Tuesday, April 25, 2006

What am I to think?

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education!

George Bernard Shaw

Sunday, April 23, 2006

Funny Advice

به هرحال از مرگ بپرهيزيد که از قديم مرگ را مکروه داشته اند

Avoid death at all costs, since from the olden times, death has been considered unsavory!

(Obeid Zakani, the Tretise of 100 Admonitions, a 14th century collection of ironic and humurous advice!)

Saturday, April 22, 2006

You tell 'em!

’άλυπον άξεις τόν βίον χωρίς γάμου

Without marriage, you will lead a painless life! (Manander)

Friday, April 21, 2006

Words of violence...

آمدند و کشتند و کندند و سوختند و بردند و رفتند

They came, they killed, they razed, they burnt, they took, and they left
(annonymous, describing, in a few words, the Mongol attacks on Iran)

Veni, Vidi, Vici...

I came, I saw, I conquered
(C. Julius Caesar, describing his own attack on Gaul)

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Oh so true!

To Err is Human, but it feels divine!

(original Latin: Errare Humanum Est, minus Mae West's commentary!)

Say that again...

Fróðr er hverr fregnvíss

A man who is curious is wise (Old Icelandic proverb)

Sunday, April 16, 2006

If he only knew...

هيچ نبشته نيست که آن به يکبار خواندن نيرزد. ابولفضل بيهقی

There is nothing written that is not worth reading once. (Beyhaqqi, 11th century Iranian historian)

Modern Romans

Carpe Per Diem: Seize the Check!
(Robin Williams)

Saturday, April 15, 2006

Still applies...

Ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant (quote from the leader of the defeated Britons in Tacitus' Agricola)

Where they make desolution, they call it peace...

Friday, April 14, 2006

Sexy Chan?

Watching a Jacky Chan film is like watching a porn movie: you cannot wait for the bad acting to end so the action can start.