"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
--Jorge Luis Borges
I don't mind going back to daylight saving time.
With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
Victor Borge
“When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.”
~Lowell Thomas
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
― Isaac Asimov
"Republicans have exposed Obama's college plan as a plot to make people smarter" Andy Borowitz
@edgarblythe,
Dan Lilburn wrote:Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 638 times, you're the G train.
Read this in this week's Time Out New York going home on the G train. Go figure.
“If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.”
― Tallulah Bankhead
@tsarstepan,
I sent that one to some of my friends.
“The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.”
― John Lennon
“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow
“O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.”
― Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight
“The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.”
― Eric Hoffer
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
“The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.”
― Eric Hoffer
It's a good quote and I up-thumbed it. But I don't think I agree with it. The 'gentle cynic' is the Aristotelian 'golden mean', halfway between the two fanatics. The exact opposite of cowardice isn't bravery; it's recklessess. Bravery is the golden mean.
@Lustig Andrei,
As team manager my job has not been an easy one. I've been sacked, slandered in the gutter press, I've suffered a fatal heart attack, been kidnapped and taken to Mars, undergone a sex change operation and travelled back through time to cave man days. But that's football.
Tommy Brown Fulchester United supremo
