If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. ~Louis D. Brandeis
A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. ~Doug Linder
“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― Roald Dahl, The Twits
“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.”
― Charles M. Schulz
“Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.”
― Jo Nesbø
“Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them.”
― Roy T. Bennett
One I should adhere to.
“Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!”
― Galen
@edgarblythe,
So true! The biggest problem being, they themselves cannot see it, and they perpetuate it with their own children, so it follows generation after generation. I see that in my siblings.
“Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire
Lawrence Ferlinghetti decades ago wrote and it gives me chills to read it today:
“Pity the nation whose people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced,
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice,
except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero
and aims to rule the world with force and by torture.
Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own
and no other culture but its own.
Pity the nation whose breath is money
and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.
Pity the nation — oh, pity the people who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away.
My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty.”
@edgarblythe,
Fair play to Lawrence, eat your heart out Nostradamus.
@eurocelticyankee,
Nostradamus is your all purpose sage. His words keep getting modified to fit the occasion.
Sixty years ago today a US Federal Court decides that since Ezra Pound is incurably , permanently insane, he can no longer be held under indictment for treason and can be set free. As he leaves St Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington DC, 13 years after being taken into custody, he reflects. “How did it go in the madhouse? Rather badly. But what other place could one live in America?”
