Quote Digest

[GenesisOne]

Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.

That's actually a disputed quote.  I.e. how do you know he said it? And don't say "Because that's the sort of thing a self-limiting, small-minded bastard would say."

Here's one that isn't (and it's more in line with what you believe):

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

[tushantin]

GenesisOne, now you're speakin my language, buddy!

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool"

Haha the deal with arrogance? If I think myself wise, then undoubtedly I'm a fool. But if I acknowledge I'm a fool, wouldn't I be wiser still? Hahaha

[V_Translanka]

If you gots me on you Facity Bouk, you mebby noticed this quote in muh status recently...

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” ~Epicurus

I likes it & found it when I was looking for a good quote involving dreams for the slogan thread (I thought it too long to actually be one).

[Mr Bekkler]

For some reason when I'm at work things I post here sometimes don't show up. I thought I had posted this last week, but apparently not?

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

-Winston Churchill


I find this quote to be extremely useful personally.

[Thought]

Either half of my colleagues are enormously stupid, or else the science of Darwinism is fully compatible with conventional religious beliefs - and equally compateable with atheism.

[Lord J Esq]

Either half of my colleagues are enormously stupid, or else the science of Darwinism is fully compatible with conventional religious beliefs - and equally compateable with atheism.

Must...resist...urge...to snark...gaaah!

[Sajainta]

I find this quote to be extremely useful personally.

Same here.  That is a great quote.

[Thought]

The three laws of journalism are:

1) Inform the public of matters of public import.
2) Entertain the audience, when it does not interfere with the first law.
2) Sneak in puns when it does not interfere with the first two laws, unless it's a really good one.

[ZeaLitY]

Som dievča do voza aj do koča.

What a neat quote.

[Truthordeal]

For those of you without an education in Czech or a Czech friend whom you can bug to translate stuff like this:

I'm a girl into a carriage and even into the carriage driver.

It's something like a pun; "I'm a girl into a carriage (meaning she can ride and/or likes to ride in a carriage) and I'm a girl into the carriage driver (meaning she likes him)."

Learning is fun!

[FaustWolf]

Thanks Truthordeal! That's a fair bit better than what Google Translator was giving me:

Som girl in voza Koča to behold.

Hm, hm, hm, imagine ZeaLitY and Truthordeal taking over the Czech gaming industry, starting by translating Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross into Czech. Or has that been done already?

[Sajainta]

Hard-to-translate-into-English phrases are fun.  There are phrases and words in Cebuano that can't really be translated into English, and when they are they don't really make sense.  One of those "It sounds better in the original language" things.

For instance, a tigpataliwala is a person who is the go-between in cases of fights or civil unrest, and often gets the brunt of the anger from both sides.  That took a long time in English to describe, but in Cebuano it's one word.  XD

[Zephira]

I want to say that kind of person would be a middle-man or a mediator, but neither seem to completely fit the bill. There are a lot of Spanish words like that too (specifically, the swear words). I ask Nolan what a certain word means, but he says there's no direct translation. It's better to ask what it implies (though that's the same thing as meaning).

[ZeaLitY]

Ah, the problem it didn't translate well is because it's Slovak, not Czech. The point is that Czech/Slovak women are versatile and skilled; they're good in the princess horse-carriage and also in the farmer's horse-cart.

Yeah, leave it to a feminist to make sweeping culturalist generalizations about the female sex. Anyway, it's just sort of a fun thing a friend passed on to me.

[GenesisOne]

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.