And the wind shall say "Here were decent godless people;
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls."
~T.S. Eliot
Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~Proverb
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ~Robert Southey
Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices. ~George Bernard Shaw
Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it. ~Robert Brault
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it. ~Robert Brault
But do the prostitutes hired by Donald Trump fall under this sentiment?
@tsarstepan,
What they do is not my problem.
Who was the first guy that look at a cow and said, "I think that I'll drink whatever comes out of those things when I squeeze them?" ~Bill Watterson
The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. ~Bede Jarrett
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. ~Bishop Desmond Tutu, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire
The stars was shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die; and the wind was trying to whisper something to me and I couldn't make out what it was, and so it made the cold shivers run over me. Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave and has to go about that way every night grieving. ~Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance. ~Saul Bellow
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. ~Christopher Morley
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..." ~Isaac Asimov
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. ~Winston Churchill
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein
@edgarblythe,
Quote:“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein
And make the right decision.
“The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.”
― Constance Hale
@edgarblythe,
The day we can count on Trump's last day in office will be a very good day. It'll be a day of celebration and happiness!
