Der Zitate-Thread

[eva75]

...in diesem thread können alle zitate, die aus irgendeinem grund gefallen und die man mit anderen teilen möchte, gepostet werden.



also, fangen wir mal an:



Immer lernt der Kluge vom Dummen mehr als der Dumme vom Klugen.

Rosegger, Peter, Schriftsteller (1843 - 1918)



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Was unsere Seele am schnellsten und am schlimmsten abnützt, ist: verzeihen, ohne zu vergessen.

Schnitzler, Arthur, Schriftsteller (1862 - 1931)



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Was wir am nötigsten brauchen, ist ein Mensch, der uns zwingt, das zu tun, das wir können.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Dichter und Philosoph (1803 - 1882)



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Die meisten Menschen sind so glücklich, wie sie es sich selbst vorgenommen haben.

Lincoln, Abraham, 16. Präsident der USA (1809 - 1865)



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Das Geben ist leicht, das Geben überflüssig zu machen, ist viel schwerer.

Ford I., Henry, Industrieller (1863 - 1947)



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Alberne Leute sagen Dummheiten. Gescheite machen sie.

Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von, Schriftstellerin (1830 - 1916)



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Die große Frage, die ich trotz meines dreißigjährigen Studiums der weiblichen Seele nicht zu beantworten vermag, lautet: Was will eine Frau?

Freud, Sigmund, Mediziner und Psychologe (1856 - 1939)









Diese Nachricht wurde geändert von: eva75, 19.09.03 - 21:51

[tobing]

Erklärungen sollten so einfach wie möglich sein, aber nicht einfacher. (Albert Einstein)





Computer arbeiten deshalb so schnell, weil sie nicht denken. (G.Laub)





Wissenschaft ist, was wir gut genug verstehen, um es einem Computer zu erklären. Der Rest ist Kunst. (Donald Knuth)





Only the paranoid survive. br>(Andy Grove)





Windows NT kann alles - wegen der 32 Bit !!! Wenn ich 32 Bit getrunken habe, meine ich auch immer ich kann alles! (Werner Brösel)





Don't panic ! (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)





Programming today is a race between software engineers striving for bigger and better idiot-proof programs and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. (Rick Cook)





Mach langsam, wir haben es eilig. (Unbekannt)





Computers are useless, they can only give answers. (Pablo Picasso)





Von 100 Genies gehen 99 unentdeckt zugrunde. (Rudolf Diesel)





A mystic is someone who wants to understand the universe, but is too lazy to study physics.





Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.





Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.





Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.





Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.





If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. (Hal Abelson)





I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. (Douglas Adams)





Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. (Douglas Adams)





Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. (Howard Aiken)





Eighty percent of success is showing up. (Woody Allen)





Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. (Woody Allen)





An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. (Niels Bohr)





Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. (Buddha)





What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)





One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word "I". (Ludwig Wittgenstein)





If you want to make enemies, try to change something. (Woodrow Wilson)





Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority. (Doctor Who)





A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. (Oscar Wilde)





Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. (Oscar Wilde)





Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. (Oscar Wilde)





It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. (Oscar Wilde)





I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals; I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants. (A. Whitney Brown)





Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you. (Stewart E. White)





The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. (Walt West)





The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it. (Mark Weiser)





Abstraction is not easy. Abstraction is hard. Abstraction only makes other things easy. Sometimes. (Larry Wall)





Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? (Voltaire)





Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power. (Joan Vinge)





I have an inferiority complex, but it isn't a very good one. (Unknown)





For every job in life, there is someone who makes it more than a job. They make it a passion. And their creations seem to be imbued with a soul. (Unknown)





I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather ... not screaming in terror like his passengers. (Unknown)





Quantum mechanics - the dreams that stuff is made of. (Unknown)





Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear. (Unknown)





THE END IS NEAR. LOOK BUSY. (Unknown)





The Lord made man before woman to give him time to think of an answer for her first question. (Unknown)





Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. (Samuel Ullman)





If a person offends you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. (Mark Twain)





Beware of health books, you might die of a misprint. (Mark Twain)





A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. (Mark Twain)





Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time. (Mark Twain)





The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future. (Mark Twain)





Sacred cows make the best hamburger. (Mark Twain)





There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it. (Mark Twain)





Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg Cackels as if she had laid an asteroid. (Mark Twain)





Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. (Mark Twain)





It is easier to stay out than to get out. (Mark Twain)





Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable. (Mark Twain)





The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. (Mark Twain)





The highest good is like water. Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive. It flows in places men would reject and so is like the Tao. (Lao Tse)





To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease. (Lao Tse)





Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. (Lao Tse)





As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big. (Donald Trump)





It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. (Harry Truman)

</P>I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. (Harry Truman)

</P>The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. (Kilgore Trout)

</P>If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. (Henry David Thoreau)

</P>In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high. (Henry David Thoreau)

</P>If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. (Henry David Thoreau)

</P>Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. (Henry David Thoreau)

</P>If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. (Henry David Thoreau)

</P>Our life is frittered away by detail ... simplify, simplify. (Henry David Thoreau)

</P>A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. (Henry David Thoreau)

</P>He who adds not to his learning diminishes it. (The Talmud)

</P>Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes. (The Talmud)

[SASUKO]

Wer etwas allen vorgedacht,
wird jahrelang erst ausgelacht.
Begreift man die Entdeckung endlich,
son nennt sie jeder selbstverstaendlich!
Wilhelm Jensen (Journalist 1837-1911)<hr noshade algin=center>
Der Mensch fuerchtet sich vor der Zeit -
die Zeit aber fuerchtet sich vor den Pyramiden.
Prophetischer Spruch im alten Aegypten
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Die zur Wahrheit wandern, wandern allein!
Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914, aus: "Wir fanden einen Pfad")>br><hr noshade algin=center>
Bald - und du hast alles vergessen.
Bald - und alles hat dich vergessen.
Mark Aurel (roemischer Kaiser 121-180)
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Was vergangen, kehrt nicht wieder.
Aber ging es leuchtend nieder,
leuchtets lange noch zurueck.
Karl Foerster (deutscher Schriftsteller, 1784-1841, aus: Erinnerung und Hoffnung)
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Gib mir einen Punkt, wo ich hintreten kann, und ich bewege die Erde!
Archimedes (griech.Mathematiker um ca. 280)
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Natuerlich ist Amerika schon vor Kolumbus entdeckt worden;
und zwar oft!
Es wurde nur immer vertuscht!
Oscar Wilde (britischer Schriftsteller, 1854-1900)
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[eva75]

Es leben in jeder Nation einige wirkliche Menschen, die entweder mit der Natur oder mit dem Geist zu innig befreundet sind, um noch national denken zu können. In dieser winzigen Minorität lebe ich.



Hermann Hesse



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Ein Mann, der Herrn K. lange nicht gesehen hatte, begrüßte ihn mit den Worten: "Sie haben sich gar nicht verändert." "Oh!" sagte Herr K. und erbleichte.



Bertolt Brecht (Geschichten vom Herrn Keuner)



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"where are we going?" I asked.

"i dont know," he said. "just driving."

"but this road doesnt go anywhere," i told him.

"that doesnt matter."

"what does?" i asked, after a little while.

"just that were on it, dude," he said.



bret easton ellis - less than zero



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Die Frauen bringen jedes Abenteuer um seinen Duft, indem sie dem flüchtigen Erlebnis Dauer gewähren wollen.



Oscar Wilde



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Die Selbsttäuschung beherrscht der Mensch noch sicherer als die Lüge.



Dostojewski



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Lache nicht über die Dummheit der anderen!

Sie kann deine Chance sein.



Winston Churchill



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Ich mag dich nicht, weil Du bist, wer Du bist, sondern dafür, wer ich bin, wenn ich mit Dir zusammen bin.



Gabriel G. Márquez



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Diese Nachricht wurde ge&auml;ndert von: eva75, 20.09.03 - 17:12

[kikonium]

Ich weiß nicht womit im 3. Weltkrieg gekämpft wird, aber im vierten wird man mit Steinen und Keulen kämpfen.

Albert Einstein

[eva75]

So einfach wie möglich. Aber nicht einfacher!

(Albert Einstein)



Abstinence is a wonderful thing - if it is practiced in moderation.

(Aus den U.S.A.)



Es kommt nicht bloß auf das Äußere einer Frau an. Auch die Dessous sind wichtig.

(Karl Kraus)



Man kann im Alter entweder weise werden oder verblöden. Die häufigste Form der Altersblödheit besteht darin, daß man sich für weise hält.

(Friedrich Torberg)



Die Japaner haben eine raffinierte Art, ihren Stahl in die Vereinigten Staaten zu schmuggeln. Sie malen ihn an, stellen ihn auf vier Räder und nennen das ganze Auto.

(Henry Ford)



Ganz oben auf der Liste meiner Erfahrungen steht die Erkenntnis, daß man unangenehmen Dingen nicht einfach aus dem Weg gehen kann.

(Henry Ford)



Ordnung ist das halbe Leben - woraus mag die andere Hälfte bestehen?

(Heinrich Böll)



Vielleicht verdirbt Geld den Charakter. Auf keinen Fall aber macht Mangel an Geld ihn besser.

(John Steinbeck)



Das Merkwürdigste an der Zukunft ist wohl die Vorstellung, daß man unsere Zeit später die gute alte Zeit nennen wird.

(John Steinbeck)



Diese Nachricht wurde ge&auml;ndert von: eva75, 09.09.05 - 23:53

[eva75]

Die Kinder von heute sind Tyrannen. Sie widersprechen ihren Eltern, kleckern mit dem Essen und ärgern ihre Lehrer.

(Sokrates)

[Norden]

Mir gefällt:


Mögen die Höhepunkte Deiner Vergangenheit die Tiefpunkte deiner Zukunft sein.

[eva75]

Hector: Oh Manny! Wie Zynisch! Was ist bloss passiert, dass du deine Lebensfreude verloren hast?
Manny: Ich bin gestorben!

(aus Grim Fandango)

[palme]

Der Mensch kann tun was er will, aber nicht wollen was er sill. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Ja renne nach dem Glück,
doch renne nicht zu sehr,
denn alle rennen nach dem Glück,
das Glück rennt hinterher. - Bertolt Brecht

Who is wise? He learns from everyone.
Who is powerful? He that governs his passions,
Who is rich? He that is contet? Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin

Eine Gesellschaft, die ihre Freiheit zugunsten der Sicherheit opfert, hat beides nicht verdient.