louis Cahill Gink & Gasoline
"Now that's no way for a kid to be wastin his time, readin' that long-haired gobbledegook." - Foghorn Leghorn
"nepotism and monopoly" - Andy's ideas on the best ways to gain a fortune
"hindsight is 50/50 " - 1600 Penn 1:7
"That's the way it is " - Cronkite
"If you give me a week, I'll think of something." - Eisenhower quote on Nixon's national security initiatives as VP
"rickybd livery" - me 2012-11-05
"belly bomb" - some show on 2010-10-21
"spider 3 wide banana" - football great play name - used by psu vs illinois 2012-09-29
"Everything's coming up Roses", "Living the Dream"
"Leave no dare undone" - Taco Bell sauce packet
"Molto bene" - Very well, very good (in Italian)
"If you are going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet." - Keith Richards
"Gets down the road like a scalded cat"
"No me importa un carajo." = I don't give a f*!k
"life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain" somewhere in Christmas shops in Bryant Park 2016
"You're about to get a free lesson and this lesson will cost you" Guy opening copycat store on Parks and Recreation
"dancing girls @ tv town song room (radio city music hall)" " how could you get so many things wrong in a row?" "retired rear admiral Jay Garage-A-Roo" New Girl, 2016-12-22
"i shoot them in the face" Big Mike 2015-06-20 speaking of deer that walked along his fence line. Another quote from Big Mike that night: "her titty was so hard I opened my beer bottle with it"
"We're bangin' on all cylinders now." - comedian Brian Regan
I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own - Mythbusters
"live action"
unwindulax - 30rock
no can will
"That Luke, he's a natural born world-shaker". - cool hand luke
wierdo ass clown New Girl
"Be your own boss! Work ANY 12 hours a day you like!" -- EEVblog guy
#presidenttrump: indicates shock and surprise
good quote for a card: "You are a gift that I treasure every day."
"you shot who in the what now?" - geezer on simpsons
sco so chill out
Parks & Recreation
etvhd 1208 = E!
a life of tube tops and tribal tatoos and barfing in hot tubs
non-stop thrill ride
mr hamster penis
we play with live ammo around
here
we're all just molecules floating around in random patterns devoid of meaning
crap on a catapault
oh no nos
http://www.knope2012.com/imagescmyk/campaign/1239u/09230023/poster/.jpeg
campaign/qty1001239u/ 09230023099twposter.jpeg
jerry's work is often adequate
never half-ass two things. whole ass one thing
wiz palace
belay that order [bartender name] clear alcohols are for rich women on diets
too busy polishing your monacle at the caviar store
"I will die for my right to kill others while defending myself." Making History Sitcom season 1 episode 2
"I'm your huckleberry. Why Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave." - Doc Holiday in Tombstone
"Science is not a liberal conspiracy" - Earth Day 2017 protester
He listens well who takes notes - Dante Alighieri
"Do one to others before they do one to you." Click and Clack
"Partnering with Putin on a 'Cyber Security Unit' is akin to partnering with Assad on a 'Chemical Weapons Unit.' Marco Rubio ~2017-07-07
"cake happens" - tonight show with Jimmy Fallon #hashtags
"in dog beers, I've only had one" - sticker at Ohiopyle bar
"blow your mouth's mind" - ad on tax in Chicago
"buy the best, and you only cry once" - tool review
"wake up and smell the music"
"gotta make my bladder gladder" temp nurse on Monk
"if you can read this my crossbow is pointed at your heart" Simpsons
"Count your blessings not your problems" church sign near Oil Creek 2017
“And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.”
Colossians 3:23-24 KJV http://bible.com/1/col.3.23-24.kjv from Cliff 2018-07-15
"This thing couldn't pull a greased string out of a dog's ass." UK guys' car show, mystery driver talking about Mustang GT (I think)
"It's on panhandle style." Jenna on 30 Rock
I assure you. Don't know where I heard it, but on 2020-10-27 at 643pm I made a note that I should say it more often.
Jimmy Fallon #DadQuotes
"Whenever someone goes to the bathroom, my dad says, 'Mention my name, you'll get a good seat.'"
"When my dad drove my friends around, to scare them he would say 'Buckle up - I saw something in a cartoon I wanna try.'"
"Whenever I would ask my dad how to spell something, he would respond with 'You wanna know how it's spelled, or how I spell it?'"
"There are only three things that always tell the truth: small children, drunk people and yoga pants."
"were unencumbered by sobriety" wikipedia account of escape after botched cremation of Gram Parsons
"I’m sorry about what I said when I was hungry." - sign behind bar at Blazin Bills
"You had me at BBQ." - sign behind bar at Blazin Bills
"So, today, we're gonna build a new paradigm of understanding, and then you're gonna swoop me on back to Shaker Heights. Oh, I need to stop at Record Rev on Coventry. My vaporizer's ready." - How I met your Mother - Ted's Father, season 9 episode 8 @9:33. He was speaking of Record Revolution but I thought he was speaking of Big Fun.
"Cream comes to the top but turds can float there too." - commedian Russell Howard, watched on netflix 2021-12-18
"i don't know, i don't stay [originally 'live'] around here." adapted from fozzie bear amoeba joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R_pRKPp4L4 2:10ish seen 2021-12-22
"how much to get things started?" muppets sheik to the 2 old guys 32:10ish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6I_dKUYyI4 seen 2021-12-22
"I'm not the hero you deserve but I'm the one you need" - commedian Steve Hofstetter 23:20
"So you're the bird what's been given Daddy the ol' slap and tickle?" - Just Go With It watched on Netflix 2022-01-09 at 1:16:24 remaining - girl pretending to be daughter chose British accent when meeting guy's new girlfriend
"Is that a rock-solid ten smokeshow of a president or what? If she wasn't my mother..." - Jonah Hill's character in Don't look up 40:05 remaining viewed on Netfix 2022-01-15
"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems." - Jamie Zawinski - August 12, 1997
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou
"I'm all about fitness. Fit'ness sandwich in my mouth." - Rascal House advertisement
"Who attacked you and gave you that haircut?" - 30 Rock - Tracy Jordan s6:e10 5:27 left - watched (again) 2022-01-22 6:12am
#IfIHadATrillionDollars I would buy a rodeo. Then I'd buy another one just so I could say "This isn't my first rodeo." Tonight Show #Hashtags
"Nonsense, there is no greater aphrodisiac than the ‘ha-tub’." - Will Ferrel, SNL 2002-05-18 video at 3:05 viewed 2022-02-20
in boston they say america as americer and chowder as chowda - just reversed er and a sounds at the end of a word - my own observation, may not be accurate
"Nu ska vi spela!" which means "We're gonna play now!" in Swedish - Europe Cherokee
"Oh, Eddie… If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn't be more surprised than I am now…" Christmas Vacation, 1989
"Sweat is the cologne of success" - Coors bottle cap
"... Doesn't feel like a coincidence, does it?"
"It isn't. There's fuckery afoot" - The Gentlemen 1:11:23 remaining
SNL Jeopardy Sean Connery:
"an album cover" category he selected as "anal bum cover"
"famous horsemen" as "whor semen"
"therapists" as "the rapists"
"Of course, a part of a portmanteau is known as 'apartmanteau'" - Seth Meyers, Corrections:Week of Monday, July 18 1min:22sec
Arrested Developement license plate ANUSTART
wine is win with an e on the end - 2022-10-03 Benziger Family Winery gift shop item
lets make pour choices - 2022-10-03 Benziger Family Winery gift shop item
do you want to play tickle game - New Girl 4-6 very end Duquan aka Jose
No, Birdman was bad. This,.. this was a disaster. I'm here to help you, okay? Look, I have
over nearly ten years of experience in the corporate world.
what's "over nearly ten"?
"Nearly ten" would be eight or nine years. I have... I have over nine years.
That's different, yeah.
- Schmitt & NickNew Girl 5-2 17:18 remaining
I've been in the business world for just shy of half of two decades - Schmitt New Girl 5-2 5:27 remaining
"Birdie's room is the sacral Chakra, which is the one blocked by guilt." Daniel Craig's character Benoit Blanc solving the dinnner party murder mystery in Glass Onion: A Knive's Out Mystery ~46 mins in 1:32:32 remains
The only people who never fail are those who never try. - 2022 fortune cookie
"Now, that is a fine thing to be but an insane thing to pretend to be." - Colin Jost SNL season 48 2023-01-23ish about Long Island GOP House member, perpetual liar George Santos claiming to be the star volleyball player of Baruch College
"Jager Bombs!" - Jimmy Fallon
George Santos: "I've leaned my lesson and you can guarantee I can guarantee you that from now on anything and everything is always going to be above board, it's largely always been above board." - on The Late sShow "States Limit Teaching About Race|Georage Santos Says No More Lies" ~2023-02-06 7:15 in
Trump in salem nh on saturday 2023-02-04: he described the Taliban as "very good fighters," but "they never fight at night because they don't have binoculars. We have given them brand new thousands of binoculars better than what we have far better than what we have."
It seems fox news changed his quotes to goggles or did he say goggles at the second rally?
Trump clip on ~2023-01-22 Jimmy Kimmel Show "We classy, and we sassy, but if you cross us things may get nassy" that I should make a Trump Lover's ring tone
and another i should make a ringtone "bing bing bong bong bing bing bing" an old clip later used in ~2023-02-02 Late Night with Seth Meyers
Marker-Phone
Phone-Marker
Stapler-Marker [gets crossed off]
Kevin's list of Game Changer ideas at about 1:10 in the clip
later at 3:58 "not just the cookies though. that was just a for instance."
had a screen capture from 12/3/2022 then made this enrtry 2023-02-12
"Sky trash, not only a threat to aviation but also the motto of Spirit Airlines." Stephen Colbert 2023-02-15 5:36
"You're probably mad at me for many reasons. One you might not know about its that my friend did indeed get sick in the receptionist's desk drawer." Jess talking to old boyfirend / new boss about CeCe getting trashed at lunch then going with Jess back to the office. New Girl E2 Tuesday meeting 4:40 remaining.
"We classy, we sassy, but if you cross us things may get nassy." Trump at supporter Diamond's funeral 2023-02
"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it." Cooper Union speech by Abraham Lincoln on February 27, 1860
"With me, surprises are rarely unexpected." Steven Martin in the Pink Panther 54:50 remaining
"Meliora" - Closing before person's name in thank you letter from U of Rochester as it is their motto. Latin for "better", "better things", "always better", "ever better", or, more fully, "for the pursuit of the better".
"Happiness is a choice." 2020 note from phone found 2023-03-07
"never mistake motion for action" hemmingway
"sorry i'm late but i got here as soon as i wanted to" karen on will and grace
"My dad used to tell us 'don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.'" #MarchDadness #hashtags 10:51 2023-30-23
" ...with the aid of a neighborhood vendor of bottled fluid intoxicants I was able to maintain a state of profound insobriety thoughout the aforementioned ordeal." - SNL 5:50 aired 10/24/87
"The Buisiest Beaver award goes to Phyllis Lapin. Yeah. Way to go Phyllis. Nice Work. Per Usual.
This says Bushiest Beaver." The Office 2:1 1:30ish
"Hold on - let me overthink this" - tee shirt of woman in Italian cruise dining room at breakfast
"Marginal Aviation" - tee shirt of guy in Italy that ended up being actual vintage aircraft club
"Okay guys I'll see you at the game unless of course you're an Eagletonian, then you'll be too busy polishing your monocle at the caviar store. Knope out." Leslie Knope Disses Ingrid de Forest (Kristen Bell) | Parks and Recreation
Low-Cal Calzone Zone - Ben Wyatt Park's 'n Recreation
growler is a nickname for a woman's privates in UK - watching an episode of the Grand Tour
like the shakers, George "revered meticulous work as an expression of the spirit." - FWW 231 p53 Mira Nakashima on her father George Nakashima
Dr. Williamson observed, there is scant motivation to understand the black box that machine learning presents. “It’s the hackiness culture in tech, where if it works most of the time, that’s great,” he said. NY Times article on AI in Mathematics that applies to one of my co-workers.
Nothing says "I mean business" like using a shopping cart at the liquore store. - Reader's Digest mar 2019 p21 life in these united states
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. - William Morris of Morris chair fame [not related to quote:Evolution of the Morris Chair]
call me a trailblazer, heck, call me a savior if you must - Attack of the Hollywood Cliches! 22:16 left - watched 2022-07-02
Hey, turd burglar - Cop Out 1:09:45 left - watched 2022-06-27
The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny. Winston Churchill from Jeopardy calendar
several more unconquerable will quotes from him
Can you assuage me the ketchup?" - Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016)
assuage - verb - make (an upleasant feeling) less intense. "the letter assuaged the fears of most members"
similar: satisfy (an appetite or desire) "an oportunity occurred to assuage her desire for knowledge"
Penn State
Unrivaled
2023-09 St. Vincent gift shop mug
belle epoque - The Belle Époque or La Belle Époque is a period of French, Belgian and European history, usually considered to begin around 1871–1880
"A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post in December 2022
Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish, I wish he'd go away...Antigonish [I met a man who wasn't there] by Hughes Mearns
"Back in my day I could walk in a store with $25 USD and walk out with six porterhouse steaks two chickens a case of beer five bottles of wine two loaves of bread and a gallon of milk. Can't do that today. Too many fucking cameras." Facebook clickbait of funny text messages
The only people who never fail ar those who never try. Fortune cookie in my wallet 2024-01-10
Give someone a piece of wood, they'll make fire. Teach them to work with wood and they'll buy saws, hammers,planners,[sic] chisels, and more. - Woodworking forum user's profile
Adlerian theory? Aristotelian Lesson?: Things that we do a lot become things that we do naturally. "Act as if you already were that what you wish to become." - from podcast on Aristotle probably Hidden Brain
Trump carried 100% of the voters who have ever been hit on the head with a brick - Similar to quote I heard on TV
commedian Marty Simpson on texting "Hubba Hubba" from teen's phone as punishment
Food poisoning, that isn't possible That seafood was a gift from my friend the owner of the Cleveland Browns. They're very expensive freshwater clams from the ... Cuyahoga River. - Jack D 30 Rock season 1 cold opening collection video
To some an outlaw To more a hero To all a legend! Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Let's meet up later and smoke some drug cigarettes. - Kenneth on 30 Rock during fake phone call while giving a tour after "uh-oh ring ring. what's up...nuthin...just giving a dumb tour to a bunch of uggos..."
"Let me paint you a picture..." on whiteboard in garage for a couple years until 2024-06-06
"Pumpkin McPornhumper" - one of many nicknames Jimmy Kimmel listed for Trump's 78th birthday
"Call me. I have a way we can make $30K TONIGHT. are you allergic to latex?" Big Filthy character in SNL sketch, but better might be
Call me. I have a way we can make $30K TONIGHT. are you allowed within 500 feet of a school again yet?"
"Give me a hit of that jive parsley." 1star general in Space Force s2e7 ~6: 40
"Nope. Not loud enough." - Jerry Seinfeld at standup at end of S5e2, instead of saying "Excuse me"
"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot" - Mark Twain
"On my GPS I never press the 'Go Home' button... I press the 'Go Big' button." Jimmy Fallon pick the best text message ~2024-05-24
"My problem is... I expect ME out of people." - reposted by Zach L
"When the debate is lost, insults become the loser's tool." - Socrates
"If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you ahve compromised your integrity. If you need a witness, be your own." - Epictetus
"A man is not finished when he is defeated, he is finished when he quits." - Epictetus
"Pople who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it." - George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwritght, social critic and political activist (1856-1950)
"Above all, don't lie to yourself." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. " - Miguel de Cervantes
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca
"You should not honor men more than truth." - Plato
"It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and explose delusion and error." - Thomas Paine
"Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience." - Leonardo da Vinci
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato
"[Michele] and I are pefect together like whiskey and hunting. Soul mate doesn't start to describe it. " - Jack from 30 rock Season 5 e 1 ~20:25
"That's lame." - Google Translate translation of portion of Japanese electrical disconnect pliers instructions
Liz: Wow, snow in May. Thank you, global warming, for extreme, unpreditable weather patterns.
Floyd (Jason Sudeikis): There was actually a tornado in Cleveland last week.
Destroyed an entire city block. Three bowling alleys, a liquor store and the liquor-store museum.
30 Rock S2 E14 12:50 remaining; first saved 2022-02-19, added here 2024-08-06
earlier in episode: Alarm Clock: After last night's freak snowfall, it's 90 and humid. In other global warming news, a tornado hit downtown Detroit putting out several fires.
Monk saying Quod Erat Demonstrandum S2E1 2:07 left
Gettysburg, what an unbelievable battle that was.
The Battle of Gettysburg. What an unbelievable.
I mean, it was so much and so interesting and so vicious and horrible and so beautiful in so many different ways.
It, it represented such a big portion of the success of this country. Gettysburg, wow.
I go to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to look and to watch.
And, uh, the statement of Robert E. Lee, who's no longer in favor.
Did you ever notice that? No longer in favor.
'Never fight uphill, me boys. Never fight uphill.'
They were fighting uphill.
He said 'Wow, that was a big mistake.'
He lost his great general. And, uh, they were fighting.
'Never fight uphill, me boys!' But it was too late.
~April 15, 2024 Trump - video from Jimmy Kimmel
monk episode where gold thief made ink then wrote 900+ volume journal s2e15 29:12 left
June 12th 1856 Raining all morning. I had beef jerky for breakfast. There's a cloud in the sky that resembles President Pierce. My chair is squeaking. Something smells good. I love smoking tobaccy. i just sneezed.
Speaker 2
Not every entry was a masterpiece.
this post compares 2024 to 2016 Trump quote and says he was always incoherent
"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."
Donald J. Trump, July 19, 2016.
Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy. - Alexandre Dumas
"Trump first ran for President warning about rapists coming in from Mexico. I'm worried about keeping the rapist out of the White House. ..." - Linda Ronstadt
The stress of not worrying is starting to get to me. - Frasier
'cause i could be making more as a doctor or a professional athelete - michael the office s5e7 19:21
"The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge." - Aristotle
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." Eleanor Roosevelt
"A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence." Miyamoto Musashi
"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love." Marcus Aurelius
...Now and again, I get the feeling
Well, if I don't win, I'm a-gonna break even...
Tom Petty You Wreck Me
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. - Socrates
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do. - Carl Jung
If you are more fortunate than others, build a longer table not a taller fence.
"Buddhaism" - the middle s2 e18
That's D as in Dexamethasone, E as in eight, m as in mnemonic, a as ins Au Pair, R as in Are we having tacos tonight?... A.P. Biology S2 E8 1732left
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. - Albert Einstein
A wise man once said bees don't waste their time explaining to flies that flowers taste better than shit. - "Yellowstone Memes" on Facebook
Why a V8? Because 2 liters is a softdrink not an engine size - Facebook tee shirt
Doug Judy : Criminals? That's how you see us? Is it a crime to steal bread to feed your family? Or to sell some weed so you can buy video games? Or to steal video games, because you smoked all that weed you were supposed to sell?
Captain Ray Holt : Yes, all of those are crimes.
Doug Judy : Damn, even the bread one?
Captain Ray Holt : Especially the bread one.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (TV Series) The Fugitive, Part 2 (2017)
Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
i before e except after c debunked by science - facebook post of car wash sign
"where is the can? i gotta unload" - Stacy Keach character Brooklyn 99 "old school"
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inc.com commonly mispronounced words
Wednesday
veteran
prerogative
roofs
often
February
Farve
boudoir
bivouac - per Jeopardy calendar word for troops camping outside that comes from a German word meaning "extra watch"
hirsute - hairy, bearded, shaggy, unshaven
nibling ≔
∈ {nieces, nephews} [≔ ≔ means "is defined as" ]
Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
We are men of action, lies do not become us.
As I told you, it would be absolutely, totally, and in all other ways inconceivable.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means
Get used to disappointment
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line"! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha...
Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?
Man in Black: Yes.
Vizzini: Morons.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
You've done nothing but study swordplay?
Inigo Montoya: More pursuing than studying, lately. You see, I cannot find him. It's been twenty years now. I'm starting to lose confidence.
I'll explain and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon.
Oh, well, thank you very much, very nice of you. Your vote of confidence is overwhelming
I wasn't nervous. Maybe I was a little bit "concerned" but that's not the same thing.
"Whoso would deserve well of his fellows will guard the purity of his belief with a very fanaticism of jealous care, lest at any time it should rest on an unworthy object, and catch a stain which can never be wiped away."
Clifford quotes an imaginary opponent:
"'But,' says one, 'I am a busy man; I have no time for the long course of
study which would be necessary to make me in any degree a competent judge of
certain questions ...
' Then," says Clifford trenchantly, that person "should have no time
to believe."
from "The Ethics of Belief." by William Kingdon Clifford, English mathematician and philosopher, 1877
"faith is comfort but doubt is education" Al Martinez LA Times May 6, 2005
"and this deal will count as a 39% bump variable against an 11% increase of synchronized flexibility" - jack doughnegy 30 rock "let's stay together"
"nonversation - man moment where everything gets said but nobody's talkin'" - Bobby =dad - Cougar Town season 2 ep 2
the seething caldron of financial
ruin - comedian on bob and tom 8/28 about a hoo-hoo
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