The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self

Muhammad S.A.W

When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, look to those, who have been given less

Quote:Scottish inventions and discoveries include: Adhesive stamps, the Australian national anthem, the Bank of England, bicycle pedals, the breach-loading rifle--you'll notice I'm going in alphabetical order--Bovril, the cell nucleus, chloroform, the cloud chamber, cornflower, a cure for malaria, the decimal point, the Encyclopedia Britannica, fountain pens, fingerprinting, hypnosis, hypodermic syringes, insulin, the kaleidoscope, the lawnmower, lime cordial, logarithms, lorries, marmalade, matches, motor insurance, paraffin, piano pedals, the postmark, pneumatic tyres, RADAR, the reflecting telescope, savings banks, the screw propeller, the speedometer, the steam hammer, raincoats, tarmac, teleprinters, tubular steel, typhoid vaccine, ultrasound scanners, the United States Navy, universal standard time, vacuum flasks, wave-powered electricity generations, and wire rope!

-- Stephen Fry

Great thoughts come from the heart.

- Luc de Clapiers

BouldRake wrote:

Quote:Scottish inventions and discoveries include: Adhesive stamps, the Australian national anthem, the Bank of England, bicycle pedals, the breach-loading rifle--you'll notice I'm going in alphabetical order--Bovril, the cell nucleus, chloroform, the cloud chamber, cornflower, a cure for malaria, the decimal point, the Encyclopedia Britannica, fountain pens, fingerprinting, hypnosis, hypodermic syringes, insulin, the kaleidoscope, the lawnmower, lime cordial, logarithms, lorries, marmalade, matches, motor insurance, paraffin, piano pedals, the postmark, pneumatic tyres, RADAR, the reflecting telescope, savings banks, the screw propeller, the speedometer, the steam hammer, raincoats, tarmac, teleprinters, tubular steel, typhoid vaccine, ultrasound scanners, the United States Navy, universal standard time, vacuum flasks, wave-powered electricity generations, and wire rope!

-- Stephen Fry

Great list. Makes for good reflections.

Thanks BR.

I believe you can add the Noble gases to that list of Stephen Fry's.

Maliky wrote: I believe you can add the Noble gases to that list of Stephen Fry's.

Really? It is possible then that the list is not exhaustive. Keep the info coming in.

Thanks.

I think this quote is from QI (emphasis on think - I do verify quotes, because misattribution annoys me - but I don't keep any record of where they came from, and my database is seventeen years old now). QI is a 45 minute TV program, and if that is where it was from, it'll will have just been used to wrap up that five minute slot. It's far from exhaustive.

Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

- Bernard Beckett

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

- Albert Camus

Speaking of winter....

Quote:
Brœðr muno beriaz
ok at bǫnom verða
muno systrungar
sifiom spilla.
Hart er í heimi,
hórdómr mikill
—skeggǫld, skálmǫld
—skildir ro klofnir—
vindǫld, vargǫld—
áðr verǫld steypiz.
Mun engi maðr
ǫðrom þyrma

Quote:
Brothers will fight
and kill each other,
sisters' children
will defile kinship.
It is harsh in the world,
whoredom rife
—an axe age, a sword age
—shields are riven—
a wind age, a wolf age—
before the world goes headlong.
No man will have
mercy on another.

-- Völuspá on Fimbulvetr - the first sign of Ragnarok

Pfft, quotes from everybody else's religions get likes...

Let's try again.

Quote:If a poor man reaches the home of the rich,
Let him wisely speak or be still;
For to him who speaks with the hard of heart
Will chattering ever work ill.

-- Odin

Courage is grace under pressure.

- Ernest Hemingway

All great achievements require time.

- Maya Angelou

Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

- Lao Tzu