“a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)”
― Gore Vidal, The American Presidency
“So, you're the man who can't spell '****.'"
Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers had convinced Mailer to replace the word with a euphemism, 'fug,' in his 1948 book, "The Naked and the Dead.”
― Dorothy Parker
“One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.”
― Robert F. Kennedy
@edgarblythe,
Ah, the Kennedys, Mark:
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil
This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”
― Robert Frost
“It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Men
Fox News’ Hasselbeck: Obamacare is hurting ‘many’ elderly pregnant women
Written by Newslo November 18th 2013
(Photo Credit: Fox News)(Photo Credit: Fox News)
Fox News host Elisabeth Hasselbeck suggested on Monday that pregnant women 65-years-old and older were losing their doctors because of President Barack Obama health care reform law. In a segment titled “Who’s Ruining the Economy Now?” Fox Business…
@edgarblythe,
As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.
Einstein
“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite,
or have such an explanation of the meaning of life
as will connect the finite with the infinite.”
--Leo Tolstoy
(thanks, FBM)
@vonny,
vonny wrote:
As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.
Einstein
Ha. If only we all had that much intelligence...
“A two-year old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.”
― Jerry Seinfeld
@Kolyo,
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
― Billy Connolly
“God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere.”
― Willie Nelson
@Lordyaswas,
"Some people can read
War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story.
Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe."
-- "Lex Luthor",
Superman (1978)
