Your Quote of the Day

“Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.”
― John Locke

“We're so self-important. So arrogant. Everybody's going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails. And the supreme arrogance? Save the planet! Are these people kidding? Save the planet? We don't even know how to take care of ourselves; we haven't learned how to care for one another. We're gonna save the fuckin' planet? . . . And, by the way, there's nothing wrong with the planet in the first place. The planet is fine. The people are fucked! Compared with the people, the planet is doin' great. It's been here over four billion years . . . The planet isn't goin' anywhere, folks. We are! We're goin' away. Pack your ****, we're goin' away. And we won't leave much of a trace. Thank God for that. Nothing left. Maybe a little Styrofoam. The planet will be here, and we'll be gone. Another failed mutation; another closed-end biological mistake.”
― George Carlin

No wonder I liked Carlin so much!

Love that Carlin quote. It reflects my own feelings exactly. "Save the planet" is one of the most arrogant, nonsensical slogans I've ever heard. We puny humans can neither save the planet nor destroy it. We can destroy ourselves and possibly bruise the planet a tad, but that doesn't come close to destroying it. If every nuclear device now existent were exploded simultaneously, we might well destroymost life on the planet but I doubt it would constitute any permanent damage.

Here's a whole library of George Carlin shows/topics on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPOfurmrjxo
The ones on 'conservatism' and 'god' are precious!

Had Carlin been a politician he would have gotten himself assassinated.

Don't know who said this, but I like it

“Voluntary Quicksand

I read the Chronicle this morning
as if I were stepping into voluntary
quicksand
and watched the news go over my shoes
with forty-four more days of spring.

Kent State
America
May 7, 1970”
― Richard Brautigan, Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

Have to agree here. It never was more than a nonsensical catch-all phrase.

Lately it's been put to good use by hotels who don't care to wash your towel every day... "Let's save our money... err... I mean PLANET!"

“They were indeed great rascals, and belonged to that class of people who find things before they are lost.”
― Jacob Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm

“Are you familiar," he said finally, "with the Bang?"
"The Big Bang?" Luka asked. "Or some other Bang I don't know about?"
"There was only one Bang," said Nobodaddy, "so the adjective Big is redundant and meaningless. The Bang would only be Big if there was at least one other Little or Medium-Sized or even Bigger Bang to compare it with, and to differentiate it from.”
― Salman Rushdie, Luka and the Fire of Life

“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
― Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle

"Sometimes, to stimulate your imagination you have to be careful to not give it too much information. You can google something, and it's in your face, Pow! You don't have time to dream anymore about it."
--Dries van Noten

“We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.”
― Walt Kelly

“It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it.”
― R.D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor

“Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
Thomas Carlyle