Quote Contest

Why Darwin, of course.

Here's another one.

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Guess and I'll send you a copy of one of my favorite books. Book has relevence to quote btw.

Edited by Razgriz Ghost - 06 December 2006 at 12:28pm

Here's a great one...

"Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naïve, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as "empty," "meaningless," or "dishonest," and scorn to use them. No matter how "pure" their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best."

Oh, I personally like this one:

"It's better to stay quiet and let people think you are stupid, then to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

Or something like that. I forget who said it...

Actually, while the author is easy enough, I don't think I can ID the character/book.  They do tend to flow together...

I wanna say the book is ST, but it might also have been SISL.

I was really hoping this would turn into a Creation Vs. Evolution debate.

I am kinda disappointed.

Here Clark, this one is for you.

O.K., That one was too easy, here is another one from one of my favorite Towering Intellectuals, see if you can guess who.

" ...At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made... the people will have ceased to be thier own rulers, having resigned thier government into the hands of the eminent tribunal..." 

Clark Kent wrote: brihard wrote: For shame. Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love". Lots of the best quotes are from that character/book. lol - by the time he got around to that one, he had almost stopped writing fiction, and his books had dissolved into 300 pages of preaching ("Cat that Walks Through Walls", anyone?).  Still fun to read, though. :)

Oh, he's RIDICULOUSLY preachy, but it's still fun to read.

"No more indo, gin and juice.I'm on my way to Chino, rollin on the grey goose."