favorite quotes I have many but this is my new favorite

[JohnKleeb]

"I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair. In these words he epitomized the history of the human race"
Bertrand Russell

That said I have many more favorite quotes.

[chaska]

1. "Those who rule the symbols rule us."

Alfred Korzybski

[JohnKleeb]

2. cool who was Korzbski?

thanks for responding, quotes are neat

[Paragon]

3. "I leave symbols to the symbol-minded."

George Carlin

[roughsatori]

5. I have Korzybski's General Semantics Seminar 1937 on my desk now

"Time-Binding: The General Theory" is a favorite.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

7. I seem to recall a science fiction author writing a novel

based on the principles of General Semantics. This book was written in the mid-fifties or thereabouts, I believe. I wish I could remember the author and the book...

[roughsatori]

10. A.E. van Vogt or Robert A. Heinlein?

In the 1940s and early 1950s General Semantics was used in the Science fiction works of A.E. van Vogt and Robert A. Heinlein. I hope that helps jog your memory.

[dofus]

4. My favorite is from the movie Hud

said by Melvyn Douglas: Little by little this country is changing because of the men it admires.

How true, how true.

[tarkus]

6. Top movie quotes:

1."I'm telling you that girl could be a bigger fucking germ farm than that monkey in "Outbreak" - Chasing Amy
2."I used the same soap you did and when I dried my hands, the towel didn't look like no fuckin' Maxi- pad." - Pulp Fiction
3. "Geez Lois, whoat do you expect me to do with all these ideas, put 'em in a tub and clean myself with them? That's what soap's for Lois." - Family Guy
4. "You see, the Israelis they have a man who can take his own left leg off and swallow it with every alternate step..." - Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl.
5. hmmm.

[roughsatori]

8. John I am a lover of quotes. Here is my current favorite:

"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning"--Catherine Aird

Unfortunately I think that I fall into the horrible warning category.

[nuxvomica]

9. I had to look up "expostulated"

So that no one else has to, here's the definition from
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=expostulated

To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with.

Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring accusations against enemies who have done them a wrong. --Jowett (Thuc. ).

[chaska]

11. Byron

"Sorrow is knowledge; they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, the tree of knowledge is not that of life."

[chaska]

12. Kick

Come on, let's have some more. I love quotes. Let's keep it going. I have a million of 'em.

[JohnKleeb]

13. "the only thing we gotta fear is fear it self"

and would you look at that my Kucinich picture changed.