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Do you have a favorite quote or two? (Original Post) red dog 1 Feb 2020 OP
"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana" underpants Feb 2020 #1
Yes! An all time favorite of mine Clash City Rocker Feb 2020 #8
Time flies? Alas no. Time stays. We go. Walleye Feb 2020 #10
How about this one: "Time marches on and eventually you realize... MissMillie Feb 2020 #111
"Don't think. It can only hurt the ball club" underpants Feb 2020 #2
'This time, like all other times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it' empedocles Feb 2020 #3
When I think about the Orange Menace... Just_Vote_Dem Feb 2020 #4
They should invent Faux pas Feb 2020 #5
'Its not over until the fat lady sings' empedocles Feb 2020 #6
"I Am Not a Member of Any Organized Party -- I Am a Democrat" Kurt V. Feb 2020 #7
Will Rogers trof Feb 2020 #12
"It's always darkest before it goes completely black." Adsos Letter Feb 2020 #9
The great Dorothy Parker, predicting Trump Clash City Rocker Feb 2020 #11
Great! underpants Feb 2020 #81
ALWAYS......... MyOwnPeace Feb 2020 #102
It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you DO know that ain't so. trof Feb 2020 #13
Somerset Maugham in The Razor (I believe) MLAA Feb 2020 #14
Love that book. Read it many times. Travel to find the essence of life only to find kairos12 Mar 2020 #165
Indeed! MLAA Mar 2020 #166
Stay ready, so you don't have to get ready. kairos12 Mar 2020 #167
Sorry MLAA. My quote about Staying Ready was mean't for another kairos12 Mar 2020 #168
No apology necessary, it's damn good advice! MLAA Mar 2020 #169
To make a long story short. . BarbaRosa Feb 2020 #15
" I Was Catholic Until I Reached The Age Of Reason." Doc_Technical Feb 2020 #16
Having been raised Catholic, I use that line frequently. LOL alwaysinasnit Feb 2020 #34
He opened one of his routines with Clash City Rocker Feb 2020 #108
Alexander Hamilton explaining why the internet is such a clusterfuck Bucky Feb 2020 #17
"The only thing domestic about me is I was born in this country" Skittles Feb 2020 #18
! MerryBlooms Mar 2020 #156
"Survival is a matter of practice", Terry Pratchett. abqtommy Feb 2020 #19
From Dr. Sydney Freedman on M*A*S*H* nolabear Feb 2020 #20
I'm gonna get medieval on your ass... First Speaker Feb 2020 #21
"I love humanity; it's people I can't stand." sarge43 Feb 2020 #22
Linus by proxy. Aristus Feb 2020 #46
Thank you n/t sarge43 Feb 2020 #48
Any time, sarge. Aristus Feb 2020 #49
Can always count on you, Aristus sarge43 Feb 2020 #50
... Aristus Feb 2020 #51
Do what is right because it is right; and leave it alone. miyazaki Feb 2020 #23
"Winter must be very cold for those with no warm memories." Totally Tunsie Feb 2020 #24
Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, kairos12 Feb 2020 #25
Good one. LakeArenal Feb 2020 #56
I remember that customerserviceguy Feb 2020 #78
Beauty fades. Dumb is forever. apcalc Feb 2020 #26
The other one sarge43 Feb 2020 #59
Believe nothing, entertain possibilities. fierywoman Feb 2020 #27
It ain't over til it's over. broiles Feb 2020 #28
"Our differences are very similar" LastDemocratInSC Feb 2020 #105
A couple from Ghandi TexasBushwhacker Feb 2020 #29
+1000 alwaysinasnit Feb 2020 #35
You won't like this but it's most effective, especially when dealing with Republicans PJMcK Feb 2020 #30
He who asks the questions cannot avoid the answers - Cameroon Proverb calguy Feb 2020 #31
Weed will get you thru times of no money better than money will get you thru times of no weed The Figment Feb 2020 #32
A couple of my own... 2naSalit Feb 2020 #33
Horticulture russ1943 Apr 2020 #178
I've actually heard that one some time ago. 2naSalit Apr 2020 #179
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Carl Sagan Cartoonist Feb 2020 #36
A few DFW Feb 2020 #37
You, sir, are a genuine DU treasure! lastlib Feb 2020 #64
I fear you might not get your expectations lived up to DFW Feb 2020 #65
(actually, I don't drink beer either!) lastlib Feb 2020 #67
Less like "brilliant" and more like "cluttered" DFW Feb 2020 #69
No man is a prophet in his own country. customerserviceguy Feb 2020 #79
With me, even that is complicated DFW Feb 2020 #80
Well, our differences are not that pronounced customerserviceguy Feb 2020 #84
Shortest book ever published: DFW Feb 2020 #93
And, of course, this classic: DFW Feb 2020 #38
This is excellent. JudyM Feb 2020 #112
One of my all time favorites, too. n/t DFW Feb 2020 #116
I have two. Rincewind Feb 2020 #39
"No matter where you go, there you are" n/t Guilded Lilly Feb 2020 #40
You beat me to it... Ferrets are Cool Mar 2020 #130
... Guilded Lilly Mar 2020 #131
You can't think yourself Alpeduez21 Feb 2020 #41
Heroism consists of hanging on Marthe48 Feb 2020 #42
Never try to teach a pig to whistle... flotsam Feb 2020 #43
Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers: panader0 Feb 2020 #44
Takeaway: in the 18th century they could tolerate the stink of 2-day old fish Bucky Feb 2020 #45
"When I was fourteen years old, I thought my father was the stupidest, most ignorant man Aristus Feb 2020 #47
Be the same person samplegirl Feb 2020 #52
Be the person Captain Zero Feb 2020 #75
In my case my cat samplegirl Feb 2020 #94
And...you will get the dog you deserve. Karadeniz Mar 2020 #128
"Many are cold, but few are frozen." CaptainTruth Feb 2020 #53
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." Satchel Paige N/T Glorfindel Feb 2020 #54
Mine is a bit long. You might know it tho. LakeArenal Feb 2020 #55
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This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar Feb 2020 #58
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. Brother Buzz Feb 2020 #60
A line from a song: DFW Feb 2020 #61
This message was self-deleted by its author AverageJoe Feb 2020 #62
To all my friends! AverageJoe Feb 2020 #63
First from Arthur C. Clarke: lastlib Feb 2020 #66
Old, but profound. hamsterjill Feb 2020 #68
It's 4:30 am and I don't know how sammythecat Feb 2020 #70
All right-on. stuntcat Feb 2020 #95
All great quotes! smirkymonkey Feb 2020 #98
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter." red dog 1 Feb 2020 #71
"Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious." red dog 1 Feb 2020 #72
I don't know who officially coined it but... ailsagirl Feb 2020 #73
"I was down there and I watched our police and firemen down at 7/11, red dog 1 Feb 2020 #74
That was from Franklin? customerserviceguy Feb 2020 #76
It is better to die on your feet, nocoincidences Feb 2020 #77
"I love work. klook Feb 2020 #82
"Little by little PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2020 #83
Thelonious Monk: klook Feb 2020 #85
Felix Unger "Everyone thinks I'm a hypochondriac. It makes me sick." Va Lefty Feb 2020 #86
From Thomas de Quincey RobertDevereaux Feb 2020 #87
the race is not always to the swiftest, but that's the way to bet. jg10003 Feb 2020 #88
"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens." mucifer Feb 2020 #89
That's so sweet. JudyM Feb 2020 #113
I like that one sammythecat Mar 2020 #125
Time exists so everything doesn't happen at once. Space exists so everything doesn't happen to you. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2020 #90
It appears we have low people in high places. Alwaysna Feb 2020 #91
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Alwaysna Feb 2020 #92
1:lemons 2:Just my smol bean LaelthsDaughter Feb 2020 #96
I've slain giants bigger than you... Phentex Feb 2020 #97
"We must take sides...Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim." red dog 1 Feb 2020 #99
This is from one of my favorite authors/philosophers and is very timely and appropriate... smirkymonkey Feb 2020 #100
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. lapfog_1 Feb 2020 #101
Never sit around discussing things rationally when the situation calls for panic-George brewens Feb 2020 #103
On my "From the Desk of........." tablet: MyOwnPeace Feb 2020 #104
Power concedes nothing without a demand... Frederick Douglas nt live love laugh Feb 2020 #106
"Dying ain't much of a living boy" DEbluedude Feb 2020 #107
"One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist red dog 1 Feb 2020 #109
"You're only given a little spark of madness...You mustn't lose it." red dog 1 Feb 2020 #110
I like whistler162 Feb 2020 #114
Two from Bob Heinlein Wolf Frankula Feb 2020 #115
The older I get. The younger my teachers. Robert Frost I think. nt Hotler Feb 2020 #117
"Using the checklist... bluecollar2 Feb 2020 #118
Text written by Patrick O'Brian in Master and Commander... NeoGreen Feb 2020 #119
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. hunter Feb 2020 #120
"Justice is merely incidental to law and order." red dog 1 Feb 2020 #121
"Communism is like one big phone company" red dog 1 Feb 2020 #122
"Together, all things are possible." red dog 1 Feb 2020 #123
"If a pig loses it's voice, is it disgruntled?" red dog 1 Mar 2020 #124
it's only late til midnight mercuryblues Mar 2020 #126
Simone de Beauvoir ariadne0614 Mar 2020 #127
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, Walleye Mar 2020 #129
Never try to teach a goat to sing. It's a waste of your time and it pisses off the goat maxrandb Mar 2020 #132
"You can never buy beer, Wolf Frankula Mar 2020 #133
"Never say in grief that you are sorry he's gone. red dog 1 Mar 2020 #134
"Ego is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity." red dog 1 Mar 2020 #135
"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all." red dog 1 Mar 2020 #136
"Speak well of others and you'll never have to whisper" nt TreadSoftly Mar 2020 #137
This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar Mar 2020 #138
"I have lost friends.. Some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street." red dog 1 Mar 2020 #139
One I always liked: DFW Mar 2020 #140
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions." red dog 1 Mar 2020 #141
Procrastination is the art of never fin.... whistler162 Mar 2020 #142
"What is now proved was once only imagined." red dog 1 Mar 2020 #143
"Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present." red dog 1 Mar 2020 #144
"We are not human beings having a spiritual expericnce... red dog 1 Mar 2020 #145
This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar Mar 2020 #146
McCarthy's right-hand-man was Roy Cohn, who was one of Trump's mentors red dog 1 Mar 2020 #147
This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar Mar 2020 #148
"Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency." nuxvomica Mar 2020 #149
"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not" nuxvomica Mar 2020 #150
From a book my Somerset Maugham, if memory serves The Razor's Edge MLAA Mar 2020 #151
this one makes me think of you-know-who FM123 Mar 2020 #152
"The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog." El Supremo Mar 2020 #153
Napoleon Bonaparte said comradebillyboy Mar 2020 #154
"Dang girl, you don't look right. Where you been?" MerryBlooms Mar 2020 #155
That looked way better on paper. MerryBlooms Mar 2020 #157
"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list." - Susan Sontag SharonClark Mar 2020 #158
The world is not going to come to you. The sooner you realize this, the more time you'll have SharonClark Mar 2020 #159
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, SharonClark Mar 2020 #160
This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar Mar 2020 #161
"I think it is possible to have an ecologically sound society under socialism. red dog 1 Mar 2020 #162
"We can't solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis and we must unite behind experts & science" red dog 1 Mar 2020 #163
A Couple I Like, Sir --- First From Orwell, Second From Oppenheimer The Magistrate Mar 2020 #164
Stay ready, so you don't have to get ready. kairos12 Mar 2020 #170
"We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community." red dog 1 Mar 2020 #171
"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care." red dog 1 Mar 2020 #172
"Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil." red dog 1 Mar 2020 #173
"A woman is like a tea bag - You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water." red dog 1 Mar 2020 #174
"But I didn't inhale!" red dog 1 Apr 2020 #175
Is prayer, then, the proper attitude for minds which long to be freely blown janterry Apr 2020 #176
A couple from Will Rogers Different Drummer Apr 2020 #177
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants." red dog 1 Apr 2020 #180
"Always look at a two faced man twice." nilesobek Apr 2020 #181
"Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future." red dog 1 Apr 2020 #182
We are, each of us angels with only one wing... backtoblue Apr 2020 #183
"He couldn't ad-lib a fart after a baked-bean dinner!" red dog 1 Apr 2020 #184
"Issues are never simple...One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify red dog 1 Apr 2020 #185
"It's Missouri, you stone cold idiot!" red dog 1 Apr 2020 #186
"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream" red dog 1 Apr 2020 #187
"To sleep, perchance to dream." red dog 1 Apr 2020 #188
"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector" red dog 1 Apr 2020 #189
I'll ad a few Xolodno Apr 2020 #190
"If you're going through hell, keep going." red dog 1 Apr 2020 #191
"He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." red dog 1 Apr 2020 #192
Using the checklist is statistically safer than thinking... bluecollar2 Apr 2020 #193
"Learn from your past mistakes; but don't dwell on them." red dog 1 Apr 2020 #194
"You can do anything you want, you are bound by nothing." red dog 1 Apr 2020 #195
"It's about decency. It may seem a ridiculous idea, but the only way to fight the plague red dog 1 Apr 2020 #196
"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is a privilege of wisdom to listen." red dog 1 Apr 2020 #197
"Due to today's earthquake, the God is Dead rally has been cancelled." red dog 1 Apr 2020 #198
"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light." red dog 1 Apr 2020 #199
Now I am become death, Mendocino Apr 2020 #200
"The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of it's truth." red dog 1 Apr 2020 #201
"If you think that one person can't change the world, think about one person eating an red dog 1 May 2020 #202
"There's nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America." red dog 1 May 2020 #203
"The moon does not simply disappear when we are not looking at it." red dog 1 May 2020 #204
"Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had." red dog 1 May 2020 #205
"I don't care what people do, as long as they don't do it in the street and scare the horses" red dog 1 May 2020 #206
"The role of Vice President is the most insignificant office ever devised by the mind of man." red dog 1 May 2020 #207
"What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me." red dog 1 May 2020 #208
"Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen." red dog 1 May 2020 #209
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how red dog 1 May 2020 #210
When you are at work, Mr.Bill May 2020 #211
"Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time, but Republicans haven't red dog 1 May 2020 #212
"Republicans admire the U.S. Government so much that they would like to buy it." red dog 1 May 2020 #213
"Conservatives believe that life begins at conception and ends at birth." red dog 1 May 2020 #214
"Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen." red dog 1 May 2020 #215
"Change takes courage." red dog 1 May 2020 #216
"Throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and, being, like, red dog 1 May 2020 #217
"Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's Party!'" red dog 1 May 2020 #218
"A truth that's told with bad intent..Beats all the lies you can invent" red dog 1 May 2020 #219
"I don't tan, I stroke!" red dog 1 May 2020 #220
"Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like." red dog 1 May 2020 #221
"Count your age by friends, not years...Count your life by smiles, not tears." red dog 1 May 2020 #222
"If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up some place else." red dog 1 May 2020 #223
"Steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king." red dog 1 May 2020 #224
"The greatest threat to America is not foreign terrorists, but domestic imbeciles." red dog 1 May 2020 #225
"Never wait for tomorrow; what if tomorrow never comes?" red dog 1 May 2020 #226
"Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable." red dog 1 May 2020 #227
"Some times I feel like I'm actually on the wrong planet." red dog 1 May 2020 #228
Here are my two jrandom421 May 2020 #229
From the VP jrandom421 May 2020 #230
"Patriotism means to stand by the country..It does not mean to stand by the President." red dog 1 Jun 2020 #231
"The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in America and Donald Trump reflects that" red dog 1 Jun 2020 #232
"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy." red dog 1 Jun 2020 #233
Two - both from songs: Mad_Dem_X Jun 2020 #234
"I'm an ally of all peaceful protesters." red dog 1 Jun 2020 #235
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm." red dog 1 Jun 2020 #236
"When you hit a wall - of your own imagined limitations - just kick it in!" red dog 1 Jun 2020 #237
"The real looting in this country takes place in the transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich." red dog 1 Jun 2020 #238
"The nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power." red dog 1 Jun 2020 #239
"Comedians illuminate and examine what's going on, explore our anxieties and fears, and red dog 1 Jun 2020 #240
I'm not sure who these people are, but I agree with them. Wolf Frankula Jun 2020 #241
"Be the change you want to see in the world." red dog 1 Jun 2020 #242
"Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain." red dog 1 Jun 2020 #243
"I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not." red dog 1 Jun 2020 #244
"Do one thing every day that scares you."......Eleanor Roosevelt red dog 1 Jun 2020 #245
"Everything is exactly the way it's supposed to be at any given moment" JustGene Jun 2020 #246
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." red dog 1 Jun 2020 #247
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." red dog 1 Jun 2020 #248
"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." red dog 1 Jun 2020 #249
"Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world." red dog 1 Jun 2020 #250
When someone shows you who he is, Grammy23 Jun 2020 #251
One I Use A Lot ProfessorGAC Jun 2020 #252
"You can fool some of the people some of the time - and that's enough to make a decent living" red dog 1 Jun 2020 #253
"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care." red dog 1 Jun 2020 #254
"In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." red dog 1 Jun 2020 #255
"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not not himself red dog 1 Jun 2020 #256
"When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk." discntnt_irny_srcsm Jun 2020 #257
"Fear can be the most virulent and damaging virus known to humankind." red dog 1 Jun 2020 #258
"You wanna know how good bacon is? To improve other food, they wrap it in bacon!" red dog 1 Jun 2020 #259
"Any movie that has the line "Hold the perimeter,' you know it's good." red dog 1 Jun 2020 #260
"The danger is that the indulgence and attachments of the people will keep a man in the chair red dog 1 Jul 2020 #261
"The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor." red dog 1 Jul 2020 #262
Anything can be a dildo if you are brave enough ListenWhenYouHear Jul 2020 #263
"If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around" red dog 1 Jul 2020 #264
"No amount of evidence will persuade an idiot." - Mark Twain red dog 1 Jul 2020 #265
There is nothing so permanent as a temporary emergency. Wolf Frankula Jul 2020 #266
"It's too late to close the barn door after the horse LuckyCharms Jul 2020 #267
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." red dog 1 Jul 2020 #268
"Our Constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. senators" red dog 1 Jul 2020 #269
"Prosperity is just around the corner." red dog 1 Jul 2020 #270
"You pray for the hungry..Then you feed them..That's how prayer works." red dog 1 Jul 2020 #271
"I wasn't sniveling....It was a bad mic" red dog 1 Jul 2020 #272
"Roger Stone was treated very unfairly, unbelievably unfairly." red dog 1 Jul 2020 #273
"I've always won, and I'm going to continue to win..And that's the way it is." red dog 1 Jul 2020 #274
"Out of chaos comes order.".....Friedrich Nietzsche red dog 1 Jul 2020 #275
..........about as useful as a screen door on a submarine OxQQme Jul 2020 #276
"I have a great relationship with the blacks..I've always had a great relationship with the blacks" red dog 1 Jul 2020 #277
"Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him." EM Forster nuxvomica Jul 2020 #278
"I think the Russians participated in having this man (Trump) get elected, and they helped destroy red dog 1 Jul 2020 #279
From Gahan Wilson Wolf Frankula Jul 2020 #280
"Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight red dog 1 Jul 2020 #281
"Without music, life would be a mistake." red dog 1 Jul 2020 #282
"You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way..to get in the way." red dog 1 Jul 2020 #283
"Behind every great fortune many a good man Jul 2020 #284
"Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see." red dog 1 Jul 2020 #285
"Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process." red dog 1 Jul 2020 #286
Using the checklist is statistically safer than thinking... bluecollar2 Jul 2020 #287
"When you make mistakes, when you're wrong, you should admit you're wrong and ask people red dog 1 Jul 2020 #288
"The quieter you become, the more you can hear." Ram Dass red dog 1 Aug 2020 #289
"All warfare is based on deception." red dog 1 Aug 2020 #290
"As the list of abuses by federal agencies grows, Americans are rapidly losing trust in government" red dog 1 Aug 2020 #291
"The beauty of me is that I'm very rich." red dog 1 Aug 2020 #292
If you do not go within you go without. MasonDreams Aug 2020 #293
"I will be the greatest jobs President that God ever created!" red dog 1 Aug 2020 #294
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." red dog 1 Aug 2020 #295
"Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.".......Albert Schweitzer red dog 1 Aug 2020 #296
"Doing nothing while the middle class are hurting, that's not leadership...Loose regulations and red dog 1 Aug 2020 #297
"Halloween is a liberal holiday because we're teaching our children to beg for something." red dog 1 Aug 2020 #298
"People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook...Well, I am not a crook!" red dog 1 Aug 2020 #299
"The evidence is overwhelming that the Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled vehicles red dog 1 Aug 2020 #300
From the Late Archie Bunker Wolf Frankula Aug 2020 #301
"A certain darkness is needed to see the stars" ailsagirl Aug 2020 #302
One of my favourite Shakespeare quotes ailsagirl Aug 2020 #303
"Due to today's earthquake, the God is Dead rally has been cancelled." red dog 1 Aug 2020 #304
"We've come a long way since that night when Freddy dumped a bowl of mashed potatoes on red dog 1 Aug 2020 #305
"Do one thing every day that scares you."......Eleanor Roosevelt red dog 1 Aug 2020 #306
"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar." red dog 1 Aug 2020 #307
"Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity." red dog 1 Aug 2020 #308
"Politics don't corrupt people, people corrupt politics." red dog 1 Aug 2020 #309
"I do hope that some of my dissents will someday become law." red dog 1 Aug 2020 #310

MissMillie

(38,452 posts)
111. How about this one: "Time marches on and eventually you realize...
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 08:37 PM
Feb 2020

...it's marching across your face."



From Steel Magnolias

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
3. 'This time, like all other times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it'
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 08:19 PM
Feb 2020

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Just_Vote_Dem

(2,790 posts)
4. When I think about the Orange Menace...
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 08:19 PM
Feb 2020

This quote by Sherlock Holmes to a corrupt politician-after the politician calls Sherlock "mad" in "Murder By Decree" comes to mind:

"You create allegiance above your sworn allegiance to protect humanity. You shall not care for them, or acknowledge their pain. There lies the madness."

Kurt V.

(5,624 posts)
7. "I Am Not a Member of Any Organized Party -- I Am a Democrat"
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 08:20 PM
Feb 2020

which i think makes us far superior to republicans in lock step.

trof

(54,255 posts)
13. It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you DO know that ain't so.
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 08:32 PM
Feb 2020

Samuel Langhorne Clemens...
AKA Mark Twain

Oh how I wish the Republican party would take this to heart.

MLAA

(17,163 posts)
14. Somerset Maugham in The Razor (I believe)
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 08:39 PM
Feb 2020

‘American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection English women only hope to find in their butlers’

kairos12

(12,817 posts)
165. Love that book. Read it many times. Travel to find the essence of life only to find
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 07:34 PM
Mar 2020

you left it at home. Truly a great message for these times.

Bucky

(53,795 posts)
17. Alexander Hamilton explaining why the internet is such a clusterfuck
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 08:55 PM
Feb 2020

“In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.”

— Alexander Hamilton

nolabear

(41,915 posts)
20. From Dr. Sydney Freedman on M*A*S*H*
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 09:58 PM
Feb 2020

He was the psychiatrist who occasionally came in to treat the mental wounds. He often departed with:
“Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice. Pull down your pants and slide on the ice.”

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
21. I'm gonna get medieval on your ass...
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 10:19 PM
Feb 2020

...surely, it's unnecessary to name the source. But I feel this more every time I see a GOPer on TV...

sarge43

(28,939 posts)
22. "I love humanity; it's people I can't stand."
Sun Feb 9, 2020, 12:10 AM
Feb 2020

Attributed to either Albert Einstein or Linus Van Pelt.

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
24. "Winter must be very cold for those with no warm memories."
Sun Feb 9, 2020, 01:04 AM
Feb 2020

from the movie An Affair to Remember with Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant.

kairos12

(12,817 posts)
25. Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life,
Sun Feb 9, 2020, 01:14 AM
Feb 2020

so get wasted all the time, and have the time of our life.

Attribution.

who cares

LakeArenal

(28,713 posts)
56. Good one.
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 01:13 PM
Feb 2020

Also
Pot gets you through times of no money better Than money gets you through times of no pot.

LastDemocratInSC

(3,625 posts)
105. "Our differences are very similar"
Wed Feb 19, 2020, 09:28 PM
Feb 2020

One of Yogi Berra's sons during an interview when asked about his father.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,043 posts)
29. A couple from Ghandi
Sun Feb 9, 2020, 01:36 AM
Feb 2020

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed."

"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

2naSalit

(86,044 posts)
33. A couple of my own...
Sun Feb 9, 2020, 02:47 AM
Feb 2020

You can lead a mind to knowledge but you can't make it think.

And

Performances may come and go but rehearsals are forever.



russ1943

(618 posts)
178. Horticulture
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 10:58 PM
Apr 2020

2naSalit (36,848 posts)
33. A couple of my own...You can lead a mind to knowledge but you can't make it think.

As this is similar to one of my favorites, I’d like to add………………..
On being challenged to use "horticulture" in a sentence;
Dorothy Parker is reported to have quipped “You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”

2naSalit

(86,044 posts)
179. I've actually heard that one some time ago.
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 11:04 PM
Apr 2020

I know I blurted mine out one day and I can't recall just when but it was the right thing to say at that moment. But I've remembered what I said.

DFW

(54,050 posts)
37. A few
Sun Feb 9, 2020, 05:18 AM
Feb 2020

Les cimetières sont pleins de gens irremplaçables, qui ont tous été remplacés. -- Georges Clemenceau

(The cemeteries are full of irreplaceable people--all of whom have been replaced)
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"¡Éste es el templo de la inteligencia! ¡Y yo soy su supremo sacerdote!"

"Venceréis, pero no convenceréis. Venceréis porque tenéis sobrada fuerza bruta; pero no convenceréis, porque convencer significa persuadir. Y para persuadir necesitáis algo que os falta: razón y derecho en la lucha."--Miguel de Unamuno

A fascist general was ranting at the start of the brutal Spanish Civil War in 1936. He was yelling "¡Viva la muerte (long live death)!" and "¡Muera la inteligencia(death to intelligence)!"

Rector of the University of Salamanca, Unamuno, at 72, in poor health, responded: "This is the temple of intelligence! And I am its high priest!" and then followed, addressing the Fascist general: "You will conquer, but you will not convince. You will conquer because you have overwhelming brute force; but you will not convince, because to convince means to persuade. And to persuade, you need something you lack: reason and righteousness in the fight."

It is deceivingly difficult to translate "razón y derecho" exactly here. By themselves, they are not difficult, but Unamuno's context makes both words open to various ways of translating them. By the way, the Fascists DID win (with the help of Hitler and Mussolini). When Francisco Franco was named "Caudillo (sort of Führer)" of Spain, he called it the "culminating point in the history of the world." It wasn't. Thirty-six years after his "victory," Franco was gone, and so was Fascist rule in Spain.
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.--Thomas Jefferson
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And my own sig line from André Gide:
"Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent"

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it.

lastlib

(22,978 posts)
64. You, sir, are a genuine DU treasure!
Fri Feb 14, 2020, 09:19 AM
Feb 2020


I would love to spend a week drinking beer with you and tapping into your mind. That would be an experience to write home about!

DFW

(54,050 posts)
65. I fear you might not get your expectations lived up to
Fri Feb 14, 2020, 09:30 AM
Feb 2020

My wife has been tapping into my mind for 45 years, and she doesn't write home about it

Also--I don't drink beer, so that part might get lonely (I know, I know--and he lives in GERMANY!!)

Finally, there are plenty of people here on DU that would disagree violently with your assessment, so while I appreciate it mightily, be prepared for some nasty dissent!

(and then we can both tell them to lighten up, Francis).

lastlib

(22,978 posts)
67. (actually, I don't drink beer either!)
Fri Feb 14, 2020, 09:33 AM
Feb 2020

Those dissenters can KMA--I can tell a brilliant mind when I see one!

DFW

(54,050 posts)
69. Less like "brilliant" and more like "cluttered"
Fri Feb 14, 2020, 05:07 PM
Feb 2020

But if our paths ever have the occasion to cross, let fate take its course!

Almost ten years ago, I had been trying to arrange a lunch meeting with two completely awesome friends of mine who had never met. After trying for nearly two years, it finally worked--all three of us would be in the same city at the same time! And so, at one table for four at a restaurant in Washington DC in July, 2010, two "who-the-hell-are-they?" guys (me and my brother) sat down for an extended lunch with Howard Dean and Helen Thomas.

Now, THERE were two brilliant minds for you!

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
79. No man is a prophet in his own country.
Tue Feb 18, 2020, 11:25 PM
Feb 2020

My lady finds me less funny than everyone else does. Still, she laughs enough to still put up with me.

DFW

(54,050 posts)
80. With me, even that is complicated
Tue Feb 18, 2020, 11:30 PM
Feb 2020

My wife and I are from different continents, and we have always conversed in her language. It took her decades to get used to American/Anglo humor. Germans just see the world differently. She has spent time in my neck of the woods, but we live in hers.

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
84. Well, our differences are not that pronounced
Tue Feb 18, 2020, 11:37 PM
Feb 2020

But, I'm a Northwest kind of guy, and she's a Jersey girl, so we occasionally have a disconnect.

I've had a couple of German women as friends, you have your work cut out for you in the humor department, for sure!

DFW

(54,050 posts)
93. Shortest book ever published:
Wed Feb 19, 2020, 07:14 AM
Feb 2020

"Ten Thousand Years of German Humor"

My re-education efforts dwarfed what the North Vietnamese did to the South after 1975. But they were rewarded. Eventually!

Rincewind

(1,199 posts)
39. I have two.
Sun Feb 9, 2020, 05:41 AM
Feb 2020

The first, from Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame " I reject your reality, and substitute my own". The second, I can't remember who it is from, but it's been my personal motto for years, " You are only young once, but you can be immature forever".

Alpeduez21

(1,739 posts)
41. You can't think yourself
Sun Feb 9, 2020, 10:18 AM
Feb 2020

Into right acting but you can act yourself into right thinking. -AA it can probably be credited to someone but that’s where I heard it

Marthe48

(16,690 posts)
42. Heroism consists of hanging on
Sun Feb 9, 2020, 10:24 AM
Feb 2020

one minute longer. (Norwegian proverb)

God wants you to win the lottery, but he lets you pick the numbers. (I made this one up awhile back)

panader0

(25,816 posts)
44. Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers:
Sun Feb 9, 2020, 12:50 PM
Feb 2020

Weed will get you through times of no money better than
money will get you through times of no weed.

Bucky

(53,795 posts)
45. Takeaway: in the 18th century they could tolerate the stink of 2-day old fish
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 11:35 AM
Feb 2020

Imagine living in a world without refrigeration and tupperware. Imagine catching a cod on Wednesday and it's still hanging in your pantry on Friday afternoon. This wouldn't bother Benjamin Franklin. Stinky old man.

Aristus

(66,081 posts)
47. "When I was fourteen years old, I thought my father was the stupidest, most ignorant man
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 12:28 PM
Feb 2020

that had ever lived. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was amazed at how much he'd learned in seven years!"

- Mark Twain.

CaptainTruth

(6,546 posts)
53. "Many are cold, but few are frozen."
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 12:58 PM
Feb 2020

A variation on "Many are called, but few are chosen."

To me it means that many are somewhat supportive of a cause (cold), but few are committed through & through with their entire being (frozen).

LakeArenal

(28,713 posts)
55. Mine is a bit long. You might know it tho.
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 01:03 PM
Feb 2020

I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment
I could be you

Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
You’d know what a drag it is
To see you

https://m.

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DFW

(54,050 posts)
61. A line from a song:
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 05:26 PM
Feb 2020

"Don't you know that when the truth is told
You can get what you want or you can just get old."

From "Vienna" by Billy Joel

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lastlib

(22,978 posts)
66. First from Arthur C. Clarke:
Fri Feb 14, 2020, 09:30 AM
Feb 2020

"Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic."

Carl Sagan: "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."

Phaedrus II (moi): "He who seeks the wisdom of the multitude of stars will find his truth."

hamsterjill

(15,214 posts)
68. Old, but profound.
Fri Feb 14, 2020, 11:50 AM
Feb 2020

"It is better to remain silent and thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt."

sammythecat

(3,568 posts)
70. It's 4:30 am and I don't know how
Sat Feb 15, 2020, 05:32 AM
Feb 2020

much vodka, so please excuse the volume. I've got a whole folder of smart shit from smart people.

"The loneliest people are the kindest,
the saddest people smile the brightest,
and the most damaged people are the wisest.
All because they don't wish to see others suffer
like they do." -- I don't know who said this, or when, but it sounded true.

The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality. -- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Reverence for Life says that the only thing we are really sure of is that we live and want to go on living. This is something that we share with everything else that lives, from elephants to blades of grass. So we are brothers and sisters to all living things, and owe to all of them the same care and respect that we wish for ourselves."
— James Brabazon, Albert Schweitzer's biographer (concerning Schweitzer's philosophy of Reverence for Life)

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
-- Christopher Isherwood -- Think about this one. Good luck (life is all about luck), good health, and a rather dull mind. The perfect recipe for self-satisfied contentment. BTW, the health and lack of imagination(empathy), both products of luck. It's all about luck.


“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” -- FDR (hat tip to Andrew Yang and his ubi).

Visitors from another world would, by definition, be far more advanced than us. And they would, of course, find much to learn about us, but... almost nothing at all to learn from us. -- I can not imagine any alien life, super impressively able to keep their shit together long enough to develop interstellar space travel, would consider us as anything more than an interesting curiosity for their scientists to study

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -- I find great comfort in this one

But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.
-- Hunter S. Thompson, from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. One of a few books that made me laugh out loud.


stuntcat

(12,022 posts)
95. All right-on.
Wed Feb 19, 2020, 10:11 AM
Feb 2020



“If I were someone, I would like to be a fool. No one would know me, and I think that would be cool.”
Gary Ogan

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
71. "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter."
Sat Feb 15, 2020, 06:44 PM
Feb 2020

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

ailsagirl

(22,837 posts)
73. I don't know who officially coined it but...
Sun Feb 16, 2020, 06:34 PM
Feb 2020

"Small minds are easily amused."

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde

And many more I want to mention...

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
74. "I was down there and I watched our police and firemen down at 7/11,
Tue Feb 18, 2020, 09:09 PM
Feb 2020

at the World Trade Center right after it came down."

Shitler quote.

klook

(12,134 posts)
85. Thelonious Monk:
Tue Feb 18, 2020, 11:44 PM
Feb 2020

Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it.

A genius is the one most like himself.

They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along and spoil it.

More: http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/02/thelonious-monks-advice.html?m=1

RobertDevereaux

(1,841 posts)
87. From Thomas de Quincey
Wed Feb 19, 2020, 12:05 AM
Feb 2020

"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.''

jg10003

(974 posts)
88. the race is not always to the swiftest, but that's the way to bet.
Wed Feb 19, 2020, 03:43 AM
Feb 2020

The lion shall lie down with the sheep, but the sheep won't get much sleep.

mucifer

(23,371 posts)
89. "I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."
Wed Feb 19, 2020, 03:48 AM
Feb 2020

Yiddish author Isaac Bashevis Singer.

sammythecat

(3,568 posts)
125. I like that one
Sun Mar 1, 2020, 09:38 PM
Mar 2020

I once knew a preacher. He mentioned he was a vegetarian and I asked him why, was it for health, or...? His answer was health. Had to get his triglycerides down or something. It might be unfair, but I was disappointed with his answer. I was expecting something a little more "spiritual".

LaelthsDaughter

(150 posts)
96. 1:lemons 2:Just my smol bean
Wed Feb 19, 2020, 06:55 PM
Feb 2020

“When life gives you lemons, make grape juice, sit back, and watch the world ask how you did it!”

-???

Also!

“This body is flawfless! Everyone wants a piece of me and I got the creepy fan letters to prove it!”

-Angel Dust(created by Vivienne Modreno and Michael Kovach)

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
100. This is from one of my favorite authors/philosophers and is very timely and appropriate...
Wed Feb 19, 2020, 08:53 PM
Feb 2020

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Another favorite:

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” - George Orwell

And lastly:

"Some people are like Slinkies. They don't really have a purpose. But they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs." - Jack Handey

brewens

(13,393 posts)
103. Never sit around discussing things rationally when the situation calls for panic-George
Wed Feb 19, 2020, 09:07 PM
Feb 2020

Steinbrenner

MyOwnPeace

(16,887 posts)
104. On my "From the Desk of........." tablet:
Wed Feb 19, 2020, 09:16 PM
Feb 2020

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." ........Winston Churchill

DEbluedude

(812 posts)
107. "Dying ain't much of a living boy"
Wed Feb 19, 2020, 10:29 PM
Feb 2020

Josie Wales’s response to a bounty hunter who had just told Wales “ a mans gotta make a living”.



red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
109. "One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 07:55 PM
Feb 2020

except in our imaginations."

Steve Allen

Wolf Frankula

(3,595 posts)
115. Two from Bob Heinlein
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 11:43 PM
Feb 2020

"Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get."

and

"There is no privacy in any society crowded enough to require ID cards." That is so true.

For three to live by, see my sig line.

Wolf

NeoGreen

(4,030 posts)
119. Text written by Patrick O'Brian in Master and Commander...
Mon Feb 24, 2020, 03:27 PM
Feb 2020
Patriotism
But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either: ‘my country, right or wrong’, which is infamous; or ‘my country is always right’, which is imbecile.

Book 1, Page 112, as quoted by Stephen Maturin when speaking to Lt. James Dillon

Or his frequent reference to a poem by Dryden,

All, all of a piece throughout:
Thy chase had a beast in view;
Thy wars brought nothing about;
Thy lovers were all untrue.
'Tis well an old age is out,
And time to begin anew.

The Secular Masque (John Dryden, 1700)

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
121. "Justice is merely incidental to law and order."
Mon Feb 24, 2020, 06:30 PM
Feb 2020

J. Edgar Hoover

(This is not my favorite quote; in fact, I abhor it..but it does reflect the fact that Hoover was an evil, vindictive asshole, who, despite being head of the FBI, the 2nd highest official in the U.S. Justice Department, this is what "justice" meant to him)

ariadne0614

(1,692 posts)
127. Simone de Beauvoir
Sun Mar 1, 2020, 09:54 PM
Mar 2020

“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men. They describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.”

Walleye

(30,702 posts)
129. And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,
Sun Mar 1, 2020, 10:25 PM
Mar 2020

Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art ?" Kipling

maxrandb

(15,188 posts)
132. Never try to teach a goat to sing. It's a waste of your time and it pisses off the goat
Sun Mar 1, 2020, 11:21 PM
Mar 2020

I think of that alot when I'm tempted to debate a Retrumplican.

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
134. "Never say in grief that you are sorry he's gone.
Tue Mar 3, 2020, 08:16 PM
Mar 2020

Rather, say in thankfulness, you are grateful he was here."

Senator Ted Kennedy

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
135. "Ego is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 07:05 PM
Mar 2020

Booker T. Washington



Speaking of Trump...(just kidding)

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red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
139. "I have lost friends.. Some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street."
Sun Mar 8, 2020, 06:40 PM
Mar 2020

Virginia Woolf

DFW

(54,050 posts)
140. One I always liked:
Sun Mar 8, 2020, 07:29 PM
Mar 2020

"He who does not believe in miracles is not a realist."

(supposedly)--David Ben Gurion

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
145. "We are not human beings having a spiritual expericnce...
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 06:33 PM
Mar 2020

We are spiritual beings having a human experience."


Teilhard de Chardin

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red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
147. McCarthy's right-hand-man was Roy Cohn, who was one of Trump's mentors
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 07:03 PM
Mar 2020

(I think Fred Drumph knew him & introduced him to Spanky)

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nuxvomica

(12,360 posts)
149. "Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency."
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 07:20 PM
Mar 2020

as said by Maya Angelou but I think it was originally from Marcus Aurelius. I have a variation that deals with politics:

"You cannot truly exercise any of your rights when you have voluntarily surrendered the right to think for yourself."

nuxvomica

(12,360 posts)
150. "Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not"
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 07:28 PM
Mar 2020

attributed to Oscar Wilde. Whenever I feel the victim of unfairness, I think of this quote and ponder how frequently it's been unfair in my favor.

MLAA

(17,163 posts)
151. From a book my Somerset Maugham, if memory serves The Razor's Edge
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 07:31 PM
Mar 2020

‘American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection English women only hope to find in their butlers’

FM123

(10,050 posts)
152. this one makes me think of you-know-who
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 07:47 PM
Mar 2020
If you want money more than anything, you’ll be bought and sold your whole life.
-Rumi-

comradebillyboy

(10,119 posts)
154. Napoleon Bonaparte said
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 07:59 PM
Mar 2020

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”

also

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."

MerryBlooms

(11,728 posts)
155. "Dang girl, you don't look right. Where you been?"
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 08:00 PM
Mar 2020

MerryBlooms

(Makes my gal pals laugh every time when they're down in the dumps, and usually followed up with a shot of bourbon or so, and a long story. )

SharonClark

(10,005 posts)
159. The world is not going to come to you. The sooner you realize this, the more time you'll have
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 08:37 PM
Mar 2020

to pack. -- Leigh Standley

SharonClark

(10,005 posts)
160. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy,
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 08:39 PM
Mar 2020

they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -- Marcel Proust

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red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
162. "I think it is possible to have an ecologically sound society under socialism.
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 05:46 PM
Mar 2020

I don't think it is possible under capitalism."


Judi Bari

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
163. "We can't solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis and we must unite behind experts & science"
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 04:47 PM
Mar 2020

Greta Thunberg

The Magistrate

(95,237 posts)
164. A Couple I Like, Sir --- First From Orwell, Second From Oppenheimer
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 05:32 PM
Mar 2020

"Saints should be presumed guilty till proved innocent."

"This is the best world possible. Everything in it is a necessary evil."

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
174. "A woman is like a tea bag - You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 05:16 PM
Mar 2020

Eleanor Roosevelt

 

janterry

(4,429 posts)
176. Is prayer, then, the proper attitude for minds which long to be freely blown
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 06:08 PM
Apr 2020

Li-Young Lee
from The City in Which I Love You

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
180. My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants."
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 08:10 PM
Apr 2020

Last edited Sun Apr 5, 2020, 01:22 AM - Edit history (1)

Barack Obama

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
185. "Issues are never simple...One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify
Tue Apr 7, 2020, 09:45 PM
Apr 2020

the issues."

Barack Obama

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
189. "This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector"
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 05:42 PM
Apr 2020

Plato (The Republic)

Xolodno

(6,330 posts)
190. I'll ad a few
Tue Apr 14, 2020, 02:13 AM
Apr 2020

The mountains have called, and I must go....John Muir (I think)

Not all who wander are lost...JRR Tolkien

By the measure you judge others, you will be judged....Jesus

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the babbling of a fool brings ruin near..Proverbs 10:14...(looks at Trump)

And this one is very dark...

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas...Joseph Stalin

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
192. "He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
Wed Apr 15, 2020, 06:56 PM
Apr 2020

Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
196. "It's about decency. It may seem a ridiculous idea, but the only way to fight the plague
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 07:35 PM
Apr 2020

is with decency."

Albert Camus (The Plague)

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
197. "It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is a privilege of wisdom to listen."
Thu Apr 23, 2020, 07:07 PM
Apr 2020

Oliver Wendell Holmes

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
198. "Due to today's earthquake, the God is Dead rally has been cancelled."
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 06:23 PM
Apr 2020

Last edited Sat Apr 25, 2020, 04:56 PM - Edit history (2)

Johnny Carson delivered this line in his monologue.
It was written by "Tonight Show" head-writer Pat McCormick.

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
201. "The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of it's truth."
Thu Apr 30, 2020, 08:29 PM
Apr 2020

W. Somerset Maugham

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
202. "If you think that one person can't change the world, think about one person eating an
Fri May 1, 2020, 05:21 PM
May 2020

under-cooked bat."

Anonymous

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
203. "There's nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America."
Sat May 2, 2020, 04:42 PM
May 2020

William Jefferson Clinton

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
205. "Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had."
Mon May 4, 2020, 04:08 PM
May 2020

William T. Kelley, former Wharton School of Business professor.

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
206. "I don't care what people do, as long as they don't do it in the street and scare the horses"
Wed May 6, 2020, 04:15 PM
May 2020

Anonymous

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
207. "The role of Vice President is the most insignificant office ever devised by the mind of man."
Fri May 8, 2020, 03:11 PM
May 2020

John Adams

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
210. "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how
Tue May 12, 2020, 04:28 PM
May 2020

to walk forward."

FDR

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
212. "Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time, but Republicans haven't
Wed May 13, 2020, 05:55 PM
May 2020

given up trying."

LBJ

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
213. "Republicans admire the U.S. Government so much that they would like to buy it."
Thu May 14, 2020, 10:02 PM
May 2020

Harry S. Truman


(Actually, I think they already bought it)

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
217. "Throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and, being, like,
Mon May 18, 2020, 04:44 PM
May 2020

really smart."


Donald J. Trump

jrandom421

(999 posts)
229. Here are my two
Sun May 31, 2020, 09:03 PM
May 2020

"Ferengi Rule of Aquisition Number 285: No good deed ever goes unpunished."

"Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it." George Santayana

jrandom421

(999 posts)
230. From the VP
Sun May 31, 2020, 09:08 PM
May 2020

Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value.

Joe Biden

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
231. "Patriotism means to stand by the country..It does not mean to stand by the President."
Mon Jun 1, 2020, 08:41 PM
Jun 2020

Theodore Roosevelt

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
232. "The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in America and Donald Trump reflects that"
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 05:37 PM
Jun 2020

Rep. John R. Lewis (D-GA)

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
233. "I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy."
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 01:58 PM
Jun 2020

Steve Martin

Mad_Dem_X

(9,522 posts)
234. Two - both from songs:
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 04:55 PM
Jun 2020

"I know I was born and I know that I'll die...the in-between is mine." (Pearl Jam, I Am Mine)

"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints." (Billy Joel, Only The Good Die Young)

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
238. "The real looting in this country takes place in the transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich."
Mon Jun 8, 2020, 06:18 PM
Jun 2020

George Carlin

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
240. "Comedians illuminate and examine what's going on, explore our anxieties and fears, and
Wed Jun 10, 2020, 02:37 PM
Jun 2020

give us some relief."

John Lithgow

Wolf Frankula

(3,595 posts)
241. I'm not sure who these people are, but I agree with them.
Wed Jun 10, 2020, 09:49 PM
Jun 2020

"Whenever a 'good faith exception' is made to a law, the way is left open to much bad faith." I.G. Aritzmendi.


"Law enforcement ought to be drilled to a most scrupulous respect for the rights of the citizenry. Where the police are permitted to abuse the citizens to enforce the laws, it will not be long before they abuse the citizens for their own private profit. An unbridled and uncontrolled constabulary is always a corrupt constabulary. " Eldarion Lathria

Wolf

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
243. "Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain."
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 07:52 PM
Jun 2020

Eleanor Roosevelt

ProfessorGAC

(64,413 posts)
252. One I Use A Lot
Sat Jun 20, 2020, 09:24 PM
Jun 2020

So much so, my wife uses it regularly, too.
In the 2nd Indiana Jones movie, the Nazi thug drinks from the jeweled chalice.
He melts, painfully.
Ancient templar looks at Jones and says "He chose poorly!"
I love that line!

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
253. "You can fool some of the people some of the time - and that's enough to make a decent living"
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 03:53 PM
Jun 2020

W.C. Fields

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
256. "Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not not himself
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 03:39 PM
Jun 2020

find peace."

Albert Schweitzer

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
261. "The danger is that the indulgence and attachments of the people will keep a man in the chair
Wed Jul 1, 2020, 04:24 PM
Jul 2020

after he becomes a dotard."

Thomas Jefferson

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
262. "The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor."
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 06:52 PM
Jul 2020

Harry S. Truman

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
264. "If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around"
Fri Jul 3, 2020, 08:08 PM
Jul 2020

Will Rogers

Wolf Frankula

(3,595 posts)
266. There is nothing so permanent as a temporary emergency.
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 02:44 AM
Jul 2020

I think that was either Bob Heinlein or Otto von Bismarck.

Wolf

OxQQme

(2,550 posts)
276. ..........about as useful as a screen door on a submarine
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 09:15 AM
Jul 2020

Love is like a fart. If you try to force it, it may turn to shit.

You can’t have the light without the dark, and you can’t have loud without quiet.

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
277. "I have a great relationship with the blacks..I've always had a great relationship with the blacks"
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 04:30 PM
Jul 2020

Donald "Duck" Trump

nuxvomica

(12,360 posts)
278. "Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him." EM Forster
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 04:47 PM
Jul 2020

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” Oscar Wilde

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
279. "I think the Russians participated in having this man (Trump) get elected, and they helped destroy
Sat Jul 18, 2020, 05:24 PM
Jul 2020

the candidacy of Hillary Clinton."

Rep. John Lewis

Wolf Frankula

(3,595 posts)
280. From Gahan Wilson
Wed Jul 22, 2020, 09:34 PM
Jul 2020

"Those of you who remember how great it was to be a little kid, gang, don't remember how it was to be a little kid."

from NUTS.

Wolf

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
281. "Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight
Thu Jul 23, 2020, 06:36 PM
Jul 2020

can build up in a hundred years."

Edmund Burke

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
288. "When you make mistakes, when you're wrong, you should admit you're wrong and ask people
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 07:22 PM
Jul 2020

to forgive you."

Rep. John Robert Lewis

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
291. "As the list of abuses by federal agencies grows, Americans are rapidly losing trust in government"
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 06:18 PM
Aug 2020

Mark Meadows (W.H. Chief of Staff) back when Obama was POTUS

MasonDreams

(756 posts)
293. If you do not go within you go without.
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 05:39 AM
Aug 2020

This above all, to thine own self be true...

Hate cannot drive out hate, Only Love can do that.

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
297. "Doing nothing while the middle class are hurting, that's not leadership...Loose regulations and
Tue Aug 11, 2020, 07:05 PM
Aug 2020

lax enforcement, that's not leadership; that's abandoning our middle class."

Kamala Harris

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
298. "Halloween is a liberal holiday because we're teaching our children to beg for something."
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 06:42 PM
Aug 2020

Sean Hannity

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
299. "People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook...Well, I am not a crook!"
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 03:51 PM
Aug 2020

Richard M. Nixon

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
300. "The evidence is overwhelming that the Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled vehicles
Sun Aug 16, 2020, 06:48 PM
Aug 2020

from off the Earth."


Stanton T. Friedman

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
304. "Due to today's earthquake, the God is Dead rally has been cancelled."
Mon Aug 17, 2020, 05:00 PM
Aug 2020

Pat McCormick line for "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson"

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
305. "We've come a long way since that night when Freddy dumped a bowl of mashed potatoes on
Tue Aug 18, 2020, 06:33 PM
Aug 2020

Donald's head because he was such a brat."

Marianne Trump Barry (Shitler's sister)

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