@spendius,
I honestly don't know. I've just been watching QI. Stephen Fry ended the programme with it, and I thought it was so good I posted it here.
“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
― Carlos Castaneda
It is better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all.
Tennyson
“Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again”
L. Frank Baum
@edgarblythe,
Today's underappreciated word of the day:
Quote:aforetexted 392 up, 769 down
November 15, 2011 Urban Word of the Day
Referring to a subject mentioned from an earlier text message.
Hey Margo, I want to apologize for the aforetexted gibbersh I sent you a few hours ago -- it was late and I'd had far too much cherry rubinoff.
aforementioned, aforementioned text, text message, email, drunk dial, drunk text
by SofianK Nov 13, 2011
“The Constitution doesn’t protect tents.”
--New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.
Walt Kelly
Cowards die many times before their deaths.
~William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
“If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow”
Steve Allen
@George,
The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in the stars, but in ourselves.
Cassius.
Quote:People are trying to help Bert and Ernie get married on Sesame Street. But no one is helping Oscar stop living in a dumpster.
Neil Constantine quoted in this week's Joke of the Week, Time Out NY Magazine.
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
~Frank Herbert
"The Litany against Fear"
Dune
“The only unbearble thing is that nothing is unbearable.”
― Arthur Rimbaud
On this day in 1973, President Richard Nixon uttered the words "I'm not a crook."
@edgarblythe,
On January 26, 1998, Clinton claimed "I did not have sexual relations with that woman......."
“It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.”
Marilyn Monroe
@edgarblythe,
"...to believe one knows is ignorance."
Hippocrates wrote.
@spendius,
Partially so, spendi. It depends on the subject getting discussed.
Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.
~ Robert B. Laughlin
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
—Elizabeth Taylor
