Quote of the Day

[Fantozzi 4,068]

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
(Dorothy Parker)

[Fantozzi 4,068]

(so this is a quote in a quote)

Donald Trump: "There's a lot of room out there, right?"

Buzz Aldrin: “To infinity, and beyond.”

Donald Trump: " It could be infinity. We don't really know. But it could be. It has to be something - but it could be infinity, right?"

 

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[Fantozzi 4,068]

"I am sorry if this has pushed any hot buttons, but these are my thoughts. I may even be damned to hell, if there is one. However, I like the theory of unconditional redemption."

(A Nonny Moose)

[madhatter106 3,912]

"Let them hate me, so long as they fear me."

- Gaius Caligula

[Fantozzi 4,068]

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Galileo Galilei

[Fantozzi 4,068]

"If love was just a circus, you'd be a clown by now."

(Elton John, I'm still standing)

[peperodriguez2710 138]

We don't have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it.

-Douglas Adams

[Odainsaker 2,136]

"Those diplomatic efforts will continue until the first bomb drops."

-- U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on instructions from President Trump to continue pursuing diplomacy with North Korea regarding its nuclear program.

 

 

It's so reassuring, I feel safer already!

 

[Bdub01 201]

But if cattle and horses and lions had hands and could create with their hands and achieve works like those of human beings, horses would render their conceptions of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and each would depict bodies for them just like their own. -Xenophanes.  

[Fantozzi 4,068]

As the poet said: "Only God can make a tree" - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

(Woody Allen)

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

"Trick or treat!"

 

 - Kids everywhere

[Fantozzi 4,068]

“There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people... Religion, Politics, and The Great Pumpkin. ”

(Linus/Charles M. Schulz)

[Fantozzi 4,068]

Friedrich Hölderlin - HALF OF LIFE

Charged by yellow pears
And full of wild roses
bends the land into the lake
Your dainty swans,
And drunken from all those kisses
You plunge your heads
Into the holy-demure water

Poor me, where, when
winter comes, to gather flowers, and where
sunlight
and earthly shadows?
Wordless and cold stand the walls, in the wind
Weathercocks clashing

 

(own translation)

 

[Fantozzi 4,068]

"Did you know that the fifteen largest cruise ships in the world emit as many carbon dioxide as 750 million cars? I'm telling you just in case your plan for 2018 was to sell your diesel and book a cruise with that money."

(Dieter Nuhr, german commedian)

[madhatter106 3,912]

"“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

- Winston Churchill
 

[Fantozzi 4,068]

"Aus einem verzagten Arsch kommt kein fröhlicher Furz."

~

"From a pusillanimous butt never comes a happy fart."

 

Martin Luther (1483 – 1546)

[madhatter106 3,912]

"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style." - Quentin Crisp

[MiCephia 63]

These might have been said but I'm not reading 42 pages of comments to find out lol. Some of my favorites and some good ole classics from a man who had many famous quotes.

-- Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened

-- In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet

-- Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room

-- If you're going through hell, keep going.................. or my version "If you're going threw/through hell, Don't stop, keep going!"

-- Success is not final, Failure is not fatal, It's the courage to continue that counts!

-- You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

-- It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required

-- A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

-- If we open a quarrel between the past and the present we shall find that we have lost the future

-- To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

-- An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last

-- History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

-- We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

-- To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day

-- A gentleman does not have a ham sandwich without mustard

-- When youth departs, may wisdom be enough!

Quote from the movie "The Darkest Hour" -- Churchill was in the lavatory in the House of Commons and his secretary knocked on the door and said: Excuse me Prime Minister, but the Lord Privy Seal wishes to speak to you. After a pause Churchill replied: "Tell the Lord Privy Seal that I am sealed in the privy and I can only deal with one shit at a time"  .............Oh man! I cracked up so hard when he said that.

 

'Winston Churchill'

 

[Odainsaker 2,136]

"Depressing sight at Trump rally in Nashville: adorable young boy, probly about my son's age, pointing iPhone at me & other reporters & snapping pix while screaming "FAKE NEWS!" A child who will grow up believing a free & fair press is the enemy, a bad thing, to be mocked & hated"

 

From The New York Times reporter Julie Davis on Twitter after last night's Trump rally in Nashville, where the President whipped his supporters into another frenzied attack on the media.  We are in a lot of trouble, for this is how democracy dies.

 

[Terring 6,476]

“The great radio telescopes of the world are constructed in remote locations for the same reason Paul Gauguin sailed to Tahiti: For them to work well they must be far from civilization.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

[Duco 546]

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

- Jean-Paul Sartre -

[Fantozzi 4,068]

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?"

Leroy "Satchel" Paige, also named "the fastest pitcher ever".

[Terring 6,476]

"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels…upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!"

Mario Savio, 1964

[Terring 6,476]

"I wonder if the past set an unreasonable standard for the future. Do we hold our childhoods so dear because it was better? Or just familiar?"

James Rolfe as the Angry Video Game Nerd

[Fantozzi 4,068]

Der Tod ist groß.
Wir sind die Seinen
lachenden Munds.
Wenn wir uns
mitten im Leben meinen,
wagt er zu weinen
mitten in uns.

Rainer Maria Rilke

 

Death is huge

we are his

with laughing faces

when we feel

midst of life

he wages to cry

midst of us

 

(own translation)