interesting quotes

[davidsonsgccc]

i thought some of you guys may enjoy this. i especially like the quotes by ben franklin and thomas jefferson


www.quotationspage.com

[FastDoc]

Here's a true one that I always recognize:

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

Benjamin Franklin

[Weldangrind]

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

-Mark Twain

[Jim]

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
-- Thomas Edison

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
-- Thomas Edison

[SpudRider]

Thanks for posting the link, David. I also like the quotes of Thomas Jefferson.

"When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."

"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."

Spud

[dmmcd]

I have a whole collection of great quotes. Here are some of my favorites:

"Some people will tell you that slow is good - and it may be, on some days - but I am here to tell you that fast is better." –Hunter S Thompson

"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." - Dali Lama

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” -Albert Einstein

"Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice." –Bill Cosby

[davidsonsgccc]

that bill cosby is wise when it comes to women.lol

[davidsonsgccc]

one more i found. it was the one i was originally trying to remember when i found this link.



Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

You and I must protect and preserve freedom here or it will not be passed on to our children and it would disappear everywhere in the world.-
--------------------------Ronald Reagan

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/spee...ibertypark.htm

[SpudRider]

Originally Posted by dmmcd

I have a whole collection of great quotes. Here are some of my favorites:...

"Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice." –Bill Cosby

That's a great quote!

Originally Posted by davidsonsgccc

that bill cosby is wise when it comes to women.lol

Amen!

Spud

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Originally Posted by Jim

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
-- Thomas Edison

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
-- Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison was a known anti-Semite and athiest. He also had numerous unenviable personality traits. I have researched and used to admire him, but I'm past that.

He was bright enough, but was not a man I would have liked or respected.

[FastDoc]

From a pro-atheist website:

Even so, Edison stirred up a storm when, in a 1910 interview with journalist Edward Marshall, Edison rejected the idea of the supernatural, along with such ideas as the soul, immortality, and a personal God. "Nature," he said, "is not merciful and loving, but wholly merciless, indifferent." Edison was denounced by many. A prominent psychologist exploded that "people who do not believe in immortality are abnormal, if not pathological." There were, of course, religious liberals who did not feel threatened by Edison's bluntness, but their opinions did not make good press copy. Edison believed that religion should place emphasis on morals rather than theology, that churches should "become true schools of ethics and stop teaching fables ... which keep them from the proper emphasis on that one great Truth, the Golden Rule." Wyn Wachhorst, a biographer, points out, "Edison rejected three fundamental tenets of Christianity: the divinity of Christ, a personal God, and immortality;"

[2LZ]

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a Frontal Lobotomy."

I think that may have been "Arthur"....but I proudly stole it!

[SpudRider]

This thread has now spanned the gamut from Thomas Jefferson, to "Arthur."

Spud

[FastDoc]

I'm glad to see it lighten up after my rant... :roll:

[Jim]

Why are you grouping together antisemitism and atheism? And what is the intent of your second edison post? Do you like that quote, or using it to show his character?