Quote of the day

[Handley_Page]

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1

 

[russellvilleman]

- "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."


- Mother Teresa

 

[TE999]

"Men do not differ much about the things they will call evils; they differ enormously about which evils they will call excusable."

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

 

[trysail]

"To be kind does not commend you to kings. They see it, as they see any flow of feeling, as a liberty. A blind eye will serve you better."

-Fitzroy
The Madness of King George
Screenplay by Alan Bennett​

 

[Darkniciad]

Is barking up the wrong tree really that much worse than barking up the correct tree? They both seem like a huge waste of time to me. ~ Weird Al Yankovich

 

[Handley_Page]

Don't worry about avoiding temptation... as you grow older, it will avoid you. ~
Winston Churchill

 

[Mandy57]

Look and you will find it ~ what is unsought will go undetected.

~ Sophocles​

 

[russellvilleman]

- "I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years."

- Warren Zevon

 

[Stella_Omega]

A woman learning feminist theory "on the street" is like a pig learning porcinity in the pens at Hormel.

-Stella Omega

 

[russellvilleman]

- "You don't stop this fight. No matter what.........no...matter...what."

- "Apollo Creed" - awaiting his final round - "Rocky IV"

 

[TE999]

"In matters of style, swim with the current;

In matters of principle, stand like a rock."

Thomas Jefferson.

 

[russellvilleman]

A day tardy on the fifteenth anniversary of the death of Tupac Shakur...

Afeni Shakur only wanted to sit with her unconscious son and pray. "Let me tell you what I did," she said. "I sat there and read The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran." It says, 'Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.'

 

[TE999]

"There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over."

Jack Bergman

 

[TE999]

"Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance."

J. Donald Walters.

 

[russellvilleman]

- "Nothing can hurt us now. What we have can't be destroyed. This is our victory. Our victory over the dark."

- Bette Davis - "Dark Victory"

 

[TE999]

"Were we to be directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread."

Thomas Jefferson.

 

[russellvilleman]

- "Come father. Let us embrace at last."

- "Mordred" - "Excalibur"

 

[TE999]

"Nostalgia is the realization that things weren't as unbearable as they seemed at the time."

Anon.

 

[mynameisben]

"Even if she's naked, always let the Avon lady in." - Moi

 

[russellvilleman]

- [after Dorothy strips on the bed] "So you're gonna do me a big favor, huh? Ok, that's me - a charity case."

- Eric Roberts - "Star 80"

 

[TE999]

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."

Thomas Jefferson

 

[russellvilleman]

- "My momma used to love me, but she died."

- "Hud" - "Hud"

 

[Handley_Page]

"Life is like a box of chocolates"
Forrest Gump.

 

[mynameisben]

"It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings"

- A box of chocolates

 

[TE999]

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

Thomas Jefferson.