A brave and honorable American.
"I ain't got no quarrel with the Vietcong. No Vietcong ever called me Nigger."
I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather.. Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.
- ?
"Exercise!! I never heard that he used any: he might, for aught I know,
walk to the alehouse; but I believe he was always carried home again."
~Samuel Johnson
“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
"Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead;
Obama was born in the United States; and the climate crisis is real."
- Al Gore
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
- Plato
@edgarblythe,
Poor old Plato eh? What a tautology.
I know of guys who would say that one of the advantages of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up having all the silly sods going grey and lined on your behalf.
They do insist that they "serve".
@spendius,
Henry Miller said of politicians: These shits don't run the country.
@edgarblythe,
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Mort Sahl, while attending a preview of Otto Preminger's film Exodus, stood up and called out, "Otto, let my people go!”
― Mort Sahl
@edgarblythe,
Funny, edgar.
I am a majority of one. Thoreau
@Letty,
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister
Some great movie quotes.
"We all go a little mad sometimes."
Psycho
"God, I'd give anything for a drink. I'd give my god-damned soul for just a glass of beer."
The Shining
"I never listen to you when you're being morbid."
A Streetcar Named Desire
"He's not the messiah. He's a very naughty Boy."
Monty Python-Life of Brian
"To make honey. Young bee need young flower...Not old prune. "
Karate Kid
"I don't know if my wife left me because of my drinking or I started drinking 'cause my wife left me."
Leaving Las Vegas
"When a man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher's knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross!"
Dirty Harry
"What an excellent day for an exorcism."
The Exorcist
"Don't bogart the joint!"
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls
"When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke.'
As Good As It Gets
"Hey, don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love."
Annie Hall
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
Apocalypse Now
The ball flashed into the far corner of the net just out of reach of the goalie's despairing fingertips.
Walter Pilkington.
“This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.”
― Mort Sahl, Heartland
@edgarblythe,
When I'm in stores, people always ask me "How are you doing" or "How are you today." They always laugh when I tell them "I'm awake."
BBB
"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress."
Barack Obama
“You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
"The Bruins, the Sox, the Celtics, now the Patriots. Enough already, Boston."
-- president obama addressing the bruins at the white house yesterday
