Author Topic: Quote for the Day (Read 60116 times)

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #200 on:** December 11, 2019, 10:55:23 AM »

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Robbie · « **Reply #201 on:** December 11, 2019, 05:48:06 PM »

“I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up”
― Lenny Bruce

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #202 on:** December 12, 2019, 06:47:46 AM »

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #203 on:** December 13, 2019, 10:52:04 AM »

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

Heinrich Heine

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #204 on:** December 14, 2019, 04:21:59 PM »

I delight in what I fear.

Shirley Jackson

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #205 on:** December 15, 2019, 09:19:22 AM »

It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.

Henry Charles Carey

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #206 on:** December 16, 2019, 07:18:24 AM »

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Jane Austen

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #207 on:** December 16, 2019, 11:34:45 AM »

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

Bill Hicks

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #208 on:** December 17, 2019, 08:23:51 AM »

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #209 on:** December 18, 2019, 07:27:56 AM »

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Hector Hugh Munro

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #210 on:** December 19, 2019, 06:40:12 AM »

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

Ralph Richardson

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #211 on:** December 20, 2019, 08:29:40 AM »

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Max Lerner

Udayana · « **Reply #212 on:** December 20, 2019, 09:03:22 PM »

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.

William Drummond of Logiealmond

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #213 on:** December 21, 2019, 09:00:31 AM »

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Rebecca West

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #214 on:** December 22, 2019, 08:28:35 AM »

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

Jean Racine

Robbie · « **Reply #215 on:** December 22, 2019, 11:16:30 AM »

An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life. Bernie Siegel

(Bollocks)

Walter · « **Reply #216 on:** December 22, 2019, 01:05:07 PM »

If you want a guarantee , buy a toaster

Clint Eastwood

Walter · « **Reply #217 on:** December 22, 2019, 01:14:40 PM »

To pacifists everywhere 😘

Fill your hands you son of a bitch !

Rooster Cogburn

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #218 on:** December 23, 2019, 09:04:48 AM »

Political orientation is unimportant in populism because it does not deal in evidence or detailed proposals for change but in the manipulation of feelings by charismatic leaders.

Margaret MacMillan

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #219 on:** December 24, 2019, 08:42:20 AM »

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Ava Gardner

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #220 on:** December 25, 2019, 09:14:24 AM »

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

Quentin Crisp

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #221 on:** December 26, 2019, 09:14:31 AM »

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

Charles Babbage

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #222 on:** December 27, 2019, 09:58:56 AM »

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.

Marlene Dietrich

Robbie · « **Reply #223 on:** December 27, 2019, 09:18:24 PM »

(NS I can think of one fellow poster who would agree with that entirely.)

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #224 on:** December 28, 2019, 10:08:36 AM »

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

Kary Mullis

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