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

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!)

You tell 'em!

’άλυπον άξεις τόν βίον χωρίς γάμου

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

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)

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)

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)

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...

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.