@edgarblythe,
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
@BumbleBeeBoogie,
I've been on a bit of a Behan binge lately, which is poetic in itself.
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
Brendan Behan
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
Brendan Behan
@eurocelticyankee,
"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way."
Carl Sandburg
“Lying in bed, I could hear the trams far away in the distance. Turning the corners heavily, and gathering speed for the hills. I used to hear them back in Dublin on the Northside when I was small, lying in bed, avoiding the eye of the Sacred Heart in the picture on the far wall. The house we lived in was a great lord's town house before it was a tenement, and there was a big black Kilkenny marble fireplace before my bed. If the souls in Purgatory really came back, it was out of there they would come.”
― Brendan Behan, Borstal Boy
“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. there is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.”
― Henry Miller
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
~ Mark Twain
God is always on the side of the big battalions.
Voltaire
"There are two great days in a person's life -- the day we are born and the day we discover why."
William Barclay (1907-1978),
Scots theologian
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
Brendan Behan
"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other
states, other lives, other souls."
~Anaïs Nin
"Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire."
Pat Morita
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.
Gerald R. Ford
(sounds like a Yogi Berra quote to me)
Ye wretched mimics, whose fond heats have been,
How oft! the objects of my mirth and spleen.
Richard Burton.
@spendius,
Let it come, as it will, and don't be afraid. God does not leave us comfortless, so let evening come.
Jane Kenyon
"I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I
am. The main interest in life and work is to become
someone else that you were not in the beginning."
~Michel Foucault
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
Laurence Sterne.
"A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know."
Laurence J. Peter
@Lustig Andrei,
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."
Donald Rumsfeld.
@eurocelticyankee,
That made perfectly good sense to me the first time Rumsfeld said it; it still does.
@Lustig Andrei,
Quote:"A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know."
Laurence J. Peter
You should have quoted that to all the peevers in the Pet Peeves of English threads, Merry.
