Your Quote of the Day

When every blessed thing you hold
Is made of silver, or of gold,
You long for simple pewter.
W.S. GILBERT, The Gondoliers

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject;
the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

~G. K. Chesterton
Heretics

A serious Christian George.

Yes, indeed.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis

I am a horrid offender of this. (see?)

“The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And they have their music and we have ours. Theirs, the wasted songs of a superstitious nightmare. And without their music and ideological miscarriages to compare our songs of freedom to, we'd not have any opposite to compare music with --- and like the drifting wind, hitting against no obstacle, we'd never know its speed, its power....”
― Woody Guthrie

There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.

~William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar

The examined life is no picnic.
Robert Fulghum

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
Phyllis Diller

I can give you a definite perhaps.
Samuel Goldwyn

"As for me, I was grateful to my father for having kept me back from the university for so long. If I had studied classics after middle school, as had been my wish, I would certainly have enrolled in philosophy, a subject demanding strong powers of logical thought which, to my misfortune, I lack. But, I wonder, how many professional philosophers are really gifted with them?"

Quote from the autobiography of Rita Levi-Montalcini, born 1909, who eventually went to medical school in 1930, was kicked out of a research institute in Turin because she was/is Jewish, received the Nobel prize for her work on nerve growth factor in 1986.

Fascinating book, In Praise of Imperfection - re a girl born into a victorian family, re her observations through the book of those around her (many very interesting), re science, re religion (her family were freethinkers), re fascism, re living in hard times. Very well written - I'm half way through, will probably read it a second time.

Sounds interesting Osso.

Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.
~ Tommy Cooper

I've been witnessing a lot of coincidence/synchronicity. Last night I watched a Tommy Cooper repeat on the telly. His comedy was unique.

“When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!"

~Jim Elliot”

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. ”
― William Faulkner

Bollocks. Read that and forget all about WF.

When a great genius appears in the world, the dunces are all in confederacy
against him.

~Jonathan Swift
Essay on the Fates of Clergymen

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

George Herbert

“Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?”
Paris Hilton