Your Quote of the Day

“Clockers" asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting question: if you choose to work for the minimum wage when everyone around you is pocketing thousands from drug deals, then what does that do to you, to your head and to your heart?

(Hornby's thoughts after reading "Clockers" by Richard Price)”
― Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree: A Hilarious and True Account of One Man's Struggle With the Monthly Tide of the Books He's Bought and the Books He's Been Meaning to Read

Working gets in the way of living.
Omar Sharif

Scientists say the universe is made up of protons, neutrons and electrons. They forgot to mention Morons.

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“Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.”
― Plato, Plato's Republic: The Theatre of the Mind

"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied."
Arnold H. Glasow

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

The problem is, Merry, you have to keep flipping your ideas to that single brain cell.

Voltaire
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Wouldn't Voltaire have had a field day with the USA?

See the USA in your Chevrolet
America is asking you to call
Drive your Chevrolet through the USA
America's the greatest land of all

On a highway, or a road along the levy
Performance is sweeter, nothing can beat her
Life is completer in a Chevy

So make a date today to see the USA
And see it in your Chevrolet

Traveling East, Travelling West
Wherever you go Chevy service is best
Southward or North, near place or far
There's a Chevrolet dealer for your Chevrolet car

So make a date today to see the USA
And see it in your Chevrolet.

No doubt that wasn't what Voltaire had in mind, Ed. There are indeed many things dandy about the US. But those things dandy do not have anything to do with the absolute evil that exists alongside the dandy.

It's pretty silly to say "America's the greatest land of all " when it has been, since its inception, murdering people in order to seize their wealth.

But you and I know that's just part of the incessant propaganda that has turned so many into zombie like creatures, completely unable to think for themselves.

“I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.”
― Catullus

"A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself."
Axel Munthe

Three for one
"You try - you fail. The lesson: Never try."
"Trying is the first step towards failure."
"If doing something is really hard, it's not worth doing at all."

Homer Simpson

Which reminds me of the old saw:
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until day after tomorrow."

“If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.”
~Yogi Berra

“After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.”
― Benjamin Franklin

Rubbish. I've had wenches who I never grew weary of. Quite the opposite in fact. Serious misogyny there ed. Doughnut filling level.

Don't complain to me. Ben Franklin said it.

Which entails that there were some that you did, Spendi.

I think that both you and Ben shared more than a measure of misogyny.

"There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today."
Mignon McLaughlin