"Is that a pistol in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?"
Mae West, 1936,upon her return from Chicago, to a Los Angeles police officer assigned to escort her home at the Los Angeles train station..
@neko nomad,
Mae West could coin a phrase with the best of them.
@Butrflynet,
People with minds (who names who has a great mind?) discuss all of that.
Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ~Edward Sandford Martin
@edgarblythe,
We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogers
@BumbleBeeBoogie,
Saw a Will Rogers film on TV over the weekend. Didn't watch it all. But he certainly had the rustic charm.
@edgarblythe,
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared and then he is gone.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.”
Jimmy Carter
@edgarblythe,
So true Ed, our arrogance is astounding.
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do.
When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
- Sir Stephen Henry Roberts
@eurocelticyankee,
Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
Laurence J. Peter
“They were all enemy. They were all to be destroyed.”
Lt William L. Calley, Jr.
"You may fire when you are ready Gridley."
Commodore George Dewey, 1 May 1898, at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.
“The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
A great thread, edgar
One of the best
I was only thinking the other day that maybe wisdom is something to be found in the past as well as the present. That the good stuff is too often ignored
Anyway thanks for this thread and I will dig out some quotes myself.. I've got quite a few on writing, as well as the political, of course.
cheers
@Endymion,
An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.
W. Sumerset Maugham
@Endymion,
Endymion wrote:
A great thread, edgar
One of the best
I was only thinking the other day that maybe wisdom is something to be found in the past as well as the present. That the good stuff is too often ignored
Anyway thanks for this thread and I will dig out some quotes myself.. I've got quite a few on writing, as well as the political, of course.
cheers
Any field is welcome here, endy. Good to have you.
"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is having lots to do and not doing it."
--John W. Raper
