@blueveinedthrobber,
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
- Joseph Roux
“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.” - Mark Twain
@edgarblythe,
When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.
- Unknown
@edgarblythe,
"Thy who wastes not, refrains from displacing’’
- Sam Baker
“Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers
@edgarblythe,
It must have aggravated Twain that a woman could write five hundred times better than he could.
Even that quote is dreadful.
@spendius,
I knew Twain would get you going.
You didn't like "beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone?"
@edgarblythe,
It is pretty dire ed but it's not the real problem. Which is that classical American style of asserting something is stupid or maddening and not bothering to say why.
If you take the statement to pieces it is soon seen as being ridiculous. I would explain why if it wasn't so obvious.
It is very lazy writing. It's incoherent as well.
@spendius,
Quote:It is pretty dire ed but it's not the real problem. Which is that classical American style of asserting something is stupid or maddening and not bothering to say why.
It must have aggravated Twain that a woman could write five hundred times better than he could.
Even that quote is dreadful.
Quote:I would explain why if it wasn't so obvious.
It is very lazy writing.
Better look up the word 'hypocritical', Spendi.
"Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught."
- Roger Bacon
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.”
― George Eliot
“Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”
― Brian Jacques,
"Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm."
-- Jean Paul
@Lustig Andrei,
Some people are always grumbling
because roses have thorns;
I am thankful
that thorns have roses.
- Alphonse Karr
@edgarblythe,
" It was a gloomy prospect, and all she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away she should see something else."
Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
Anything as good as that in Mark Twain ed?
