@coluber2001,
coluber2001 wrote:
Walt Kelly
People eventually may forget Pogo, but they will always remember this quote.
@edgarblythe,
A similar one used by the protesters in the 1970s.
We are the people our parents warned us about.
@izzythepush,
Yep. I was there. Not when the phrase was coined, but when we used it.
I like “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for”.
It’s far more optimistic than I feel, but I like the thought.
Obama and Alice Walker popularized it recently, but it’s been around a long time.
@snood,
Thanks. I missed that one.
@edgarblythe,
It’s kinda sappy and Pollyanna-ish, but I guess somebody has to be.
@snood,
Whatever works is all I can say.
“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
~ Henry Miller
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
Jim Fiebig
“The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.”
― Grace Metalious, Peyton Place
“Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.”
― Bob Dylan
“However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
It's hard to kiss the lips at night that chew your ass out all day long.
Rodney Carrington
@msolga,
Be still and know that I am God.
God, Bible.
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison
@George,
George wrote:
edgarblythe wrote:“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really
make them think, they'll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison
That one made me laugh.
But did it make you think?😁
I couldn’t find the source for this one. I just heard it yesterday.
“The best proof that there is intelligent extraterrestrial life is that they’ve stayed away from us.”
