“Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.”
― Jane Yolen, The Books of Great Alta
“If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.”
― John Lennon
“Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair”
Edmund Burke
A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.
- Johann von Goethe
"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned."
Peter Marshall
From Black Hawk, Sauk
"How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right."
Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time, and ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down — they are truly down.
- Joseph McCarthy
I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood.
William Shatner
"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."
Elbert Hubbard
“Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?”
― Clarence Darrow
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman
“In any case talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw.”
― William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
@Lustig Andrei,
This, from Merry,
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."
Plutarch
comes right after this,
Post: # 5,191,190
and this,
Post: # 5,191,208
and this,
Post: # 5,191,224
and this,
Post # [ ],
all which indicate that Merry's brain is indeed a vessel that has been filled with propaganda.
To err is human; To forgive divine.
Alexander Pope.
It's okay...answer the door. I ordered a pizza.
Osama Bin Laden
@JTT,
That's not fair JT. Lots of quotes are posted here when the poster is feeling a bit--what shall we say--oceanic?
“Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
@edgarblythe,
"No, sir, but I do bite my thumb."
ibid
"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals."
-- Albert Schweitzer
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
