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Daily Quotation

Discussion in 'General Discussions' started by uncle phil, Aug 15, 2011.

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  1. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."

    -George Bernard Shaw​
     
    uncle phil, Dec 15, 2011
    #201
  2. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."

    -Elbert Hubbard​
     
    uncle phil, Dec 16, 2011
    #202
  3. Hakimike

    Hakimike New Member

    Location:
    East Central Ohio
    And the things you can't remember tell the things you can't forget,
    That history puts a saint in every dream. ~ Tom Waits, Time
     
    Hakimike, Dec 16, 2011
    #203
  4. Tophat665

    Tophat665 Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    NoVA
    Everybody knows umbrellas will cost more than the rain.
    - Tom Waits "Talking at the Same Time" Bad as Me
     
    Tophat665, Dec 16, 2011
    #204
  5. NetvorFena

    NetvorFena Vertical

    Location:
    Michigan
    I can really appreciate this quote as a teacher. When we tell our students NOT to do something, inevitably someone DOES it. On the obverse, if we tell them all to DO something, usually most, if not all of them will do it. Negative is rarely as effective as Positive in this case.

    As for my favorite quotes...(I apologize if they are already here but had not seen them.)

    "My karma just ran over your dogma." (Unsure of the author.)

    "When you have eliminated the possible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in Sherelock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia.
     
    NetvorFena, Dec 16, 2011
    #205
  6. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

    -Albert Einstein​
     
    uncle phil, Dec 17, 2011
    #206
  7. Tophat665

    Tophat665 Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    NoVA
    (In reply to "42 and 44 are functionally the same age.")
    "There's a huge difference. I was born in the summer of love. You were born in the summer of Altamont."
    -- Being as this quote came from a professional lobbyist, name is withheld until retirement.
     
    Tophat665, Dec 17, 2011
    #207
  8. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust."

    -St. Francis De Sales​
     
    uncle phil, Dec 18, 2011
    #208
  9. CaptainBob

    CaptainBob Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Kingston, eh?
    Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament.
    Monica Seles
     
    CaptainBob, Dec 18, 2011
    #209
  10. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge."

    -Cicero​
     
    uncle phil, Dec 19, 2011
    #210
  11. CaptainBob

    CaptainBob Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Kingston, eh?
    Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.
    - Wendy Cope
     
    CaptainBob, Dec 19, 2011
    #211
  12. Tophat665

    Tophat665 Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    NoVA
    Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.
    -- Emo Philips
     
    Tophat665, Dec 19, 2011
    #212
  13. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it."

    -Andrew Carnegie​
     
    uncle phil, Dec 20, 2011
    #213
  14. Tophat665

    Tophat665 Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    NoVA
    Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
    - Dorothy Parker
     
    Tophat665, Dec 20, 2011
    #214
  15. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want."

    -Clive Barnes​
     
    uncle phil, Dec 21, 2011
    #215
  16. Tophat665

    Tophat665 Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    NoVA
    “Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public.”
    -- PT Barnum
     
    Tophat665, Dec 21, 2011
    #216
  17. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it."

    -Anatole France​
     
    uncle phil, Dec 22, 2011
    #217
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  18. Freetofly

    Freetofly Diving deep into the abyss

    Location:
    From Philly USA, living in London UK
    "Diplomacy is the art of telling someone to go to Hell, in a manner which will make them look forward to the trip"
    (From a sign on the office wall
    of President Putin's Press Secretary)
     
    Freetofly, Dec 22, 2011
    #218
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  19. Tophat665

    Tophat665 Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    NoVA
    It's not the torment of the flames that finally sees your flesh corrupted; It's the small humiliations that your memory piles up.
    - Elvis Costello (Neatly encapsulating my opinion of the afterlife, such as it is.)

    My Highschool Principal (who, sadly, went on to his eternal surprise last month) used to say that.
     
    Tophat665, Dec 22, 2011
    #219
  20. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    "The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."

    -Winston Churchill​
     
    uncle phil, Dec 23, 2011
    #220
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