Julian said, "Americans come to a new situation and say, 'I don't like it. They'll have to change it.'"
"What do English people say?"
"'I don't like it. Therefore, I'll have to change.'"
Paul Theroux Half Moon Street
Sometimes you need to take a deep breath and forget all of the hurtful things. Hold your head high and prove you're better than the people that hurt you.
- Nishan Panwar
"My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate."
-- Thornton Wilder
“The worst of men generally have the words rogue and villain most in their mouths, as the lowest of all wretches are the aptest to cry out low in the pit.”
― Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
@edgarblythe,
That's a great book ed. I hope you take what Mr Fielding said there to heart.
@spendius,
Yer old rogue, spendi. What villainous acts have ye been up to?
If you come across something good, you should hold on and never let it go. Life offers you a thousand chances, all you have to do is take one.
- Nishan Panwar
"We need a leader, not a reader."
-- Herman Cain
[Can't we find someone who is both.]
@Advocate,
Advocate wrote:
"We need a leader, not a reader."
-- Herman Cain
[Can't we find someone who is both.]
and certainly not a failed pizza maker
“Readers, friends, if you turn these pages
Put your prejudice aside,
For, really, there's nothing here that's outrageous,
Nothing sick, or bad — or contagious.
Not that I sit here glowing with pride
For my book: all you'll find is laughter:
That's all the glory my heart is after,
Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you.
I'd rather write about laughing than crying,
For laughter makes men human, and courageous.”
― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
@tsarstepan,
"Life is opportunity, benefit from it."
Mother Teresa
@cicerone imposter,
Those who can make you believe absurdities
can make you commit atrocities.
~ Voltaire, Author and Philosopher
Con men understand that their job is not to use facts to convince sceptics but to use words to help the gullible to believe what they want to believe.
~ Thomas Sowell
@vonny,
"The labour or Exercise of the Body, freeth Man from the Pains of the Mind; and this constitutes the Happiness of the Poor".
La Rochefoucauld.
@vonny,
"Life is a challenge, meet it."
Mother Teresa
@cicerone imposter,
I just did ci. Mr Obarmy trying to get you all a job is to "free you from the Pains of the Mind" and thus render you all happy.
