Brainy Thoughts

“You can’t win a war against your brother.”

Brainythoughts.com 2006

“Those that make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.”

Jean de La Bruysre

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

Mohandas Karamchand “Mahatma” Gandhi (October 2 1869 – January 30 1948) was an advocate and pioneer of nonviolence. He led the struggle for India’s independence from British colonial rule.

“When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging”

Will Rogers (November 4, 1879, August 15, 1935) was an American comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer, and actor.

“There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Douglas Noël Adams (March 11, 1952, May 11, 2001). British author, comic radio dramatist, and amateur musician. He is known most notably as author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series.

Douglas Adams died of a heart attack at the age of 49 on Friday 11 May 2001, while working out at a private gym in California.

“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”

Anonymous

“A closed mouth gathers no foot.”

Anonymous