The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France
That’s pretty funny
“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”
- H.G. Wells
I am better off than he is – for he knows nothing, and thinks he knows. I neither know nor think I know.
- Socrates
David Foster Wallace: You’ll stop worrying* what others think about you when you realize how seldom they do.
* It might ‘caring’ rather than ‘worrying’, I’m not sure, and can’t be bothered finding the book to check it.
It’s also possible that DFW didn’t coin this phrase.
”A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts.” Alan Watts
I think it’s just a reminder of the pointlessness of overthinking. I find it poignant because I spend a lot of time lost in rumination, myself
This too shall pass.
No matter how good or bad your life is, there will ways be change.
If they gave Jerry Falwell’s corpse an enema, they could bury him in a matchbox.
Christopher Hitchens
Choosing proprietary tools and services for your free software project ultimately sends a message to downstream developers and users of your project that freedom of all users—developers included—is not a priority.
— Matt Lee, https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/opinion-github-vs-gitlab
Comparison is the thief of happiness.
I have many favorites, but this comes to mind often.
Fear shrinks the brain.
Is another good one.
“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.”
-Hunter S. Thompson
“Anything worth doing, is worth doing more of.”
-also Hunter S. Thompson, probably
“The world is cruel but you don’t have to be”
If you fall asleep with an itchy butt you’ll wake up with a smelly finger.
From Frank Herbert’s Dune
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
I love too many to have one favorite but I might translate something decent from french : “Absence is to love, what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the smaller and kindle the bigger.” – Roger de Bussy-Rabutin (or I think so)
I really like that one, thanks for sharing.
Life is a comedy to those who think, but a tragedy to those who feel.
- Horace Walpole
