“I tried being reasonable, but I didn't like it.”
― Clint Eastwood
“Do not commit the error
so common among the young
of assuming that if you cannot save
the whole of mankind,
you have failed.”
― Jan de Hartog
@edgarblythe,
Yep, edgar.
It is a continuous process of pushing the boulders back uphill, when they slide down.
And also when you become aware of new boulders.
A life-long process.
Quote:The history of the United States
can be told in eleven words:
Columbus, Washington,
Lincoln, Volstead,
two flights up and ask for Gus.
New York Evening Sun
Quoted in Ken Burn's Prohibition documentary, episode 3.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
~ Abraham Lincoln
(in the 21st century, I would include women in that quote, too.)
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Maurice Chevalier
@eurocelticyankee,
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
“She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”
― Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
“Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“I have left my book,
I have left my room,
For I heard you singing
Through the gloom.”
― James Joyce
@edgarblythe,
Quote:“She would of been a good woman,"
Is that the verbatim quote, Edgar?
“If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?”
~ W. Somerset Maugham
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
William Butler Yeats
This could be a repeat, but who is counting?
Emo Philips
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
~ John Steinbeck
“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
~ Luis Bunuel
Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down
@edgarblythe,
"We do not remember days, we remember moments."
Cesare Pavese
