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

GerB40 · 27-07-2016 6:44pm

iniall wrote: »

"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."
- Mark Twain

There should be a thread dedicated to Mark Twain quotes.

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

“Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.”

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

- All Mark Twain

iniall · 29-07-2016 10:43am

"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience." - John Updike

Ipso · 01-08-2016 5:19am

GerB40 wrote: »

There should be a thread dedicated to Mark Twain quotes.

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

“Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.”

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

- All 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.

Harry Angstrom · 05-08-2016 1:59am

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different - CS Lewis

ScottScott · 23-08-2016 11:06am

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” - Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

Ipso · 15-09-2016 6:44pm

In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains,
On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows,
In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame,
The good deeds a man has done before defend him.

The Bhagavad Gita

isntlee · 21-09-2016 9:43pm

'Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence' Napoleon Bonaparte

(well, he didn't say it but some folk believe, wrongly, that he did)

dohouch · 23-03-2020 1:08pm

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This too shall pass

bonny! · 31-03-2020 8:17am

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot - Bob Dylan

Rabbit Redux · 06-04-2020 1:38pm

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” - Cormac McCarthy

Rabbit Redux · 09-04-2020 12:45pm

"Absence, the highest form of presence." - James Joyce

auspicious · 19-04-2020 2:23pm

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind." - Nietzsche