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To quote The Roanman along with just a whole raft of other people about Astrology

Submitted by Roanman on Wed, 07/10/2013 - 08:37

 

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.  Arthur C. Clarke
 
Who needs astrology?  The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.  Edward Abbey
 
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born.  Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.  Carl Gustav Jung
 
A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.  Jeremy Taylor
 
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities.  They are communism at its best.  Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.  Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
 
All anyone can see in a birthchart are tendencies that will become facts if he does not do something to alter them.  Isabel Hickey
 
We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac.  The zodiac is well worth flirting with.  D.H. Lawrence
 
The signs of the zodiac are karmic patterns; the planets are the looms; the will is the weaver.  Author Unknown
 
There is no better boat than a horoscope to help a man cross over the sea of life.  Varaha Mihira
 
I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.  Noel Coward
 
Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.  Roger L'Estrange
 
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy:  the mad daughter of a wise mother.  Voltaire
 
Astrology? ............. Why not?   The Roanman
 
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune (often the surfeits of our own behaviour) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars: as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treacherous by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on.  An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!  William Shakespeare
 
Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.   Claudius Ptolemy
 
Astrology is a language.  If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.  Dane Rudhyar
 
The vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or not, become all the more excited and enthusiastic about the bilge when a group of astronomers denounces it.   Isaac Asimov
 
The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today....  Linda Goodman
 
Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
Responsibility, n.  A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor.  In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.  Ambrose Bierce
 
The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time....  Carl Jung
 
Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?  Walter Scott
 
If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish...  Robert G. Ingersoll
 
The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.  Louis Pasteur
 
Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.  Hippocrates
 
If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.   David Hilbert

Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory.  A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology.   Frank Tipler

Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince would make War or Peace, nor any General fight in Battle, in short, no important affair was undertaken without first consulting an Astrologer.   Benjamin Franklin
 
It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.  Claudius Ptolemy
 
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.  John Kenneth Galbraith
 
Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.  John Pierpont Morgan