Your Quote of the Day

That not naivete, Merry, that's reality. The US has only been attacked because of its long history of terrorist actions/war crimes against other countries. There is no other reason, not a one.

What country is going to attack the USA? The notion is completely absurd, but sadly, we must note that it is enough, has always been enough to trick you idiots into supporting invasions of the most dangerous countries on the planet - Nicaragua, Guatemala, Cuba, the Philippines, Angola, Laos, Cambodia, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Panama, Ecuador, ... .

This is a discussion forum, Mismi. You wouldn't be trying to steer the discussion away from US war crimes and US terrorism, would you?

A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.'
Tommy Cooper

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."
Plutarch

Direct observation of the testimony of the earth ... is a matter of the laboratory, of the field naturalist, of indefatigable digging among the ancient archives of the earth's history. If Mr. Bryan, with an open heart and mind, would drop all his books and all the disputations among the doctors and study first hand the simple archives of Nature, all his doubts would disappear; he would not lose his religion; he would become an evolutionist.
— Henry Fairfield Osborn

But that would be the position of an alien studying the earth from a position beyond human life.

"What foods ye morsels be."
Mad Magazine

"How would you like a job where when you made a mistake a big red light goes on and eighteen thousand people boo?"
Hockey player Jacques Plante

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.

The last line of An American Dream.

“The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

principles be damned ... ... ...
anon.

“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”
― Charles Dickens

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."
The Dalai Lama

“Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.”
― Grover Cleveland

“Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
Jane Austen

[Always bearing in mind that Auntie Jane made her living by writing novels. ]

Just utterly love that quote Andrew.

EDITED: To be fair, it's a character in a Jane Austen novel who says it not explicitly the author herself. That would be the equal to saying that Stephen Colbert is a deeply conservative Republican because of what he says in his show.

Still, I kind of believe that quote myself.

“My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.”
― Dave Barry