Author Topic: Quote for the Day (Read 60222 times)

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #350 on:** April 26, 2020, 10:33:03 AM »

And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.

Thomas Reid

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #351 on:** April 27, 2020, 07:38:42 AM »

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #352 on:** April 28, 2020, 10:43:34 AM »

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Terry Pratchett

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #353 on:** April 29, 2020, 07:53:57 AM »

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.

Thomas Beecham

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #354 on:** April 30, 2020, 02:32:32 PM »

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.

Alice B. Toklas

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #355 on:** May 01, 2020, 08:03:06 AM »

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #356 on:** May 02, 2020, 08:18:01 AM »

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Jerome K. Jerome

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #357 on:** May 03, 2020, 09:29:36 AM »

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #358 on:** May 04, 2020, 08:49:02 AM »

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #359 on:** May 05, 2020, 09:56:14 AM »

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

Soren Kierkegaard

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #360 on:** May 08, 2020, 09:19:40 AM »

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Francis Quarles

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #361 on:** May 09, 2020, 09:29:19 AM »

We are all of us failures - at least, the best of us are.

James M. Barrie

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #362 on:** May 11, 2020, 10:12:52 AM »

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

Salvador Dali

ippy · « **Reply #363 on:** May 11, 2020, 01:05:59 PM »

Cricket invented by the English, gives them a greater sense of eternity. (George Bernard Shaw).

ippy.

Roses · « **Reply #364 on:** May 11, 2020, 06:52:51 PM »

Quote from: ippy on May 11, 2020, 01:05:59 PM

Cricket invented by the English, gives them a greater sense of eternity. (George Bernard Shaw).

ippy.

TOO RIGHT, that boring game seems to go on and on and on for the whole of eternity and well beyond.

ippy · « **Reply #365 on:** May 11, 2020, 07:12:31 PM »

Quote from: Littleroses on May 11, 2020, 06:52:51 PM

TOO RIGHT, that boring game seems to go on and on and on for the whole of eternity and well beyond.

Found something more boring than cricket L R, I didn't think it possible and then Golf commentaries on the radio.

The golf one is now being used by doctors as an even better cure for insomnia so it's now replacing the cricket commentary.

Regards to you L R, ippy.

P S Don't forget L R, the gasometer's up and guess? That's right the gasometer's down.

ippy · « **Reply #366 on:** May 12, 2020, 02:36:23 PM »

I could have had class.

I could have been a contender.

I could have been somebody instead of a bum, which I am let's face it I am!

Marlon Brando, from the film 'On the Waterfront'.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #367 on:** May 12, 2020, 02:55:18 PM »

Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

Yogi Berra

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #368 on:** May 12, 2020, 09:38:07 PM »

"if you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun" - Katherine Hepburn

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #369 on:** May 13, 2020, 10:06:37 AM »

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

Stephen R. Donaldson

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #370 on:** May 14, 2020, 10:41:26 AM »

I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.

Eric Morecambe

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #371 on:** May 15, 2020, 10:53:43 AM »

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

Katherine Anne Porter

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #372 on:** May 19, 2020, 12:25:05 PM »

I wasn't heroic because I was never in danger.

Nicholas Winton

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #373 on:** May 20, 2020, 02:35:11 PM »

I have published a proclamation: 'Forgive us our transgressions as we forgive those who transgress against us.' I have ordered all citizens to return to their parishes to enjoy the benefits of this general amnesty.

Toussaint Louverture

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #374 on:** May 21, 2020, 11:48:16 AM »

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Alexander Pope

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