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hunnychile · 11-11-2009, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by warrrreagl

Since I missed a couple of days, I'll make up for it with a mess of quotes from Harold and Maude on Ruth Gordon's birthday. Enjoy.

A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life. *Reach* out. Take a *chance*. Get *hurt* even. But play as well as you can. Go team, go! Give me an L. Give me an I. Give me a V. Give me an E. L-I-V-E. LIVE! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.

I should like to change into a sunflower most of all. They're so tall and simple.

Dreyfus once wrote from Devil's Island that he would see the most glorious birds. Many years later in Brittany he realized they had only been seagulls... For me they will always be - *glorious* birds.

Vice, Virtue. It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much *life*. Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then you're bound to live life fully.

Harold, *everyone* has the right to make an ass out of themselves. You just can't let the world judge you too much.

Well, if some people get upset because they feel they have a hold on some things, I'm merely acting as a gentle reminder: here today, gone tomorrow, so don't get attached to things.

*Don't* get officious. You're not yourself when you're officious - That is the curse of a government job.

The earth is my body; my head is in the stars.

You know, at one time, I used to break into pet shops to liberate the canaries. But I decided that was an idea way before its time. Zoos are full, prisons are overflowing... oh my, how the world still dearly loves a cage.

That's *wonderful*. Go and love some more.

Ruth Gordon (October 30, 1896 - 1985)

One of my most favorite movies of all time. When you watch it, expect nothing.

uncle phil · 11-12-2009, 03:06 AM

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - November 12, 1815

“Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving

warrrreagl · 11-12-2009, 03:18 AM

"Not remotely. Because iocane comes from Australia, as everyone knows, and Australia is entirely peopled with criminals, and criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you........You only think I guessed wrong! That's what's so funny! I switched glasses when your back was turned! Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha... "

Wallace Shawn (November 12, 1943)

GreyWolf · 11-12-2009, 04:44 AM

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Originally Posted by uncle phil

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - November 12, 1815

“Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving

And also, for all the age-ist whippersnappers out there who cannot see the true beauty inherent in women:

"The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty."

warrrreagl · 11-13-2009, 02:57 AM

"I don't have pet peeves, I have whole kennels of irritation."

Whoopi Goldberg (November 13, 1949)

uncle phil · 11-13-2009, 03:05 AM

Louis Brandeis - November 13, 1856

“Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”

uncle phil · 11-14-2009, 03:03 AM

Joseph McCarthy = November 14, 1909

“I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five (people) that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department!”

warrrreagl · 11-14-2009, 07:18 AM

"You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that."

Prince Charles (November 14, 1948)

uncle phil · 11-15-2009, 03:07 AM

William Pitt the Elder - November 15, 1708

“If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms -- never! never! never!”

warrrreagl · 11-15-2009, 04:28 AM

"Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time."

Georgia O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 - 1986)

warrrreagl · 11-16-2009, 03:08 AM

"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll."

Shigeru Miyamoto (November 16, 1952)

uncle phil · 11-16-2009, 03:11 AM

Burgess Meredith - November 16, 1908

"All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I see little except violence and fear...In those early years I somehow came to understand I would have to draw from within myself whatever emotional resources I needed to go wherever I was headed. As a result, for years I became a boy who lived almost totally within himself."

GreyWolf · 11-16-2009, 04:50 AM

The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day.

- William Christopher Handy, Father of the Blues 16 November, 1873

uncle phil · 11-17-2009, 03:06 AM

Louis XVIII of France - November 17, 1755

"Punctuality is the politeness of kings."

warrrreagl · 11-17-2009, 03:06 AM

"I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time. Anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music."

Isaac Hanson (November 17, 1980)

(you just KNOW that song is going to be stuck in your head all day now...)

warrrreagl · 11-18-2009, 03:00 AM

"It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract."

Alan Shepard, Jr. (November 18, 1923 - 1998)

uncle phil · 11-18-2009, 03:09 AM

Cesare Lombroso - November 18, 1836

“Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.”

uncle phil · 11-19-2009, 03:04 AM

Ted Turner - November 19, 1938

“Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.”

warrrreagl · 11-19-2009, 06:01 AM

"People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights."

Indira Gandhi (November 19, 1917 - 1984)

warrrreagl · 11-20-2009, 03:27 AM

"Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men."

Alistair Cooke (November 20, 1908 - 2004)

uncle phil · 11-20-2009, 03:54 AM

Chester Gould - November 20, 1900

“I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could.”

uncle phil · 11-21-2009, 03:16 AM

François-Marie Arouet - November 21, 1694

“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”

warrrreagl · 11-21-2009, 05:09 AM

Here we go again. I dare you to limit yourself to one quote by Voltaire. I'm not smart enough to do that, so I picked pretty much all of them.

A witty saying proves nothing.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

Better is the enemy of good.

Business is the salt of life.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Common sense is not so common.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

History should be written as philosophy.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

My life is a struggle.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

The best is the enemy of the good.

The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

Voltaire (November 21, 1694 - 1778)

uncle phil · 11-21-2009, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by warrrreagl

Here we go again. I dare you to limit yourself to one quote by Voltaire. I'm not smart enough to do that, so I picked pretty much all of them.

i did...

wait'll next year...

uncle phil · 11-22-2009, 03:03 AM

Mary Ann Evans - November 22, 1819

“It is never to late to be what you might have been.”

warrrreagl · 11-22-2009, 10:26 AM

"Silence is the ultimate weapon of power."

Charles de Gaulle (November 22, 1890 - 1970)

warrrreagl · 11-23-2009, 02:43 AM

"................."

Harpo Marx (November 23, 1888 - 1964)

uncle phil · 11-23-2009, 03:22 AM

Maurice Zolotow - November 23, 1913

"Is not Monroe the image par excellence of this New Woman? She is voluptuous, but she admires Dostoyevsky."

GreyWolf · 11-23-2009, 04:06 AM

Boris Karloff - 23 November, 1887

The monster was the best friend I ever had.

uncle phil · 11-24-2009, 03:00 AM

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - November 24, 1864

"Of course one should not drink much, but often."

uncle phil · 11-25-2009, 03:23 AM

Carry Nation - November 25, 1846

“Men are nicotine-soaked, beer-besmirched, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devils.”

warrrreagl · 11-25-2009, 06:12 AM

"You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb."

Andrew Carnegie (November 25, 1835 - 1919)

uncle phil · 11-26-2009, 03:33 AM

Eugene Ionesco - November 26, 1912

“Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.”

warrrreagl · 11-26-2009, 04:14 AM

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."

Charles M. Schulz (November 26, 1922 - 2000)

uncle phil · 11-27-2009, 04:13 AM

Robert Emil Schmidt - November 27, 1917

"Hey, kids! What time is it?"

GreyWolf · 11-27-2009, 05:51 AM

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

- Bruce Lee, 27 November, 1940.

uncle phil · 11-28-2009, 02:57 AM

William Blake - November 28, 1757

“No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings”

uncle phil · 11-29-2009, 03:04 AM

Busby Berkeley - November 29, 1895

“I wanted to make people happy, if only for an hour.”

warrrreagl · 11-29-2009, 09:32 AM

"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."

Madeleine L'Engle (November 29, 1918 - 2007)

uncle phil · 11-30-2009, 03:09 AM

Jonathan Swift - November 30, 1667

“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”

11-12-2009, 03:06 AM	#202 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Elizabeth Cady Stanton - November 12, 1815 “Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

11-12-2009, 03:18 AM	#203 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	"Not remotely. Because iocane comes from Australia, as everyone knows, and Australia is entirely peopled with criminals, and criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you........You only think I guessed wrong! That's what's so funny! I switched glasses when your back was turned! Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha... " Wallace Shawn (November 12, 1943) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

11-13-2009, 02:57 AM	#205 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	"I don't have pet peeves, I have whole kennels of irritation." Whoopi Goldberg (November 13, 1949) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

11-13-2009, 03:05 AM	#206 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Louis Brandeis - November 13, 1856 “Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

11-14-2009, 03:03 AM	#207 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Joseph McCarthy = November 14, 1909 “I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five (people) that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department!” __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

11-14-2009, 07:18 AM	#208 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	"You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that." Prince Charles (November 14, 1948) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

11-15-2009, 03:07 AM	#209 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	William Pitt the Elder - November 15, 1708 “If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms -- never! never! never!” __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

11-15-2009, 04:28 AM	#210 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	"Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time." Georgia O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 - 1986) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

11-16-2009, 03:08 AM	#211 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll." Shigeru Miyamoto (November 16, 1952) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

11-16-2009, 03:11 AM	#212 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Burgess Meredith - November 16, 1908 "All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I see little except violence and fear...In those early years I somehow came to understand I would have to draw from within myself whatever emotional resources I needed to go wherever I was headed. As a result, for years I became a boy who lived almost totally within himself." __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

11-16-2009, 04:50 AM	#213 (permalink)
GreyWolf Sober Location: Eastern Canada	The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day. - William Christopher Handy, Father of the Blues 16 November, 1873 __________________ *The secret to great marksmanship is deciding what the target was AFTER you've shot.*

11-17-2009, 03:06 AM	#214 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Louis XVIII of France - November 17, 1755 "Punctuality is the politeness of kings." __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

11-17-2009, 03:06 AM	#215 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	"I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time. Anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music." Isaac Hanson (November 17, 1980) (you just KNOW that song is going to be stuck in your head all day now...) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

11-18-2009, 03:00 AM	#216 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	"It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract." Alan Shepard, Jr. (November 18, 1923 - 1998) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

11-18-2009, 03:09 AM	#217 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Cesare Lombroso - November 18, 1836 “Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.” __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

11-19-2009, 03:04 AM	#218 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Ted Turner - November 19, 1938 “Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.” __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

11-19-2009, 06:01 AM	#219 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	"People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights." Indira Gandhi (November 19, 1917 - 1984) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

11-20-2009, 03:27 AM	#220 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	"Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men." Alistair Cooke (November 20, 1908 - 2004) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

11-20-2009, 03:54 AM	#221 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Chester Gould - November 20, 1900 “I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could.” __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

11-21-2009, 03:16 AM	#222 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	François-Marie Arouet - November 21, 1694 “Prejudices are what fools use for reason.” __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

11-21-2009, 05:09 AM	#223 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	Here we go again. I dare you to limit yourself to one quote by Voltaire. I'm not smart enough to do that, so I picked pretty much all of them. A witty saying proves nothing. All styles are good except the tiresome kind. All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women. Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel. Anything too stupid to be said is sung. Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. Better is the enemy of good. Business is the salt of life. By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. Clever tyrants are never punished. Common sense is not so common. Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient. Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion. Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. Fear follows crime and is its punishment. Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent. God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best. Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers. He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise. He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked. He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first. He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead. He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad. History should be written as philosophy. I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom. I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. I hate women because they always know where things are. I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow. I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it. I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil. I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms. Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal. If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him. Illusion is the first of all pleasures. In every author let us distinguish the man from his works. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation. In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. Injustice in the end produces independence. Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere. It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce. It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode. It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love. It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. It is said that the present is pregnant with the future. It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow. It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable. Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him. Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. My life is a struggle. Nature has always had more force than education. Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. One great use of words is to hide our thoughts. One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts. Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. Prejudices are what fools use for reason. Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare. Tears are the silent language of grief. The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third. The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. The best is the enemy of the good. The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out. The ear is the avenue to the heart. The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days. The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself. The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs. The multitude of books is making us ignorant. The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year. The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it. The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice. The superfluous, a very necessary thing. The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it. The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason. There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times. Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. To hold a pen is to be at war. To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. To the wicked, everything serves as pretext. Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool. We are rarely proud when we are alone. We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly. We cannot wish for that we know not. We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved. We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous. What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics. When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life. Voltaire (November 21, 1694 - 1778) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

11-22-2009, 03:03 AM	#225 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Mary Ann Evans - November 22, 1819 “It is never to late to be what you might have been.” __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

11-22-2009, 10:26 AM	#226 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	"Silence is the ultimate weapon of power." Charles de Gaulle (November 22, 1890 - 1970) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

11-23-2009, 02:43 AM	#227 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	"................." Harpo Marx (November 23, 1888 - 1964) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

11-23-2009, 03:22 AM	#228 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Maurice Zolotow - November 23, 1913 "Is not Monroe the image par excellence of this New Woman? She is voluptuous, but she admires Dostoyevsky." __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

11-23-2009, 04:06 AM	#229 (permalink)
GreyWolf Sober Location: Eastern Canada	Boris Karloff - 23 November, 1887 The monster was the best friend I ever had. __________________ *The secret to great marksmanship is deciding what the target was AFTER you've shot.*

11-24-2009, 03:00 AM	#230 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - November 24, 1864 "Of course one should not drink much, but often." __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

11-25-2009, 03:23 AM	#231 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Carry Nation - November 25, 1846 “Men are nicotine-soaked, beer-besmirched, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devils.” __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

11-25-2009, 06:12 AM	#232 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	"You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb." Andrew Carnegie (November 25, 1835 - 1919) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

11-26-2009, 03:33 AM	#233 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Eugene Ionesco - November 26, 1912 “Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.” __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

11-26-2009, 04:14 AM	#234 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." Charles M. Schulz (November 26, 1922 - 2000) __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.

11-27-2009, 04:13 AM	#235 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Robert Emil Schmidt - November 27, 1917 "Hey, kids! What time is it?" __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

11-27-2009, 05:51 AM	#236 (permalink)
GreyWolf Sober Location: Eastern Canada	I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine. - Bruce Lee, 27 November, 1940. __________________ *The secret to great marksmanship is deciding what the target was AFTER you've shot.*

11-28-2009, 02:57 AM	#237 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	William Blake - November 28, 1757 “No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings” __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

11-29-2009, 03:04 AM	#238 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Busby Berkeley - November 29, 1895 “I wanted to make people happy, if only for an hour.” __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.