Author Topic: Quote for the Day (Read 59104 times)

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #525 on:** October 29, 2021, 05:43:33 PM »

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
― Marcus Aurelius.

ekim · « **Reply #526 on:** October 30, 2021, 10:05:49 AM »

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Groucho Marx

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #527 on:** November 06, 2021, 09:29:14 AM »

To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Oscar Wilde

ekim · « **Reply #528 on:** November 06, 2021, 09:45:02 AM »

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Desmond Tutu

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #529 on:** November 07, 2021, 06:07:37 PM »

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
― Frédéric Bastiat

Udayana · « **Reply #530 on:** November 22, 2021, 10:48:15 AM »

“Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.”

Richard Feynman

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #531 on:** December 09, 2021, 09:28:55 AM »

"When posh boys are in trouble, they sack the servants" - Dennis Skinner

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #532 on:** December 11, 2021, 02:36:32 PM »

"When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent" - Isaac Asimov

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #533 on:** December 18, 2021, 02:25:14 PM »

“The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.”

― Sydney J. Harris

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #534 on:** December 25, 2021, 08:07:47 AM »

They muddy the water to make it seem deep.

- Frederick Nietzsche

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #535 on:** December 26, 2021, 11:23:22 AM »

‘There comes a point where we’ve got to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream & find out why they’re falling in’

Desmond Tutu

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #536 on:** February 16, 2022, 01:39:08 PM »

"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."

P J O'Rourke (RIP)

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #537 on:** May 04, 2022, 07:25:38 PM »

When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect. - Thomas Paine

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #538 on:** July 19, 2022, 10:37:09 AM »

'When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.' - Jean-Paul Sartre

jeremyp · « **Reply #539 on:** July 19, 2022, 12:37:05 PM »

"Phew what a scorcher" ~~ The Sun

Udayana · « **Reply #540 on:** December 19, 2022, 01:14:56 PM »

"In himself, Jeremy Clarkson is nothing: a brief loud noise and a brief bad smell. The arse that emitted him, as I said yesterday, is Rupert Murdoch."

- Philip Pullman (on twitter)

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #541 on:** February 12, 2023, 08:23:54 PM »

"While people are entitled to their illusions, they are not entitled to limitless enjoyment of them and they are not entitled to impose them upon others. Allow a friend to believe in a false prospectus or a false promise, and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all"

Christopher Hitchens

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #542 on:** February 21, 2023, 09:47:37 PM »

"The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible."

Alan Rickman

SqueakyVoice · « **Reply #543 on:** March 05, 2023, 07:02:05 PM »

Quote from: a north london metropolitan elitist who never ventures farther south than the Islington branch of Waitrose,

...
the Daily Mail, a paper that only exists to make nice people want to end their lives.

SqueakyVoice · « **Reply #544 on:** March 10, 2023, 02:06:36 PM »

Quote

Rich people help themselves, poor people help each other

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/01/rich-poor-people-food-bank-homeless (I haven't read the article at all, for me this headline says enough.)

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #545 on:** March 11, 2023, 09:59:40 AM »

The nicest thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.

Kenneth Williams

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #546 on:** April 01, 2023, 02:43:29 PM »

“We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.” Christopher Hitchens

SqueakyVoice · « **Reply #547 on:** April 13, 2023, 11:54:19 AM »

"Asking for help is not giving up.
It is refusing to give up."
From The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse on the beeb iPlayer
(I think is was the horse, but it could have been the mole. Frankly almost any quote from that animation could be a tought of as a quote of the day.)

SqueakyVoice · « **Reply #548 on:** April 13, 2023, 10:20:00 PM »

Quote from: SqueakyVoice on April 13, 2023, 11:54:19 AM

"Asking for help is not giving up.
It is refusing to give up."
From The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse on the beeb iPlayer
(I think is was the horse, but it could have been the mole. Frankly almost any quote from that animation could be a thought of as a quote of the day.)

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #549 on:** April 16, 2023, 11:31:08 AM »

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Author Topic: Quote for the Day (Read 59104 times)