Quotes I like

"I've written some poetry I don't understand myself." - Carl Sandburg
"I came not, friends, to steal away your hearts..." - The Microsoft Hearts Network, Help, Quote... (or - Julius Caesar, Act III, scene II)
And the one in my signature

Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing, there's a field.I'll meet you there- Rumi

(after being told by a woman he was drunk)
Madam, I may be drunk, but in the morning I shall be sober and you shall still be ugly.

(after being told that a woman would drive 300 miles for the unveiling of his bust (head statue))
Madam, I would gladly return that honor.

(after being told that if he were a lady's husband, she would poison his tea)
If I were your husband I would gladly drink it.

~Winston Churchill

this is slightly different than one I've heard before, but here goes...

While visiting America one year, Winston Churchill attended a buffet luncheon at which cold fried chicken was among the dishes served. Churchill, delighted, returned for a second helping. "May I have some breast?" he politely asked. "Mr. Churchill," his hostess replied, "in this country we ask for white meat or dark meat." Churchill apologized profusely and, the following morning, sent the woman a magnificent orchid with an accompanying note. "I would be most obliged," it read, "if you would pin this on your white meat."

Churchill was a great comedian. Witty guy. Thanks for those quotes.

No problem, Oscar Wilde had some pretty good ones too.

(upon being asked by US customs if he had anything to declare)
"I have nothing to declare except my genius"

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes"

"Life is too important to be taken seriously"

What I want on my headstone...

And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

Soren Kierkegaard, "The Sickness Unto Death"

I think it the field of unity, equality or One. Just is absolute.
Einstein should have asked Rumi for direction to UFT.
Thanks for the quote!

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MJA