Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
-- Homer

Ene Uran commented: great +0
jingda commented: Nice +0

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I was wrong only once in my life -- I thought I was wrong but I was wrong. -- Unknown

Can you answer? Yes I can,
but what would be the answer to the answer man?

-The Grateful Dead, "St. Stephen"

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein

commented: good one.. +0

Some days you're the dog - some days you're the hydrant.
-- Unknown

An expert is someone who has made all the possible mistakes.

commented: True +0

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
-- Oscar Wilde

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Frank Barkow

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
-- Homer

Mmmmm.... Donuts.
-- Homer

One of my favorites:

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
-- Douglas Adams

with complain comes more pain ... Unknown

The only thing worse than not getting what you want is getting what you want.
-- Oscar Wilde

Those who know how to win are more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
--- Polybius

Experience is a hard teacher, because the test is given first, the lesson afterwards.
~~~ Vernon Lawson

likes this one ^^

triumph is just umph added to try

The only reason many people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory."
-- Paul Dontee

The only reason many people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory."
-- Paul Dontee

He was lost in thought - fortunately, he did not have far to travel
-- Goon Show (and various)

Everybody should believe in something -- I believe I'll have another drink.
-- W. C. Fields

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority.
The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority.
The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
~~~ A. A. Milne

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
-- Homer

hurt!

I get mail, therefore I am.
~~~ Scott Adams

I get mail, therefore I am.

Nice! Paraphrasing Descartes (The man who gave us the x and the y in the carthesian coordinate system)

Be nice to people on your way up, because you'll meet 'em on your way down.
-- Wilson Mizner

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.
-- Michael Jackson

Murphy's Law of Research:
Enough research will tend to support whatever theory.

The symptom of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
-- George F. Will

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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