Finding Solace in Favourite Quotes: Escaping Despair with Words of Wisdom

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Schrödinger's Dog said:
We've gone to war for less than that.

Yeah, we noticed! :smile:
 
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Clinging to anger is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to die - Mitch Albom
 
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill


In the case of George Bush, success is going from failure to failure while being totally oblivious.
 
Astronuc said:
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill


In the case of George Bush, success is going from failure to failure while being totally oblivious.

Well that's quotable in itself. :biggrin:
 
Concerning the US Presidential Election of 2008 -

The American electorate is faced with a trio running for office whose ability to self-destruct would be the envy of kamikaze pilots. - Bonnie Erbe, US News & World Report
 
I started to realize that green jobs means blue jobs. Green technologies need welders, pipefitters, plumbers...

-- former steel worker living in the rust belt.
 
Sad that I haven't seen any Groucho Marx!

"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."

"Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife. "

"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members. "

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. "

-Groucho Marx
 
Sometimes silence is golden, and sometimes it is just yellow. - a local church sign.
 
Eleanor Clift: Rupert Murdoch predicts a landslide this November.

Pat Buchanan: When was the last time that you quoted Rupert Murdoch?
 
Money can't buy life. ~ Bob Marley spoken on his death bed to his son (Ziggy I think)
 
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." - Thomas Jefferson, 1823.
 
This is a five-hundred year flood plain. This isn't supposed to happen
- reporter standing in the flood waters in Iowa.

Technically, I think they have floods on 500 year flood plains about, oh, every 500 years?

We live just above a 500 year flood plain, and we have seen two floods in twenty years. My how time passes!
 
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Note quite a quote, but worthy of mention:

There was shock and awe when it was discovered that FEMA recently gave away to other groups, $85 million in supplies intended for Katrina victims, when there was still a great need for the supplies! As CNN was running this story, they were showing some of the supplies. One of the items shown was a fire extinguisher.

Okay, it is perfectly reasonable, but the notion of handing out fire extinguishers to flood victims is too funny!
 
Here are three things to remember about old age:

Never pass up a bathroom
Never waste a hard-on
Never trust a fart

Jack Nicholson - The Bucket List
 
" To dance as if nobody is watching you,
To love as if nobody has hurt you"
 
We didn't think Dick would turn out this way
-Friends of Dick Cheney in Wyoming [according to the governer.]
 
'Walk softly but carry a big stick.' What does it mean?
 
WardenOfTheMint said:
'Walk softly but carry a big stick.' What does it mean?

It is actually to "Speak softly", and it refers to Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy. It means ~ to act with caution and reserve, but be prepared to use extreme [military] force.
 
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I haven't read through this thread to see if this has been mentioned before. Wilde is astoundingly quotable in my world.

Either that wallpaper goes or I do.

Oscar Wilde, dying in a Paris bedroom
 
September said:
" To dance as if nobody is watching you,
To love as if nobody has hurt you"

I remember this, and I liked it, but I can't remember where it's from.
 
http://forum.quoteland.com/1/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=586192041&f=099191541&m=8391955302

It seems there is a lot of discussion on it's origins. Interesting. And now that I think about it I may have heard it in "The Fountain" but I'm still unsure.
 
I hate a song that makes you think that you're not any good. ... Songs that run you down or songs that poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or your hard traveling. I am out to fight those kinds of songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood.
Woodie Gurthrie

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2008/07/14
 
The US consumes about 10,000 gallons of [crude] oil per second. - CNN report.
 
An acrostic poem by Lewis Carroll...

A BOAT beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July

Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Pleased a simple tale to hear

Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die:
Autumn frosts have slain July.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.

Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.

In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:

Ever drifting down the stream
Lingering in the golden dream
Life, what is it but a dream?

It was believed Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland was inspired by a girl name Alice Pleasance Liddell. If you take the first letter of every line to form words, it makes her name exactly. Though this poem was not a part of Alice in Wonderland. It was found at the end of Through the Looking-Glass... Never a doubt in my mind that Lewis Carroll was one of the best poets of all time.
 

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