Thoughts and ideas that hold forever true..........

[Dragline]

My quote is gone, but it used to read.

"Now that we know that, what have we learned"

Which is my own as far as I know.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Lotsa people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Cynicism is not the same as recognizing and facing reality.

[Ace-Garageguy]

"A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse"

[JollySipper]

5 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Lotsa people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

There's a Lot of value in nothing! Wanting nothing, needing nothing, fearing nothing...........  

I get your statement, Bill. Usually it's your time that folks don't know the value of......

[Big Messer]

There are people that are so poor that the only thing they have is money...

[mk11]

Getting what we don't deserve is grace; not getting what we do deserve is mercy.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Dietrich Bonhoeffer argued that stupid people are more dangerous than evil ones because while we can defend against or fight evil people, against stupid ones we are powerless; objective truth and reasoning fall on deaf ears. 

"Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here. Reasons fall on deaf ears. Facts that contradict a stupid person’s prejudgment simply need not be believed and when they are irrefutable, they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person is self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us from the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a person, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and is abused in his very being. Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil - incapable of seeing that it is evil." 

Edited Thursday at 10:58 PM by Ace-Garageguy

[johnyrotten]

 

 

[mcs1056]

No problem is so great that we cannot make it much worse in trying to correct it. 

[mk11]

The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Where'er ye be, letcher wind blow free.

[Bugatti Fan]

Upper class casinos demand that gentlemen visiting their establishments must wear a tie.

Cannot get my head around this as they exist solely in order to get gentlemen to lose their shirt !

[thatz4u]

Beware of pretty faces that you find
A pretty face can hide an evil mind

 

 

Johnny Rivers

[Ace-Garageguy]

Mind where you pee and queue.  

[FoMoCo66]

There are two ways of doing things, correctly, or again.

Edited Friday at 09:37 PM by FoMoCo66

[Big Messer]

33 minutes ago, FoMoCo66 said:

There are two ways of doing things, correctly, or again.

Actually three: right way, wrong way and my way.

[Ace-Garageguy]

 

[Tim W. SoCal]

If you lose something you'll always find it in the last place you look.

[Bugatti Fan]

Before retiring whilst in meetings  I used to wind up people using tired old management speak cliches just for a laugh. One guy loved to use the phrase 'Blue sky thinking'.until I asked him if he was addressing a group of airline pilots.

[Big Messer]

1 hour ago, Tim W. SoCal said:

If you lose something you'll always find it in the last place you look.

Not quite like this. You will have to buy a new one first, THEN find it in the last place you looked (that will be right in the center in plain view) and after that, when looking for the receipt to return the new one... guess...

[Big Messer]

On 10/21/2025 at 5:20 PM, Ace-Garageguy said:

Lotsa people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Value: the cheapest junk that may look good enough; price: how much we can charge until the victim (sorry customer) reacts violently.

[stavanzer]

On 10/24/2025 at 3:11 PM, Big Messer said:

Actually three: right way, wrong way and my way.

The Right Way, the Wrong Way, the Army Way.......

[mk11]

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen.  Keep in the sunlight.

-Franklin