Chu Man Foo

“The best wrestler is not he who has learned thoroughly all the tricks and twists of the art, which are seldom met with in actual wrestling, but he who has well and carefully trained himself in one or two of them, and watches keenly for an opportunity of practicing them.” — Seneca, On Benefits, vii. [Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC – 65 AD)]

“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by” – Sun Tzu

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” – Albert Einstein

“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you’re misinformed” – Mark Twain

“I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.”  – Dr. Rumack (Airplane, 1980).

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” – Jimi Hendrix

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” – Albert Einstein

“I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do the right thing and be good so that God will not make me one” – Mark Twain

“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.” – Soren Kierkegaard

“You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar (other ziglarisms here)

cri de coeur [ˌkriː də ˈkɜː] n pl cris de coeur = a cry from the heart; heartfelt or sincere appeal

“Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand” (Mark Twain).

“You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.” – St.Augustine

“The worst thing that’s happened to me in ministry is when this old heart has gotten calloused. Don’t let that happen to you.” Eric Frykenberg (Missionary Uncle of Whitney Kuniholm [scriptureunion.org])

Yep, there are certain laws of baseball, laws of life. You strike out more often than you go yard, the players with the dirtiest uniforms usually win. – Chris Erskine 20130509

“naturally supernatural and supernaturally natural.” – anonymous

“from the time you’re born, till you ride in a hearse
there’s nothing so bad, that it couldn’t be worse” – country lyrics

luminiferous aether – an old name for the medium in which light traveled.

“Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult; whoever rebukes a wicked man incurs abuse. Do not rebuke a mocker or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man and he will love you.” – Proverbs 9:7-8

“A lawyer’s primer: If you don’t have the law, you argue the facts; if you don’t have the facts, you argue the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, then you argue the Constitution” – H.D. Thoreau

— Network Engineering Related —

“It is an Equal failing to Trust Everybody, and to Trust Nobody” — English Proverb (quoted in Cisco LAN security documentation)

The workplace: “fraught with perils akin to craggy rocks and whirlpools.” — anonymous

“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” – Kurt Vonnegut

“Older releases are often more stable than new ones, but also contain fewer features.” – How to Choose a Cisco IOS Software Release (Document ID: 15071 – Cisco Systems)

“things can work – and still be broken.  But when they come to <this company> they turn to hell” – TomBl regarding vendor network hardware.

“We provided the problem that you bought” – Cisco Support Engineer David X.