Author Topic: Quote for the Day (Read 60237 times)

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #400 on:** June 11, 2020, 09:24:48 AM »

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #401 on:** June 12, 2020, 08:33:53 AM »

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

Harriet Martineau

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #402 on:** June 13, 2020, 09:50:19 AM »

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

William Butler Yeats

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #403 on:** June 14, 2020, 09:14:27 AM »

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #404 on:** June 15, 2020, 12:29:45 PM »

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

Amy Clampitt

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #405 on:** June 16, 2020, 10:05:45 AM »

If any of you cry at my funeral, I'll never speak to you again!

Stan Laurel

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #406 on:** June 17, 2020, 09:02:27 AM »

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

Igor Stravinsky

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #407 on:** June 18, 2020, 12:34:17 PM »

Of two evils choose the prettier.

Carolyn Wells

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #408 on:** June 19, 2020, 09:29:48 AM »

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #409 on:** June 20, 2020, 08:54:25 AM »

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #410 on:** June 21, 2020, 09:20:55 AM »

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #411 on:** June 21, 2020, 11:41:39 AM »

"The beauty of standing up for your rights is others see you standing and stand up as well."- Cassandra Duffy

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #412 on:** June 22, 2020, 10:24:36 AM »

A hospital alone shows what war is.

Erich Maria Remarque

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #413 on:** June 23, 2020, 09:05:33 AM »

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Alan Turing

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #414 on:** June 24, 2020, 09:59:03 AM »

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Ambrose Bierce

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #415 on:** June 24, 2020, 11:37:17 AM »

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
― Isaac Asimov

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #416 on:** June 25, 2020, 09:44:15 AM »

The most popular labor-saving device is still money.

Phyllis George

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #417 on:** June 26, 2020, 04:05:04 PM »

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

Lord Kelvin

ekim · « **Reply #418 on:** June 26, 2020, 04:18:37 PM »

Here are some more quotes from eminent scientist, William Thomson, (Lord Kelvin) physicist, whilst president of the Royal Society - "X-rays will prove to be a hoax" - "Radio has no future". on Marconi's experiments. - "I trust you will avoid the gigantic mistake of alternating current".- writing to Niagara Falls Power Company.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #419 on:** June 27, 2020, 10:10:54 AM »

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Emma Goldman

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #420 on:** June 28, 2020, 11:55:17 AM »

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

Luigi Pirandello

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #421 on:** June 29, 2020, 09:58:13 AM »

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

Giacomo Leopardi

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #422 on:** June 30, 2020, 12:05:57 PM »

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

Czeslaw Milosz

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #423 on:** July 01, 2020, 09:48:40 AM »

They can't censor the gleam in my eye.

Charles Laughton

Robbie · « **Reply #424 on:** July 02, 2020, 07:12:10 AM »

O wonder! O wonder! . . . The wonders are six: The hornbill complains without
being sick; the plant flourishes without nourishment; the water runs without being
urged; the earth is fixed without pegs; the heavens hold themselves up without
supports; in the firmament He (God) has sown the chick-peas of heaven. These
things fill me with wonder. Let us all pray to God! O God, who hast caused me to
pass the day cause me to pass the night well!

— The Waaqeffannaa song, in "The Folk-Literature of the *Galla."

(*The Oromo people of Ethiopia)

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