Your Quote of the Day

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally”
― Abraham Lincoln

"Ireland, thou friend of my country in my country's most friendless days, much injured, much enduring land, accept this poor tribute from one who esteems thy worth, and mourns thy desolation."
- George Washington, speaking of Ireland's support for America during the revolution.

Father Mulcahy: "When the doctors cut into a patient, and it's cold, you know...the way it is now, today,... steam rises from the body... and the doctor will... (hesitates) ...will warm himself over the open wound. Could anyone look on that and not feel changed?"
M*A*S*H* TV series

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place”
Sitting Bull

Indeed, edgar!

I'm responding with a visual (sort of) "quote":
This is a famous photograph of aboriginal footballer, Ricky Winmar, a talented player in the Australian Football League , quite a few years ago now....

He was the recipient of racist taunts & verbal abuse from supporters of the opposition team ... & responded by turning to them & lifting his football guernsey to show his abusers the colour of his chest. With pride.
What a moment!

Indeed, black is beautiful!


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"Please, please forgive me
My demons waltz with me
I beg them not to leave me alone"
William Fitzsimmons, Please Forgive Me (song the crow)

I believe that golden lizards fly somewhere in sunshine
"Skin Flowers" (Pete Kearney, Ed Sanders)

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy

I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death. What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch and you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities. You become a little baby, you go back into the womb, spend your last nine months floating... and you finish off as an orgasm.

~ George Carlin

“We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours.”
― Mark Millar, Superman: Red Son

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell”
Marquis De Sade

Wow! That Marquis was one bad guy, edgar.

Remember this?

"And moss grows fat on a rollin’ stone
But that’s not how it used to be
When the Jester sang for the King and Queen
In a coat he borrowed from James Dean
In a voice that came from you and me"

Don McLean

I’m just average, common too
I’m just like him, the same as you
I’m everybody’s brother and son
I ain’t different from anyone
It ain’t no use a-talking to me
It’s just the same as talking to you

Bob Dylan

"If he can make Adam Sandler funny, then they should give him the Oscar right now." -- Charles Barkley, on Jack Nicholson, nominated for About Schmidt, being paired with Adam Sandler in a upcoming movie.

Good friends,
For Jesus' sake forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here.
Blessed be the man
That spares these stones,
And cursed be he
That move my bones.

Shakespeare's epitaph

I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious.”
― Rita Rudner

You can close the windows and darken your room, and you can open the windows and let light in. It is a matter of choice. Your mind is your room. Do you darken it or do you fill it with light?

SuccessConsciousness.com

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
Woody Allen

An Urban Dictionary word of the day:

Mike: The Fourth Dimension is a shambles?

Bernie: Nobody ever empties the ashtrays. People are SO inconsiderate.

Gary Trudeau, Doonesbury