Author Topic: Quote for the Day (Read 90473 times)

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #275 on:** March 02, 2020, 09:58:56 AM »

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Tom Wolfe

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #276 on:** March 03, 2020, 09:30:21 AM »

My God, must I always wear a low-cut dress to be important?

Jean Harlow

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #277 on:** March 04, 2020, 08:17:02 AM »

Now I am an old hag, I get to play much more interesting characters.

Joan Greenwood

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #278 on:** March 05, 2020, 07:01:18 AM »

The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.

Michael Sandel

Samuel · « **Reply #279 on:** March 05, 2020, 01:12:09 PM »

"Ever since man first left his cave and met a stranger with a different language and a new way of looking at things, the human race has had a dream: to kill him, so we don't have to learn his language or his new way of looking at things."

Zapp Brannigan

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #280 on:** March 06, 2020, 10:34:22 AM »

Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #281 on:** March 06, 2020, 01:30:02 PM »

“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” - Howard Zinn

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #282 on:** March 07, 2020, 08:18:35 AM »

Insanity is a very high art form. If everyone was insane, I wouldn't be here!

Rik Mayall

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #283 on:** March 08, 2020, 09:01:35 AM »

Well behaved women rarely make history

Eleanor Roosevelt

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #284 on:** March 09, 2020, 06:44:04 AM »

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people, have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

William Cobbett

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #285 on:** March 09, 2020, 03:56:21 PM »

If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

Max von Sydow

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #286 on:** March 10, 2020, 07:15:32 AM »

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

Clare Boothe Luce

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #287 on:** March 11, 2020, 06:17:22 AM »

Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.

Torquato Tasso

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #288 on:** March 12, 2020, 06:01:06 AM »

All of life is a foreign country.

Jack Kerouac

Samuel · « **Reply #289 on:** March 12, 2020, 02:27:34 PM »

why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

James Thurber

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #290 on:** March 13, 2020, 07:23:43 AM »

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

Charles Krauthammer

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #291 on:** March 14, 2020, 09:38:43 AM »

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

Diane Arbus

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #292 on:** March 15, 2020, 02:37:25 PM »

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #293 on:** March 16, 2020, 06:58:55 AM »

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Maxim Gorky

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #294 on:** March 17, 2020, 08:00:46 AM »

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

William Gibson

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #295 on:** March 18, 2020, 08:40:38 AM »

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
Manly Hall

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #296 on:** March 18, 2020, 01:35:09 PM »

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.

A.A. Milne

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #297 on:** March 19, 2020, 01:09:05 PM »

People are dying who have never died before

Donald Trump

18/03/20

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #298 on:** March 19, 2020, 01:10:31 PM »

Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.

Tommy Cooper

Robbie · « **Reply #299 on:** March 19, 2020, 01:12:18 PM »

Quote from: Nearly Sane on March 19, 2020, 01:09:05 PM

People are dying who have never died before

Donald Trump

18/03/20

You couldn't make it up could you.

I said that.

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