Quote for the Day

[Aruntraveller]

“And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.”― John Wyndham

[Nearly Sane]

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Emil Cioran

[Nearly Sane]

If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or, perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.


Tom Lehrer

[Nearly Sane]

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

Frances Perkins

[Nearly Sane]

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

Dorothy Allison

[Nearly Sane]

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

James Hillman

[Nearly Sane]

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Roger de Rabutin

[Nearly Sane]

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

Robert Doisneau

[Nearly Sane]

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

A. Philip Randolph

[Nearly Sane]

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

Spike Milligan

[Nearly Sane]

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

Cynthia Ozick

[SteveH]

No one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

H.L.Mencken.

[SteveH]

Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired.

Jonathan Swift (often paraphrased as e.g. "You can't reason someone out of an opinion they weren't reasoned into.")

[Nearly Sane]

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

Andre Bazin

[Nearly Sane]

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

Fred Brooks

[Anchorman]

      "If Scotland were to put today's fears into practice in 1390, we'd spend six hundred years in lock down".
- Professor Murray Pittock, Glasgow University,
This morning, BBC Radio Scotland.

[Nearly Sane]

Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.



Pietro Aretino

[Nearly Sane]

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.



Catherine the Great

[Nearly Sane]

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Ellen Glasgow

[Aruntraveller]

I didn't know Ellen Glasgow had met Boris Johnson.

[Nearly Sane]

I didn't know Ellen Glasgow had met Boris Johnson.

I fear he comes from a long line.

[Nearly Sane]

The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.

Halldor Laxness

[SteveH]

I fear he comes from a long line.

Not before he's snorted it.

[Nearly Sane]

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

A. C. Benson

[Nearly Sane]

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

Edward R. Murrow