@Advocate,
Quote:Great, great, putdown!
It is what comes directly after the quote I gave at the end of Chapter XV of Joseph Andrews. I did think of including it but I feared to strain attention spans unrealistically. It is a trope Mr Fielding often used. In Tom Jones as well.
“Man was put on this earth to eat meat...The Bible says so dumbbell...I mean look it up will ya? All them old bible peoples, they was always eating meet; soon as they found out eating apples was wrong...It's true, on special occasions: goats and lambs. Who the hell ever hear of sacrificing a head of lettuce? You?”
Archie Bunker
“Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.”
― W.H. Auden
“Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world.”
― Thomas Jefferson
"The wise does at once what the fool does at last."
--Baltazar Gracian
“I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes … have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it.”
― Alfred Hitchcock
@edgarblythe,
Were the hell all these Indians come from?
George Armstrong Custer
June 25, 1876
"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes." Jim Carrey
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
- Orison Swett Marden
There is nothing to fear except fear itself.
FDR
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.” The Buddha
“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.
Cesar Chavez
Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984 ”
― César Chávez
@Frank Apisa,
Wasn't that just a fantastic event in US history, Frank?
@JTT,
And it ignores how Elizabeth ripped Mr Darcy's pride to tiny shreds.
“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
@edgarblythe,
"But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them."
Jane Austen
@spendius,
"he was a short-necked apoplectic sort of fellow, and plied well with good things, would soon pop off."
Jane Austen.
with a Chevy for my summer home.
Let's get the party started.
It's looking like the city towed
my other apartment.
Diamond Dave
"Burnt toast and a rotten egg? Whatta ya want that for?" "I got a tapeworm and that's good enough for him!" Curly and Moe
Abbott: Goofè Dean. Well, let's see, we have on the bags, Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third...
Costello: That's what I want to find out.
