“I never said most of the things I said.”
― Yogi Berra
"If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming."
-- Johann Wolfgang vonGoethe
“How do I define history? It's just one ******* thing after another"
- Rudge”
― Alan Bennett, The History Boys
“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.”
-Larry Wilde
“If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't!
An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't.”
― Dr. Seuss
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
- Charles Dickens
“Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. ”
― Washington Irving
When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.
- Unknown
"The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. "
— Bertrand Russell
“Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the book-budget cutters, Old Claus had no plan, cause if they could read, they just read Ayn Rand.”
― David Davis, Librarian's Night Before Christmas
@tsarstepan,
I'm a Quinney we don't hold grudges, we nurture them
“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
"In alcohol’s defense, I've done some pretty dumb stuff while completely sober too."
--Bill Murray
@edgarblythe,
I have seen people say ed that if you can't laugh at the death of Little Nell scene you haven't got a sense of humour.
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
- Kurt Vonnegut
@spendius,
I read about Little Nel when I was too young to be cynical.
@wandeljw,
Good to see you back! Enjoyed your
Quote:"In alcohol’s defense, I've done some pretty dumb stuff while completely sober too."
--Bill Murray
That's an admission not many are able to declare, but we're all "guilty."
@cicerone imposter,
Thanks, CI. Bill Murray is a fellow Chicagoan who tells it like it is.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
- William Arthur Ward
