Food for Thought: Uncle Fiend's Words of Wisdom

StandardFiend · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **StandardFiend** on Thu Apr 07, 2011 12:00 pm

Good morning, everyone. And good afternoon, good evening, and good night, wherever and whenever you are.

Every day I'd like to share with you a quote of special significance that will hopefully give you something to chew on throughout the day, and maybe offer a little enlightenment, too.

So grab a cup of coffee, relax, and enjoy the Quote of the Day.

I want to stress that this is not a place for silliness; if you would like to discuss these quotes meaningfully, I encourage you to do so. And if you have your own to add, then please do. But keep it serious, please.

Today's quote:

"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. "

—Aldous Huxley, 1952

StandardFiend · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **StandardFiend** on Fri Apr 08, 2011 2:05 pm

Your quote for today is:

"Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead."

—Aristotle (Date uknown)

StandardFiend · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **StandardFiend** on Sat Apr 09, 2011 2:08 pm

Your quote for today:

"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing."

—Seneca, AD 45

StandardFiend · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **StandardFiend** on Sun Apr 10, 2011 2:37 pm

And now for Sunday's quote:

"One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him."

—Booker T. Washington (Date unknown)

StandardFiend · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **StandardFiend** on Wed Apr 13, 2011 6:06 pm

For anybody who's watching, sorry I haven't updated in a couple days.

Today's quote:

" 'Take some more tea,' the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. 'I've had nothing yet,' Alice replied in an offended tone, 'so I can't take more.' 'You mean you can't take less,' said the Hatter: 'it's very easy to take more than nothing.' "

—Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865

StandardFiend · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **StandardFiend** on Fri Apr 15, 2011 2:00 am

And the quote for Thursday is:

"I hear and I forget. I see and I believe. I do and I understand."

—Confucius (Date unknown)

StandardFiend · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **StandardFiend** on Mon Apr 18, 2011 4:11 pm

There have been a decent number of visits to this thread, but no commentary thus far. Let me know if there is interest in keeping this going, because if not I don't need to keep updating and bumping the thread.

Today's quote:

"Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body."

—H.L. Mencken, 1949

ImmortalD · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **ImmortalD** on Tue Apr 19, 2011 7:56 pm

Very nice Fiend. I've got one for you.

"A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him."

- Napoleon Bonaparte (Date Unknown)

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