Your Quote of the Day

[sordi88]

"for the gory satisfaction
of telling you how absolutely awful you really are"

Jethro Tull - A Passion Play (1973)

[pockets]

“Most people learn nothing from experience except confirmation of their own prejudices.”

― Bertrand Russell

[Wallingford]

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”

— Mark Twain

[emale]

“I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.”

[Tallifer]

Originally Posted by emale

“I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.”

I posted that here a year or two back in this thread but the really powerful bit of that quote is that it's from a ROMAN source (can't recall who at the moment will add it later) . 2000 years go by and we are all dealing with the same old sh!t

[emale]

Originally Posted by Tallifer

I posted that here a year or two back in this thread but the really powerful bit of that quote is that it's from a ROMAN source (can't recall who at the moment will add it later) . 2000 years go by and we are all dealing with the same old sh!t

It has been attributed to the Roman author Gaius Petronius Arbiter. However, no writings have ever been found by him containing the quote or the concepts it embodies. It appears to have first appeared in print around 1940 with no attributions to authorship

[Tallifer]

"We are all black underground"

- various.

Welsh miners saying against racism but common among most mining communities

[Wallingford]

Originally Posted by Tallifer

"We are all black underground"

- various.

Welsh miners saying against racism but common among most mining communities

One day in a nuclear age they may understand our rage, they build machines that they can't control, and bury the waste a great big hole, power was to become cheap and clean, grimy faces were never seen, deadly for 12,000 years is carbon 14 . . . .

[ghost2509]

" Let us try to recognize the precious nature of each day"

~ The Dalai Lama

[War...]

"Don't run. You'll just die tired."

- Boba Fett