Author Topic: Quote for the Day (Read 60105 times)

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #175 on:** November 23, 2019, 08:53:15 AM »

The monster was the best friend I ever had.

Boris Karloff

SteveH · « **Reply #176 on:** November 23, 2019, 08:58:40 AM »

Quote from: Robbie on November 22, 2019, 11:27:49 PM

Extraordinary quotation :-

"I have been here in Saudi Arabia for 24 hours and all I have received is just extraordinary kindness. In fact it was so moving today, that I just feel this sort of…just huge embrace of love. And when asked in what do I believe more than anything else I just said 'hashtag kindness'. So it is a huge treat to be able to say Happy World Kindness Day."

Fergie

Saudi Arabia is a ghastly regime, but, at the individual level, Muslims do have a reputation for kindness and hospitality towards strangers.

Robbie · « **Reply #177 on:** November 24, 2019, 12:38:20 AM »

‘I am the song that sings the bird. / I am the leaf that grows the land. …I am the clay that shapes the hand. / I am the word that speaks the man.’

Charles Causley
I am the song

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #178 on:** November 24, 2019, 10:07:01 AM »

Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.

Billy Connolly

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #179 on:** November 25, 2019, 06:28:05 AM »

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Charles Kennedy

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #180 on:** November 26, 2019, 05:09:43 PM »

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

Charles M. Schulz

Robbie · « **Reply #181 on:** November 26, 2019, 08:40:36 PM »

No clear impressions, either from above or from without, can be received by a mind turbid with excitement and agitated by a crowd of distractions. The stillness needed for the clear shining of light within is incompatible with hurry.

Caroline Stephen

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #182 on:** November 27, 2019, 06:47:27 AM »

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Jimi Hendrix

Robbie · « **Reply #183 on:** November 27, 2019, 08:17:35 PM »

The light checks you, when you speak an evil word,
and tells you that you should not be proud or unrestrained,
nor fashion yourselves like the world;
for the fashion of this world passes away.
~ George Fox

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #184 on:** November 28, 2019, 06:09:13 AM »

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

Rita Mae Brown

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #185 on:** November 28, 2019, 07:09:27 AM »

“There is a moral point. If NHS services continue to be free in this way, they will continue to be abused like any free service. If people have to pay for them they will value them more. Above all, there is an economic point. In a very modest way, this extension of private funds into the NHS would help the Chancellor’s straitened circumstances”

Boris Johnson

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #186 on:** November 29, 2019, 06:10:37 AM »

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

Louisa May Alcott

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #187 on:** November 30, 2019, 08:39:59 AM »

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #188 on:** December 01, 2019, 09:28:21 AM »

Everyone carries around his own monsters.

Richard Pryor

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #189 on:** December 02, 2019, 06:27:39 AM »

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

Maria Callas

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #190 on:** December 03, 2019, 07:38:39 AM »

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

Joseph Conrad

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #191 on:** December 04, 2019, 06:57:30 AM »

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

Samuel Butler

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #192 on:** December 05, 2019, 10:37:36 AM »

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Joan Didion

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #193 on:** December 06, 2019, 07:25:41 AM »

I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Steven Wright

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #194 on:** December 07, 2019, 09:27:40 AM »

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

Tom Waits

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #195 on:** December 08, 2019, 11:18:18 AM »

When I started writing, I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way.

John Banville

SteveH · « **Reply #196 on:** December 09, 2019, 05:46:32 AM »

If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
PG Wodehouse

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #197 on:** December 09, 2019, 06:24:29 AM »

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.

John Milton

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #198 on:** December 09, 2019, 11:06:13 PM »

I'm flabbergasted — never has my flabber been so gasted!

Talbot Rothwell (attributed)

(The PG Wodehouse quote brought this to mind - strange thing my mind)

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #199 on:** December 10, 2019, 11:55:52 AM »

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Emily Dickinson

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