Author Topic: Quote for the Day (Read 60378 times)

Walter · « **Reply #50 on:** August 13, 2019, 03:45:36 PM »

Quote from: Nearly Sane on August 13, 2019, 03:42:58 PM

"I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson." Emo Philips

you're on fire today old chap
Quick ! Somebody piss on him 😎

Stranger · « **Reply #51 on:** August 14, 2019, 08:03:17 AM »

"There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them."

Niels Bohr

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #52 on:** August 14, 2019, 09:18:49 AM »

"We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. "

Charles Bukowski

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #53 on:** August 15, 2019, 06:32:21 PM »

"The space within becomes the reality of the building."

Frank Lloyd Wright

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #54 on:** August 16, 2019, 10:05:56 AM »

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."

Confucius

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #55 on:** August 17, 2019, 08:48:06 AM »

"It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them."

Agatha Christie

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #56 on:** August 20, 2019, 05:55:10 PM »

When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

Dmitri Shostakovich

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #57 on:** August 23, 2019, 09:36:45 AM »

The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Stranger · « **Reply #58 on:** August 23, 2019, 01:31:22 PM »

"The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as to seem not worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it."

Bertrand Russell

SweetPea · « **Reply #59 on:** August 24, 2019, 01:48:52 PM »

The new Liberal woman is toxic to both womanhood and manhood.

~ Shieena Waters

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #60 on:** August 25, 2019, 10:07:24 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 #61 on:** August 26, 2019, 09:59:21 AM »

"There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad."

Salvador Dali

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #62 on:** August 27, 2019, 07:23:23 AM »

"I don't want it good. I want it Tuesday."

Jack L. Warner

Outrider · « **Reply #63 on:** August 27, 2019, 09:11:12 AM »

"First they came for the journalists, and I did nothing for I was not a journalist.

Then, I didn't hear anything more about it. Hang on, there's someone at the door..."

Betty Bowers (America's 'Best' Christian)

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #64 on:** August 28, 2019, 12:15:00 PM »

"The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #65 on:** August 29, 2019, 11:28:58 AM »

"We have art in order not to die of the truth."

Friedrich Nietzsche

Outrider · « **Reply #66 on:** August 29, 2019, 11:56:12 AM »

"You will not fuck with my children’s future. You will not destroy the freedoms my grandfather fought two world wars to defend. Fuck off you over-promoted rubber bath toy. Britain is revolted by you and you little gang of masturbatory prefects."

Hugh Grant, to Boris Johnson

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #67 on:** August 30, 2019, 09:30:24 AM »

"Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks."

Warren Buffett

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #68 on:** August 31, 2019, 09:21:40 AM »

"I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity."

Van Morrison

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #69 on:** September 01, 2019, 10:22:36 AM »

"We are all in this together, by ourselves."

Lily Tomlin

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #70 on:** September 02, 2019, 09:49:14 AM »

"The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way."

Keanu Reeves

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #71 on:** September 03, 2019, 07:20:48 AM »

"In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery."

Malcolm Gladwell

Enki · « **Reply #72 on:** September 03, 2019, 10:20:57 AM »

"We'll negotiate a withdrawal from the EEC which has drained our natural resources and destroyed jobs."

Tony Blair before he became an MP in 1983.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #73 on:** September 04, 2019, 10:24:36 AM »

"Huge institutions producing costly services dominate the horizons of our inventiveness."

Ivan Illich

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #74 on:** September 05, 2019, 06:58:52 AM »

"If lies were flies, the swarm around him would be so thick that Boris Johnson would be invisible. His gruff, mock-jovial Etonian tones would be drowned out by their incessant, deafening hum. "

Fintan O'Toole

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