Quotable Quotes
Could not find the former quote thread....thus starting a new one:
"People who know little are usually great talkerswhile people who know much say little.": Jean Jacques Rousseau
Joyful 
RobbetggrobberDuring my lifeand in all my travelsI have found common sense is not very common. Will Rogers
Patc There is no bigger threat to freedom than the professional politician. George Forsythe
Even if you're on the right trackyou'll get run over if you just sit there....Will Rogers
Living life boldly.. "You can't kill ideas. But you can sure shoot the people who hold them."
G. Gordon Liddy
GC Common sense is not so common
Better to be thought a fool then to opens ones mouth and remove all doubt
It's weird not to be weird
LibertyThinker Yesterday is historytomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift . That's why they call it the present.
sparksjbc1964 Never trust your money with anyone who's last name is "Madoff"
P.S. I like this thread... lots of good stuff!
Insulting others is never a way of correcting them. Instead it causes more damage and proves that we need help ourselves.
Mufti Ismail Menk –
CBGB "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." Elenoar Roosevelt
Hickory Dog "Perfection is not attainablebut if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."
Vince Lombardi
justintime 
4catmom "The question should beIs it worth trying to do...Not can it be done." : Allard Lowenstein
You can substitute to God in this quote if you want.
When you are going through something hard and you start wondering where Allah isjust rememberthe teacher is always quite during a test.” – Nouman Ali Khan
"If you could kick the person responsible for your troublesyou would not be able to sit down for six months": Author Unknown
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
~~Henry Drummond~~
"In the first placewe should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to ushe shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone elsefor it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creedor birthplaceor origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an Americanand nothing but an American ... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an Americanbut something else alsoisn't an American at all. We have room for but one flagthe American flag ... We have room for but one language hereand that is the English language ... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it.
- Wayne Dyer
Rebecka When arguing with a foolalways make sure the opponent is not doing the same thing. - A. Lincoln.
Agust Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
---John Kenneth Galbraith---
"The hardest Arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our Blessings".: Eric Hoffer
"You're really going to compare Trump who lived a disciplined life to that clown?! "
Metsman
yankeefan "there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know."
Donald Rumsfeld
OnTheEdge I just found this oneI think I am going to start following it!
"Never argue with an idiot.They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience"
I have found multiple people on this quoteso I am not sure who to cite it to??
Darrin When accused of being up to no good:
"I'm past 'no good'... I'm up to evil and approaching treachery."
Gotta love Redd Foxx.
"I never considered a difference of opinion in politicsin religionin philosophyas cause for withdrawing from a friend." - Thomas Jefferson to William HamiltonApril 221800
Warren Buffett (paraphrased): We could quickly solve the budget deficit. If the deficit became more than 3% of the GDP any sitting member of Congress would not be allowed to run for re- election.
"Outside of a doga book is man's best friend. Inside of a dogit's too dark to read"--Groucho Marx.
Dancicus Fighticus If you lose your temperyou're wrong...even if you're right.
The best advice my dad ever gave me.
Chickadee mobile 
Frank 
Under capitalismman exploits man. Under communismit's just the opposite.
---John Kenneth Galbraith---
Greg 
We're = one word
We are = two words
“The Beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”
---BB King---
"Say what you've come here to say."
-from an artist friend's FB page.
(Inspiring. Are you saying what you came here to say [in this life]?)
"Be at war with your vices.. at peace with your neighbors and let every New Year find you a better man.": Benjamin Franklin
"Name-calling is what happens when you desperately want to arguebut you are in fact inarticulate."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity...: George S. Patton
"Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward." : C.S. Lewis
Pain is a holy angel who shows us treasures that would otherwise remain forever hidden; through him men and women have become greater than through all the joys of the world.
~~~Dietrich Bonhoeffer~~~
"Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know." : Cullen Hightower
"I can tell you ... nuclear holocaust would be like no other."
"This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine"
POTUS
city chick 
DannyC 
"We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government."
~~~William Howard Taft~~~
"A lie gets half way around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on". : Sir Winston Churchill
hktownie 
BobL 
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquiresbut in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively”
---Bob Marley---
"Health is the greatest giftContentment the greatest wealthand Faithfulness the greatest relationship". : Buddha
"I begin to speak only when I'm certain what I'll say isn't better left unsaid." - Cato
"Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious." - Thomas Edison
(If you haven't tried this - do!)
Stymie 
Ziggy "To enjoy good healthto bring true happiness to one's familyand to bring peace to all......one must first discipline and control ones own mind: Buddah
"For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstandinga miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthingbut everything depends on her."
-- Yasmina Khadra
Not sure who wrote itbut a good one:
"If I quit nowI will soon be back to where I started. And when I startedI was desperately wishing to be where I am now."
LL "Never regret being a good person to the wrong people". "Your behavior says everything about you and their behavior says enough about them". : Buddhist Vision
Here is a Casey Stengel quote about pitcher Ryne Duren who is described thusly..............He was known for the combination of his blazing fastball and his very poor vision. With his thick Coke bottle glassesfew batters dared to dig in against Duren. Casey Stengel had this to say about Ryne Duren.
"I would not admire hitting against Ryne Durenbecause if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense." — Casey Stengel
"Lettin' the cat out of the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in" : Will Rogers
“If there are no dogs in Heaventhen when I die I want to go where they went.” Will Rogers
The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures and to be cheerful and have courage when things go wrong. —Laura Ingalls Wilder
Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is goodand if America ever ceases to be goodAmerica will cease to be great.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Dodgeball "I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.": Nicholas Sparks
"Parenthood is more than biology.... it's an attitude."
"A best friend is like a four leaf clover..... hard to findlucky to have "
"Music is the greatest communicator in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you are singing inthey still know good music when they hear it.": Lou Rawls
"I heard if we make guns illegal ..then nobody will get shot anymore"..Isn't that how we thought we could stop everybody from doing drugs?": Sarah Palin
Thank you HL friends
"If we could spread love as quickly as we spread hate and negativitywhat a amazing world we would live in: Author Unknown
"This flag which we honor and under which we serveis the emblem of our unityour powerour thought and purpose as a nation. It has no other character than that which we give it from generation to generation. The choices are ours. It floats in majestic silence above the hosts that execute those choiceswhether in peace or in war. And yetthough silentit speaks to us — speaks to us of the pastor the men and women who went before usand of the records they wrote upon it."
Woodrow Wilson 1917
ThanksCBGB
"When you are 20 you care about what everyone thinks
When you are 40 you stop caring about what everyone thinks
When you are 60 you realize that no one was ever thinking about you in the first place": Winston Churchill
strangerdanger 
this is a quote from the book I am reading now. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.
after reading several divorce threads the quote rang loud for me.
"Like a compass needle that points northa man's accusing finger always finds a woman."
A very appropriate quote especially for me after this last storm::
"Family is always going to be there." "The material thingsthey come and go.":
Romeo Miller
tigermom Please substitute your own deity or belief system for "God"-
"God has given us two handsone to receive with and the other to give with."
Billy Graham
whatmatters 
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Brian T "Speak when you are angry - and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.":
Lawrence J. Peters
That's a good oneJoyful.
On a lighter note.
"The early bird gets the worm; the second mouse gets the cheese!"
Bert Heard on the radio this morningnot sure it’s exact and don’t remember the speaker’s name:
I’m hopeful though the task is insurmountable.
Made me cry instantly.
RAS That's true … Adele cut her hair after we got engaged … still married 40 years later :-D
Andy Loigu Mark Bahnuk was an awesome cross country and distance runner for the Hackettstown Tigers in his day. I used to joke on the football broadcasts on WRNJ that he should be on the football team … "for when it is third down and a mile to go" :-D
I just tried to bring him up on the Hackettstown Hall of Fame threadbut I was told by our Orwellian "big brother" that I've been posting on there too much and should give someone else a chance. LOL
A few years ago WRNJ told me to stop calling with trivia answers because I wasn't giving other people a chance.
“If she's amazingshe won't be easy. If she's easyshe won't be amazing. If she's worth ityou wont give up. If you give upyou're not worthy. ... Truth iseverybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”
---Bob Marley---
"I love when people that have been through Hell walk out of the flames carrying buckets of water for those still consumed by the fire." : Stephanie Sparkles
“A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest”?
Winston Churchill
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble...finding it everywherediagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies”.
Groucho Marx
Guilty-Remnant "A revolution is not a dinner partyor writing an essayor painting a pictureor doing embroidery; it cannot be so refinedso leisurely and gentleso temperatekindcourteousrestrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrectionan act of violence by which one class overthrows another. "
"All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the gunsthat wayno guns can ever be used to command the party."
Mao Tse Tung
One-eyed Poacher "The goal of socialism is communism. "
"Give me your four year oldsand in a generation I will build a socialist state. "
"We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses haterevulsionand scorn toward those who disagree with us."
"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitatorbut also a collective organizer of the masses. "
" Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?"
Vlad Lenin
“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truththey can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real factsand beer.”
Abraham Lincoln
"The value of life is not in its durationbut in its donation...you are not important because of how long you liveyou are important because of how effective you live":
Myles Monroe
Never utter mean words out of anger. Your anger will pass. But your mean words can scar a person for life. So use kind words or be silent.”
Mufti Ismail Menk
dodgebaal "When you have learned to snatch the error code from the trap frameit will be time for you to leave."
-Geoffrey James
" Why do we close our eyes when we praywhen we crywhen we kiss or when we dream?"..."Because the most beautiful things in our life are not seen but felt only by the heart". : Author Unknown
“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
― Mark Twain
"You have to go through those mountains and valleys- because that is what life is": Soul Growth : Wayne Newton
Beautiful quotesjoyful!!
Here's a tee shirt I need with the perfect quote on it. ;-)
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
Aristotle
"You cannot go back and change the beginning...but you can start where you are and change the ending." : C.S. Lewis
It is only in Challenging the Laws of the Universethat One can Change the Universe.
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of manit seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
Konrad Adenauer
***bonus Adenauer quote***
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
"Be thankful for what you do have; you'll end up having more." "If you concentrate on what you don't haveyou will neverever have enough." : Oprah Winfrey
The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness.
Theodor W Adorno
***bonus Adorno quote***
People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.
wrestlref "The game looks easy from here," Hall of Fame baseball player Richie Ashburn to his broadcasting sidekick Harry Kalas. RIP to both!
"Old friends pass awaynew friends appear".
"It is just like the days."
"Another day passesa new day arrives."
"The important thing is to make it meaningful- A meaningful friend- or a meaningful day." : Dalai Lama
When the Dalai Lama ordered a sandwich at the delihe said "make me one with everything" LOL …. HelloDalaiit's so nice to have you back where you belong … :-D
https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=JqGsXPmxIuKN_Qb69rXYBw&q=hello+dolly+lyrics&oq=hello+dolly&gs_l=psy-ab.1.2.0l10.1611.4453..6644...0.0..0.145.1143.10j2......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..35i39j0i131.26uAb4P2vMI
Just sub Dalai for Dolly … good song :-D
There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.
Northrop Frye
***bonus Frye quote***
Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on downsimply by spending his money somewhere else.
Sam Walton
Toby Cavanaugh The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valéry
***bonus Valéry quote***
Love is being stupid together.
SueR “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
Thomas A. Edison
Another Thomas Edison quote:
"Your worth counts in what you are and not in what you have."
I think of healthcare....
“You can’t play Godwithout becoming acquainted with the devil “
“Humanity and compassion is not cost effective”
From WestWorldnot sure if it’s exact or previously quoted elsewherebut found it interesting when I heard them.
Rope burns the flesh / Cold Steel chills to the bone / Leather comforts as it binds the soul
Caged Animal 
JudeKS 
Moderate desires constitute a character fitted to acquire all the good which the world can yield. He who has this character is preparedin whatever situation he istherewith to be content; has learned the science of being happy
Timothy Dwight IV
b. May 141752
“Being a mother is an attitudenot a biological relation.”
Robert A. Heinlein
Be plain in dressand sober in your diet; In shortmy dearykiss meand be quiet.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Born: May 151689
Spring Fever 
Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.
Robert Smith Surtees
Born: May 171805
mel To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.
---Johann Gottlieb Fichte---
Born: May 191762
***bonus quote***
“I like children they are tasty.” Albert Fish serial killerBorn: May 191870
Trust gets you killed,love gets you hurtand being real gets you hated.
Johnny Cash
Alexander Pope
Born: 21 May 1688
where to begin.
To err is human; to forgivedivine.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deepor taste not the Pierian spring.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never isbut always to be blest.
Charms strike the sightbut merit wins the soul.
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
"You don't know when you are dead....the pain is felt by others."
" The same thing happens when you are stupid."
Author Unknown...
MK 
To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
Thomas Hood
Born: May 231799
Hood quote I like
***bonus quote***
O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts.
Jean-Paul Marat
Born: May 241743
***bonus Marat quote***
“It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate usto fleece us and to oppress us with impunitywill now agreewith good graceto be our equals.”
Commitment is doing what you said you would doafter the feeling you said it in has passed.
Saint Camillus De Lellis
Born May 251550
***bonus take that john316 quote***
Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three thingsthrough the mercy of Godwill make a man go to Heaven. Camillus de Lellis.
ROBBY BABY Who wrote:
"No man is an island entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the continenta part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the seaEurope
is the lessas well as if a promontory wereas
well as any manner of thy friends or of thine
own were; any man's death diminishes me
because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
Was it:
Ayn Rand - 1980
John Donne - 1600
Hillary Clinton - 2000
Joseph Stalin - 1940
All of the above :>)
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnablewe may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.
Randolph Bourne
Born: May 301886,
"Every situation in life is temporary."
"So when life is goodmake sure you enjoy and receive it fully..And when life is not so goodremember it will not last forever and better days are on the way," :
Author Unknown
We were together. I forget the rest.
Walt Whitman
Born: May 311819
and then came facebook
***bonus quote***
Resist muchobey little
"Godgrant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot changethe courage to change the things I canand the wisdom to know the difference."
(the Serenity Prayer - Reinhold Niebuhrtheologian)
DD The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
William Sloane Coffin
Born: June 11924
***bonus WSC quote***
Love measures our stature: the more we lovethe bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.
Love both quotes CBGB. Especially the extended version of the first:
"We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Love is in the givernot the gift."
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
Martha Washington
born June 21731
My sentiments exactly.
"HellI never vote for anybodyI always vote against."
W.C Fields
Denis “It cannot be seencannot be felt,
Cannot be heardcannot be smelt,
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills,
It comes first and follows after,
Ends lifekills laughter.”
― J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit
callitlikeIseeit Just remember-you are braver than you believestronger than you seemand smarter than you think.
Winnie the Pooh!
Neither current events nor history show that the majority ruleor ever did rule.
Jefferson Davis
born June 31808
"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are".: J.P. Morgan
“Suffering has been greater than all other teachings. I have been bent and brokenbut I hope into a better shape.”
Charles Dickinson
Born: June 41951
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes
Born: June 51883
***bonus Keynes quote***
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a planin which we must fervently believeand upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Pablo Picasso
catching up since the robot wouldn't let me post two in a row
“I can be forced to live without happinessbut I will never consent to live without honor.”
― Pierre Corneille
Born: June 61606
This man is a quote machine.
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
We never taste happiness in perfectionour most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
A good memory is needed after one has lied.
and there are plenty more
Sometimes the feeling that life is great just swells up inside you and fills you with joy.
Jackie Gleason
Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer
Henry Lawson
Born: June 171867
I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.
Roger Ebert
Born: June 181942
***bonus quote***
Your intellect may be confusedbut your emotions will never lie to you. Roger Ebert
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
Thomas Fuller
born June 191608
***bonus quote***
If you have one true friend you have more than your share. Thomas Fuller
Poor Thomas ;-). Seems to not live a Fuller lifejust brushes the good stuff away.....
Guilt is the source of sorrowsthe avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings.
Nicholas Rowe
Born: 20 June 1674
A man always has two reasons for doing anything ---- a good reason and the real reason.
--J. P. Morgan--
Another...
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. ~ Leo Aikman
also......Actions speak louder than words
Drink is in itself a good creature of Godand to be received with thankfulnessbut the abuse of drink is from Satanthe wine is from Godbut the Drunkard is from the Devil.
Increase Mather
Born: June 211639
“Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty!”
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
Born: June 221767
***bonus quote***
The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
- WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT
"The best feeling in the world is...
when you look at that special person
and they are already smiling at you."
~Unknown.
Never "ASSUME"- because you make an "Ass" out of "U" and "Me"! (Felix Unger- The Odd Couple)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEP1acj29-Y
AJMS “Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female but not the male.”
— Alfred Kinsey
Born: June 231894
***bonus quote***
The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.
Alfred Kinsey
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.": Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.”
Henry Ward Beecher
Born: June 241813
***bonus quote***
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. --- Henry Ward Beecher
*** ***double bonus quote*** ***
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.--- Henry Ward Beecher
We cannot take credit for our record avancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helpedand we have been helped by the people of other worlds.
Hermann Oberth
Born: June 251894
A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
Henry David Thoreau
“ I love people. I love my familymy children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.”
Pearl S. Buck
Born: June 261892
***bonus quote***
Truth is always exciting. Speak itthen. Life is dull without it.
Pearl S. Buck
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying "I will try again tomorrow".
I demand the independence of womanher right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleasesor as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexesfreedom of actionfreedom in love and freedom in motherhood.
Emma Goldman
Born: June 271869
***bonus quote***
If I can't danceI don't want to be part of your revolution. Emma Goldman
If this doesn't explain Hackettstown Life.......................
I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.
Giovanni della Casa
"The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
-- Woman and the New RaceChapter 5"The Wickedness of Creating Large Families." (1920) http://www.bartleby.com/1013/
Margaret Sanger
Matilda Fuentes Hackettstown Life explained part II
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
James Harvey Robinson
Born: June 291863
and I forgot to post from yesterday
Giovanni della Casa
Born: June 281503
***bonus quote***
Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other. James Harvey Robinson
“There is nothing like youthere was nothing like youand there shall be nothing like you”
Yogi tea bag
Positive A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.
Harold Laski
Born: June 301893
***bonus quote***
Nobody has the intention of building a wall
Walter Ulbricht Born: June 301893
A reputation once broken may possibly be repairedbut the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
Joseph Hall
Born: 1 July 1574
zentravl From religion comes a man's purpose; from sciencehis power to achieve it. Sometimes people ask if religion and science are not opposed to one another. They are: in the sense that the thumb and fingers of my hands are opposed to one another. It is an opposition by means of which anything can be grasped.
William Henry Bragg
Born: July 21862
"When you come out of the stormyou won't be the same person that walked in".."That is what the storm is all about.": Harold Murakam
To swallow and followwhether old doctrine or new propagandais a weakness still dominating the human mind.
- CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN
Born: July 31860
“I favor the policy of economynot because I wish to save moneybut because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.”
Calvin Coolidge
born July 41872
"Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance..It is also owed to Justice and to Humanity". "Patriotism exists not in waving the flagbut in striving that our country shall be Righteous as well as Strong": James Bryce
No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.
Mandell Creighton
Born: July 51843
"The world is changed by your examplenot by your opinion."
I don't know who said this.
For seehalf the virtues in smile are found
and wicked thoughts are submerged and drowned;
whenopenthe heart is to all displayed,
God is close to the ones he has made.
Eino Leino
Born: July 61878
"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together"..: Marilyn Monroe
This world is one great battlefield
With forces all arrayed;
If in my heart I do not yield
I'll overcome someday.
Charles Albert Tindley
Born: July 71851
Man is so made that when anything fires his soulimpossibilities vanish.
Jean de La Fontaine
Born: July 81621
***bonus quote***
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. Jean de La Fontaine
*** ***bonus bonus quote*** ***
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. Jean de La Fontaine
“Any decent society has to be built on trust and love and the intelligent use of information and feelings. Education involves being able to practice those things as you struggle to build a decent society that can be nonviolent.”
— Myles Horton
Born: July 91905
When God wants to judge a nationHe gives them wicked rulers.
John Calvin
Born: July 101509
***bonus quote***
“Prayer doesn’t change things – God changes things in answer to prayer.”John Calvin
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
John Quincy Adams
Born: July 111767
***bonus quote***
Always vote for principlethough you may vote aloneand you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. John Quincy Adams
well SueR since it is his birthday and you did quote him recently
Henry David Thoreau
“I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase itthe more it will elude youbut if you turn your attention to other thingsit will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Born: July 121817
***bonus quote***
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. Henry David Thoreau
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. Ayn Rand
Azvon 
Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshipping.
Hubert Reeves
Born: July 131932
“The truth only irritates those it enlightensbut does not convert.”
— Pasquier Quesnel
born July 141634
"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tinyinner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." ~Golda Meir
Bonus quote CBGB :
"Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil!" ~Golda Meir
T'was the night before Christmaswhen all through the housenot a creature was stirringnot even a mouse.
— Clement Clarke Moore
Born: July 151779
"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present." : G. Meir
Happiness is spiritualborn of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alonebut requires all mankind to share it.
Mary Baker Eddy
Born: July 161821
***bonus quote***
True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to loveand to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us. Mary Baker Eddy
I'll not willingly offendNor be easily offended; What's amiss I'll strive to mendAnd endure what can't be mended.
Isaac Watts
Born: July 171674
***bonus quote***
For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. Isaac Watts
"Wherever you gothere you are"
Attributed to either Confucius or Buckaroo Banzai ..... no one seems to know for sure!
:-)
Rob Durana “Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? orhaving itis satisfied?”
William Makepeace Thackeray
Born: July 181811
***bonus quote***
“A good laugh is sunshine in a house” William Makepeace Thackeray
“Soup simmeringmusic of idle gossipyammering kidsdomestic chaos – long adjusted to this rolling sceneyou show them your lofty calm.”
— Gottfried Keller
Born: July 191819
“ We will never get a man into space. This earth is man's sphere and it was never intended that he should get away from it. The moon is a superior planet to the earth and it was never intended that man should go there. You can write it down in your books that this will never happen.
Joseph Fielding Smith
Born: July 191876
Truewe love lifenot because we are used to livingbut because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in lovebut there is also always some reason in madness.
Francesco Petrarch
Born: July 201304
***bonus quote***
“ Five enemies of peace inhabit with us--avariceambitionenvyangerand pride if these were to be banishedwe should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. Francesco Petrarch
You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's goodno matter what happens to the other people in the process!
Frances Parkinson Keyes
Born: July 211885
That's just God bowling.
~Said almost every parent to their child
Or is it the Angels?
https://youtu.be/sqlYRtN3n0c
Keep your heart in peace and let nothing trouble younot even your faults. You must humble yourself and amend them peacefullywithout being discouraged or cast downfor God's dwelling is in peace.
Margaretha Mary Alacoque
Born: July 221647
A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person doesonly somewhat better and with a totally different motive.
Coventry Patmore
Born: July 231823
***bonus quote***
The moods of love are like the wind,
And none knows whence or why they rise. - Coventry Patmore
Womenlike menshould try to do the impossible. And when they failtheir failure should be a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart
Born: July 241897
"Learn to appreciate all that you havebefore time makes you appreciate what you had". :
Author Unknown..
Nothing matters very muchand few things matter at all.
Arthur Balfour
Born: July 251848
I learned long agonever to wrestle with a pig. You get dirtyand besidesthe pig likes it.
George Benard Shaw
Born: 26 July 1856
I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning runI'd trip her up.
Leo Durocher
Born: July 271905
A human being is what he eats
Ludwig Feuerbach
Born: July 281804
***bonus quote***
My only wish isto transform friends of God into friends of manbelievers into thinkersdevotees of prayer into devotees of workcandidates for the hereafter into students of the worldChristians whoby their own procession and admissionare half animalhalf angel into personsinto whole persons. Ludwig Feuerbach
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.": George Bernard Shaw
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human lifethe punishment of crimes against property and personsthe equality of all good citizens before the law... orin a word justice.
Max Nordau
Born: July 291849
Three quotes to think about in today's tweet-filled world.
"There comes a time when silence is betrayal."
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
"In the endwe will remember not the words of our enemiesbut the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledgeexperienceand ability.
Henry Ford
Born: July 301863
***bonus quote***
worry is the most wasteful thing in the world. henry ford
"Some people think racism has dissipated or no longer exists. But it's hidden in more strategic places."
Jaylen Brown
"Racism and injustice and violence sweep our worldbringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death."
Billy Graham
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
Milton Friedman
Born: July 311912
"One of the greatest mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results."
Milton Friedman
Born: July 311912
***bonus America is in trouble quote***
There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual lifefor upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nationmeasured in terms of any kind of world competitionwill depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.
Elmo Roper
Born: July 311900
Faith dare the soul to go further than it can see.
William Clark
Born: August 11770
***bonus quote***
Life is full of hardshipspimp slapsand sorrow Coolio Born: August 11963
Herman Munster: (reading a poem he wrote as an advertising jingle for his mortuary employer) When your days on earth are over / And you've gone to your reward/ Let us put you 'neath the clover / At a price you can afford.
(repeated line) Herman Munster: Ohgoody!
Lily Munster: Grandpaif you want the ketchupjust say "Please pass the ketchup"not "Shoot me the plasma!"
(repeated line) Herman Munster: DARNDARNDARNDARN!
Lily Munster: When is that silly bird going to get girls off his mind? The Raven: Nevermorenevermore.
Lily: Eddie! You better start dawdlingor you're going to be on time for school!
Lily Munster: Herman tried to build a ship inside a bottle. We had to break the bottle to get him out.
Marilyn Munster: What does Ramone look like? Lily Munster: He looks a little like Cary Grantthe poor man.
Lily Munster: OhMarilyn... the circles under your eyes. How lovely you look today.
Grandpa Munster: Hmm. What smells so good? Herman Munster: I cut myself shaving.
It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.
John Tyndall
Born: August 21820
Educationyou knowmeans broadeningadvancing; and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anythingthe whole country will eventually have only one thoughtbe one individual. I believe in teaching every aspect of every problem or theory.
John T. Scopes
Born: August 31900
Since man created government to help secure and safeguard rightsit follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over itnot the other way around.
Ezra Taft Benson
Born: August 41899
***bonus quote***
“And love became the world’s origin and the world’s ruleryet littered its path is with flowers and bloodflowers and blood.”— Knut Hamsun Born: August 41859
“My faith has this idea that you reap what you sowand he is sowing seeds of hatred in our country. And this harvest of hate violence that we’re seeing right now lies at his feet."
Cory Booker
stephen All lovely things will have an endingAll lovely things will fade and die; And youththat's now so bravely spendingWill beg a penny by and by.
- Conrad Aiken
Born: August 51889
***bonus quote***
That's one small step for a manone giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong Born: August 51930
A man had given all other blissAnd all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Born: August 61809
"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it."
Woodrow Wilson 1856-1924
iJay 
I've debated for months about whether or not to post this herebut about a year ago I started a blog which is *mostly* quotes about the uplifting/healing/unifying power of the arts. Especially music. It is not my intention to detract from this threadnor to make it about me. I just think it (my blog) might be interesting to some of you if you enjoy these kinds of inspirational quotes. If you feel so inclinedplease visit
millionsofsmallthings.com
And certainlyif anyone feels this post is inappropriate for any reasonjust simply say so and I will delete it.
Monty History has always proved that books are the first plain on which certain battles are fought.
Toni Morrison
America must raise an empire of permanent durationsupported upon the grand pillars of TruthFreedomand Religionencouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons.
Nathanael Greene
Born: August 71742
***bonus quote***
The process is like making grain alcohol or brewing beerbut on a much bigger scale. The technologies are out there to do thisbut we need to convince the public this is real and not just a science project.
Nathanael Greene
Born: August 71742
"When evil men plotgood men must plan. When evil men have burned and bombedgood men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatredgood men must commit themselves to the glories of love.": Martin Luther KingJr.
"You can't let your failures define you — you have to let them teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently next time."
Barack Obama (to students)
BTWdoes Donald Trump have anything quotable which is not comical?
We must speak our minds openlydebate our disagreements honestlybut always pursue solidarity.
--Donald Trump
wellit is a true statementregardless of your opinion of the source.
PickleNJ "We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishesbut we have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers".: Martin Luther KingJr.
If there is not justice for the peoplelet there be no peace for the government.
Emiliano Zapata
Born: August 81879
Lord of myselfaccountable to nonebut to my conscienceand my God alone.
John Oldham
Born: August 9 1653
About the time we can make the ends meetsomebody moves the ends.
Herbert Hoover
Born: August 101874
"Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.": John F. Kennedy
The secret of living in peace with all people lies in the art of understanding each one by his own individuality.
- Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
Born: August 111778
“Whatever parent gives his children good instruction and sets them at the same time a bad examplemay be considered as bringing them food in one hand and poison in the other.”
— John Balguy
Born: August 121686
***bonus quote***
Contentment is a pearl of great priceand whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase. — John Balguy
Virtue is the roughest waybut proves at night a bed of down.
Henry Wotton
Born: August 131666
***bonus quote***
“In olden days people were worse than us but knew much more than us.”
— Vladimir Odoevsky — Born: August 131803
Oh! somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright
The band is playing somewhereand somewhere hearts are light
And somewhere men are laughing and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville — mighty Casey has "struck out."
Ernest Thayer
Born: August 141863
hahhah nice one SueR
Adam laid himself down in Paradise to sleep While from him was taken a wife to keep. Adam poor father of creations best Your first taste of sleep was your last of rest.
- Matthias Claudius
Born: August 151740
All men dreambut not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mindswake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous menfor they may act on their dreams with open eyesto make them possible.
T. E. Lawrence
Born: August 161888
Happy 61st birthday to Madonna!!
"If your joy is derived from what society thinks of youyou're always going to be disappointed."
"A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want."
"Everyone is entitled to my opinion."
"Better to live one year as a tigerthen a hundred as sheep."
"We all fall to the floor at some point. It's how you pick yourself up that's the real challenge."
And it wouldn't be Madonna-esque without.....
"Sick and perverted always appeals to me." :D
Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.
Davy Crockett
Birth Date: August 171786
***bonus quote***
CBGB is one of the finest people on Gods green earth and I am proud to call him my brother. Andy Magic born August 171962
I agree...CBGB
"Nothing can be loved or hated until it is understood".: Leonardo Da Vinci
Right or wrongthe customer is always right.
Marshall Field
born Aug. 181834
Give the lady what she wants!
Marshall Field
born Aug. 181834
***bonus quote***
We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.
Caspar Weinberger
Born: August 181917
One of my favorite Movie Quotes of all time is from Rocky IIwhen the immortal Mickeyafter Adrian says: "Win," exclaims "What are we waiting for." It's perfectmust better than his praised soliloquy in the same flick.
Little did I know that this may be the most oft used line in all of moviedom.
Last nightit was in "Captain Blood," and one of the pirates says "What are we waiting for....." Between that and a dead Basil Rathbone opening his eyes....
Earlier: "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King: Gimli "Small chance of success. What are we waiting for?"
"The Incredibles" Bob to Tricycle Kid: " Wellwhat are you waiting for."
"I Know What You Did Last Summer" Julie (Jennifer Hewitt) jumps into the street yelling"What are you waiting forhuh?!"
Think I logged about 3 others recentlycan't remember which somore to come.....
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
Born: August 191686
***bonus quote***
We first make our habitsand then our habits make us. John Dryden - Born: August 191631
Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.
Tarjei Vesaas
Born: August 201897
***bonus quote***
When a politician states that we are all in the same boatbe on Your guard. Does it mean that YOU are supposed to be doing all the rowing?
Vilhelm Moberg - Born: August 201898
"The water was not fit to drink. To make it be palatableI had to add whiskey. By diligent effort...I learned to like it.": Winston Churchill
Ah well'tis the way of the world -- births and deathsbirths and deaths.
Leonid Andreyev
Born: August 211871
***bonus quote***
“Help others in their race of life. Remember that when you help another up a mountainyou are a little nearer the top yourself.”
— Thomas S. Monson Born: August 211927
„Music is the silence between the notes.“
Claude Debussy
Born: August 221862
***bonus quote***
"People don't very much like things that are beautiful — they are so far from their nasty little minds." - Claude Debussy
For beautiful eyeslook for the good in others;
for beautiful lipsspeak only words of kindness;
and for poisewalk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
~Audrey Hepburn
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
"Don't give up the ship"
Oliver Hazard Perry
Born: August 231785
Mick Jagger
You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugsbut you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock 'n' roll and have sex.
Give me a kissand to that kiss a score; Then to that twentyadd a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss onTo make that thousand up a million. Treble that millionand when that is doneLet's kiss afreshas when we first begun.
Robert Herrick
Born: August 241591
Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.
David Bowie
Love endures everythinglove is stronger than deathlove fears nothing.”
Maria Faustyna Kowalska
Born: 25 August 1905
*** bonus quote***
He who knows how to forgive prepares for himself many graces from God. As often as I look upon crossso often will I forgive with all my heart.”
Maria Faustyna Kowalska
Born: 25 August 1905
Michael Jackson
"Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the souland know love as the ultimate truth.” ~Michael Jackson
Hmmmthat's a little scary SueRconsidering the source.....
"Love youlove you
Love youlove you
Love youlove you
Love youlove you
Love youlove you
Love youlove you
Love youlove you
Love youlove you
Love youlove you
Love youlove you
Love youlove you
Love youlove you
Love
And in the end
The love you take
Is equal to the love you make"
The EndLennon/McCartney
“I possess every good qualitybut the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty.”
— Charles Richet
Born: August 261850
"And every day the world will drag you by the handyelling"This is important..and this is important! You need to worry about Thisand This and This!" "And each day it is up to you to yank your hand backput it on your Heart..and say "No!..This is what is important!": Iain Thomas
“From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heavenand when two souls that are destined to be together find each otherthe streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.”
Baal Shem Tov
August 271698
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Born: August 281749
As soon as you trust yourselfyou will know how to live – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every day we should hear at least one little songread one good poemsee one exquisite pictureandif possiblespeak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What worries youmasters you.
John Locke
Born: August 291632
It is one thing to show a man that he is in errorand another to put him in possession of the truth. - JOHN LOCKE
Good and evilreward and punishmentare the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on workand guided.
JOHN LOCKE
Wherever Law endsTyranny begins.
JOHN LOCKE
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
Also-
When a new source of taxation is foundit never meansin practicethat the old source is abandoned. It merely means the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
HLMencken
“If your experiment needs statisticsyou ought to have done a better experiment.”
— Ernest Rutherford
Born: August 301871
***bonus quote***
World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happenwhether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.
Denis Healey
Born: August 301917
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothingwhen it is absolutely necessary.
Former baseball player Ray Knight
"Breathe..and let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.": Oprah Winfrey
Another HL Mencken:
The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
Boydoes THAT resonate!
"Let this be said for the legislature just hauled to the dump: it might have been worse. And thatperhapsis the highest praise that can ever be given a dead cat."
Baltimore native HL Mencken's commentary on the Maryland General Assembly in his column"The Free Lance." The man was a libertine with a Katzenjammer mischievousness. He proposed that bachelors should be taxed a dollar a day"simply because it is worth thatto be free."
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind
- Theophile Gautier.
born August 311811
***bonus quote***
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
Theophile Gautier
Motherswhatever you wish your children to becomestrive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.
Lydia Sigourney
Born: September 11791
CBGB
Now you have me wondering if Sigourney Weaver was named after her since it's a most unusual nameat least from what I've seen.
Your quote goes for Fathers as well (of course). Treat the child's Mother (and everyonefor that matter) with respect and you will teach them to respect others. If more parents led by "good example"the world would be a much better place (IMHO).
Of course not everyone will learn from that examplebut I think it would help greatly in that peer pressure would perhaps turn towards doing wellrather than doing wrong. I could be naivebut I don't think it could hurt.
Phil D. "The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says "Amen" and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas."
Frank Laubach
Born: September 21884
“Beware of averages. The average person has one breast and one testicle.”
— Dixy Lee Ray
Born: September 31914
***bonus quote***
A nuclear-power plant is infinitely safer than eatingbecause 300 people choke to death on food every year.
Dixy Lee Ray
With the sword of science and the armour of practiceGerman beer will encircle the world.
Max Delbrück
Date of birth: September 41906
"If you live to be a hundred I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I'll never have to live without you."
A. A. Milne
The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Born: September 51888
***bonus quote***
When we think we knowwe cease to learn.- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
*** *** double bonus quote *** ***
Instead of celebrating my birthdayit would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day. - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
„I amtherefore there is a God.“
Moses Mendelssohn
Born: September 61729
***bonus quote***
“True peace is not merely the absence of warit is the presence of justice.”
Jane Addams
Born: September 61860
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell
Born: September 71887
***bonus quote***
The public will believe anythingso long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell
“Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary thingsbut in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”
— Marie Angelique Arnauld
Born: September 81591
If you make it a habit not to blame othersyou will feel the growth of the ability to love in your souland you will see the growth of goodness in your life.
Leo Tolstoy
Born: September 91828
It is by surmounting difficultiesnot by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.
Hannah Webster Foster
Born: September 101758
"To the outside world we grow older..But not to Brothers and Sisters." "We know each others hearts. We live outside the touch of time," : Clara Ortega
Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?
Ferdinand Marcos
Born: September 111917
***bonus quote***
We cannot and we will not negotiate with terrorists. We have nothing but contempt for them. To conciliate differences with these people without them changing their objectives is to condemn our Republic to ultimate strangulation and death.
Ferdinand Marcos
htownguy
Very apropos quote today. I just saw on the news that he just died at age 91.
Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sunas it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
Charles Dudley Warner
Born: September 121829
Everybody talks about the weatherbut nobody does anything about it.
Charles Dudley Warner
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Charles Dudley Warner
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron backwith a hinge in it. - Charles Dudley Warner
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
Charles Dudley Warner
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
- Daniel Defoe
Born: September 131660
***bonus quote***
“It is never too late to be wise.” Daniel Defoe
“Do you fear the force of the wind,
The slash of the rain?
Go face them and fight them,
Be savage again.
Go hungry and cold like the wolf,
Go wade like the crane:
The palms of your hands will thicken,
The skin of your cheek will tan,
Youll grow ragged and weary and swarthy,
But youll walk like a man!”
— Hamlin Garland —
Born: September 141860
Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgement.
William Howard Taft
Birth Date: September 151857
***bonus quote***
Don't write so that you can be understoodwrite so that you can't be misunderstood.”
William Howard Taft
both quotes remind me of HL
The wealth of the countryits capitalits creditmust be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory richbut above all from the predatory politician.
James J. Hill
Born: September 161838
***bonus quote***
“I learned that all things come to those who wait-provided they hustle while they wait.”
— James Cash Penney
Born: September 161875
The truth belongs to those who seek itnot to those who claim to own it.
Nicolas de Condorcet
Born: September 171743
***bonus quote***
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.”
Nicolas de Condorcet
GreyHawk Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel Johnson
Born: September 181709
***bonus quote***
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religionwhose morality is so sublime and pure which insures to the good eternal happinessare undermining the solid foundation of moralsthe best security for the duration of free governments.
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Born: September 191737
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't thereand finding it.
Oscar Wilde
“Was it love at first sight? It wasn’t then – but it sure is now.”
— Anne Meara
Born: September 201929
Do you wish to be free? Then above all thingslove Godlove your neighborlove one anotherlove the common weal; then you will have true liberty.
Girolamo Savonarola
Born: September 211452
SD
It's tough to say exactly how he meant thatthough the archaic meaningas per:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commonweal#h1
is commonwealthwhich he could have meant as loving your communitydistrict or countryor perhaps all three. Of course it could be an early form of brainwashingas in what Hitler and Stalin preachedrespectivelybut then we'd have to research the original character to find if he was truly thinking altruistically or had deeper darker motives;-)
Wowthe Friar had his good points (calling out the church on its corruptionetc.)but also his bad points and was a Puritanical fanatic. Ended up being executed in a not so nice manner which left many jeering him:
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/execution-girolamo-savonarola
weally?
“The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.”
— Michael Faraday
Born: September 221791
***bonus quote***
Praying is another way of singing.You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses. -Dannie Abse
Born: September 221923
Silence is an answer to a wise man.
Euripides
September 23 is the day on which Greece celebrates his birthday
***bonus quote***
Love is all we havethe only way that each can help the other.
Euripides
Welcome autumn :)
"Every leaf speaks bliss to mefluttering from the autumn tree."
- Emily Brontë
"Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beautyas if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale."
- Lauren Destefano
"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."
- John Burroughs
When anyone studies a little or pays a little attention to the rules of Islamic governmentIslamic politicsIslamic society and Islamic economy he will realize that Islam is a very political religion. Anyone who will say that religion is separate from politics is a fool; he does not know Islam or politics.
Ruhollah Khomeini
Born: September 241902
***bonus quote***
Lordit's one kind favor I'll ask of you. See that my grave is kept clean.
Blind Lemon Jefferson - Born: September 241893
Old-fashionedSpirit-filledChrist-honoringsin-hatingsoul-winningBible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is the hope of the world.
Jack Hyles
Born: September 251926
***bonus quote***
There is in all this cold and hollow worldNo fount of deepstrong,deathless love ;save that within a mother's heart
Felicia Hemans - Born: September 251793
Do not worry at being worried; but accept worry peacefully. Difficult but not impossible.
Johnny Appleseed
Born: September 261774
***bonus quotes***
Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality
— Ivan Pavlov - Born: September 261849
***double bonus quote***
Sorry is the most infuriating word in the English language. Just a cheap way to behave badly then shelve responsibility by putting the onus on the other person to be forgiving.
Minette Walters - Born: September 261949
The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.
Alphonsus Liguori
Born: September 271696
***bonus quote***
The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be sonot because we have seen them for what they are.
Jacques-Benigne Bossuet - Born: September 271627
"Learn to be in the present.
Withdraw your energy from the past. Don’t waste your time in memories; what is gone is gone – say goodbye to it and close the chapter.
What has not come yet has not come yet; don’t unnecessarily waste your time and energy in imaginationbecause no imagination is ever fulfilled. It is because of this that the proverb exists in every language: “Man proposesand God disposes” – because you imagine a certain thing in the futureand it is never so.
Withdrawing yourself from past and futureyou will become a tremendously intense energyfocused in the presentconcentrated in the present like an arrow. No train could manage to leave the platform without you.
Each moment being awarealertwatchfulin the herenowis the way not to miss the train. Every experience needs your presence herethis moment.
And this is a simple secretbut it opens the doors of existenceof all the mysteriesof all that is worth knowingworth tastingworth feelingworth being." Osho
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Bob Hope
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde
To methe real marks of beauty in a woman are couragecharacterkindnessand personality.
David Walker
Born: September 281796
***bonus quote***
The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sakewhat should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and mothers?-Or do they wish us to return thanks to them for chaining and handcuffing usbranding uscramming fire down our throatsor for keeping us in slaveryand beating us nearly or quite to death to make us work in ignorance and miseriesto support them and their families. They certainly think we are a gang of fools.
David Walker
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
Miguel de Unamuno Jugo
born Sept. 291864
"Imperfection is beautymadness is genius and it is better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring": Marilyn Monroe
Beauty is truthtruth beauty,
That is all ye know on earthand all ye need to know.
John Keats
Hickory Dickory Dock .......
guess who's celebrating a birthday today
Andrew Dice Clay
"It's your roadand yours alone. Others may walk it with youbut no one can walk it for you."
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
Born: September 301207
***bonus quote***
Wherever you areand whatever you dobe in love. - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
*** *** double bonus quote*** ***
Raise your wordsnot voice. It is rain that grows flowersnot thunder. - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
" It is health..that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver." : Mahatma Gandhi
It’s clobbering time”
The Thing
“Really love your peacheswant to shake your tree”
Stevie “Guitar” Miller
Autumn burned brightlya running flame through the mountainsa torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
Born: October 11893
***bonus quote***
Lifealasis very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!
Louis Untermeyer - Born: October 11885
The most beautiful thing in the world isof coursethe world itself.
Wallace Stevens
Born: October 21879
***bonus quote***
Do not tell me that the problem is difficult. if it was simplethere would be no problem
---Ferdinand Foch---Born: October 21851
Like them both CBGB :)
I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the chartswhich is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.
Sting
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
George Bancroft
Born: October 31800
***bonus quote***
“Open the doors to all. Let the children of the rich and the poor take their seats together and know of no distinction save that of industrygood conductand intellect.”
— Townsend Harris-------Born: October 31804
“Life doesn't move in straight linesand neither does a good conversation
-Margaret J. Wheatley
“A conversation is a dialoguenot a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcitytwo intelligent talkers seldom meet.”
-Truman Capote
“Challenging is goodlike good conversationyes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time?”
-Hilton Als
“Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue
-Unknown
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and writebut those who cannot learnunlearnand relearn.
Alvin Toffler
Born: October 31928
"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap..but by the seeds you plant.": Robert Lewis Stevenson
I was fortunate enough to read both Marshall McLuhan's book and Alvin Toffler's "Futureshock" in my Junior year in High School Social Studies Class. Of course in English Class we were also reading "Fahrenheit 451""1984" and "Animal Farm" in various years of High School. Lots of warnings of where the paths we were then currently treading may lead to.
BTWwowLouis Untermeyer and Faith Baldwin born on my birthday. I usually don't see their names come up on the typical "born on this day" listbut thanks for the quote from Ms. Baldwin CBGB! Such an eloquent turn of phrase. I'm honored to share birthdays with her.
Some doggone peanut farmer shares that birthday too...had a brother named Billy who'd have appreciated Louis Untermeyer's quote since he was know for his beer.
you are welcome Phil D and Happy Belated Birthday
A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fightso the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
Jonathan Edwards
Born: October 51703
***bonus quote***
It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costlyself-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
Jonathan Edwards
“The whole point of writing something down is that your voice will then carry for thousands of mileswhereas in direct conversation it fades at a hundred paces.”
Matteo Ricci
Born: October 61552
***bonus quote***
If liberty is worth keeping and free representative government worth savingwe must stand for all American fundamentals-not somebut all. All are woven into the great fabric of our national well-being. We cannot hold fast to some onlyand abandon others thatfor the momentwe find inconvenient. If one American fundamental is prostratedothers in the end will surely fall.
Albert J. Beveridge
Born: October 61862
"We all make mistakeshave strugglesand even regret things in our past. Butyou are not your mistakesyou are not your strugglesand you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future." : Steve Maraboli
"Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music." - Angela Monet
Here's another good one:
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is." - Francis Bacon
Jon Don't you know alcohol kills brain cells...any damn brain cell that can't live through a good drunk deserves to die. You're doing yourself a favourgetting rid of all them nonhackingunderachieving ones. I'm working on improving your efficiency.
James E. Webb
Born: October 71906
“If by the time we’re sixty we haven’t learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life isand how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we takeand what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth iswe haven’t grown old to much purpose.”
— John Cowper Powys
Born: October 81872
***bonus quote***
“Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.”
— Gus Hall--- Born: October 81910
My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.
Frederick Donald Coggan
Born: October 91909
***bonus quote***
“I’m only interested in heavy metal when it’s me who’s playing it. I suppose it’s a bit like smelling your own farts.”
— John Entwistle--- Born: October 91944
In musiclike in lovewe must be sincere.
Giuseppe Verdi
Born: October 101813
***bonus quote***
We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.
R.K. Narayan ---Born: October 101906
I gave Donald free reinhe has great visionand everything he touches seems to turn to gold. Donald is the smartest person I know.
– Fred Trump
Born: October 111905
Weight loss can change your whole character. That always amazed me: Shedding pounds does change your personality. It changes your philosophy of life because you recognize that you are capable of using your mind to change your body.
Jean Nidetch
Born: October 121923
founder of weight watchers
***bonus quote***
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.---Aleister Crowley --Born: October 121875
" If you want to walk fastwalk alone". "If you want to walk farwalk together.": Author Unknown
The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.
Lenny Bruce
Born: October 131925
***bonus quote***
“If Jesus had been killed twenty years agoCatholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.”
- Lenny Bruce
"For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness": Ralph Waldo Emerson
nice SueR
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Born: October 141890
***bonus sounds like a few HLers quote***
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"However difficult life may seemthere is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up:": Stephen Hawking
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Born: October 151908
***bonus quote***
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. ---C.P. Snow ---Born: October 151905
“[I]f the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in officethe government will soon be corrupted; laws will be madenot for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded.”
― Noah Webster
Born: October 161758
"When we love we always strive to be better than we areeverything around us becomes better too". : Paulo Coelho
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Elinor Glyn
Born: October 171864
***bonus quote***
A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have donewhile she undulated like a snake.
Elinor Glyn
*** *** double bonus quote *** ***
All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.
Elinor Glyn
Coffee spew award! That second one was a tad risqué; purringundulatingsnakes.... I think I will shower cold this morning ;-)
LOL
Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top himneither out of his feet to be trampled on by himbut out of his side to be equal with himunder his arm to be protected by himand near his heart to be loved by him.
Matthew Henry
Born: October 181662
***bonus quote***
There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirstyto cure it; the otherwhen you are not thirstyto prevent it... prevention is better than cure.
Thomas Love Peacock
Born: October 181785
Now you’re just ribbing us.... That’s why a bottle of prevention is worth.....
Oh goshI’m blushing....speaking of goshblushesand curesgosh bless the little ole man at Bottle King; this man can really pick a cure! (Now that’s a SD quote to live by!)
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegarbut the best improve with age.
Pope John XXIII
“Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.”
— Marsilio Ficino
Born: October 191433
The French and Italians make great wine. The French sell great wine and drink piss. The Italians sell piss and drink great wine. Buy Frenchbe Italian!
Unknown
"Forget yesterday...it has already forgotten you". "Don't sweat tomorrow..You haven't even met". " Instead open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift....Today!":
Steve Maraboli
The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers
Born: October 201927
***bonus quote***
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of timesit's the only time we've got.
Art Buchwald
Born: October 201925
*** ***double bonus quote*** ***
New Jersey is the most poetic state: close enough to New York to be urban and cosmopolitanfar enough to be desirous and unsure; densely populatedbut full of farms and woodswith the most deer of any state. Robert Pinsky Born: October 201940
"You will teach them to fly..but they will not fly your flight. You will teach them to dream but they will not dream your dreams. You will teach them to livebut they will not live your life. Neverthelessin every flightin every dream and in every lifethe print of the way you taught them will remain.": Mother Teresa
Wine adds a smile to friendship and a spark to love.
Edmondo De Amicis
Born: October 211846
***bonus quote***
The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.
Benjamin Netanyahu --Born: October 211949
Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without itthere is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.
Franz Liszt
Born: October 221811
***bonus quote***
In the information ageyou don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
Timothy Leary ---Born: October 221920
"When the right person hugs you its like medicine. I am so grateful for those few people in my life who are good for my soul.": Steve Maraboli
It's not evil that's ruining the earthbut mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burnedbut that he played badly.
Ned Rorem
Born: October 231923
***bonus quote***
we really have no right to reproach God for having created the world. For Him it was the only possible way of escaping from the accursed void in which He found himself.”
― Leszek Kolakowski ---Born: October 231927
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow;
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.
Sarah Josepha Hale
Born: October 241788
The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error and discover truth. There may be other ways of detecting error and discovering truth than that of free discussionbut so far we have not found them.
Henry Steele Commager
Born: October 251902
***bonus quote***
“How sweet the words of Truthbreathed from the lips of Love.”
— James Beattie --Born: 25 October 1735
"You can sway a thousand men by prejudice quicker than you can convince one man by logic": Robert A. Heiniein
When people treat corruption as a routine part of the processyou have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society.
Edward Brooke
Born: October 261919
When boasting endsthere dignity begins.
Owen D. Young
Born: Owen D. Young; October 271874
***bonus quote***
A gentleman does not boast about his junk.
Emily Post---Born: October 271872
"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to gono one else",: Les Brown
If all the insects were to disappear from the earthwithin 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earthwithin 50 years all forms of life would flourish.
Jonas Salk
Born: October 281914
Love it or Leave It.
I stand for the flag. I kneel for the cross
HL FPS Banners.
“A nation without a religion – that is like a man without breath.”
"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.“
Joseph Goebbels
Born: October 291897
***bonus quote***
I'm absolutely convinced that the pleasure of a real scientific insight—it doesn't have to be a great discovery—is like an orgasm.
Carl Djerassi----Born: October 291923
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
The longer I livethe more I readthe more patiently I thinkand the more anxiously I inquirethe less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough.
To be goodand to do goodis all we have to do.
“There are two types of education… One should teach us how to make a livingand the other how to live.”
“Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present Generation to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make good use of it. If you do notI shall repent in Heaventhat I ever took half the Pains to preserve it.”
John Adams
Born: October 301735
hahhah nice SueR
Henry Winkler - Born: October 301945
Now a soft kiss - Ayeby that kissI vow an endless bliss.
John Keats
Born: October 311795
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
John Keats
***bonus are you Listening HL quote***
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothingto let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
John Keats
I enjoy posting the daily birthday quotes and I enjoy hunting until I find a quote that intrigues me in some way. I don't agree with all the quotes I post but the quote in most cases gave me pause to think. I try to go deeper than "you can do it". I guess I like intriguing over inspirational. I try to find a quote that will also give the reader something to think about. The first quote today had me thinking about the lie that is called transgender.
The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black. This is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.
Solomon Asch
Born: November 11880
the bonus quote made me think of Donald Trump. I'm not anti-Trump at all. The way I see it my life hasn't changed one bit since Trump became President.
***bonus quote***
Resolve to serve no moreand you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him overbut simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold himlike a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled awayfall of his own weight and break into pieces.
Etienne de La Boetie ---Born: November 11530
“The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rightsand we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.”
- Rose Bird
Born: November 21936
***bonus quote***
“My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopularso be it.” - Rose Bird
*** *** double bonus quote*** ***
“We have probed the earthexcavated itburned itripped things from itburied things in it.... That does not fit my definition of a good tenant. If we were here on a month-to-month basiswe would have been evicted long ago.”
- Rose Bird
"Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight." ~ Roseanne Barr
Happy Birthday to Roseanne!
As far as the stars are from the earthand as different as fire is from waterso much do self-interest and integrity differ.
Lucan
Born: November 339 AD
General Grant The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
- Eden Phillpotts
Born: November 41862
***bonus quote***
You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.
Eden Phillpotts
In honor of my teenage self's crushRalph Macchiosome Karate Kid quotes on his 58th birthday!
"Daniel: You think you could break a log like that?
Miyagi: Don’t know. Never been attacked by a tree"
"Daniel: Heywhat kind of belt do you have?
Miyagi: Canvas. JC Penny. Three ninety-eight. You like?"
"Miyagi: In Okinawaall Miyagi know two things: fish and karate. Karate come from Chinasixteenth centurycalled te"hand". Hundred year laterMiyagi ancestor bring to Okinawacall karate. "empty hand".
Daniel: I always thought it came from Buddhist temples and stuff like that.
Miyagi: You too much TV."
"Sweep the leg!"
"Paint the fence. Up…down. Up! Down!"
And of course......"Wax on. Wax off."
“When great changes occur in historywhen great principles are involvedas a rule the majority are wrong.”
Eugene V. Debs
Born On: November 51855
***bonus quote***
“To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. . . let us be above such transparent egotism.” Will Durant -- Born On: November 51885
“The difference between hearing and listening is paying attention.”
— Ruth Messinger
Born: November 61940
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that endeach of us must work for our own improvement.
Marie Curie
Born: November 71867
It takes a great deal of courage to see the world in all it's tainted glory and
still love it.
Oscar Wilde
two quotes that sound like ME
How blessed are some peoplewhose lives have no fearsno dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightlyand brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
— Bram Stoker
Born: November 81847
***bonus quote***
“I really don’t care what movie stars have to say about life.”
— Morley Safer --Born: November 81931
and then came the internet.......
"Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners."
Benjamin Banneker
Born: November 91731
*** bonus quote***
and then came the internet........
All good activities which encourage people to learn how to live with one another pleasantly and to develop a sense of humor improve living.
Leonard Carmichael --Born: November 91898
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners.Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politenessof gentle mannersis more significant than is a riot.
Robert A. Heinlein
I love everything that's old- old friendsold timesold mannersold booksold wine.
Oliver Goldsmith
Born: November 101728
***bonus quotes***
Ask me no questionsand I'll tell you no fibs.---Oliver Goldsmith
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot
Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
Alex Trebek
We sometimes encounter peopleeven perfect strangerswho begin to interest us at first sightsomehow suddenlyall at oncebefore a word has been spoken.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Born: November 111821
Because man and woman are the complement of one anotherwe need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Born: November 121815
We can have democracy in this countryor we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a fewbut we can't have both
Louis Brandeis
Born: November 131856
***bonus quote***
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson --- Born: November 131850
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Born: November 141889
***bonus quote***
The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do itit wouldn't be a dream but would rather be reality.
Robert Fulton ---Born: November 141765
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Born: November 151741
***bonus quote***
I'm the tower of powertoo sweet to be sour. I'm funky like a monkey. Sky's the limit and space is the place!
Macho Man Randy Savage---
Born: November 151952
The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individualitypersonalityoriginalityare too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a “wholesome personality” are inevitably their own.
— Joel H. Hildebrand
Born: November 161881
***bonus quote***
Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placedwe should equip them to cope with their environmentnot be adjusted to itto be willing to stand aloneif necessaryfor what is right and true.
— Joel H. Hildebrand
“I dieas I have liveda free spiritan Anarchistowing no allegiance to rulersheavenly or earthly.”
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
“Make no laws whatever concerning speechand speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be freeyou will have a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean abusenor liberty license," and they will define freedom out of existence.”
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
"This is what the government ishas always beenthe creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
“Government is as unrealas intangibleas unapproachable as God.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
“The paramount question of the day is not politicalis not religiousbut is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his existence.”
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
***final CBGB favorite de Cleyre quote***
“If the believers in liberty wish the principles of liberty taughtlet them never intrust that instruction to any government; for the nature of government is to become a thing apartan institution existing for its own sakepreying upon the peopleand teaching whatever will tend to keep it secure in its seat.”
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
If I am to be a chauvinist pigI want to be the number one pig.
~Bobby Riggs
Ever since that day when I was 11 years oldand I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirtI knew that I wanted to change the sport.
~Billie Jean King
that was a good movie SueR
Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terrorand a balance of terror is still terror.
— George Wald
Born: November 181906
***bonus quote***
Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedomit makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me.
Sojourner Truth ---Born: November 181797 ..... maybe
“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”
Billy Sunday
Born: November 191862
“The reason you don't like the Bibleyou old sinneris because it knows all about you.” --- Billy Sunday
“Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in. --- Billy Sunday
*** bonus CBGB favorite Billy Sunday quote***
“ListenI'm against sin. I'll kick it as long as I've got a footI'll fight it as long as I've got a fistI'll butt it as long as I've got a headand I'll bite it as long as I've got a tooth. And when I'm oldfistlessfootlessand toothlessI'll gum it till I go home to glory and it goes home to perdition.”
― Billy Sunday
If you want a symbolic gesturedon't burn the flag wash it.
Norman Thomas
Born: November 201884
***bonus quote***
The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. Butunder the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist programuntil one day America will be a socialist nationwithout knowing how it happened.
Norman Thomas
In America the President reigns for four years and journalism governs for ever and ever.
Oscar Wilde
“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”
— Voltaire
Born: November 211694
Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money. Voltaire
Money never made a man happy yetnor will it. The more a man hasthe more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuumit makes one.
Benjamin Franklin
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
André Gide
Born: November 221869
***bonus quote***
“ I wish for nothing beyond her smileand to Walk with her thushand in handalong a Sun-warmedflower-bordered path!” --André Gide
If you look the right wayyou can see that the whole world is a garden.
Frabces Hodgson Burnett
I haven't done a "this reminds me of HL" quote in a while........enjoy
Frequently the more trifling the subjectthe more animated and protracted the discussion.
- Franklin Pierce
Born: November 231804
***bonus quote***
when on leaving office in 1857someone asked him what he was going to do now. Pierce is quoted as saying:
"There's nothing left to do but get drunk."
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principleso he won't let himself get snotty about it.
Raymond Chandler
“Respect for ourselves guides our moralsrespect for others guides our manners.”
— Laurence Sterne
Born: November 241713
You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourselfhe doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
— Laurence Sterne
***bonus quote***
A strong reputation is like a good bonfire. When you have one kindled it's easy to keep the flame burningeven if someone comes along and tries to piss on it. But if you fall asleep and neglect it...You'll wake up with ashes.”
Zachary Taylor---Born: November 241784
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without meritand lost without deserving.
Shakespeare
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and actsthought by thoughtaction by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mindthey become self-forged chains.
Helen Gahagan Douglas
Born: November 251900BoontonNJ
“You cannot barter security for freedomor freedom for security.”
— Helen Gahagan Douglas
***bonus quote***
The stars are shining for you
And just like me I'm sure that they adore you
Baby baby
Go walkin through the forest
The birds above are singin you a chorus
Stop for a minute
Babythey're so glad you're mine
And ever since the day you put my heart in motion
BabyI realized that there's just no gettin over you
Baby baby
In any kind of weather
I'm here for you always and forever
Amy Grant - - Born: November 251960
Variety's the very spice of lifeThat gives it all its flavour.
William Cowper
Born: November 261731
“The darkest day if you live till tomorrow will have past away.” --William Cowper
“When we don't praywe quit the fight. Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright. And Satan trembles when he sees. The weakest saint upon his knees.”--William Cowper
“The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.”--William Cowper
“Remorsethe fatal egg that pleasure laid.”--William Cowper
and lastly the ***CBGB fave bonus quote***
“They whom truth and wisdom leadcan gather honey from a weed.”--William Cowper
William Cowpertruly a Rasta
from "A" weedcbgb. Not "from weed". Hahaha
“My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. It’s a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look has to do with how you feel about yourself and your life,”
~Tina Turner
Profane swearing never did any man any good. No man in the richer or wiser or happier for it.
Robert Lowth
Born: November 271710
***bonus quote***
A law is something which must have a moral basisso that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey. ---Chaim Weizmann Born: November 271874
In generalthe art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Voltaire
SueRyour above-average Rastas can harvest honey from weed; I believe they call it hashish (-,
ianimal “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
— John Bunyan
Born: November 281628.
***bonus quote***
Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice. The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written downbut which appeals to the hearts of all. We need religion for religions's sakemorality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.
Victor Cousin-- Born: November 281792
Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from themjoke over your troubles but gather strength from themmake a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Born: November 301874
***bonus quote***
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
Jonathan Swift --Born: November 301667
***bonus Swift explains CBGB quote***
Blessed is he who expects nothingfor he shall never be disappointed.
Jonathan Swift
HahhahI was a day early
“I like good strong words that mean something…”
Louisa May Alcott
Born: November 291832
***bonus quote***
One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.
Jacques Chirac Born: November 291932
Words - so innocent and powerless as they areas standing in a dictionaryhow potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunkI bite.
If sex is such a natural phenomenonhow come there are so many books on how to do it?
Bette Midler
“There are two kinds of statisticsthe kind you look up and the kind you make up.”
— Rex Stout
Born: December 11886
***bonus quote***
“History is the propaganda of the victors.” — Ernst Toller Born: December 11893
The only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore ittop it. If you can't top itlaugh at it. If you can't laugh at itit's probably deserved.
- Russell Lynes
Born: December 21910
***bonus quote***
I'd agree with youbut then we'd both be wrong.
Russell Lynes
Is this one about FaceBook?
It's better to be respected by one reasonable man than thousands of idiots
Hryhorii Skovoroda
Born: December 31722
***bonus quote***
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Joseph Conrad --Born: December 31857
Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimesexperience comes from bad judgement.
Christian Slater
Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritanceand have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Born: December 41875
***bonus quote***
Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult.
Andre Marrou --Born: December 41938
The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitementbut by Sober Second Thought.
Martin Van Buren
Born: December 51782
The national will is the supreme law of the Republicand on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant.
Martin Van Buren
It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.
Martin Van Buren
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like meBut only God can make a tree.
Joyce Kilmer
Born: December 61886
from my brother's 90 year young mother in law:
God bless the flexible for they are never bent out of shape.
"Keep cooking like that and you may become like Nero..... ;-) "
I'm becoming more like Archie Goodwin than Nero Wolfe as a result of that cooking (-;
Because I can't imagine how my cooking would make me kill my mother and burn Rome to the ground?
When thou art at Romedo as they do at Rome.
Cervantes
All the bad things that have ever happened to me have always happened in Rome.
Richard Burton
Oddly enoughI'm not religiousbut I'm also fond of St Peter' in Rome. When I'm thereI always know there's a good meal not far away.
Jonathan Pryce
Love all Trust few Follow one Hate none.
Pramukh Swami Maharaj
Born: December 71921
***bonus quote***
People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface. Willa Cather --- Born: December 71873
Ah....but which Archie Goodwin; playerwriteror detective? And is “that cooking” that cookingthis cookingor Mother killing Rome burning cooking. Because nowthat’s really cooking up a stormthat cooking is.
A question wrapped in a enigma.....sort of like cbgb’s last quote set. Makes no sense whatsoever.
Strangerdanger
The quote set makes perfect sense to methe connection between them obviously mainly being the birth dates of the authors. The sayings themselves make lots of sensethough I wonder whether Willa Cather's was inspired by the pain of childbirththe pain of having a miscarriagethe death(s) of a loved one or loved onesor some other great misfortune.
Thanks for piquing my curiosity again cbgb!
Edit: I see it's from the book "The Song of The Lark" and the context is of leaving her family and hometown (by herself on a train) in which she apparently feels stifled and trapped to go to back to Chicago where she apparently has a struggle in store but one she will never allow to drive her back to her hometown.
It's definitely on the "to read" list now.
SundayDecember 7th1041 - a date that will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
IMOsometimes a pain is worse the second time around. That’s what threw me.
And I am sorrybut IMO the first one isbogud all around.
Love all - noble sentiment but I know of only a fewmaybe one person that pulled this off.
Trust few - seems a bit harsh
Follow one - hmmmm. Not two?
Hate none - sort of meaningless given the first....
Imo. Hope that clarifies.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedomsit will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
16th President
of the United States
Thanks PhilI enjoy doing the daily Birthday quotes and glad to hear you enjoy them as well.
William Shakespeare wrote " Love alltrust a fewDo wrong to none"
Maybe the Swami was writing his own version of that quote.
anywee on to today's Birthday quotes
Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlingswhose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
Born: December 81728
***bonus quote***
“There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminatesand the glare that obscures.”
— James Thurber --Born: December 81894
„The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to societyand could be followed even if no law existedand others that are of advantage to a ruling minoritybut harmful to the masses of menand can be enforced on them only by terror.“
Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin
Born: December 91842
***bonus quote***
The mind is its own place and in itselfcan make a Heaven of Hella Hell of Heaven.--from Paradise Lost
John Milton --- Born: December 91608
“With reasonable menI will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarternor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.”
— William Lloyd Garrison
Born: December 101805
Are right and wrong convertible termsdependant upon popular opinion?”
— William Lloyd Garrison
“That which is not just is not law.”
— William Lloyd Garrison
“My crime is that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is that when I say that freedom is of God and slavery is of the devilI mean just what I say. My fanaticism is that I insist on the American people abolishing slaveryor ceasing to prate on the rights of man.”
— William Lloyd Garrison
“There is no safety where there is no strength; no strength without Union; no Union without justice; no justice where faith and truth are wanting. The right to be free is a truth planted in the hearts of men.” — William Lloyd Garrison
I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.”.
— William Lloyd Garrison
"Madonna has some good songs but she goes too far with the sexy image."
"PersonallyI don't see myself as a sex symbolbut when people say that I get very proudbecause I think people's sexuality is something very important."
"I am what I amI am not afraid of what I amor of people's perception of me."
"Without daring to make enemiesyou have no real friends in the end."
"I think everyone should go to therapy."
Marie Fredriksson from Roxette (passed away yesterday at the age of 61)
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
Ellen Key
Born: December 111849
The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human. ---Ellen Key
Love is moral even without legal marriagebut marriage is immoral without love.
-----Ellen Key
CBGB
James Thurber was definitely the "South Parkish" writer of his day methinksjust as Mark Twain/Sam Clemens was in his. Irreverent insofar as poking fun at many of societies absurditiesfoibles and profunditiesbut done so in an insightful manner. Two of my favorites!
John Miltonon the other handwas my nemesis in AP English in High School where we read and studied "Paradise Lost"breaking it downetc. Unfortunatelygot me tossed out of NHS after a marking period during wrestling season where I went down to a 64. Had to quit wrestlingbut was at 100 the next marking period. Personally I'd rather read John Stuart Mill's essays (which I did for my own fun reading in HS too).
and oddly enough Paradise Lost was a Jeopardy answer that night
“From my rotting bodyflowers shall grow and I am in themand that is eternity.”
— Edvard Munch
Born: December 121863
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
Gustave Flaubert ---Born: December 121821
***bonus quote***
AAAAAHHHHHHHH — Edvard Munch
Roywhite Odo not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourselfat the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.
Phillips Brooks
Born: December 131835
***bonus quote***
“Everyman is me. I am his brother. No man is my enemy. I am Everyman and he is in and of me. This is my faithmy strengthmy deepest hopeand my only belief.”
— Kenneth Patchen--- Born: December 131911
The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood.
Margaret Chase Smith
Born: December 141897
***bonus quote***
"Oops" -- Bill Buckner - Born: December 141949
“The universe is made of storiesnot of atoms.”
— Muriel Rukeyser
Born: December 151913
***bonus quote***
“Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sunand water only when it rains. It’s growing out of sour earth. And it’s strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.” –Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
Born: December 151896
Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yethow amazing is itnothing is less practiced?
George Whitefield
Born: December 161714
To preach more than half an houra man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.---George Whitefield
Fight the good fight of faithand God will give you spiritual mercies.--George Whitefield
It is better to wear out than to rust out.- George Whitefield
JUNE STUBER "You can have anything
you want if you are
willing to give up the belief
that you can't have it."
- Robert Anthony
“A little smilea word of cheerA bit of love from someone near
A little gift from one held dearBest wishes for the coming year.
These make a merry christmas!”
John Greenleaf Whittier
Born: December 171807
***bonus quote***
You may be witty but John Greenleaf was Whittier
---just something I remember
I have been watching the television series Mindhunter so today's birthday quote is from that show
“One side of me saysI'd like to talk to herdate her. The other side of me saysI wonder what her head would look like on a stick?”
-- Edmund Kemper
Born: December 181948
***bonus quote***
A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
Joseph Stalin ---Born: December 181878
“History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the governmentthose who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.”
Carter Godwin Woodson
Born: December 191875
or in other words
If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghettohe will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.
Carter G. Woodson
“Tolerance always has limits – it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.”
— Sidney Hook
Born: December 201902
***bonus quote***
“Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought.”
— Steve Sailer---Born: December 201958
"Now you know what we arenow you know what you are. You'll never grow oldMichaeland you'll never die. But you must feed!"
Kiefer Sutherland in The Lost Boys
Happy Birthday Kiefer!!
It is dangerous for men in power if no one dares to tell them when they go wrong.
– Thomas Becket
Born: December 211118
***bonus quote***
There are three kinds of lies: liesdamned liesand statistics.
---Benjamin Disraeli---Born December 211804
Life is the game that must be played: This truth at leastgood friendswe know; So live and laughnor be dismayed As one by one the phantoms go.
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
Born: December 221869
“Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.”
— Edwin Arlington Robinson
***bonus quote***
Dumb Dora is so dumb! --- Gene Rayburn Born: December 221917
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Helmut Schmidt
Born: December 231918
People who have visions should go see a doctor.
Helmut Schmidt
MeisterNJ A perfect answer to any question: "it depends."
Try itworks better than adding "between the sheets" to any Chinese fortune cookie message.
Many different peoplemany variations.
“We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here forI do not know.”
Matthew Arnold
Born: December 241822
***bonus quote***
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
---Matthew Arnold
This is my favorite thread so far! Going to revisit often to see the new postings when they come.
Hayley "If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally."
-- Angelus Silesius
Born: December 251624
or
Christ could be born a thousand times in Galilee - but all in vain until He is born in me.---Angelus Silesius
No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be matureto strengthen it is to be a good citizento do more than your share under it is noble.
Isaiah Bowman
Born: December 261878
give this quote a "like" on facebook
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
Johannes Kepler
Born: December 271571
An honest brew makes its own friends.
John Molson
Born: December 281763
"Challenges are what makes life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful"...: Joshua J. Marine
Ted Danson turns 72 today! CHEERS is one of my all time favorite showsI watch it every night!
"Looking out at the oceanit's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troublessuddenly insignificantslipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrablebut a closer look tells another story." ~Ted Danson
"I am forever grateful for Cheers." ~Ted Danson
“Justice? You get justice in the next worldin this world you have the law.”
— William Gaddis
Born: December 291922
***bonus quote***
“As long as there is this book [the Quran]there will be no peace in the world.”
Born: December 291809
“The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn’t possibly be worseto which the optimist replies: ‘Oh yes they could!’”
— Vladimir Bukovsky
Born: December 301942
I forgot to credit the bonus quote yesterday
William Ewart Gladstone
Former British Prime Minister
"Respect your effortsrespect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt..that's real power." : Clint Eastwood
“The rocks will melt with the sun before tuition fees are introduced in Scotland.”
— Alex Salmond
Born: December 311954
USA has the GI bill. Serve your country and your country will serve you.--CBGB---
***bonus quote***
“I judge a woman and a horse by the same criteria: legshead and rear end.”
— Elizabeth Arden---Born: December 311884
Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazynegligentor carelessbut on the contrary it awakens usurges us onand makes us active in living righteous lives and doing good. There is no self-confidence to compare with this.
Huldrych Zwingli
Born: January 11484
"Our Lord does not so much look at the greatness of our actionsor even at their difficultyas at the love with which we do them."
Thérèse de Lisieux
Born: January 21873
***bonus quote***
The finest amusements are the most pointless ones.
- Jacques Chardonne ---Born: January 21884
*** ***double bonus quote*** ***
There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.
Robert Nathan ---Born: January 21894
“A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement”
Clement Attlee
Born: January 31883
***bonus quote***
“If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political partyyou're half-way to a dictatorship.” --- Clement Attlee
I am a man of fixed and unbending principlesthe first of which is to be flexible at all times.
Everett Dirksen
Born: January 41896
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylumsand those in cemeteries.
Everett Dirksen
The oil can is mightier than the sword.
Everett Dirksen
“Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nationsmay she always be in the right; but our countryright or wrong.”
— Stephen Decatur
Born: January 51779
Right is right even if no one else is doing it. Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
Saint Augustine.
In any moment of decisionthe best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every manwomanand child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.
Charles Sumner
Born: January 61811
“The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevationsustainedenlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.”
— Charles Sumner
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
Charles Sumner
I have fought a long battle with slavery; and I confess my solicitude when I see any thing that looks like concession to it. It is not enough to show me that a measure is expedient: you must show me also that it is right. Ahsircan any thing be expedient which is not right? From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials: it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles. It cannot be found by inserting in your constitution the disfranchisement of a race.
Charles Sumner --- the nation's ardent abolitionist.
It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.
Millard Fillmore
Born: January 71800
The nourishment from barbecue is palatable.
Millard Fillmore
although not likely an accurate quoteI like it. the likely quote is his last words said presumably in reference to some soup he was being fed
The nourishment is palatable
“The only devil from which men must be redeemed is selfthe lower self. If man would find his devil he must look within; his name is self. If man would find his savior he must look within; and when the demon self has been dethroned the saviorLovewill be exulted to the throne of power.”
Noble Drew Ali
Born: January 81886
Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
Tennessee Williams
To the wrongs that need resistanceTo the right that needs assistanceTo the future in the distanceGive yourselves.
— Carrie Chapman Catt
Born: January 91859
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
In the adjustment of the new order of thingswe women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less. ---Carrie Chapman Catt
***bonus quote***
The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s handssince that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.
Simone de Beauvoir
Born: January 91908
htownguy you were a day early
Sir John Dalberg-Acton ---Born: January 101834
“There is a pattern to American life that what is avant-garde becomes commonplace. The mass market eventually assimilates that which is innovative or revolutionary.”
— Al Goldstein
Born: January 101936
***bonus quote***
What does the corpse care who was right and who was wrong?
Manuel Azana ---Born: January 101880
Wellmy friendthis earth will one day become that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moonwhich has lost all its vital heat.
Jules Verne
Asked what the J in his middle name is for:
“Genius”
Replied the Donald
Read on the internet so who knows if its trueif not I’ll move it to Friday funnies
The inquiry constantly is what will pleasenot what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedientficklenessand folly.
Alexander Hamilton
Birth Date: January 111755
***bonus quote***
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton
The man who saw the potential of Paterson Falls. The National Historic Park's facebook page posted a picture of his statue that's at the Falls in honor of his birthday today.
“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a masterand deserves one.”
Hamilton
Life is not a matter of holding good cardsbut sometimesplaying a poor hand well.
Jack London
Born: January 121876
The proper function of man is to livenot to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.--Jack London
But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
Jack London
If you want to lose your faithmake friends with a priest.
George Gurdjieff
Born: January 131866
***bonus quote***
“God must like to get off by Himself sometimes and caper. Must get mighty tiresomekeepin' tally on folks and gettin' the sun up and tuckin' it in bed and bringin' the rain on and alland all the time actin' stiff and proper.
A.B. Guthrie Jr---- Born: January 131901
*** *** double bonus quote*** ***
“The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths.”
— Paul Feyerabend----Born: January 131924
“That's the trouble with thoughtlessness; it never remembers other people.”
― Thornton W. Burgess
Born: January 141874
***bonus quote***
Do something wonderfulpeople may imitate it.
Albert Schweitzer
Born: January 141875
THE BEST ONE YET!!!
"Getting offended by something posted on the Internet is like choosing to step in dog manure instead of walking around it." : Author Unknown
“The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid movesonly complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.”
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Born: January 151918
***bonus quote***
I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in GodI know there's God.
Ernest Gaines ---Born: January 151933
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated His ability.
Oscar Wilde
Totally irreverent but then Wilde always was !
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the bigworthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Robert W. Service
Born: January 161874
***bonus quote***
His lifethough none too longWas never dull: Of womanwine and song Bill had his full.
Robert W. Service
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too smallthey gall and pinch us; but if too largethey cause us to stumble and to trip.
Jon Locke
“Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vinesto be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves usand loves to see us happy.”
Benjamin Franklin
Born: January 171706
Happy Birthday to the funny and talented Betty White who turns 98 today! Wow! I loved her in Golden GirlsHot in Clevelandand seeing the true her on many old game shows. And what a mouth on her as she got older!! (Or maybe she always had it!) LoL. :)
"People have told me ‘BettyFacebook is a great way to keep in touch with old friends.’ At my ageif I wanted to keep in touch with old friends. I’d need an Ouija board. " — Betty White
"Why do people say “grow some balls”? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you want to be toughgrow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding." — Betty White
"Get at least eight hours of beauty sleep. Nine if you’re ugly." — Betty White
"It’s your Outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself too seriouslypretty soon you can find the humor in our every day lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver." — Betty White
A greatgreat deal has been said about the weatherbut very little has ever been done.
Mark Twain
Let it snowlet it snowlet it snow !!
Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirrorand laugh at yourself.
Bernie Glassman
Born: January 181939
“The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principlethe order as a foundationand progress as a goal"
Auguste Comte
Born: January 191798
***bonus quote***
But whether the Constitution really be one thingor anotherthis much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have hador has been powerless to prevent it. In either caseit is unfit to exist.
- Lysander Spooner---- Born: January 191808
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
James Polk
Hmmm....
“There is a gentle elementand man may breathe it with a calmunruffled souland drink its living waterstill his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.”
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
Born: January 201806
We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues.
Wolfman Jack
Born: January 211938
***bonus quote***
Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaksand I'm an upper.
- Wolfman Jack
“We get too soon old and too late smart”.
Gordon Livingston wrote booksusing this quote. I don’t think he’s the original authorthough.
Guilty-Remnant - That saying has been quoted in Pennsylvania German for at least 300 years. It's supposed to predate the migration to PA so must be at least 400 or more years old.
“I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”
Albert Einstein...althoughthere’s some disputes about the author.
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
Lord Byron
Born: January 221788
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds awayand tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Lord Byron
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
Lord Byron
Yeslove indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels sharedby Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
Lord Byron
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of paintingtwo of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
Lord Byron
and lastly
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In shortI deny nothingbut doubt everything.
Lord Byron
“If we wait for the moment when everythingabsolutely everything is readywe shall never begin.”
Ivan The GreatIvan IIIIvan Turgenev
Born 1.22.1440
Bonus quote
“We sit in the mudmy friendand reach for the stars.”
SD Speical
"Ivan to be alone"
"OKwould $10 do?"
Ba dumb bump
There is an eagle in me that wants to soarand there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
Carl Sandburg
Life is made up of marble and mud.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
Potter Stewart
Born: January 231915
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
Potter Stewart
***bonus quote***
Abortion is inherently different from other medical proceduresbecause no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
Potter Stewart
No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.
Margaret Sanger
We don't like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars.
Marilyn Manson
“Heyget off of my cloud
Don’t hang around because twos a crowd.
On my cloudbaby”
Richards/Jagger
“It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjectsand the amount of money that goes out of the country as a consequence. Everybody is using coffee; this must be prevented. His Majesty was brought up on beerand so were both his ancestors and officers. Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beerand the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.”
Frederick the Great
Born: January 241712
***bonus quote***
I storm and I roarand I fall in a rage
And missing my whoreI bugger my page.
Charles Sackville6th Earl of Dorset
Born: January 241638
Do you know what they call hills in Florida?
Bridges...…
Tour Guide who sounds and delivers JUST like Steven Wright.....
"Joy comes to us in ordinary moments." "We risk missing out when we get busy chasing down the extraordinary.": Brene Brown
I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel goodor make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
Gloria Naylor
Born: January 251950
***bonus quote***
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if wechangingcontinue to love a changed person.
- William Somerset Maugham
Born: January 251874
How can you be two places at once when you're really not anywhere at all?
Firesign Theater.
“The brainknowing that a person can’t live forever in this worldrationalizes a futureor other-dimensionalworld in which immortality is possible. In other wordsreligion is the earliest form of science fiction.”
— Philip José Farmer
Born: January 261918
***bonus quote***
“Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago.”
— Philip José Farmer
"That's just a two-bit ring from a Crackerback jox."
"She's no fun. She fell right over."
"Antelope Freewayone half mile."
"What kind of chump do you take me for?" "First class."
"You can wait here in the sitting roomor you can sit here in the waiting room."
Firesign Theater.
If you know thatyou know what it means.
Today on The Biography Channel: Wally Shawn in "The Life and Times of Philip José Farmer"???
hahhah too funny SueR
and thanks for the tip GCthe program was excellent !
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in factmore of the opportunities to cultivate our better naturesto make manhood more noblewomanhood more beautifuland childhood more happy and bright.
Samuel Gompers
Born: January 271850
“What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind.”
-- Nicolas Sarkozy
Born: January 281955
***bonus quote***
I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.
David Lodge ---Born: January 281935
"L o s A n g e l i s: he walks again by night. out of the fog and into the smog (cough cough) Relentlesslyruthlessly(“I wonder where Ruth is”) doggedly (ruffruff) toward his weekly meeting with the unknown.
At 4th and Drucker he turns leftat Drucker and 4th he turns right
he crosses McArthur Park & walks into a great sandstone building!
(oh my nose!)
Groping for the door he steps inside (telephones starts ringing) climbs the 13 steps to his office. he walks inhe’s ready for mysteryhe’s ready for excitementhe’s ready for anything he’s…
Stranger Danger Third Eye!
(telephone ringring)
Telephone Person: Hi um I’d like to order a pizza to go and no anchovies
SD: No Anchovies? You got the wrong man I spell my name Danger! (Click)
Telephone Person: What?"
With minor apologies to The Firesign Theatre
Happy Birthday today to one of my all time favorite singersSarah McLachlan!
"I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next."
Sarah McLachlan
"I was a pretty insecure kiddidn't have a lot of friendsand was picked on a lotand music gave me confidence."
Sarah McLachlan
"Music is very nebulousand you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more tangible. They're much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes people someplace else."
Sarah McLachlan
"In a senseI'm always hearing music of some sortwhether it's people talking or surface noise or whateverbecause there is no privacy. So when I'm by myselfI just kind of like to be and reflectand I can't do that when I'm listening to music. Because it's someone else's reflectionsnot mine."
Sarah McLachlan
"There's beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhereyou just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some daysthat's harder than others."
Sarah McLachlan
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Born: January 291688
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is lovefor the reason that love is receptive of all things of heavensuch as peaceintelligencewisdom and happiness.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Our quotable story continues:
SD: "OK! When I hit the street the rain had turned LA into a mud river. It was a short swim Down Al Dorado to my Convertible. I had to get to Santa Barbara in a big hurry! As I whipped onto Monhollen Drive the lights were just twinkling on across the San Ferdanino Valley. I could barely make Them out through the driving rainthen a hard right now Big Chuchunga Canyon. My Tires squealed as I hit several peoplea righta lefta leftanother righta left to the Body a right and into a gas station! Hey Pop!
Alright Alright hold your horses I'm coming! There you are
SD: Where am I?
You cant get there from here
SD: But I’m looking for the same old place
Oh my must mean the Old Same Place sonnyits right out back! Here’s the key (Clunk)"
To give you an idea: http://firesigntheatre.com/media/audvid/bod1.mp3
Los Angeles is just New York lying down.
Quentin Crisp
You knowyou're really nobody in LA unless you live in a house with a really big door.
Steve Martin
Music is God's gift to manthe only art of Heaven given to earththe only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Walter Savage Landor
Born: January 301775
A man's vanity tells him what is honora man's conscience what is justice.
Walter Savage Landor
***bonus quote***
“There is no more certain sign of a narrow mindof stupidityand of arrogancethan to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.”
— Walter Savage Landor
John Joseph Lydon aka Johnny Rotten
(born 31 January 1956)
Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? Good night!
John Lydon
It's a repressive society where you can't be horribleI'm not horriblethey made me horribleI'm just honest.
John Lydon
I have one major problem with the internet: It's full of liars.
John Lydon
There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.
John Lydon
Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians.
John Lydon
and lastly even though John can go on and on................
These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad.
John Lydon
“Be politebe professionalbut have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”
General James Mattis (quote in reference to the Iraq fiasco to those deployed in Afghanistan)
As our quotable story continues...….
"Four hours later I parked my car in the carriage house and (footsteps) walked up a grey gravel driveway between a line of dwarf maples towards the pillared entrance of the Same Mansion. It had been snowing in Santa Barbara ever since the top of the page and I had to shake the cornstarch off my mukluks as I lifted the heavy obsidian doorknocker. Hey in there... open up. Your doorknocker fell off.
(door open) What's all this brouhaha?
SD: Brouhaha? Ha ha ha...
Ha ha ha ha ha....(door close)
SD: Wait...Wait a minute. Don't you want this doorknocker?
I already have one.
SD: But this is yours....
You see? I told you. We use to have another one but he vanished mysteriously. (door open) All rightcome in out of the cornstarch and dry your mukluks by the fire. (fire/cellophane/door close) Let me introduce myself. I am StrangerDanger.
SD: Nolet me introduce myself. I am StrangerDanger.
If you're so smartwhy don't you pick up your cues faster?"
Firesign Theater
Education has now become the chief problem of the worldits one holy cause. The nations that see this will surviveand those that fail to do so will slowly perish. . . . There must be re-education of the will and of the heart as well as of the intellect; and the ideals of service must supplant those of selfishness and greed.
G. Stanley Hall
Born: February 11846
America are you listening? -- CBGB
***bonus quote***
“Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nervesschooling to the emotionsstrength to the willand to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them.”
— G. Stanley Hall
***bonus CBGB quote***
I'm a dancing fool.
The main thing is dancingand before it withers away from my bodyI will keep dancing till the last momentthe last drop.
And-
You live as long as you dance.
Rudolph Nureyev
Dancing is the loftiestthe most movingthe most beautiful of the artsbecause it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
Havelock Ellis
Born: February 21859
***bonus quotes***
“Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accidenta tight girdlea higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.”
— Judith Viorst --
Born: February 21931
“For some it takes a lifetime to find true loveBut for the lucky ones a lifetime is merely enough to share the love they’ve found.”
— Judith Viorst
You may be a redneck if . . your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.
Jeff Foxworthy
todays Birthdays quotes come from two people who both died young
Simone Weil Born: February 31909
34 when she died The coroner's report said that "the deceased did kill and slay herself by refusing to eat whilst the balance of her mind was disturbed
in a biography of Simone this was written.
"As for her deathwhatever explanation one may give of it will amount in the end to saying that she died of love"
and here is the Simone Weil birthday quote of the day
God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
Simone Weil
Born: February 31909
Georg Trakl Born: February 31887 died of a cocaine overdose at 27
“A world without fairy tales and myths would be as drab as life without music”
― Georg Trakl
Born: February 31887
"Keep life moving forward...looking backward is only for time travelers': Rachel O. Washington
You can only look forward as far as you can look back.
Raymond Dart
Born: February 41893
***bonus quote***
Being desirous of allaying the dissensions of party strife now existing within our realmI do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic and Republican partiesand also do hereby decree the disfranchisement and imprisonmentfor not more than 10nor less than fiveyearsto all persons leading to any violation of this our imperial decree.
Emperor Norton
Born: February 41818
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/norton.html
CBGB: weak tea today.....
"You can only look forward as far as you can look back." In what universe does this make any sense whatsoever.....
Emperor Norton ---- thank you. I feel better now about the Nick Danger quotable story…..think both are on the same plane of reality.
William S. Burroughs
Born: February 51914
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
William S. Burroughs
We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse
William S. Burroughs
Artists to my mind are the real architects of changeand not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
- William S. Burroughs
“I bear my burden proudly for all to seeto conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presenceyou emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink...”
— William S. Burroughs.
While I take inspiration from the pastlike most AmericansI live for the future.
Ronald Reagan
Born: February 61911
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wireit wafts across the electrified borders.
Ronald Reagan
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan
No matter what time it iswake meeven if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
Ronald Reagan
Thomas Jefferson once said'We should never judge a president by his ageonly by his works.' And ever since he told me thatI stopped worrying.
Ronald Reagan
"Many people will walk in and out of your lifebut only true friends will leave footprints in your heart": Eleanor Roosevelt
Zsa Zsa Gábor's birthday today. She lived to the age of 99!
"One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears."
"How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?"
"The only place men want depth in their women is in their décolletage."
"I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?"
"Diamonds are a girl's best friend and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense."
~Zsa Zsa Gábor
Having been engaged rather a lot of timesZsa Zsa Gabor was asked whether a lady should give back the ring. Her answer? " Of course dahlinkbut firstyou take out all the diamonds."
That's great !
Sinclair Lewis
Born: February 71885
“Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goodsparticularly if the goods are worthless.” Sinclair Lewis
“Winter is not a seasonit's an occupation.” Sinclair Lewis
“We'd get sick on too many cookiesbut ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.” Sinclair Lewis
***bonus quote***
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler
Born: February 71870
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product.When that happensall that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.
Jerry Della Femina
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Mark Twain
We usually forget that apart from making a living on this earthhuman beings live in societies and these societies have cultures. It is only through having cultures that mankind on this earth has an ordered and meaningful life. Music and drama are two of the many important manifestation of a culture. They are important because they represent the expressions emanating from the power of human artistic creativity
Tunku Abdul Rahman
Born: February 81903
In the old days people never bothered about what others didso long as they were free to do what they liked themselves. Todayone cannot sneeze without being correctedlet alone enjoy oneself. That's what politics have done to our society
Tunku Abdul Rahman
Sound moralsreligious libertyand a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.
William Henry Harrison
Born: February 91773
***bonus quote***
Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universeand the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.
—Amy Lowell
Born: February 91874
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
Albert Einstein
I am not afraid of tomorrowfor I have seen yesterday and I love today!
William Allen White
Born: February 101868
We say that money talksbut it speaks a brokenpoverty-stricken language. Hearts talk betterclearerand with wider intelligence.
William Allen White
and lastly.....
Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on. But the old orders should not be moved easily - certainly not at the mere whim or behest of youth. There must be clash and if youth hasn't enough force or fervor to produce the clash the world grows stale and stagnant and sour in decay.
William Allen White
Love the butterfly quote CBGB! (and the bonus quote :) ) Which brings me to these.....
"Happiness is a butterflywhich when pursuedis always just beyond your graspbut whichif you will sit down quietlymay alight upon you." ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imaginationa time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivablelike a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoonbursting forth into unexpected glory."~Gary Zukav
"I would say things like ‘I am the greatest! I’m pretty! If you talk jiveyou’ll drop in five! I float like a butterflysting like a bee! I’m pretty!’ When white people heard me talking like thissome said‘That black man talks too much. He’s bragging.’ " ~Muhammad Ali
“Donkeys like being touched in the direction their hair growsotherwisethey’ll kick you.”
The price of love is only love... one must love if one desires to be loved.
Honore d'Urfe
Born: February 111568
How we educate the mind will change with the times; how we cultivate the heart is and will remain timeless.
Basil Moreau
Born: February 111799
***bonus awesome sauce quote***
“Livedon't know how long,
And diedon't know when;
Must godon't know where;
I am astonished I am so cheerful.”
― Patrick Leigh Fermor
Born: February 111915
Abraham Lincoln
Born: February 121809
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just Godcannot long retain it.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truththey can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
The quality of mercy is not strained
It droppeth like the gentle rain from heaven
Shakespeare
And he loved herboth for her fault and her redemption of itmore than he had ever thought that he could love her; for he had believed that in their kiss love had reached its uttermost. But love has no uttermostas the stars have no number and the sea no rest.
Eleanor Farjeon
Born: February 131881
***bonus quote***
Morning has broken
Like the first morning.
Blackbird has spoken
Like the first bird.
Eleanor Farjeon
Happy Valentine's Day
Irving Gordon
Born: February 141915
Unforgettablethat's what you are
Unforgettable though near or far
Like a song of love that clings to me
How the thought of you does things to me
Never before has someone been more
Unforgettable in every way
And forever morethat's how you'll stay
That's whydarlingit's incredible
That someone so unforgettable
Thinks that I am unforgettable too
Unforgettable in every way
And forever morethat's how you'll stay
That's whydarlingit's incredible
That someone so unforgettable
Thinks that I am unforgettable too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUMoiU3h750
"For it was not into my ear you whisperedbut into my heart. It was not my lips you kissedbut my soul."
~Judy Garland
"The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald Reagan
“Two things form the bedrock of any open society — freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those thingsyou don’t have a free country."
Salman Rushdie
“When political leaders set a negative exampleprofessional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law state without lawyersor to hold show trials without judges. Authoritarians need obedient civil servantsand concentration camp directors seek businessmen interested in cheap labor.”
Timothy Synder
"Who's more foolish......the fool or the fool who follows him?"
Obi-wan Kenobi
"Any excuse will serve a tyrant."
Aesop
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishesour inclinationsor the dictates of our passionsthey cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
John Adams
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
Albert Camus
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail Adams
CBGB
You mean Eleanor Farjeon wrote the Cat Steven's song 90 years or so before he sang it or was he just inspired by her since her lyrics/poem were out of copyright?
here you go Phil
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Has_Broken
Trying to do business without advertising is like winking at a pretty girl through a pair of green goggles. You may know what you are doingbut no one else does.
— Cyrus McCormick
Born: February 151809
***bonus quote***
“The greatest influences in the life of a boy are his toys,Yet through the toys American manufacturers are turning outhe gets both fun and an education. The American boy is a genuine boy and wants genuine toys."
Alfred Carlton Gilbert
Born: February 151884
CBGB
I should have realized there'd be tons written about itbut I was distracted by other events. Should've thought to look it up. Very interesting historyincluding Rick Wakeman's involvement. Thanks!
Suffer what there is to sufferenjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life
Nichiren
Born: February 161222
***bonus quote***
Whether one has wealth or notno treasure exceeds the one called life
Nichiren
The most luxurious possessionthe richest treasure anybody hasis his personal dignity.
Jackie Robinson
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Born: February 171879
I never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed by their lack of brainscourage and initiativeby their extraordinary ability to get themselves into uncomfortable or dangerous situations and then wait in inert helplessness for someone to rescue them.
Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.
On New Year's Day every calendarlarge and smallhas the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.
There's no healthy life possible without some sensual feeling between the husband and wifebut there's nothing in the world more awful than married life when it's the only common ground.
What a fearfully distractingperplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairsthat honesty is the best policy.” George Washington1732
“The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.”
“The Constitution which at any time exists’till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.”
“Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.”
“No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strangethenand much to be regretted indeed would it bewere we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass.”
“There is nothing which can better deserve your patronagethan the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”
“Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.”
A leader is someone who inspires otherswho leads by example and motivates people to be better and move forward no matter how hard the challenges might be. No matter if they’re leading a countrya businessa household or a team.
“Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who make excuses.”
"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light."
“From the insidelooking outit’s hard to explain. From the outsidelooking init’s hard to understand”
Author unknown
Because power corruptssociety's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases
John Adams1735
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicaneryof partyfactionand division of society.
John Adams
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
John Adams
Perhapssome dayhumanity can start afresha new worlda tabula rasaa world with a mind without prior experiences. No memories and no pain. A day when the ones with abundance do not look down at the poor and the needya day when we learn to care for the victimsthe fallen souls of civilization and advancementa day when the world will be pure. When all of humanity becomes a clean sheet of parchmentwithout knowledge and prejudicesimplehungry for knowingtastingand feeling; hungry for life and ready to absorb the ink of experience.
Henry Martyn
Born: February 181781
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are lifelibertyand the pursuit of happiness."
Thomas Jefferson1743
When I was having that alphabet soupI never thought that it would pay off.
~(63 year old) Vanna White
"The essence of Government is power; and powerlodged as it must be in human handswill ever be liable to abuse."
James Madison1751
“I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.”
Carson McCullers
Born On: February 191917
“Next to musicbeer was best.”
Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers
Born On: February 191917
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of football teamor some nuclear weaponsbut in the very least you need a beer.
Frank Zappa
He was a wise man who invented beer.
Plato
niceI've used that Zappa quote a few times.
The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
Georges Bernanos
Born: February 201888
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
Georges Bernanos
The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
Georges Bernanos
Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many thingsbut we possess the most precious of all - liberty!
James Monroe1751
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the budis the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
John Quincy Adams1767
It was settled by the Constitutionthe lawsand the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
Andrew Jackson1767
Be with a leader when he is rightstay with him when he is still rightbutleave him when he is wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
W. H. Auden
Born: February 211907
What the mass media offers is not popular artbut entertainment which is intended to be consumed like foodforgottenand replaced by a new dish.
W. H. Auden
Among those whom I like or admireI can find no common denominatorbut among those whom I loveI can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden
It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.
Martin Van Buren1782
There is nothing more corruptingnothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our naturethan the exercise of unlimited power.
William Henry Harrison1773
Our form of government can no longer be considered an experiment in politics. Crowned with successit stands forth an example to the world and exhibits the proudest triumph of reason and philosophy.
John Tyler1790
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
James K. Polk1795
One of my favorite classic tv showsGolden Girls! Here's Rue McClanahan (born on this day) as Blanche Devereaux:
Blanche: He is so sophisticated and charming and rich and handsome. He fairly screams Blanche. At leasthe will when I'm through with him.
Blanche: There is a fine line between having a good time and being a wanton slut. I know. My toe has been on that line.
Blanche: I swear with God as my witnessI will never pick up another man! In a library ... on a Saturday ... unless he's cute ... and drives a nice car ... Amen.
Blanche: I do love the rain so. It reminds me of my first kiss. Dorothy: Ahyour first kiss was in the rain? Blanche: Noit was in the shower.
Blanche: My first was Billy. OhI'll never forget it! That night under the dogwood treethe air thick with perfumeand me with Billy. Or Bobby? Yesthat's rightBobby! Or was it Ben? Ohwho knows -- anywayit started with a B.
Rose: Blanchewhat's a metaphor? Blanche: It's when you use a phrase to mean something else. Like when I say "Men are blinded by my beauty". They're not really blinded. They get their sight back in a day or two!
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
George Washington
Born: February 221732
“It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty Godto obey His willto be grateful for His benefitsand humbly to implore His protection and favor.”
– George Washington
If electedI would not be the mere president of a party - I would endeavor to act independent of party domination and should feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.
Zachary Taylor1784
May God save the countryfor it is evident that the people will not.
Millard Fillmore1800
With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
Franklin Pierce1804
What is right and what is practicable are two different things.
James Buchanan1791
I guess we call these the boring yearspost-founding fatherspre-civil war.
Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in a rageforgetting he's wearing flip-flopsflames pour from his mouthand it's very impressive. But you see it in printand it's just ugly.
Garrison Keillor
What a world this will be when human possibilities are freedwhen we discover each otherwhen the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
W. E. B. Du Bois
Born: February 231868
Rule-followinglegal precedenceand political consistency are not more important than rightjustice and plain common-sense.
W. E. B. Du Bois
A little less complaint and whiningand a little more dogged work and manly strivingwould do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Let some holy ambition invade our soulsso thatdissatisfied with mediocritywe shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil with all our strength to obtain themsince we may if we wish.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Born: February 241463
***bonus quote***
Whythis Satan’s drink is so delicious it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it. We shall fool Satan by baptizing it and making it a truly Christian beverage.
Pope Clement VIII
Born: February 241536
After a couple of decades of Presidential boredom...…
Gold is good in its place; but lovingbravepatriotic men are better than gold.
Abraham Lincoln1809
I hold that while man existsit is his duty to improve not only his own conditionbut to assist in ameliorating mankind.
Abraham Lincoln
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln
How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truththey can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Abraham Lincoln
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courtsnot to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln
“A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.”
John Foster Dulles
Born: February 251888
After Lincolnagaina massive mediocrity for the ages....nine in a rowhere's the first five.....
If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the otherall would be well with the country.
Andrew Johnson1808
I would suggest the taxation of all property equallywhether church or corporationexempting only the last resting place of the dead and possiblywith proper restrictionschurch edifices.
Ulysses S. Grant1822
The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.
Rutherford B. Hayes1822
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a foolwhich is a matter of no small difficulty.
James A. Garfield1831
I may be president of the United Statesbut my private life is nobody's damned business.
Chester A. Arthur1829
….continuing through the fog of mediocrity hoping to find greatness next.
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
Grover Cleveland1837 --- from NJ no less....and served two separated 4-year terms --- like 1885-89 and 93-97. He still only gets one quote :>)
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
Benjamin Harrison1833
We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
William McKinley1843
phewit's over ----- Teddy is up next !!!!
Elizabeth George
Born: February 261949
Remember to say what you meanbut don't say it meanly.
Elizabeth George
The past can't be changedcan it? It can just be forgiven.
Elizabeth George
Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calmno matter what happens.
Elizabeth George
Happy Birthday Ralphy-boy!
One of the greatest comedians of all time:
Jackie Gleason
(February 261916 – June 241987)
"I'm no alcoholic. I'm a drunkard. There's a difference. A drunkard doesn't like to go to meetings."
"Drinking removes warts and pimples. Not from me. But from those I look at."
"Sometimes the feeling that life is great just swells up inside you and fills you with joy."
"How sweet it is!"
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
You only live oncebut if you do it rightonce is enough.
Mae West
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doingwhile others judge us by what we have already done.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Born: February 271807
Joytemperanceand reposeslam the door on the doctor's nose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Into each life some rain must fall.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
and lastly
Look not mournfully into the pastit comes not back again. Wisely improve the presentit is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Not the most elegantbut certainly better than the last nine presidents......quote-wise that is:
Nobody cares how much you knowuntil they know how much you care.
Theodore Roosevelt1858
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
In any moment of decisionthe best thing you can do is the right thingthe next best thing is the wrong thingand the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your troubleyou wouldn't sit for a month.
Theodore Roosevelt
Far better is it to dare mighty thingsto win glorious triumphseven though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer muchbecause they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
As a ruleall heroism is due to a lack of reflectionand thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.
Ernest Renan
Born: February 281823
***bonus quote***
Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.
- ALICE MAY BROCK ---born February 281941
And now for the Republican dynasty...…and Wilson......
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effortenterprise and new activity.
William Howard Taft1857
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a visionto realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
Woodrow Wilson1856
America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
Warren G. Harding1865
When more and more people are thrown out of workunemployment results.
Calvin Coolidge1872 --- wellhe should be the expertonly topped by.....
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
Herbert Hoover1874 ---- OMG has there ever been worse.........
Next --- a new dawn......
"The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any." :Fred Astaire
I love Fred and Ginger.....just watched Top Hat again last week and trying to find Swing Time for free right now.
One of the best ways to get hooked on AstaireKellyO'ConnerRodgersCaron (my favorite)Reynolds and the rest ---- is to watch That's EntertainmentIIand III. You get a real appreciation of the talentthe professionalismand the differences tween the two giants: Astaire and Kelly in a snapshot view. Astaire the incredible traditional and Kelly the technical adventurer will never be matched. IMO.
The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.
My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.
Ginger Rogers
“I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is notis otherwise. We sometimes find peoplewho are vegetariansare very bad people.”
-- Morarji Desai
Born: February 291896
„The Church is indeedin its real IntentAn Assembly where Nothing but Friendship is meant; And the utter Extinction of Foeship and Wrath By the Working of Love in the Strength of its Faith.“
John Byrom,
Born: February 291692
I like the silent church before the service beginsbetter than any preaching.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enter the Founding Father of our modern state; the only President to serve more terms than Washington.....
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officialsbut the voters of this country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882
We have always held to the hopethe beliefthe conviction that there is a better lifea better worldbeyond the horizon.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no furtherbut cooperationwhich is the thing we must strive for todaybegins where competition leaves off.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the peopleand a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"I will build a great wall--and nobody builds walls better than mebelieve me--and I'll build them very inexpensively. I will build a greatgreat wall on our southern borderand I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words."
Trump
Wisdom and goodness are twin-bornone heart must hold both sistersnever seen apart.
William Dean Howells
Born: March 11837
Two great virtues . . . give a man power with the heavens - integrity and purity of character. Let a man possess theselet his heart be true and unflinchinglet his life be pureandif we add to these humilityhe is protected against a multitude of weaknesses and can resist a host of temptations. We all have our weaknesses; God has permitted them that we might be taught humility in ourselves and charity towards others.
Wilford Woodruff
Born: March 11807
We are all full of weakness and errorslet us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Voltaire
OKyou gotta admit --- this first one is a real corker for a guy who died in 1972.
Richard Nixon is a no goodlying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same timeand if he ever caught himself telling the truthhe'd lie just to keep his hand in.
Harry S Truman1884
If you can't convince themconfuse them.
Harry S Truman
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry S Truman
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
Harry S Truman
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
Harry S Truman
The use of the atomic bombwith its indiscriminate killing of women and childrenrevolts my soul.
Herbert Hoover
All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.
Donald Trump
Mikhail Gorbachev
Born: March 21931
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to youyou haven't done much today.
America must be the teacher of democracynot the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
"Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time."
"One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes."
"American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is."
"The Spanish and Cuban people have the same kind of wakes the Irish do. They go on for two or three days and drink a lot of booze and eat a lot of food."
And my favorite......
"I Love Lucy was never just a title!"
Desi Arnaz (March 21917 – December 21986)
Tea does our fancy aidRepress those vapours which the head invadeAnd keeps that palace of the soul serene.
Edmund Waller
Born: March 31606
Vexed sailors cursed the rainfor which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
Edmund Waller
***bonus quote***
Above all we should not forget that government is an evila usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.
William Godwin
Born: March 31756
As we enter the post WWII global age:
This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hateand beinsteada proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890
When written in Chinesethe word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy1917
There are no problems we cannot solve togetherand very few that we can solve by ourselves.
Lyndon B. Johnson1908
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
Richard M. Nixon1913
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
Gerald R. Ford1913
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
Jimmy Carter1924
Next: the big guy himself!!!!
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.
Richard M. DeVos
Born: March 41926
***bonus are you listening HL quote***
A positive impact stems from our admission that we were wrong or our thinking was wrong. 'I'm wrong' are two little words that can help improve our own positive attitude.
Richard M. DeVos
Onward to The Gippermanwhere is The Great Communicator when we need him.....
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought forprotectedand handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan1911
The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.
Ronald Reagan
There are no constraints on the human mindno walls around the human spiritno barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
Ronald Reagan
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligenceimaginationand wonder.
Ronald Reagan
Trustbut verify.
Ronald Reagan
Peace is not absence of conflictit is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ronald Reagan
A people free to choose will always choose peace.
Ronald Reagan
May not have liked his policiesbut I did like the cut of his jib.
In the wake of Super Tuesday :
If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.
Mark Twain
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx
Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
Joseph P Kennedy
1."A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetitionbecause familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact."
Daniel Kahneman
Born: March 51934
It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.
Daniel Kahneman
"The most beautiful word on the lips of mankind is the word 'Mother'and the most beautiful call is the call of 'My Mother'."
~Kahlil Gibran
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Born: March 61806
If you desire faiththen you have faith enough.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“I love you not only for what you arebut for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourselfbut for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Reason is our soul's left handfaith her right.
John Donne
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Henry Ward Beecher
this quote has me thinking of american idolhousewives of this houswives of thatjudge him judge hersurvive thistattoo thatremodel your house remodel yourself etc etc
All that is base in the masses is temporaryno doubt serving only to prevent evolution from proceeding too quickly and thus not becoming 'reality.'
Piet Mondrian
Born: March 71872
***bonus quote***
Love of one's own nation should not entail non-love of other nations.
Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
Born: March 71850
An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
Simon Cameron
Born: March 81799
Whatever women dothey must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckilythis is not difficult.
Charlotte Whitton
Born: March 81896
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodnessfind it where you may.
William Cobbett
Born: March 91763
The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.
Vyacheslav Molotov
Born: March 91890
“Women are like teabags. We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt
“Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly canas much enjoymentas much interestas much experienceas much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a ‘success.”
~Eleanor Roosevelt
“It takes courage to lovebut pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt
Happy 80th Birthday to Chuck Norris!!
The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span; we need to increase our health span at the same time.
~Chuck Norris
"Men are like steel. When they lose their temperthey lose their worth."
~Chuck Norris
Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops.
Kate Sheppard
Born: March 101848
"There are certain things in gun control that have a certain public appealbut when you're legislating you need to look at the research on what workswhat doesn'tand what really has an impactrecognizing you're never going to do away entirely with gun violence"
-- Kim Campbell
Born: March 101947
I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun aroundI want to be in control of it.
Clint Eastwood
Torquato Tasso
Born: March 111544
Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!
Torquato Tasso
True love cannot be found where it does not existnor can it be denied where it does.
Torquato Tasso
Love is when he gives you a piece of your soulthat you never knew was missing.
Torquato Tasso
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack Kerouac
Born: March 121922
I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notorietypublic meetingspublic speechescaucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability.
John Abbott
Born: March 121821
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
Alexander Hamilton
I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism
Hugh Walpole
Born: March 131884
Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
Hugh Walpole
***bonus quote***
“Our true worth does not consist in what human beings think of us.
What we really are consists in what God knows us to be.”
Johannes Berchmans
Born: March 131599
"You would not want to be in a state of malnutrition during a COVID-19 infection."
~Steven Magee
Screw the diet.....tonight I'm eating like a queen! Haha
What this country needs is a really good five cent cigar.
Thomas R. Marshall
Born: March 141854
Once there were two brothers: one ran away to seathe other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again.
Thomas R. Marshall
***bonus quote***
We live in a changing worldbut we need to be reminded that the important things have not changedand the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.
S. Truett Cathy
Born: March 141921
I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help.
Christiano Ronaldo
Andrew Jackson
Born: March 151767
The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.
Andrew Jackson
Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.
Andrew Jackson
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
Andrew Jackson
James Madison
Born: March 161751
Philosophy is common sense with big words.
James Madison
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
James Madison
War should only be declared by the authority of the peoplewhose toils and treasures are to support its burdensinstead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
James Madison
It is done ...the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.
Dolly Madison
Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends itand we should own and reverence His hand in it.
Thomas Boston
The law discovers the diseaseand the gospel the physician.
Thomas Boston
Born: March 171676
"I am Patricka sinnermost uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many."
~Saint Patrick
"Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mudand he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall."
~Saint Patrick
"No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thoughtthat - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God."
~Saint Patrick
"I plainly told them'Be ye sincerely convertedand with your whole heartto the Lord our Godfor nothing is impossible to Himthat He may today send you food on your roadeven until you are satisfiedbecause He has everywhere abundance.' Andwith God's helpit was so done: Behold! A herd of swine appeared in the road before our eyes."
~Saint Patrick
"The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough."
~Saint Patrick
John C. Calhoun
Born: March 181782
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselvesconsisting of many and various and powerful interestscombined into one massand held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.
John C. Calhoun
I am in favor of high wages and agree that the higher the wagesthe stronger the evidence of prosperityprovided they are so naturallyby the effectiveness of industryand not in consequence of an inflated currency or any artificial regulation.
John C. Calhoun
Seeinghearingfeelingare miraclesand each part and tag of me is a miracle.
Walt Whitman
They say miracles are past.
Shakespeare
Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
William Jennings Bryan
Born: March 191860
One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
William Jennings Bryan
Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is rightfor the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
William Jennings Bryan
Phyllis McGinley
Born: March 211905
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Phyllis McGinley
Words can sting like anythingbut silence breaks the heart.
Phyllis McGinley
Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.
Phyllis McGinley
Pressed for rules and veritiesAll i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer. Think-too-long is never-act. Scratch a myth and find a fact.
Phyllis McGinley
How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may losehis ship may list/ But he always sees the funny side.
Phyllis McGinley
Rain is my lovermy apple strudel. / It haunts my heels like a pedigreed poodle. / Beyond the seas or across the nation/ It follows me faithful on every vacation.
Phyllis McGinley
The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempersgot hungryscolded Godwere egotistical or impatient in their turnsmade mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.
Phyllis McGinley
You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
St Therese of Lisieux
“Absence makes the heart grow fonderbut it sure makes the rest of you lonely.” ~Charles M. Schulz
“That farewell kiss which resembles greetingthat last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.” ~George Eliot
December days were brief and chill,
The winds of March were wild and drear,
Andnearing and receding still,
Spring never wouldwe thoughtbe here.
~Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)
Iamrite Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angersfor each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
Louis L'Amour
Born: March 221908
To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.
Louis L'Amour
***bonus quote***
Marcel Marceau
Born: March 221923
CBGB - 1976. "Silent Movie" by Mel Brooks. Dom DeLuiseMarty FeldmanSid CaesarBernadette Petersthe usual cast of characters. Filmed in the with cue cardsand typical theatrical music with the exception of a single spoken word. When they try to get every well known actor to appear in their silent movieMarcel Marceau loudly and emphatically says "NO!!". It may be his only spoken word captured on film...
Haha that's true GCseen Silent Movie a few times but decades ago.
To resist the frigidity of old ageone must combine the bodythe mindand the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercisestudyand love.
Alan Bleasdale
Born: March 231946
Evil is knowing betterbut willingly doing worse.
Philip Zimbardo
Born: March 231933
In a world filled with mistrustarmed to the teeth and ready to explodea realistic attitude might be to consider love as an imperative need.
Dominique de Menil
Born: March 231908
January grey is here,
Like a sexton by her grave;
February bears the bier,
March with grief doth howl and rave...
~Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)"Dirge for the Year"
"Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flowerwith the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it."
-- Olive Schreiner
Born: March 241855
Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to themand they think there is no otherbecause they don't see it - but there is."
-- Olive Schreiner
“Lovesmoke and a cough cannot long be hid!”
-- Olive Schreiner
"These pretzels are making me thirsty"
George Costanza
And for the season (full volume only...…): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tSuEKct8Eg
Burt Munro from my favorite movie The World's Fastest Indian
You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime.
Burt Munro
Born: March 251899
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Flannery O'Connor
Born: March 251925
I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
Flannery O'Connor
***BONUS QUOTE***
So tonight I'll ask the stars above
how did I ever win your love?
What did I dowhat did I say
To turn your angel eyes my way?
Jeff Healey
Born: March 251966
Happy 73rd Birthday to the talented and eccentric Elton John!!
“I’ll not complain about your boring life if you just leave me to mine.” ~Elton John
“You should never take more than you give.” ~Elton John
"Ask anyone. If it hadn’t been for ElvisI don’t know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all offand he was definitely the start of it for me.” ~Elton John
“If you write great songs with meaning and emotionthey will last forever because songs are the key to everything.” ~Elton John
https://youtu.be/Ji6qM1-NJ_0
"I remember when rock was young
Me and Suzie had so much fun
Holding hands and skimming stones...."
"If bread is the first necessity of liferecreation is a close second."
-- Edward Bellamy
Born: March 261850
Shoulder the skymy ladand drink your ale.
A. E. Housman
Born: March 261859
***bonus coronus quote***
The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
A. E. Housman
A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
James Callaghan
Born: March 271912
Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.
Budd Schulberg
Born: March 271914
"Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles. It takes away today’s peace."
~Randy Armstrong
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughtsall that is needed is the will to love.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Born: March 281515
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
Saint Teresa of Avila
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumblesor where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arenawhose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errswho comes short again and againbecause there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasmsthe great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievementand who at the worstif he failsat least fails while daring greatlyso that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
For the thinker the world is a thought; for the witan image; for the enthusiasta dream; for the inquirertruth.
Ludwig Buchner
Born: March 291824
There is no religion without loveand people may talk as much as they like about their religionbut if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beastit is all a sham.
Anna Sewell
Born: March 301820
Happy 72nd Birthday to Rhea Perlman who played the little spitfire Carla Tortelli on Cheers!
Here's some great Carla Comebacks:
Norm: “I want something light and cold.”
Carla: “Sorryit’s Diane’s day off.”
Cliff: “Sometimes I’m ashamed God made me a man.”
Carla: “I don’t think God’s doing a whole lot of bragging about it either."
Frasier: “Lilith is carrying a dead rat in her purse. Why would she be carrying a dead rat in her purse?”
Carla: “Just a wild guess: a snack?”
“It was a magical moment. You know it was like I was transported back in time. I wasn’t a tired old woman with six kids. I was a fresh young teenager with two kids.”
Cliff: "It’s a little know fact that 42% of deaths in America are caused by accidents in the home."
Carla: "So were you."
Frasier: "I just came off a seven year marriage. It’s hard to think of replacing Lilith."
Carla: "Just go to the morgue and open any drawer."
Rebecca: "You guysI have my new wedding dress. And now all I need is something oldsomething borrowedand something blue."
Carla: "How ‘bout Norm’s liver?"
Lilith: "WellI’m off. I don’t know what the future holds. Whatever happensI only hope I can realize my full potential. To acquire things the old Lilith never had."
Carla: "Like a body temperature?"
Diane: "Oh no. The thing I feared most has happened."
Carla: "What? Your Living Bra died of boredom?"
Woody: 'Hi ma'am."
Carla: "Ma'am? What's that supposed to mean?"
Woody: "I believe it's a term of respect."
Carla: "No wonder it sounded so weird."
Lilith : "We've been examining our lives and discovered some frightening things."
Carla : "You finally found Diane walled up in Frasier's crawlspace?"
René Descartes
Born: March 311596
I think; therefore I am.
Rene Descartes
Except our own thoughtsthere is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes
An optimist may see a light where there is nonebut why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Rene Descartes
Whenever anyone has offended meI try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Rene Descartes
*** BONUS QUOTE***
If you would be a real seeker after truthit is necessary that at least once in your life you doubtas far as possibleall things.
Rene Descartes
If you only have a hammeryou tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow
Born: April 11908
What is a highbrow? He is a man who has found something more interesting than women.
Edgar Wallace
Born: April 11875
***BONUS QUOTE***
A kisswhen all is toldwhat is it? An oath taken a little closera promise more exact. A wish that longs to be confirmeda rosy circle drawn around the verb 'to love'. A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the eara moment of infinity humming like a beea communion tasting of flowersa way of breathing in a little of the heart and tasting a little of the soul with the edge of the lips!
Edmond Rostand
Born: April 11868
Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
Camille Paglia
Born: April 21947
Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
Camille Paglia
***bonus quote***
What I would like to leave behind is a simple prayer that each of you may find what I have found—God’s special gift to us all: the gift of peace. When we are at peacewe find the freedom to be most fully who we areeven in the worst of times. We let go of what is nonessential and embrace what is essential. We empty ourselves so that God may more fully work within us. And we become instruments in the hands of the Lord.
Joseph Bernardin
Born: April 21928
Happy 61st birthday to David Hyde Piercewho plays Dr. Niles Crane on one of my favorite shows: Frasier
Some funny quotes from the show:
"I've always liked the notion of meeting the great figures of history. But then I think: what if it's like high school and all the really cool dead people don't want to hang out with me? Mozart'll tell me he's busy but then later I'll see him out with Shakespeare and Lincoln!"
— Niles Crane (David Hyde Pierce)
"I really must go. I'm hosting a seminar on multiple personality disorders and it takes me forever to fill out the name tags."
— Niles Crane (David Hyde Pierce)
"Wellno wonder you're heartbroken; you've just lost the only woman you could even possibly sometime down the line perhaps fall in love with. I'm surprised the country music people haven't jumped all over this one!"
— Niles Crane (David Hyde Pierce)
Niles: You don't realize how desperate I am. Ever since our separationI've been paying women to touch me.
Frasier: OhNiles.
Niles: Manicuristspedicuristsfacialists. Whenever you see a man who's well-groomedyou can bet he's not gettin' any.
— Dr. Niles Crane (David Hyde Pierce)
In conversationhumor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
George Herbert
Born: April 31593
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
George Herbert
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
Born: April 31783
They who drink beer will think beer.
Washington Irving
"Love is missing someone when you’re apartbut somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in the heart."
~Kay Knudsen
I have learned to live each day as it comesand not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.
Dorothea Dix
Born: April 41802
Be of good cheerfor sadness cannot heal the national wounds.
Dorothea Dix
Every evil has its goodand every ill an antidote.
Dorothea Dix
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
Chester Bowles
Born: April 51901
Happy Palm Sunday
They took Palm branches and went out to meet himshouting ‘Hosanna’.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.. Blessed is the King of Israel.
John 12.13
You ask me whether I am in good spirits. How could I not be so? As long as Faith gives me strength I will always be joyful. Sadness ought to be banished from Catholic souls... the purpose for which we have been created shows us the path; even if strewn with many thornsit is not a sad path. It is joyful even in the face of sorrow.
Pier Giorgio Frassati
Born: April 61901
“Suffering that is nourished by the flame of faith becomes something beautifulbecause it tempers the soul to deal with suffering.”
Pier Giorgio Frassati
Awakethou wintry earth -
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowerslaugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
~Thomas Blackburn"An Easter Hymn"
In springtimelove is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head.
~Emma Racine deFleur
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
David Frost
Born: April 71939
Love that stammersthat stuttersis apt to be the love that loves best.
Gabriela Mistral
Born: April 71889
Long open panegyric drags at bestAnd praise is only praise when well address'd.
Phineas Fletcher
Born: April 81582
In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pacewe are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.
Harvey Cushing
Born: April 81869
No one recovers from the disease of being borna deadly wound if there ever was one.
Emil Cioran
Born: April 81911
I Used To Believe In ReincarnationBut That Was In a Past Life.
Paul Krassner
Born: April 91932
There is indeed a business like show business. It's the news.
Paul Krassner
English is my second language. Laughter is my first.
Paul Krassner
Since I was both an atheist and an absurdistI had decided that the most absurd thing I could do would be to develop an intimate relationship with the God I didn't believe in.
Paul Krassner
“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be betterwe can bear a hardship today.”
~Thich Nhat Hanh
“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.”
~Leroy Satchel Paige
You must pray with all your might. That does not mean saying your prayersor sitting gazing about in church or chapel with eyes wide open while someone else says them for you. It means ferventeffectualuntiring wrestling with God. This kind of prayer be sure the devil and the world and your own indolentunbelieving nature will oppose. They will pour water on this flame.
William Booth
Born: April 101829
The tendency of fire is to go out; watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a fireplace fire knows that it needs to be stirred up occasionally.
William Booth
***bonus quote***
A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is.
Jack Miner --- Born: April 101865
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for workdriving through traffic in a car that you are still paying forin order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothescar and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.
Ellen Goodman
Born: April 111948
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
Ellen Goodman
***bonus quote***
For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the lily. For the flowers have great virtues for all senses. For the flower glorifies God and the root parries the adversary. For the flowers have their angels even the words of God's creation. For there is a language of flowers. For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
Christopher Smart---Born: April 111722
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the lightand winter in the shade. ~Charles DickensGreat Expectations
The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie workdisciplinesacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the workaccept the disciplineand make the sacrifice.
~Henry Knox Sherrill
Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely“Christ is risen,” but “I shall rise.”
~Phillips Brooks
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rulesit ceases to be a religionas it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
B. R. Ambedkar
Born: April 141891
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the oceanman does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alonebut for the development of his self.
B. R. Ambedkar
***bonus quote***
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Born: April 141889
“Flowers always make people betterhappier and more helpful; they are sunshinefood and medicine to the soul.”
~ Luther Burbank
Thomas Szasz
Born: April 151920
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one findsit is something one creates.
Thomas Szasz
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz
***BONUS QUOTE***
Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
Thomas Szasz
“When I dieI want to die like my grandfatherwho died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.”
~Will Rogers
I am one of those people who can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth.
Polly Adler
Born: April 161900
Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everythingbut the core of the medical approach is that you try to identify pathologieswhich are subsystems within the human body or the larger system that are having undesirable consequences.
Guy Burgess
Born: April 161911
hahhah two funnies in a row thanks SueR
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whitherbut just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Thornton Wilder
Born: April 171897
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
Thornton Wilder
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Thornton Wilder
“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”
-Sigmund Freud
I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret.
George Colman the Elder
Born: April 18,1732
Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so far short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is not a lie; it is a disappointment. But it can be a disappointment only because it is also a hope.
Samuel P. Huntington
Born: April 181927
Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights.
Samuel P. Huntington
A commentary on the times is that the word 'honesty' is now preceded by 'old-fashioned.'
Lawn Chair Larry Walters
Born: April 191949
A man can't just sit around.
Larry Walters
"Ohh yes... they float Georgie... they float... and when you're down herewith me... YOU'LL FLOAT TOO!"
~ Pennywise
Apart from the crossthere is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.
Rose of Lima
Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.
Rose of Lima
Born: April 201586
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Charlotte Bronte
Born: April 211816
I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.
Iggy Pop
Born: April 211947
Death is like an arrow that is already in flightand your life lasts only until it reaches you.
Georg Hermes
Born: April 221775
Tonight I saw myself in the dark window as the image of my fatherwhose life was spent like thisthinking of deathto the exclusion of other sensual mattersso in the end that life was easy to give upsince it contained nothing: even my mother's voice couldn't make him change or turn back as he believed that once you can't love another human being you have no place in the world.
Louise Gluck
Born: April 221943
***bonus quote***
Let each man think himself an act of GodHis mind a thoughthis life a breath of God; And let each tryby great thoughts and good deedsTo show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
Philip James Bailey
Born: April 221816
"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." ~Kahlil Gibran
"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—airmountainstreespeople. I thought'This is what it is to be happy.'" ~Sylvia Plath
"I believe in Godonly I spell it Nature." ~Frank Lloyd Wright
“When Congress talks of tax reformgrab your wallet and run for cover.”
-- Steve Symms
Born: April 231938
When I dieI want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?
J. P. Donleavy
Born: April 231926
Whether you like { UNEXPECTED JOHN CENA ♪♫♪ ♪♫♪} or you don'tI still dig showing up for work.
John Cena
Born: April 231977
“We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficultiesno more than at a passing breezebecause with a little patience we shall see them disappear. Time changes everything.”
-- Vincent de Paul
Born: April 241581
“Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.”
-- Vincent de Paul
***bonus quote***
I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drugor the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.
Robert Penn Warren
Born: April 241905
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
Edward R. Murrow
Born: April 251908
Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
Oliver Cromwell
Born: April 251599
“Love is like a pineapple. Sweet and undefinable.” ~Piet Hein
“I can’t wait to get off the stagebecause I’ve got some LifeSavers in my pocket and pineapple is next!” ~Mitch Hedberg
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/5b8s51/instant-oatmeal
I have often noticed that spoiledpetted childrenusually have very little love for their parentsor indeed for any one but themselves.
Martha Finley
Born: April 261828
Good husbands make good wives.
Martha Finley
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Herbert Spencer
Born: April 271820
Love is life's endbut never ending. Love is life's wealthnever spentbut ever spending. Love's life's rewardrewarded in rewarding.
Herbert Spencer
Nice CBGB :)
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Jay Leno turns 70!
"Anybody who gives their car to a valet isn't a car guy." ~Jay Leno
I'll take Jay's Polestar Volvo C30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT9FwBsMD3Y
Terry Pratchett
Born: April 281948
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Terry Pratchett
Five exclamation marksthe sure sign of an insane mind.
Terry Pratchett
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travelsit finds the darkness has always got there firstand is waiting for it.
Terry Pratchett
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I meanall you could do is give them a meaningful look.
Terry Pratchett
***bonus quote***
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
Terry Pratchett
Wownice car! Swedish Racing Green. Haha
You know I'm lovin' the black rims! ;)
Jay's quote spoke to me because as you knowNOBODY drives my baby except the limited two. :)
May your hand be full for always if only with another hand. May your heart be empty only long enough to give you cause to fill it up again with love. May your soul be lost by you only to be found by God.
Rod McKuen
Born: April 291933
Cats have it all - admirationan endless sleepand company only when they want it.
Rod McKuen
The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.
David Icke
Born: April 291952
CBGB and Sue R
I'll take mine in a medium dark metallic blueor the racing green. I love how their is like a modern version of a wider P1800ESthe wagon version of the P1800. That made it top the rest of the Ford C1 platform carswith the Mazda 3 and Ford Focus coming in 2nd & 3rd respectively (and none of the others really close). Since I couldn't find a C30 when I was in the market recentlyI settled for a Mazda 3though it's not a Mazdaspeed 3. (dreams of the Polestar though still).
Like Sue Rnobody but me and select techsever drive my baby!
Polestars are made at a very problematic plant in Belgium. Might be fun to drivehorrible reliability.
Instead I'll take the second one in the picture SueR posted. It looks like the Brammo made Ariel Atom. They went back and forth about being street legal. I never met him in person but corresponded a bunch advising Craig Bramscher (Brammo) about software. Brammo was building Atom's in the US under license from Ariel.
GC
I'd probably rather have a C30 built by this guythough the power is less:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYiuuD3MsMM&t=618s
Of course I'd love an original P1800ES and a number of others. It's better that I don't thoughtoo much temptation and jail or death awaits giving inthough it was always fun watching the "buzz box ricers" pass me on the flats of Rt. 280 through Newark & East Orange and then watch their faces as the 5.0 Capri blew by them going uphill just moments later ;-)
Human rights commissionsas they are evolvingare an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.
Stephen Harper
Born: April 301959
***bonus quote***
“Nothing ever tasted any better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to but more of the same.”
― Hugh Hood
Born: April 301928
"As I hurtled through spaceone thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder."
~John Glenn
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Joseph Addison
Born: May 11672
What sunshine is to flowerssmiles are to humanity. These are but triflesto be sure; but scattered along life's pathwaythe good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison
***bonus quote***
“The bigger a man's gun the smaller his doodlewick.”
-- Calamity Jane
Born: May 11852
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
Novalis
Born: May 21772
Once we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experienceswe can enjoy the best things in life.
Jerome K. Jerome
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Jerome K. Jerome
Born: May 21859
"Integrity is telling myself the truth," "And..Honesty is telling the truth to other people.": Spencer Johnson
I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaosit creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
Septima Poinsette Clark
The air has finally gotten to the place that we can breathe it together.
Septima Poinsette Clark
Born: May 31898
***bonus perfect for today quote**I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.
Dodie Smith
Born: May 31896
"Las armas nacionales se han cubierto de gloria"
("The national arms have been covered with glory")
~Ignacio Zaragoza
"Tacos and margaritas for me tonight!" :)
~SueR
“Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.”
- Francis Cardinal Spellman
Born: May 41889
Deep within the self is the Light of God. It radiates throughout
the expanse of His creation. Through the Guru's teachingsthe
darkness of spiritual ignorance is dispelled. The heart lotus flower
blooms forth and eternal peace is obtainedas one's light merges
into the Supreme Light.
Guru Amar Das
Born: May 51479
Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
- Giani Zail Singh
Born: May 51916
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Sigmund Freud
Born: May 61856
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - naycannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
Sigmund Freud
"Music gives a soul to the universewings to the mindflight to the imaginationand life to everything." - Plato
tootyflutey Lovehopefearfaith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
Robert Browning
Born: May 71812
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
Archibald MacLeish
Born: May 71892
“Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.”
-- Fulton J. Sheen
Born: May 81895
“Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desiresconverting luxuries into necessitiesbut it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfyand thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.”
-- Fulton J. Sheen
“Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrongeven if everybody is wrong. Right is righteven if nobody is right.”
-- Fulton J. Sheen
“Modern prophets say that our economics have failed us. No! It is not our economics which have failed; it is man who has failed-man who has forgotten God. Hence no manner of economic or political readjustment can possibly save our civilization; we can be saved only by a renovation of the inner manonly by a purging of our hearts and souls; for only by seeking first the Kingdom of God and His Justice will all these other things be added unto us.”
-- Fulton J. Sheen
***bonus quote***
"All work and no play make CBGB a dull boyAll play and no work make CBGB a dummy"
PBM
Born: May 81930
CBGB
I needed to do a double take on Archibald MacLeish. At first I thought you may have meant Archibald Leachbut then I realized the name was different and A.L was born in 1904. May want to save the name for Jan. 18th to mess with people a bit. You knowkind of like quoting Marion Michael Morrison;-)
nice Phil D.
my birthday quotes are days away from being a full year long. no decision on year two
Every giftthough it be smallis in reality great if given with affection.
John Wolcot
Born: May 91738
Wherever you find real loveyou will also find humility. Remember something: humility is not a weak and timid quality. Too often we feel that humility is a sign of weakness. This is not so. It is the sign of strength and security.
Kathryn Kuhlman
Born: May 91907
When Jesus died on the cross and cried out'It is finished!' He not only died for our sinsbut for our diseases too.
Kathryn Kuhlman
The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.
Ariel Durant
Born: May 101898
Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can’t laugh and be angryyou can’t laugh and feel sadyou can’t laugh and feel envious.
Bel Kaufman
Born: May 101911
Every time you give a parent a sense of success or of empowermentyou're offering it to the baby indirectly. Because every time a parent looks at that baby and says 'Ohyou're so wonderful,' that baby just bursts with feeling good about themselves.
T. Berry Brazelton
Born: May 101918
***bonus Mother's Day quote***
Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.
Born: May 101947
Caroline B. Cooney
"The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes"
~Marilyn Monroe
Washington couldn't tell a lieNixon couldn't tell the truthand Reagan couldn't tell the difference.
Mort Sahl
Born: May 111927
“Oh whereoh where ish mine little dog gone; Oh whereoh where can he be... His ears cut short and his tail cut long: Oh whereoh where ish he.”
- Septimus Winner
Born: May 111827
Sad to hear about the passing of comedian Jerry Stiller. He lived a long lifeto the age of 92!
"During the Great Depressionwhen people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one."
~Jerry Stiller
Loved him on both of these shows....
As Frank Costanza on Seinfeld: “SERENITY NOW!”
“FESTIVUS FOR THE REST OF US!”
As Arthur Spooner on King of Queens:
https://youtu.be/I7Suwcw-uE4
All I want for my birthday is another birthday.
Ian Dury
Born: May 121942
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Florence Nightingale
Born: May 121820
George Carlin
May 121937- June 222008
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiotand anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
Fear of germs:
https://youtu.be/-Y-yH_Qyipc
Today is the DAY. One full year of Birthday Quotes. I started doing Birthday Quotes May 14 last year. Not sure about Year 2
anywee on to today's Birthday Quotes
“Those who looked death bravely in the eye were usually not chosen.”
― Witold Pilecki
Born: May 131901
To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.
Jim Jones
Born: May 131931
I'd like to choose my own kind of deathfor a change. I'm tired of being tormented to hell. Tired of it. If we can't live in peacethen let's die in peace.
Jim Jones
Born: May 131931
"Be Bold"...if you are going to make a errormake it a doozie." "and don't be afraid to hit the ball": Billie Jean King
A father's interest in having a child--perhaps his only child--may be unmatched by any other interest in his life. It is truly surprising that the state must assign a greater value to a mother's decision to cut off a potential human life by abortion than to a father's decision to let it mature into a live child.
William Rehnquist,Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
Born: October 11924
Only in the irrational and unknown direction can we come to wisdom again
Jack ParsonsAmerican rocket engineerchemistand Thelemite occultist.
Born: October 21914
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War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substituteone of the most dangerous being nationalism.
Robert Runcie British Anglican bishop
Born: October 21921
What troubles me is not that movie stars run for officebut that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionairestoo.
Shana AlexanderAmerican journalist
Born: October 61925
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Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.
Ulrike Meinhof West German far-left militant
Born: October 71934
“While you live
Drink!—foronce deadyou never shall return.”
EDWARD FITZGERALDEnglish poet
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating itpeople will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the politicaleconomic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissentfor the truth is the mortal enemy of the lieand thus by extensionthe truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Joseph Goebbels
Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.
Ayaan Hirsi AliSomali-born Dutch-American activistfeministauthorscholar
Born: November 131969
Within every man and woman is a force that directs and controls the entire course of life. Properly usedit can heal every affliction and ailment we may have.
Israel RegardieEnglish occultistceremonial magicianand writer
Born: November 171907
"Listen to the science has become the rallying cry of the most irrational anecdot driven fact-free believers in voodoo I have encountered in my lifetime."
Thomas E. Woods Jr.
“I read the news todayoh boy.....”
Lennon/McCartney
And that ain’t no anecdote.
Concerning President v. Boockvar:
“this claimlike Frankenstein’s Monsterhas been haphazardly stitched together from two distinct theories in an attempt to avoid controlling precedent.”
Judge Matthew Brann
The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants.
Poul AndersonAmerican science fiction author
Born: November 251926
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Let us settle down to the serious business of getting drunk.
Poul Anderson
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Ansel Adams
Artemas WardAmerican major general in the American Revolutionary War and a Congressman from Massachusetts.
Born: November 261727
Trouble will come soon enoughand when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible. The more amiably you greet himthe sooner he will go away.
Artemas Ward
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I can't sing. As a singist I am not a success. I am saddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are sadder even than I am.
Artemas Ward
All the lessons of history in four sentences:
Whom the gods would destroythey first make mad with power.
The mills of God grind slowlybut they grind exceedingly small.
The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.
When it is dark enoughyou can see the stars.
Charles A. BeardAmerican historian
Born: November 271874
Stefan ZweigAustrian novelistplaywrightjournalist and biographer.
Born: November 281881
Time to leave nowget out of this roomgo somewhereanywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedomstretch your limbsfill your eyesbe awakewider awakevividly awake in every sense and every pore.
Stefan Zweig
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It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.
Stefan Zweig
"Satisfaction lies in the effortnot in the attainment; full effort is full victory.": Mohandas Gandhi
"Ohit's not the kill
It's the thrill of the chase"
joyful's Mohandas K. Gandhi quoteas partially restated by Deep Purple in their song "Knocking At Your Back Door".
Now I'll have to replay the song after the Friday Funk hours are overLOL
Different viral species contain nucleic acids that differ not only in length and nucleotide sequence but in many unexpected ways as well.
Alfred HersheyAmerican bacteriologist
Born: December 41908
“It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible — incompletely and minimally existentin fact. It seemed to me that I made no impact on the worldand that in exchange I was privileged to watch it unawares.”
Marilynne Robinson
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
Willa CatherAmerican writer
Born: December 71873
"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict."
Martin Luther King
Religions change; beer and wine remain.
Hervey AllenAmerican educatorpoetand author.
Born: December 81889
Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that sciencewith newingenious devices and techniquescan rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.
Henry Way KendallAmerican physicist
Born: December 91926
"May your walls know joymay every room hold laughterand every window open to great possibility": Mary Anne Radmacher
I do not want a government that will take care of meI want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
Woodrow Wilson28th U.S. President
Born: December 281856
There is a cult of ignorance in the United Statesand there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural lifenurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Isaac AsimovAmerican writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.
Born: January 21920
"There is nothing for us to rework. We are going to have to build everything from scratch,"
"Wowjust further affirmation of complete incompetence."
1/21/21. Anonymous source saidubiquitously
"I do not want a government that will take care of meI want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself."
Woodrow Wilson28th U.S. President
"Don't hold your breath."
Me.
Francis Baconalso known as Lord VerulamEnglish philosopher and statesman
Born: January 221561
The remedy is worse than the disease.
Francis Bacon
It is natural to die as to be born.
Francis Bacon
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Martin Luther King.
"observe due measure; moderation is best in all things"
Greek poet Hesiodabout 700 bc
Not always.
Gertrude "Trudy" Belle ElionAmerican biochemist and pharmacologist
Born: January 231918
Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't.
Gertrude B. Elion
People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your lifeand I say that would be crazy. Nobody would aim for a Nobel Prize becauseif you didn't get ityour whole life would be wasted. What we were aiming at was getting people welland the satisfaction of that is much greater than any prize you can get.
Gertrude B. Elion
That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.
Gertrude B. Elion
"There comes a time when silence is betrayal."
Martin Luther King
That goes for enablers too.
"Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase."
Martin Luther King
William CongreveEnglish playwright and poet of the Restoration period
Born: January 241670
Never go to bed angrystay up and fight.
William Congreve
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve
He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
William Congreve
I know that's a secretfor it's whispered everywhere.
William Congreve
I find we are growing seriousand then we are in great danger of being dull.
William Congreve
"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."
Martin Luther King
I bought me an illusion
An I put it on the wall
I let it fill my head with dreams
And I had to have them all
‘91GnR
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Lewis B. Smedes
Keep your librariesyour penal institutionsyour insaneasylums... give me beer.You think man needs rulehe needs beer. The world does not need moralsit needs beer... The souls of men have been fed with indigestiblesbut the soul could make use of beer.
Henry Miller
JimT 
Fred If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heartand into the familyit is to live within our means. And if there is any one thing that is grinding and discouraging and dishearteningit is to have debts and obligations that one cannot meet.
Heber J. Grantseventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Born: November 221856
“Thirstily he set it to his lipsand as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throathe thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale.”
― Rafael Sabatini
A question is just a statement that tells me what you're really thinking.
Susan Atkins aka Sadie Manson
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