A Quote a Day........

Harry Angstrom

Insert favourite quotes here.

One of my favourites is by Mark Twain:

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

fruvai

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.” - Thomas Pynchon

Ipso

All men are guilty of the good they did not do.
Voltaire

Up The Bare Stairs

“Walk on air against your better judgement” - Seamus Heaney

Lady Chatterton

"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read".

Oscar Wilde

Harry Angstrom

"If I had a good quote, I'd be wearing it" - Bob Dylan

Lady Chatterton

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better".

Samuel Beckett

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"Hold still. Just sit there. I see you very clear all of a sudden. You're Mr Death himself."

Harry Angstrom

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"Hold still. Just sit there. I see you very clear all of a sudden. You're Mr Death himself."

Good old Updike.

johnayo

If you can't be with the one you love, love the one your with.

Stephen Stills.

Harry Angstrom

"All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing." - Philip Roth

The Princess Bride

Common sense is instinct.
Enough of it is genius.

George Bernard Shaw.

The Princess Bride

But who prays for Satan?
Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Mark Twain.

brooke 2

'Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.'

- W.B. Yeats

Einhard

And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother.

Henry V, Act 4, Scene III

Always sends a shiver down my spine.

Lady Chatterton

"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious".

Peter Ustinov

Lady Chatterton

"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English".

Winston Churchill

Harry Angstrom

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." - Ernest Hemingway

fruvai

"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." - James Joyce

Harry Angstrom

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong" - Bertrand Russell

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"It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody" - Brendan Behan

Ipso

History doesn't repeat itself, it just rhymes a bit.
Mark Twain

johnROSS

"People who boast about their IQ are losers" - Stephen Hawking

dcmm

What is this life if full of care we have no time to stand and stare
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.

Harry Angstrom

"A hangover is the wrath of grapes" - Dorothy Parker

Lady Chatterton

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”

― William W. Purkey

Harry Angstrom

"I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included" - Bernard Manning

Harry Angstrom

"For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice."
- T.S. Eliot

johnROSS

“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”

From Jack Kerouac's "On The Road"

BorneTobyWilde

'' a heart on fire need not be quenched if we embrace the spark who set the blaze''
Erinio Kensango

The Princess Bride

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover
everybody's face but their own.

Swift.

The Princess Bride

Habit is habit.
Not to be flung out a window by any man.
But coaxed down stairs a step at a time.

Twain.

implausible

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

The Princess Bride

The man who makes no mistakes, does not usually make anything.

Edward John Phelps.

stick girl

There are no mistakes.

Tom Robbins

marienbad

For sale:baby shoes,never worn.

Hemingway

The Princess Bride

Edith Nesbit's character Peter, in The Railway Children.

"I suppose I shall HAVE to be married some day,but it will be an awful bother having her round all the time.I'd like to marry a lady who had trances, and only woke up once or twice a year."

Harry Angstrom

"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen

Lofty123

I used to be a Homosexual, but I had to give it up because it made my eyes water.

Michael Gambon

Harry Angstrom

"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face." - Albert Camus

Up The Bare Stairs

'You miss one hundred per cent of the shots you don't take' - Wayne Gretzky.

Harry Angstrom

"The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven." - John Milton

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"It is a wise man who admits to knowing nothing" - Socrates

The Dagda

Do, or do not. There is no try.

Yoda.

The Princess Bride

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

RichardOBrien

First and foremost,you've got to make yourself happy.
Essentially,being who you are is the most important thing.
When you're after truth,happiness always comes.

Harry Angstrom

"Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know. In the silence you don't know. You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on." - Samuel Beckett

The Princess Bride

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work,
the more I live.
I rejoice in life for its own sake.

George Bernard Shaw.

Carawaystick

Gandalf the Grey
"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement"

Carawaystick

Or
"Some men fight wars. Other men start wars"
Daniel Inoyue, US Senator for Hawaii, of Japanese Ancestry, who signed up to the us army as soon as it became legal to do so. Had an arm blown away by nazi's as he stormed a bunker in Italy.

As he spoke the quote above in the US Senate, he held up his arm stump, maybe to make a point at George W Bush, the draft dodger.

donegal_man

"Never enter an arsekicking contest with a porcupine"

Cohen The Barbarian (attrib)