With virtue you cannot be entirely poor... without it you cannot be really
rich. -- Chinese Proverb
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Friday, June 28, 2013
Fortune Quote #327
The more you sweat in Peacetime, the less you bleed during War. --
Chinese Proverb
Chinese Proverb
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Fortune Quote #326
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small
stones. -- Chinese Proverb
stones. -- Chinese Proverb
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Fortune Quote #325
Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you
out. -- Chekhov
out. -- Chekhov
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Fortune Quote #324
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
-- Charlie McCarthy
-- Charlie McCarthy
Monday, June 24, 2013
Fortune Quote #323
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow
in Australia. -- Charles Schultz
in Australia. -- Charles Schultz
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Fortune Quote #322
I've heard snappier comebacks from a bowl of Rice Krispies. --
Charles Emerson Winchester III
Charles Emerson Winchester III
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Fortune Quote #321
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone
else. -- Charles Dickens
else. -- Charles Dickens
Friday, June 21, 2013
Fortune Quote #320
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat
which isn't there. -- Charles Darwin It's not like that; we know
it's there. -- Dirk Hundertmark (Re: least upper bounds of sets of
reals)
which isn't there. -- Charles Darwin It's not like that; we know
it's there. -- Dirk Hundertmark (Re: least upper bounds of sets of
reals)
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Fortune Quote #319
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat
which isn't there. -- Charles Darwin
which isn't there. -- Charles Darwin
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Fortune Quote #318
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest
fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb
Coulton
fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb
Coulton
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Monday, June 17, 2013
Fortune Quote #316
There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of
life. -- Cato the Elder
life. -- Cato the Elder
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Saturday, June 15, 2013
Fortune Quote #314
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a dark side, it has a light side, and
it holds the Universe together. -- Carl Zwanig
it holds the Universe together. -- Carl Zwanig
Friday, June 14, 2013
Fortune Quote #313
There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw
who gets the credit for it. -- C. E. Montague
who gets the credit for it. -- C. E. Montague
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Fortune Quote #312
Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the
activities of the mind. -- Buddha
activities of the mind. -- Buddha
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Fortune Quote #311
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as
by never repeating it. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
by never repeating it. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Fortune Quote #310
Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes from
intelligence. -- Bonar Thompson
intelligence. -- Bonar Thompson
Monday, June 10, 2013
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Fortune Quote #308
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the
streets after them. -- Bill Vaughn
streets after them. -- Bill Vaughn
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Fortune Quote #307
He who wherever he goes is attached to no person and to no place by ties
of flesh; who accepts good and evil alike, neither welcoming the one nor
shrinking from the other--take it that such a one has attained
Perfection. -- Bhagavan Krishna
of flesh; who accepts good and evil alike, neither welcoming the one nor
shrinking from the other--take it that such a one has attained
Perfection. -- Bhagavan Krishna
Friday, June 7, 2013
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Fortune Quote #304
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme
beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal
to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of
painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection
such as only the greatest art can show. -- Bertrand Russell
beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal
to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of
painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection
such as only the greatest art can show. -- Bertrand Russell
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Fortune Quote #303
Beauty is the first test; there is no permanent place in the world for
ugly mathematics. -- G. H. Hardy
ugly mathematics. -- G. H. Hardy
Monday, June 3, 2013
Fortune Quote #302
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than
Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in
mathematics as surely as in poetry. -- Bertrand Russell
Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in
mathematics as surely as in poetry. -- Bertrand Russell
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Fortune Quote #301
Mathematics takes us still further from what is human into the region of
absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, but every possible
world, must conform. -- Bertrand Russell
absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, but every possible
world, must conform. -- Bertrand Russell
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Fortune Quote #300
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year
ago. -- Bernard Berenson
ago. -- Bernard Berenson
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