Fields was one of a kind and I greatly enjoy his thoughts and antics. I don't have to believe the things he believed to do that.
"My mother wore a mood ring. When she was in a good mood it turned blue. In a bad mood, it left a big red mark on my forehead." -Jeff Shaw
“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”
― Joseph Stalin
“When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.”
― Erma Bombeck
“The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can't put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning.”
~ George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
- Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (1967)
Today is the birthday of Ukrainian novelist Mikhail Bulgakov (born in 1891).
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.”
― George Eliot
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
- Dr. Seuss
“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
― Virginia Woolf
“If you can't convince them, confuse them.”
~ Harry S Truman
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
Jim Fiebig
“I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
― Virginia Woolf
@msolga,
Quote:“If you can't convince them, confuse them.”
~ Harry S Truman
That one gets a big nod. Harry might have added, "The latter is oh so easy".
@JTT,
I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
Harold Wilson
@JTT,
The less-than-refined version of that saying is, "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit."
“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” ~ Albert Pine
“Conceit spoils the finest genius.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
@edgarblythe,
"He was trying to say something but he wasn't willing to commit to it."
It was a bloke who was cut into the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers film Runnin' Down a Dream talking about one of the late 90s albums.
