The quote of the day [2]

[A Guy]

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
~Willa Cather

A Guy

 

[HippsieGypsie]

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

 

[A Guy]

In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses.
~Calvin Trillin

A Guy

 

[HippsieGypsie]

It takes a long time to become young.
~ Pablo Picasso

 

[A Guy]

First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
~Doctor Who

A Guy

 

[HippsieGypsie]

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
~ Jack Lemon

 

[David Bailey]

Never give up.
Never surrender.

~~~ Galaxy Quest

 

[David Bailey]

​Quasimodo, the bell-ringer: [to one of the stone gargoyles] Why was I not made of stone - like thee?

 

[A Guy]

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
~Ashley Montague

A Guy

 

[HippsieGypsie]

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
~ Arthur C. Clarke commenting about 2001: A Space Odyssey

 

[David Bailey]

"Everyone who got to where they are
had to begin where they were."
- Richard Paul Evans

 

[A Guy]

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
~Aristotle

A Guy

 

[HippsieGypsie]

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
~ George Bernard Shaw

 

[A Guy]

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
~Victor Hugo

A Guy

 

[HippsieGypsie]

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

[David Bailey]

Chairman Mao once said in the 1960s when asked what he thought of the French Revolution: “It's too soon to tell.”

 

[A Guy]

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
~P. G. Wodehouse

A Guy

 

[HippsieGypsie]

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars -- yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

[A Guy]

Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
~Otto von Bismarck

A Guy

 

[David Bailey]

Life can be pleasant. Death might be peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. ​

Isaac Asimov​