"You can close your eyes to things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel."
- Unknown
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
Benjamin Franklin
@eurocelticyankee,
Is that really by Franklin? I don't think they had daily papers in his day. More likely weeklies. There are a lot of popular sayings that get attributed to ol' Ben though he had nothing to do with coining them.
(I've used that morning obit line my own self countless times.)
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
James Thurber
@Lustig Andrei,
It must be Franklin, Aindriu. The Web says so.
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. Heinlein
@eurocelticyankee,
eurocelticyankee wrote:
It must be Franklin, Aindriu. The Web says so.
Oh, well, in that case there can be no doubt. My apologies.
@Lustig Andrei,
It does not seem right to me, either, but I saw a whole page of sites attributing the quote to Franklin. Could be they all copy one another, however.
@edgarblythe,
It could be a webspiracy.
As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
John Selden
Two quotes this morning:
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
― Plato, The Republic
I know nothing.
Sgt Schultz (Hogan's Heroes)
“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power”
― Benito Mussolini
"Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondence and depression." --Robert Johnson
@edgarblythe,
"When the going gets tough , the tough gets going"
“If you think sunshine brings you happiness, then you haven’t danced in the rain.”
– Author Unknown…
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw
"The possession of knowledge does not kill the
sense of wonder and mystery. There is always
more mystery." ~Anaïs Nin
Out in the bush, the tarred road always ends just after the house of the local mayor - Australian observation
