Your Quote of the Day

"You are my tenth prime minister. The first was Winston. That was before you were born."

Her Majesty The Queen speaking to Tony Blair after officially appointing him Prime Minister, graciously acceding to the wishes of Her subjects.

“It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.”
~Andy Rooney

"There's only one good thing about old age. It doesn't last very long."
Anonymous

“Underwear makes me uncomfortable and besides my parts have to breathe.”
Jean Harlow

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination.

Terri Gulillemets

“And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after."
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl

In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away
- shing xiong

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

~St. Francis of Assisi

Love that, George.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge

Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast

He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us
He made and loveth all."

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

That's all very well ed. But it's a cliche repeated to impress people. There are not many A2kers who adhere to it.

Take farmerman for example. A man you are known to admire. The idea that he suffers from his opinions is the polar opposite of what da Vinci meant. He is not aware of any deceptions on the matter. He even declared that a lady I saw on TV whose family have been rearing sheep in the Yorkshire Dales for 200 years, didn't know what she was talking about regarding lambing. And him a dude farmer.

Do you think that quoting that piece of wisdom is going to make the slightest difference to farmerman. And he will agree with it I don't doubt. As a pretty sentiment.

They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow of the first rank. But the truth is
that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have
to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.

~Otto van Bismarck

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.

Henry David Thoreau

I don't presume to speak for farmerman or anyone else.

"Man comes here when he must, and dies when he must, and what he does between doesn't make a ha'porth of difference."

Sergeant Quick in Chap.11 of Rider Haggard's Queen Sheba's Ring.

“At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

Curse you, Red Baron! Curse you and your kind! Curse the evil that
causes this unhappiness!

(Spoken by Snoopy)

~Clark Gesner (based on Charles Schultz)
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

"The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other."
~Johnny Carson

“The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.”
― e. e. cummings