tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-261486662009-02-20T23:50:18.278-08:00Multi-lingual quotes, one-liners, and random observation for the age of ADHDKhodadadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05941251428014633954noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26148666.post-1147846670948579192006-05-16T23:17:00.000-07:002006-05-16T23:17:50.956-07:00<strong>Conservative: a statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others</strong><br /><br />(Ambrose Bierce, <em>The Devil's Dictionary</em>)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26148666-114784667094857919?l=shortwisdom.blogspot.com'/></div>Khodadadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05941251428014633954noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26148666.post-1147333539091280222006-05-11T00:44:00.000-07:002006-05-11T00:45:39.113-07:00<strong>Dulce bellum inexpertis</strong><br />(Erasmus)<br /><br />Sweet is the war for those who have not experienced it!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26148666-114733353909128022?l=shortwisdom.blogspot.com'/></div>Khodadadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05941251428014633954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26148666.post-1147082261658452302006-05-08T02:56:00.000-07:002006-05-08T02:57:41.666-07:00<strong>All animals are equal, but some Animals are more Equal than others.</strong><br />(George Orwell)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26148666-114708226165845230?l=shortwisdom.blogspot.com'/></div>Khodadadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05941251428014633954noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26148666.post-1146634996557160012006-05-02T22:42:00.000-07:002006-05-02T22:43:16.563-07:00<strong>Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. </strong><br />Groucho Marx<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26148666-114663499655716001?l=shortwisdom.blogspot.com'/></div>Khodadadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05941251428014633954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26148666.post-1145949803644103772006-04-25T00:22:00.000-07:002006-04-25T00:23:23.650-07:00<strong>A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education!</strong><br /><br />George Bernard Shaw<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26148666-114594980364410377?l=shortwisdom.blogspot.com'/></div>Khodadadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05941251428014633954noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26148666.post-1145850727783211952006-04-23T20:45:00.000-07:002006-04-23T20:53:16.493-07:00<strong>به هرحال از مرگ بپرهيزيد که از قديم مرگ را مکروه داشته اند</strong><br /><br />Avoid death at all costs, since from the olden times, death has been considered unsavory!<br /><br />(Obeid Zakani, <em>the Tretise of 100 Admonitions</em>, a 14th century collection of ironic and humurous advice!)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26148666-114585072778321195?l=shortwisdom.blogspot.com'/></div>Khodadadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05941251428014633954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26148666.post-1145760021482047832006-04-22T19:30:00.000-07:002006-04-22T19:40:21.486-07:00<strong>’άλυπον άξεις τόν βίον χωρίς γάμου</strong><br /><br />Without marriage, you will lead a painless life! (Manander)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26148666-114576002148204783?l=shortwisdom.blogspot.com'/></div>Khodadadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05941251428014633954noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26148666.post-1145655274964324952006-04-21T14:31:00.000-07:002006-04-21T14:35:55.380-07:00<strong>آمدند و کشتند و کندند و سوختند و بردند و رفتند</strong><br /><br />They came, they killed, they razed, they burnt, they took, and they left<br />(annonymous, describing, in a few words, the Mongol attacks on Iran)<br /><br /><strong>Veni, Vidi, Vici...</strong><br /><br />I came, I saw, I conquered<br />(C. Julius Caesar, describing his own attack on Gaul)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26148666-114565527496432495?l=shortwisdom.blogspot.com'/></div>Khodadadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05941251428014633954noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26148666.post-1145425220218261942006-04-18T22:39:00.000-07:002006-04-18T22:41:11.553-07:00<strong>To Err is Human</strong>, but it feels divine!<br /><br />(original Latin: <em>Errare Humanum Est</em>, minus Mae West's commentary!)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26148666-114542522021826194?l=shortwisdom.blogspot.com'/></div>Khodadadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05941251428014633954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26148666.post-1145343963843235332006-04-18T00:04:00.000-07:002006-04-18T00:06:03.850-07:00<strong>Fróðr er hverr fregnvíss</strong><br /><br />A man who is curious is wise (Old Icelandic proverb)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26148666-114534396384323533?l=shortwisdom.blogspot.com'/></div>Khodadadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05941251428014633954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26148666.post-1145246519684941032006-04-16T20:59:00.000-07:002006-04-16T21:05:05.220-07:00<strong>هيچ نبشته نيست که آن به يکبار خواندن نيرزد</strong>. ابولفضل بيهقی<br /><br />There is nothing written that is not worth reading once. (Beyhaqqi, 11th century Iranian historian)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26148666-114524651968494103?l=shortwisdom.blogspot.com'/></div>Khodadadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05941251428014633954noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26148666.post-1145209695860694232006-04-16T10:47:00.000-07:002006-04-16T10:49:01.613-07:00<strong>Carpe Per Diem</strong>: Seize the Check!<br />(Robin Williams)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26148666-114520969586069423?l=shortwisdom.blogspot.com'/></div>Khodadadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05941251428014633954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26148666.post-1145157790932823992006-04-15T20:22:00.000-07:002006-04-15T20:24:31.476-07:00<strong>Ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant</strong> (quote from the leader of the defeated Britons in Tacitus' <em>Agricola</em>)<br /><br />Where they make desolution, they call it peace...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26148666-114515779093282399?l=shortwisdom.blogspot.com'/></div>Khodadadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05941251428014633954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26148666.post-1145082239761552792006-04-14T23:23:00.000-07:002006-04-14T23:23:59.783-07:00Watching a Jacky Chan film is like watching a porn movie: you cannot wait for the bad acting to end so the action can start.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26148666-114508223976155279?l=shortwisdom.blogspot.com'/></div>Khodadadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05941251428014633954noreply@blogger.com1