the "Quote of the Week" thread....

[Old Mud]

"If more people were more thankful for what they have, instead of mournful for what they have not, much good would come to the world. Pessimism feeds on itself. So does optimism."

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

 

[wader]

 

[Old Mud]

 

[Old Mud]

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on".-

--Winston Churchill

 

[Old Mud]

"Likening active traders to investors is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic."

~ Warren Buffet

 

[Old Mud]

It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.

-Ernest Hemingway

 

[Old Mud]

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman "Where is the Self Help Section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat
the purpose.​

George Carlin​

 

[Old Mud]

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."

~ Dalai Lama

 

[Old Mud]

“Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful if it happens in that order.”

~ David Gerrold

 

[Avenger]

“Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful if it happens in that order.”

~ David Gerrold

And THAT is the trouble with Tribbles. They eat all the food, then they're the food.

 

[Old Mud]

“If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.”

— Naval Ravikant

 

[Old Mud]

"The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love".

William Wordsworth

 

[Roccus7]

The effect of satire is to make us laugh with horror.

Phillip Toynbee, literary critic for the London Observer from his 1961 review of John Heller's CATCH-22.

I just reread CATCH-22 for the first time since HS. My reaction was the same as >50 years ago, one of the best books by a 20th Century American author. Additionally, my long-standing recommendation to my European colleagues to read this book when they ask how to best understand Americans still stands...

 

[Old Mud]

"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."

~ Ralph Abernathy

 

[wader]

"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."

~ Ralph Abernathy

and it appears to be sinking.....................

 

[Old Mud]

and it appears to be sinking.....................

Well that deserves a

 

[Old Mud]

"Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem."

~ Thomas Jefferson

(I prefer dangerous freedom to peaceful slavery.)

 

[Old Mud]

Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

 

[Old Mud]

“The reason they want you to fit in is that once you do, then they can ignore you.”

— Seth Godin

 

[Old Mud]

" A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car"