Author Topic: Quote for the Day (Read 60471 times)

Stranger · « **Reply #25 on:** August 01, 2019, 08:27:05 AM »

"Prediction is extremely difficult. Especially about the future."

Niels Bohr

Harrowby Hall · « **Reply #26 on:** August 01, 2019, 04:32:31 PM »

Quote from: Stranger on August 01, 2019, 08:27:05 AM

"Prediction is extremely difficult. Especially about the future."

Niels Bohr

Reminds of the notice on the village hall door:

Due to unforeseen circumstances

Tonight's talk on The Benefits of Fortune Telling has been cancelled.

Stranger · « **Reply #27 on:** August 02, 2019, 07:38:55 AM »

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #28 on:** August 02, 2019, 08:10:41 AM »

Quote from: Stranger on August 02, 2019, 07:38:55 AM

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Except, of course, you can be both. Step forward one Boris Johnson and take a bow.

Stranger · « **Reply #29 on:** August 03, 2019, 10:01:06 AM »

"Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right."

Robert L. Park

ekim · « **Reply #30 on:** August 03, 2019, 02:43:38 PM »

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish............. Euripides.

Stranger · « **Reply #31 on:** August 04, 2019, 08:44:59 AM »

"There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply can't think. There are another 5% who can, and do. The remaining 90% can think, but don't."

Robert A. Heinlein

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #32 on:** August 05, 2019, 10:04:04 AM »

"It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen. "

W. H. Auden

Outrider · « **Reply #33 on:** August 05, 2019, 01:59:21 PM »

"Nanos gigantum humeris insidentes" - roughly If I have seen further, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants

Guillame de Conches via Bernard of Chartres and Isaac Newton

Stranger · « **Reply #34 on:** August 06, 2019, 07:48:16 AM »

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."

Bertrand Russell

ekim · « **Reply #35 on:** August 06, 2019, 07:53:45 AM »

Was Bertrand Russell being cock sure when he said that or full of doubt?

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #36 on:** August 06, 2019, 10:25:06 AM »

Quote from: Stranger on August 06, 2019, 07:48:16 AM

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."

Bertrand Russell

I prefer Yeat's phrasing in The Second Coming

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

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #37 on:** August 07, 2019, 11:37:56 AM »

“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes.”
― Walt Whitman

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #38 on:** August 08, 2019, 09:44:58 AM »

"Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth. " Bo Burnham

Stranger · « **Reply #39 on:** August 08, 2019, 11:01:22 AM »

"I'm not arguing there are no decent people in the Tory party, but they're like bits of sweetcorn in a turd; technically they've kept their integrity, but they're still embedded in shit."

Holly in The Quarry by Iain Banks

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #40 on:** August 09, 2019, 09:09:52 AM »

"The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world." John Tyler Bonner

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #41 on:** August 11, 2019, 04:05:04 PM »

"After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often."

Gustav Klimt

Stranger · « **Reply #42 on:** August 12, 2019, 08:40:24 AM »

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."

Abraham Lincoln

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #43 on:** August 13, 2019, 09:29:13 AM »

"The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs."
Charles Baudelaire

Walter · « **Reply #44 on:** August 13, 2019, 01:56:49 PM »

Quote from: Nearly Sane on August 13, 2019, 09:29:13 AM

"The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs."
Charles Baudelaire

the absolute definition of a pompous twat ! 💃💃💃

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #45 on:** August 13, 2019, 02:45:02 PM »

Quote from: Walter on August 13, 2019, 01:56:49 PM

the absolute definition of a pompous twat ! 💃💃💃

And to quote Baudelaire once more

"In this regards, my friend, you're like the public, to whom one should never offer a delicate perfume. It exasperates them. Give them only carefully selected garbage."

Walter · « **Reply #46 on:** August 13, 2019, 03:06:10 PM »

Quote from: Nearly Sane on August 13, 2019, 02:45:02 PM

And to quote Baudelaire once more

"In this regards, my friend, you're like the public, to whom one should never offer a delicate perfume. It exasperates them. Give them only carefully selected garbage."

Heineken work on exactly the same principle

Cheers old fruit 🍻

Btw , did he have anything to say about referendums ?

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #47 on:** August 13, 2019, 03:15:15 PM »

Quote from: Walter on August 13, 2019, 03:06:10 PM

Heineken work on exactly the same principle

Cheers old fruit 🍻

Btw , did he have anything to say about referendums ?

First of all on the subject of drink

"It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."

On referendums

"Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious."

Walter · « **Reply #48 on:** August 13, 2019, 03:29:09 PM »

Quote from: Nearly Sane on August 13, 2019, 03:15:15 PM

First of all on the subject of drink

"It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."

On referendums

"Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious."

Thanks Saney
I like that . Another one to print out and keep safe in my wallet to remind me of you 😜

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #49 on:** August 13, 2019, 03:42:58 PM »

Quote from: Walter on August 13, 2019, 03:29:09 PM

Thanks Saney
I like that . Another one to print out and keep safe in my wallet to remind me of you 😜

"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

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