Author Topic: Quote for the Day (Read 59858 times)

Aruntraveller · « **on:** June 24, 2019, 09:38:25 PM »

I've been toying with the idea of a QFTD thread for awhile, but life has been busy and I never seemed to find quite the right quote to kick things off.

However, a trawl through a Dickens quotation website threw this little beauty up:

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Seemed apposite somehow.

I will endeavour to provide a quote each day, but if anyone else feels inclined feel free to jump in. It will save me the bother!

Gordon · « **Reply #1 on:** June 24, 2019, 09:47:19 PM »

I like this one from the US journalist H.L. Mencken (1880-1956).

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On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #2 on:** June 25, 2019, 08:27:10 AM »

Ambrose Bierce

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Udayana · « **Reply #3 on:** June 26, 2019, 03:21:53 PM »

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Mathematics is a process of staring hard enough with enough perseverance at the fog of muddle and confusion to eventually break through to improved clarity. I’m happy when I can admit, at least to myself, that my thinking is muddled, and I try to overcome the embarrassment that I might reveal ignorance or confusion. Over the years, this has helped me develop clarity in some things, but I remain muddled in many others.

— William Thurston, Fields-medal winning mathematician

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #4 on:** June 27, 2019, 07:47:35 PM »

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

Walter · « **Reply #5 on:** June 28, 2019, 01:22:54 AM »

Quote from: Trentvoyager on June 27, 2019, 07:47:35 PM

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

Isn't that the name of that little Japanese robot designed by Honda?

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #6 on:** June 28, 2019, 08:46:27 AM »

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #7 on:** July 05, 2019, 09:36:03 AM »

"If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.”
― Bill Hicks

ekim · « **Reply #8 on:** July 05, 2019, 03:30:39 PM »

It's all fake news!

... Donald Trump

Walter · « **Reply #9 on:** July 05, 2019, 06:35:53 PM »

Quote from: Nearly Sane on June 28, 2019, 08:46:27 AM

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

made up name if ever I've heard one

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #10 on:** July 06, 2019, 10:20:25 AM »

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

Rumi

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #11 on:** July 07, 2019, 10:10:35 AM »

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Anchorman · « **Reply #12 on:** July 07, 2019, 05:26:33 PM »

"Bug'rit, says I. Millenium hand and shrimp". Foul ole Ron. (Terry Pratchett.)

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #13 on:** July 11, 2019, 02:29:01 PM »

“The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”

Schopenhauer

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #14 on:** July 12, 2019, 08:14:49 AM »

"I've got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts - you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn't do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing."

D.D. Barant,

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #15 on:** July 12, 2019, 09:22:45 AM »

Who is this D D Barant, and how the heck does he know me so well?

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #16 on:** July 12, 2019, 09:43:33 AM »

Quote from: Trentvoyager on July 12, 2019, 09:22:45 AM

Who is this D D Barant, and how the heck does he know me so well?

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It is a bit too close

https://us.macmillan.com/author/ddbarant

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #17 on:** July 17, 2019, 08:30:14 AM »

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

Chuck Palahniuk

King Oberon · « **Reply #18 on:** July 17, 2019, 03:02:35 PM »

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #19 on:** July 24, 2019, 10:37:45 AM »

"It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office."

H L Mencken

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #20 on:** July 25, 2019, 01:50:29 PM »

“Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently, and for the same reason.”
Eça de Queirós

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #21 on:** July 30, 2019, 11:14:10 AM »

“We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.”
― David Sedaris

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #22 on:** July 31, 2019, 09:31:10 AM »

"Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the flames and the purloining of altar vessels. When it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery."

Stephen Crane

Stranger · « **Reply #23 on:** July 31, 2019, 09:43:54 AM »

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

Winston Churchill

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #24 on:** August 01, 2019, 08:11:31 AM »

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

John Lennon

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Author Topic: Quote for the Day (Read 59858 times)