Author Topic: Quote for the Day (Read 71883 times)

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #500 on:** June 15, 2021, 02:48:19 PM »

'There lurches past, his great eyes without thought
Under the shadow of stupid straw-pale locks
That insolent fiend…'

W B Yeats

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #501 on:** June 16, 2021, 11:48:14 AM »

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience

Adam Smith

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #502 on:** June 22, 2021, 11:10:33 AM »

Legend – a lie that has attained the dignity of age. H L Mencken

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #503 on:** June 23, 2021, 11:18:46 AM »

Think how stupid the average person is then realise half of them are stupider than that...George Carlin.

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #504 on:** June 28, 2021, 03:29:10 PM »

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty - John Waters

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #505 on:** July 08, 2021, 10:19:51 AM »

“If you think your religion requires discrimination, you're probably misreading your faith.”
― DaShanne Stokes

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #506 on:** July 13, 2021, 04:56:48 PM »

I'd rather be a footballer missing a penalty than a Tory MP missing a soul - Dan Freeman

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #507 on:** July 19, 2021, 11:43:11 AM »

“The pain of ignorance can end. The pain of knowledge is forever”
― Reginald Hill

Sebastian Toe · « **Reply #508 on:** August 04, 2021, 02:01:31 PM »

In an anti-intellectual society, people who know nothing about a complex subject are emboldened to ridicule experts who have spent a lifetime studying it.

George Kiser

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #509 on:** August 17, 2021, 03:58:39 PM »

“What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in. I find myself incapable of thinking of a deity or of any unknown supreme power in anthropomorphic terms, and the fact that many people think so is continually a source of surprise to me. Any idea of a personal God seems very odd to me.”
― Jawaharlal Nehru

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #510 on:** August 19, 2021, 01:28:57 PM »

'Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.'

Thomas Hobbes

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #511 on:** August 22, 2021, 08:54:56 PM »

“Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.”
― Rudyard Kipling

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #512 on:** August 30, 2021, 10:02:46 AM »

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfils our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Aldous Huxley

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #513 on:** September 01, 2021, 06:18:54 PM »

“When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatise those who let people die, not those who struggle to live.”
― Sarah Kendzior

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #514 on:** September 07, 2021, 03:02:48 PM »

‘Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.’ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #515 on:** September 08, 2021, 07:02:01 PM »

If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .

Richard Feynman

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #516 on:** September 30, 2021, 03:06:52 PM »

"You can also commit injustice by doing nothing." Marcus Aurelius

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #517 on:** September 30, 2021, 06:47:14 PM »

“Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.”
-- Jodie Foster

Udayana · « **Reply #518 on:** October 04, 2021, 03:51:27 PM »

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way.

— John Paul Jones

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #519 on:** October 07, 2021, 02:52:10 PM »

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #520 on:** October 11, 2021, 08:15:42 AM »

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #521 on:** October 16, 2021, 10:36:58 AM »

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
~James Baldwin

ekim · « **Reply #522 on:** October 20, 2021, 04:59:33 PM »

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

George Carlin

Gordon · « **Reply #523 on:** October 20, 2021, 05:04:02 PM »

I would like to add, though it is a small digression, that I love reading (and re-reading) this thread.

Gordon · « **Reply #524 on:** October 22, 2021, 07:21:07 AM »

I liked this one from George Takei ('Sulu' in the original Star Trek) on William Shatner's recent 10 minute jaunt into (or not) 'space';

"He’s boldly going where other people have gone before."

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