Your Quote of the Day

Anyone that could read Grapes of Wrath or Of Mice and Men and come away disdainful of the author leaves me at a loss. These books are a part of me. I can't imagine the void if they suddenly were not so.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Oscar Wilde

“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”
― Charles Dickens

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. ~Ram Dass.

The Cowboy Code By Gene Autry

1. The cowboy must never shoot first, hit a smaller man, or take unfair advantage.

2. He must never go back on his word, or a trust confided in him.

3. He must always tell the truth.

4. He must be gentle with children, the elderly, and animals.

5. He must not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant ideas.

6. He must help people in distress.

7. He must be a good worker.

8. He must keep himself clean in thought, speech, action, and personal habits.

9. He must respect women, parents, and his nation's laws.

10. The Cowboy is a patriot.

“ Open your eyes now. I will. One moment. Has all vanished since? If I open and am for ever in the black adiaphane. Basta! I will see if I can see.
See now. There all the time without you: and ever shall be, world without end.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. ~Edward R. Murrow

That was for the kiddiwinks ed. I assume you felt ironic. It seems he felt that other men his own size are fair game. He couldn't possibly have left men out accidentally surely.

Which means that all his attitudes, which are very laudable, do not apply to other cowboys. Which is fair enough despite it passing over the heads of the kiddiwinks.

Had Mr Autry been a cowboy? Frank Harris had.

Autry was a telegraph operator. One day he was heard singing on the job and he was transported to where the movies and records are made.

Do you mean he might never have seen a cow or helped drive a large herd of them from Abilene to the railhead in Kansas City.

In which case he wouldn't know a damn thing about cowboys.

Autry's father was a rancher. I would say Gene was either a real cowboy or at least was intimate with that line of work.

From a cowboy to a vampire, there's a movie in there somewhere, already done no doubt.

“Listen to them - children of the night. What music they make.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;-
"Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!"
He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:-
"Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

Gene Autry was born in West Texas in 1907. His family moved to Oklahoma when he about 13 or 14. In Oklahoma he worked on his father's rach, later took a job as a telegraph operator, having completed high school in the 1920s. Gene Autry was a "real" cowboy who knew how to handle a horse and a lariat. (The gunplay was largely phony, though.)

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
Will Rogers

You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough. ~William Blake

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage — the more the minimum, the better.

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.

Harry S Truman

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Norman Vincent Peale

Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue.
Ayn Rand

Says the piece of scum who firebombed innocent civilians and dropped two atomic bombs of more civilians.

You ought not to have been pointing fingers at others, Harry.