Favourite quotes - Here's mine, Quite a long list. What's yours?

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.”

“Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.”

Norman Maclean
 
There's a fine line between bravery and stupidity.
“If you’re gonna be stupid, you better be tough”. East Texas saying
 
My mate Glen's assessment of leaders and managers he works with often leads to the comment

'That bloke couldn't run a bath'
 
“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.” -- Mark Twain

"Does Jane Austen do her work too remorselessly well? For me, I mean? Maybe that is it. She makes me detest all her people, without reserve. Is that her intention? It is not believable. Then is it her purpose to make the reader detest her people up to the middle of the book and like them in the rest of the chapters? That could be. That would be high art. It would be worth while, too. Some day I will examine the other end of her books and see." -- Mark Twain

"All the great critics praise her [Jane Austen] art generously. To start with, they say she draws her characters with sharp discrimination and a sure touch. I believe that this is true, as long as the characters she is drawing are odious." -- Mark Twain

"Jane Austen? Why I go so far as to say that any library is a good library that does not contain a volume by Jane Austen. Even if it contains no other book." -- Mark Twain

"To me his prose is unreadable -- like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death." -- Mark Twain
 
I always admired this one from the great old school safari guide and professional hunter, Bunny Allen. It rings true all over the world...

"It's the camp smoke. Watching a fire. Seeing it sparkle. And the stars. You get the best out of people when they're sitting around a campfire. People forget Belgravia and Fifth Avenue and finally become themselves..." -- F.M.'Bunny' Allen
 

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein.​

 
“If you roll around in shi+ long enough, pretty soon you start to smell like it.”

-My Dad on being careful of the company you keep.
 
From The Forest Passage by Ernst Junger...

“Long periods of peace foster certain optical illusions: one is the conviction that the inviolability of the home is grounded in the constitution, which should guarantee it. In reality, it is grounded in the family father, who, sons at his side, fills the doorway with an axe in hand.”


“The modern world demands that we approve what it should not even dare ask us to tolerate.”
— Nicolás Gómez Dávila


Plenty more.
 
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In the Western world political theater, proven multiple times daily.

"I hate when people confuse education with intelligence, you can have a bachelor's degree and still be an idiot".

Elon Musk
 
I’ve got three quotes that I read over the years that always stuck with me.

Quote by Babe Ruth: “It's hard to beat a person who never gives up“

Sun Tzu wrote, “Tactics without strategy are the noise before defeat.”


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
Sun Tzu really knows his battle… another very good one.
 

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Thanks for getting back to me, I'll pass, Great luck in sell it . I don't think you'll have it long
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Good morning. I'll take all of them actually. Whats the next step? Thanks, Derek
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I'd like to get some too.

My wife (a biologist, like me) had to have a melanoma removed from her arm last fall.
 
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