Author Topic: Quote for the Day (Read 60209 times)

Robbie · « **Reply #475 on:** January 08, 2021, 09:25:21 PM »

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

Miguel de Cervantes

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #476 on:** January 10, 2021, 05:29:40 PM »

"The enemy is anybody who is going to get you killed, no matter what side they're on." Joseph Heller

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #477 on:** January 22, 2021, 11:57:46 AM »

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. — Philip K. Dick

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #478 on:** January 22, 2021, 10:27:49 PM »

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world. Eugene Debs

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #479 on:** January 23, 2021, 12:45:03 AM »

"During my administration, we did not fire a single bullet, we did not drop a single bomb and we did not launch a single missile. So we had an administration without any wars." Former President Jimmy Carter.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #480 on:** January 25, 2021, 11:02:39 AM »

“Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!”
Gradgrind, Hard Times - Charles Dickens

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #481 on:** January 27, 2021, 12:42:04 PM »

“Went to showbiz party. Met Jim Davidson, a fine comedian and a gentleman. Talked to all three of them.” Benny Hill

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #482 on:** January 28, 2021, 11:35:30 AM »

Without you, everything has a flatness. I feel as if I'm waiting for something all the time.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #483 on:** January 30, 2021, 08:27:56 PM »

“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”

Gabriel García Márquez

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #484 on:** February 02, 2021, 03:33:36 PM »

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.” Saul Bellow

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #485 on:** February 09, 2021, 04:04:12 PM »

The only thing I envy in young people is their livers.

Brendan Behan

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #486 on:** February 10, 2021, 08:50:18 PM »

Who do I like best, men or women? I think it really depends on what for!

Joyce Grenfell

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #487 on:** March 03, 2021, 09:11:32 PM »

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

Judy Garland

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #488 on:** March 25, 2021, 10:13:17 AM »

If there is an idiot in power, it is because those who elected him are well represented.
- Mahathma Gandhi

ekim · « **Reply #489 on:** March 25, 2021, 02:48:16 PM »

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older, I find I don't want to do them.

Nancy Astor, on her 80th birthday.

Sebastian Toe · « **Reply #490 on:** April 06, 2021, 09:33:11 PM »

Everybody makes mistakes.
Intelligent people recognise when they do, apologise, and try hard not to do it again.
Fools can't see their mistakes.

Leonard Woodrow

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #491 on:** April 14, 2021, 11:07:13 PM »

A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.

Ernest Bevin

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #492 on:** April 23, 2021, 02:09:09 AM »

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. - Albert Einstein

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #493 on:** April 23, 2021, 04:12:05 PM »

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Noel Coward

ekim · « **Reply #494 on:** April 24, 2021, 09:44:52 AM »

One more drink and I'll be under the host.

Dorothy Parker (at a Cocktail Party)

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #495 on:** April 25, 2021, 01:06:51 PM »

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. - Mark Twain

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #496 on:** May 01, 2021, 12:27:18 PM »

“To right wing men, we are private property. To left wing men, we are public property.”

-Andrea Dworkin

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #497 on:** May 20, 2021, 02:57:15 PM »

"A generation which ignores history has no past - and no future."

Robert A. Heinlein

ekim · « **Reply #498 on:** May 20, 2021, 03:50:16 PM »

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

George Bernard Shaw.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #499 on:** June 15, 2021, 01:08:32 PM »

We, who seven years ago
Talked of honour and of truth,
Shriek with pleasure if we show
The weasel’s twist, the weasel’s tooth.

W B Yeats

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