Your Quote of the Day

“The world is my country,
all mankind are my brethren,
and to do good is my religion.”
― Thomas Paine

Amen.

I came out here with one suit and everybody said I looked like a bum. Twenty years later Marlon Brando came out with only a sweatshirt and the town drooled over him. That shows how much Hollywood has progressed.
Humphrey Bogart

"In philosophical thought the battle of discussion is not a struggle for power -- it is a struggle for lucidity through questioning, a struggle for clarity and truth, in which we allow our adversary all those weapons of the intellect with which we defend our own faith."
-- Karl Jaspers

Good one.

Gunsmoke series
Reb Kittredge: Did you ever think of settling down in one place, Johnny?
Johnny Lake: Yeah, I did settle down once.
Reb Kittredge: What happened?
Johnny Lake: They forgot to lock the cell one night.

“We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.”

- Stacia Tauscher

“The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.”

- Socrates

You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Sorrows of Young Werther

All extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane.

GOETHE, The Sorrows of Young Werther

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness.

GOETHE, The Sorrows of Young Werther

That reminds me of William Faulkner: "If I had to choose between pain and nothing, I would always choose pain. I can not live in nothingness."

Paulie: What's the attraction?
Rocky: I dunno... she fills gaps.
Paulie: What's 'gaps'?
Rocky: I dunno, she's got gaps, I got gaps, together we fill gaps.

Spock -- "Random chance seems to have operated in our favor"
McCoy -- "In plain, non-Vulcan English, we've been lucky"
Spock -- "I believe I said that, Doctor"

“Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.”
Jack Paar

“Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our own table ....”
― W.H. Auden, Collected Poems

“Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”

- Elizabeth Browning

The Sopranos.

Tony Soprano: "Maybe I should tap into my roots, too. My grandmother was half Indian."
Christopher: "Get the **** out of here."
Tony Soprano: "No, it's true. She was in the Fakawee tribe."
Christopher: "Oh, yeah?"
Tony Soprano: "Yeah. When they used to get lost in the woods, they stopped and said "Where the Fakawee?"

I have a t-shirt somewhere.

the fugawi tribe racing team...

it was cute.

"the only thing we have to fear is fear itself"

FDR

Man: the glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
Alexander Pope

I framed this to put in my offices where ever I worked. It's my favorite quote. The working and poor classes need to understand this these days.
---BBB

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.

This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass
August 4, 1857