The Quotation Meme

[amanuensis1]

Tagged by ellen_fremedon, plus I saw it first on florahart's lj and yeah, I think it's cool.

Go here and look through random quotations until you find 5 that you think reflect who you are or what you believe.

(I cheated a little--added two extra, and subbed two quotes I didn't get from the site in order to avoid using two from the same person, and to use one I really wanted.)


When I get a little money I buy books, and if any is left I buy food and clothes. -Erasmus

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others. -Unknown

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"

God used to be the best explanation we'd got, and we've now got vastly better ones. God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. -Douglas Adams

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. -Abraham Lincoln

Reality continues to ruin my life. -Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

Everything you can imagine is real. -Pablo Picasso

And also consistent with my beliefs, I'm tagging...anyone who wants to do it. ^_^

Comments

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

It's funny, because I've loved and believed the "jack of all trades" one since I first saw it years ago...but it's not really the way I live my life, though it's the way I'd like to. There's just, so much out there in the great wide world...but I don't want to die before I learn a good number of the basics, you know? I suppose it's like the guy who stays at home and works in an office and raises 2.4 children and owns 1.2 homes and has only been out on a sailboat once in his life, but still thinks he's a seaman at heart.