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Truth is often attended with danger. [Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.]
The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion humility. -Charles Colton.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends. -David Hume.
Like the sun, truth is self luminescent. It is reality, self evident, needing no external defense. It is immediately recognized by resonant hearts. It can be hidden for a short time by clouds or by imprisoning others indoors.. but inevitably truth conquers all, as does love. God whose name is Truth whose name is Love is ending the violence in the world now.
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
[The Ottoman Empire] has the body of a sick old man, who tried to appear healthy, although his end was near.
The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.
Tyrant, step from the throne, and give place to thy master. [Fr., Tyran, descends du trone et fais place a ton maitre.]
The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread, Let Persian dames the unbrella's ribs display, To guard their beauties from the sunny ray; Or sweating slaves support the shady load, When eastern monarchs show their state abroad; Britain in winter only knows its aid, To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.
Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the individual who carries them. . . . May it not be said of the bearers of these inappropriate umbrellas, that they go about the streets "with a lie in their right hand?" . . . Except in a very few cases of hypocrisy joined to a powerful intellect, men, not by nature, umbrellarians, have tried again and again to become so by art, and yet have failed--have expended their patrimony in the purchase of umbrella after umbrella, and yet have systematically lost them, and have finally, with contrite spirits and strunken purses, given up their vain struggle, and relied on theft and borrowing for the remainder of their lives.
Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.
All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. [Lat., Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo: Et subito casu, quae valuere, ruunt.]
Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes. [Lat., Neque est ullum certius amicitiae vinculum, quam consensus et societas consiliorum et voluntatum.,]
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.
If you have trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
Unix is the answer, but only if you phrase the question very carefully. Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are. Unix: It's not just 'User-Unfriendly', it's 'Proactively User-Hostile' !
