Post your favourite quote. Mine I found in a economics books from the library and I cannot

[applegrove]

remember who it is attributed to:

"There are only two types of people in the world: those who think there are only two types of people in the world, and those who don't."

[hifiguy]

1. From John Kenneth Galbraith:

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of mankind's oldest exercises in moral philosophy, that is, the search for a superior moral justification for base selfishness."

[Patiod]

23. Oooo! I like that!

I think old JKG would add "and libertarian"

[GoCubsGo]

41. Talk about the nail meeting the head.

Spot on.

[Glorfindel]

2. OK, here goes...it's a toast

"Here's to the hereafter, 'cause if you're here after what I'm here after, you'll be here a long time after I'm gone." The drunker the speaker is, the better.

[kentauros]

3. Stephen Colbert:

"I can't prove it, but I can say it."

[WinkyDink]

4. "Mother?"

"Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels."

[kentauros]

6. "Not mother?"

:P

[woo me with science]

31. I thought that was from "Psycho."

:rofl:

[rrneck]

37. Watch it.

Do you want the genital cuff?

[Forkboy]

5. From Albert Einstein...

"I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country, or state, to my circle of friends or even my own family. These ties have always been accompanied by a vague aloofness, and the wish to withdraw into myself increases with the years. Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it, to be sure, but I am compensated for it by being rendered independent of the customs, opinions, and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my piece of mind upon such shifting sands."

[dixiegrrrrl]

29. I understand that quote perfectly, and thank you for sharing it!

[Forkboy]

32. He couldn't have described my feelings any better.

When I first read that it blew me away, like someone had picked my brain. :)

[dixiegrrrrl]

33. We are not alone. I know of many who feel the same way.

[hifiguy]

35. Marvelous.

People in the Asperger's community, of which I am a dx'd member have often speculated that Einstein was one of us. This quote definitely seems to reinforce the thought that he was. It's about as pure a statement of the Asperger mindset as I have ever read.

[Odin2005]

48. Yup! Love that quote.

[Odin2005]

47. The Aspie Motto!

:)

[Grantuspeace]

7. The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes

and steal your dreams it's heaven and hell. They'll tell you black is really white, the moon is just the sun at night, it's heaven in hell. Black Sabbath

[gratuitous]

8. The gratuitous addendum to your quote

There are two types of people in the world: Those who divide the people of the world into two types, and those who don't. I'm in the latter category.

[applegrove]

9. I think it is implied in my quote that to think the world is only made up of two types of people

is wrong. So I am in the latter category too. I think we are saying the exact same thing.

[haele]

42. And this nerd addendum - there are two types of people in the world -

Those who know binary, and those who don't.

Haele

[Grantuspeace]

43. those who know hexidecimals and boolean algebra lol n/t

:)

[CBGLuthier]

10. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[struggle4progress]

14. "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye"

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[tabbycat31]

11. from a song

"Never let the sun set on tomorrow before the sun rises today."

ETA "If I am" by Nine Days

[nuxvomica]

12. Before I read that Galbraith quote, it was this one:

"Life is never fair...And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not." Oscar Wilde

[struggle4progress]

13. "There are three types of people in the world: those who can count, and those who can't"

This is a great saying to use when somebody miscounts something

[applegrove]

16. LOL!

[grasswire]

15. Nietzsche

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

Thomas Fats Waller:

"Never give your real name, no, no, no."

and also from Waller

"One never knows, do one?"

[sarge43]

17. Mine

From a British parliamentary cage match

"The Honourable Member has demonstrated that there is no such thing as unutterable nonsense."

[Redstone]

18. "It's better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.

I think I made that one up myself, but may not have.

Redstone

[Bucky]

19. "We must depend upon our experience; reason may mislead us." --John Dickinson at Constitutional Conv

The Framers would loathe the tea partiers. They might not like big government, but they would hate the idolization of ideology and the rejection of logic and experience in solving governmental problems.

[Patiod]

20. No good deed goes unpunished.

We used to take in this nightmarishly badly-behaved child while her mom was in the hospital/getting chemo and then later while her evil aunt decided whether or not to adopt her.

During a tantrum or other misbehavior, my SO and I would just mouth "NGD". It was like a motto.

[Patiod]

21. dupe

.

[Iggo]

22. There are 10 kinds of people in the world.

People who understand binary, and peope who don't.

[applegrove]

27. LOL!

[txwhitedove]

24. "It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish"....Mother Theresa

[Laura PourMeADrink]

25. Barack Obama to Trump

"...And so ultimately you didn't blame Lil John or Meat Loaf. You fired Gary Busey. And these are the kinds of decisions that would keep me up at night. Well-handled, sir. Well-handled." Barack Obama

[Laura PourMeADrink]

26. Helen Keller Rocks!

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
Helen Keller

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
Helen Keller

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Helen Keller

[Doc_Technical]

28. Eleanor Roosevelt

“Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.”

[AsahinaKimi]

30. Here is mine..

"Holding forth this sword I cut vacuity in twain; In the midst of the great fire, a stream of refreshing breeze!"- - Shiaku Nyudo, Samurai 1333 ad

[dixiegrrrrl]

34. Never think you know what is best for the other guy; he may decide he knows what is best for you"

Paul Williams
Das Energi

A very hard to find book now, I treasured it in the 70's.

[Odin2005]

49. The thrift store I work at got that book last week!

I never heard of it before. Talk about TRIPPY! :rofl:

[bif]

36. "No matter how cynical you get, you just can't keep up".

Lilly Tomlin

[dixiegrrrrl]

46. More true today than when she said it.

[csziggy]

38. On the theme of counting

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." Buddha

[rrneck]

39. A friend once said

"I don't care if people dislike me as long as they dislike me for the right reasons".

[GoCubsGo]

40. As HL Mencken said...

"In a world of sin and sorrow, there is always much to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

44. A remark by Anais Nin:

"We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are."

Also, my sig line.

[Taverner]

45. "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts."

Serge Gainsbourg

[Initech]

50. Homer Simpson: "Weasling out of things is what separates us from the animals. Except the weasel."

[Odin2005]

51. The Buddha:

"Do not go upon what has been acquired by repeated hearing; nor upon tradition; nor upon rumor; nor upon what is in a scripture; nor upon surmise; nor upon an axiom; nor upon specious reasoning; nor upon a bias towards a notion that has been pondered over; nor upon another's seeming ability; nor upon the consideration, "The monk is our teacher."; but upon reason and common sense"