Fluffy Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Erring is human, but even more human is to blame other for your errors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1eyedjack Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 "I deny the allegation and denounce the aligator" - Groucho Also "Either he's dead or my watch has stopped" (and numerous others) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helene_t Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Prediction is hard. Especially about the future.Yogi BerraNiels Bohr.FYP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackshoe Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 "Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là." ("I had no need for that hypothesis".) - Apocryphal, attributed to Simon-Pierre, Marquis de LaPlace (1749-1827). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chas_P Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 On a more serious note.... "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do." Benjamin Franklin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Erring is human, but even more human is to blame other for your errors.but to really F things up takes a computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do." Benjamin FranklinRelated: Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. Usually attributed to either Abraham Lincoln or Mark Twain. But there's apparently no evidence that either of them used it. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/17/remain-silent/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chas_P Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Since Mark Twain got in here how about..... "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FM75 Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 FYP OK - maybe not Berra, or Bohr :) W. J. Moore, in Schrödinger, Life and Thought (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1989), p. 320 refers to this as an "old Danish proverb" that Bohr was fond of quoting. All Danes, however, know that it was the cartoonist Storm P. who said it first: »Det er svært at spå, især om fremtiden«.http://chaosbook.blo...dk-citater.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USViking Posted November 2, 2013 Report Share Posted November 2, 2013 Heh. I used to have a pretty good memory, but I lost it somewhere, and now I'm not sure where to look for it. :P "In the morning I will be sober, and you will still be ugly". -- Sir Winston Churchill. Churchill's interlocutor here is supposed to have been Lady Astor (originally from Danville, VA USA, and the first female UK MP, I think). It is really not a very witty remark, more nasty than anything else, and I prefer to think Churchill did not, in fact, say anything so uncouth to a lady, despite their political and personal enmity. A far better exchange is this: Lady Astor: If you were my husband I would poison your coffee! Churchill: If you were my wife I would drink it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USViking Posted November 2, 2013 Report Share Posted November 2, 2013 Spanish Civil War Communist leader Dolores Ibarruri (aka "La Pasionaria"): It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. Ibarruri spent almost 40 years in exile after her side's defeat. When she returned after Franco's death she was reelected by the same district she had represented before the war. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarabin Posted November 2, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2013 Spanish Civil War Communist leader Dolores Ibarruri (aka "La Pasionaria"): It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. Ibarruri spent almost 40 years in exile after her side's defeat. When she returned after Franco's death she was reelected by the same district she had represented before the war. Sorry but I can't resist saying I always thought that was Ireland's national motto! A possible alternative is: "At the first sign of crisis the Irish drop to their knees, either to pray or to shoot". :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackshoe Posted November 2, 2013 Report Share Posted November 2, 2013 I suppose that's better than what they say about the Italians — or the French. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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