Author Topic: Quote for the Day (Read 59935 times)

ekim · « **Reply #125 on:** October 21, 2019, 02:47:35 PM »

“Life is one fool thing after another, whereas love is two fool things after each other.”

― Oscar Wilde

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #126 on:** October 22, 2019, 02:46:30 PM »

"The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, and it is intricate beyond our understanding."

Timothy Leary

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #127 on:** October 23, 2019, 06:54:00 AM »

"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito."

Anita Roddick

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #128 on:** October 24, 2019, 08:12:44 AM »

"So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience."

Moss Hart

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #129 on:** October 25, 2019, 08:46:48 AM »

"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."

Pablo Picasso

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #130 on:** October 25, 2019, 09:29:10 AM »

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

L P Hartley

SteveH · « **Reply #131 on:** October 25, 2019, 11:10:05 AM »

"We know our wills are free, and there's an end on't." - Dr Johnson expressing some sturdy common sense, after Boswell unuccessfully tried to start a discussion with him about free-will.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #132 on:** October 25, 2019, 11:11:49 AM »

Quote from: Steve H on October 25, 2019, 11:10:05 AM

"We know our wills are free, and there's an end on't." - Dr Johnson expressing some sturdy common sense, after Boswell unuccessfully tried to start a discussion with him about free-will.

"'Sturdy common sense' - something you agree with without being able to justify"

NS

SteveH · « **Reply #133 on:** October 25, 2019, 11:21:54 AM »

Sometimes, asking for justification is silly. Take the cogito: it can't be logically defended, but doesn't need to be. If you understand it, you see that it must be true. if you try to argue against your own conscious existence, you immediately fall into a logical contradiction. So too, in my opinion, with free-will.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #134 on:** October 25, 2019, 11:25:50 AM »

JESSUP: You want answers?

KAFFEE: I want the truth!

JESSUP: You can't handle the truth!

A Few Good Men

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #135 on:** October 26, 2019, 11:47:14 AM »

Money just draws flies.

Mahalia Jackson

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #136 on:** October 27, 2019, 09:03:56 AM »

"The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting."

Fran Lebowitz

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #137 on:** October 28, 2019, 07:20:36 AM »

"I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people."

Desiderius Erasmus

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #138 on:** October 29, 2019, 08:22:31 AM »

"I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am."

James Boswell

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #139 on:** October 30, 2019, 08:56:06 AM »

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

John Adams

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #140 on:** October 31, 2019, 10:04:51 AM »

"The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent."

Neal Stephenson

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #141 on:** November 01, 2019, 09:03:57 AM »

The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror.

Kinky Friedman

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #142 on:** November 02, 2019, 09:39:04 AM »

"I have begun the 'History of England' by Mr. Hume. It seems to me very interesting, though it is necessary to recollect that it is a Protestant who has written it."

Marie Antoinette

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #143 on:** November 02, 2019, 12:27:28 PM »

"It is really special and it was more than just a game for us. We are really grateful to have our families here and all I want to do is to inspire my kids and every other kid in South Africa. I never dreamed of a day like this at all. When I was a kid all I was thinking about was getting my next meal.

"A lot of us in South Africa just need an opportunity and there are so many untold stories. I'm hoping that we have just given people a bit of hope to pull together as a country to make it better."

Siya Kolisi

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #144 on:** November 03, 2019, 09:41:35 AM »

"I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss."

Dylan Moran

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #145 on:** November 04, 2019, 07:50:57 AM »

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."

Will Rogers

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #146 on:** November 05, 2019, 09:49:26 AM »

"I'm not young. What's wrong with that?"

Vivien Leigh

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #147 on:** November 06, 2019, 06:45:50 AM »

He longed to be lost but he couldn't bear not to be found.

Ronald Blythe

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #148 on:** November 07, 2019, 08:14:01 AM »

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

Marie Curie

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #149 on:** November 08, 2019, 08:25:39 AM »

"Despair has its own calms."

Bram Stoker

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