Subject: got any favorite quotes?
Date: Sat Jun 11 23:05:21 2022
User: sgmsgmsgm
Message:I read this one very recently somewhere on the internet, it's attributed to Galileo - "You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help find it within himself.”
I have no idea if it really was Galileo, but I like it.
Date: Mon Jun 13 12:43:58 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
-- William James
Date: Mon Jun 13 20:43:34 2022
User: julia
Message:“Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.”
― Dave Barry
“Your hand and your mouth agreed many years ago that, as far as chocolate is concerned, there is no need to involve your brain.”
― Dave Barry
“Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.”
― Dave Barry
“It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.”
― Dave Barry
Date: Fri Jun 17 21:31:13 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:"I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment", and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment."
-- Buddha
Date: Fri Jun 17 23:08:54 2022
User: olblue
Message:A helicopter doesn't fly. It beats the air into submission.
Date: Tue Jun 21 14:20:05 2022
User: AbelardLindsay
Message:"You silly fool, you can't change your fate"
--Chic, Good Times
Date: Wed Jun 22 04:30:34 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:"Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel."
-- Jimi Hendrix
"I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed."
-- B.B. King
Date: Wed Jun 22 17:20:46 2022
User: primroseburrows
Message:"Before everything—before even humans, there were stories. A creature at a fire conjuring a world with nothing but its voice and the listener's imagination. And now, me, and thousands like me, in little booths and rooms, at mics and screens all over the world, doing the same for a family of listeners, connected—as all families are—primarily by the stories we tell each other. And after—after fire and death, or whatever happens next—after the wiping clean or the gradual decay—after the *after*, when there are only a few creatures left, there will be one, at a fire, telling a story to what family it has left. It was the first thing, and it will be the last. Stay tuned next for more stories being told to you, all of the time, whether you are aware of them or not."
—Cecil Palmer, Welcome to Night Vale
Date: Sat Jun 25 10:42:28 2022
User: outskirts
Message:21 Great Quotes By Henny Youngman That Will Make You Laugh Yourself Sick
...is the complete title
Date: Sat Jul 2 04:07:55 2022
User: Klepp
Message:"...we don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time, oh no, we could dance and party all night, and drink some cherry wine...uh-huh..."--Jermaine Stewart
Date: Sat Jul 2 04:35:56 2022
User: redberet
Message:movie quote, unknowns
"Why did you shoot at him?"
"Cuz, I thought I could hit him."
Date: Mon Jul 4 07:37:08 2022
User: outskirts
Message:"Age is just a number, and mine's unlisted."
--- heard in an ad for boost protein drink
Date: Mon Jul 4 07:39:30 2022
User: outskirts
Message:I guess younguns wouldn't know what an unlisted number is. Lol
Date: Thu Jul 7 03:12:00 2022
User: HopDiriDiriDattiriDittiriDom
Message:"Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge"
Sir Winston Churchill
Date: Thu Jul 7 06:27:46 2022
User: ixtapolapoquetl
Message:Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge
Charles Darwin
Date: Fri Jul 8 06:24:24 2022
User: TitanicTony
Message:Money isn't everything, but it is way ahead of whatever is in 2nd place.
Date: Fri Jul 8 16:06:44 2022
User: Klepp
Message:"...nuffa yer fartin' around..."--my grandma to me back in the day, when shenanigans were the day's activities
Date: Fri Jul 8 16:21:27 2022
User: redberet
Message:It's not my favorite but it's memorable to me.
"Roll out of bed, rise and shine."
Date: Mon Jul 11 18:53:07 2022
User: Paul-Eisenhauer
Message:"colder than a witch's tit"
It makes perfectly good sense. Flying through the air on a broom on a frosty October night. Brrrrr
Date: Mon Jul 11 19:23:37 2022
User: Ideasbrewing
Message:Technology changes, people don’t.
You don’t have to wait for everything to be perfect before you choose to be happy.
It’s not what you don’t know that gets you in trouble. It’s all the things you KNOW that you know, but really don’t, that get you in the end.
All unknown. They just got stuck in my brain.
Date: Mon Jul 11 19:52:45 2022
User: DAB
Message:You a communist? Huh? How'd you like it, man? They tell you all the time what to do, what to think, what to feel. Do you wanna be like a sheep? Like all those other people? Baah! Baah!
Oliver Stone via Tony Montana
Date: Tue Jul 12 05:50:24 2022
User: JackK
Message:One I always liked, "When all is said and done, more is said than done"
Date: Tue Jul 12 06:53:00 2022
User: TitanicTony
Message:@ JackK. Excellent! ..... AND, the older I get (currently only 83), the more I say, and the less I do!
Date: Tue Jul 12 08:10:06 2022
User: outskirts
Message:
"I'm too broke to pay attention."
--- one of my bumpkin friends
Date: Tue Jul 12 12:38:33 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:"Since we don't control the air, our good air decided to float over to China's bad air. So when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move. So it moves over to our good air space. Now, we got we to clean that back up."
---Herschel Walker
Date: Tue Jul 12 12:43:16 2022
User: redberet
Message:"I don't know much, but I do know more than you."
A. Bumpkin
Date: Tue Jul 12 13:55:37 2022
User: Kumquat-of-Conciliation
Message:Hard to beat Herschel's eloquence. And...........most people don't know this..............but he also used to be a heckofa football player, too! What a guy!
Date: Tue Jul 12 16:05:54 2022
User: JackStraw
Message:The secret to life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that you've pretty much got it made.
Groucho
Date: Tue Jul 12 16:41:52 2022
User: spugeddy2
Message:For you fellow oldsters:
I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was -- Toby Keith
Date: Tue Jul 12 17:35:55 2022
User: MrFixit
Message:I snarfed quite a few of these.
Date: Wed Jul 13 12:59:46 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:"If people can't control their own emotions, then they have to start trying to control other people's behavior."
-- Robin Skynner, as related by John Cleese in the link posted by ix in the "random posts" thread on Monday. [FWIW...........the pic of Cleese accompanying the article is (I'm pretty sure) from him doing a version of "Ministry of Silly Walks", which was one of my faves. Hope the link below works.]
Link: Ministry of Silly Walks
Date: Wed Jul 13 13:20:06 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:I saw that "skit" on YouTube once and, absence of context. I assumed it was a documentary on the disproportionate spending in the British government. It makes more sense now.
Date: Wed Jul 13 14:00:40 2022
User: redberet
Message:"In retrospect it becomes clear that hindsight is definitely overrated!"
Alfred E. Neuman
Date: Wed Jul 13 14:18:37 2022
User: Cooperman
Message:Lady Astor to Churchill: “If I were married to you, I’d put poison in your coffee.” Reply: “If I were married to you, I’d drink it.”
Date: Wed Jul 13 18:50:49 2022
User: outskirts
Message:To which she replied, "May your wet dream become a nightmare".
Date: Wed Jul 13 19:28:02 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:mrbuck posted this last year on the "really different covers" thread. I would think the members of Ladysmith Black Mambazo would be excellent employees of The Ministry of Silly Walks, either in England or South Africa, with minimal training, should they so choose. Just a thought, altho likely their talents are better used for dancing instead of mere walking.
Link: Potential candidates for the Ministry?
Date: Wed Jul 13 21:56:28 2022
User: redberet
Message:" "
Silas Golden
Date: Mon Jul 18 18:53:04 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:"The zoo opens up a whole new world for the animals. In the wild, they would never experience boredom, obesity, loss of purpose -- you know, the American dream."
-- Bart to Lisa, on "The Simpsons"
Date: Wed Jul 20 03:42:03 2022
User: cellmate
Message:
"Eat any good books lately?" -- Q to Worf
Date: Thu Jul 21 03:51:51 2022
User: Jude
Message:Douglas Adams author of Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy:
'I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.'
Date: Thu Jul 21 10:52:12 2022
User: outskirts
Message:
"I'm a very stable genius."
Date: Sun Aug 7 03:35:26 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:That reminds me of what one of my Organic Chemistry profs used to do on the blackboard (yes) while teaching. After we had (supposedly) mastered most reactions, and were learning (again supposedly/hopefully) stringing them together to make complicated molecules, he would write out the schematics of a long series of steps for some synthesis. Then at some point, he would just stop, put down the chalk, and say, "....and you know how it goes from there". As if. We would all just look at each other. And he did that repeatedly. Yeah, *he* thought it was a good place to stop. LOL.
Date: Sun Aug 7 03:45:57 2022
User: HopDiriDiriDattiriDittiriDom
Message:"... on the blackboard (yes) while teaching."
The blackboard is still being used today. Michael Penn (his quote above) puts his videos teaching on the blackboard on Youtube. See the link for example.
And he always finishes them with his quote above.
Link: Michael Penn teaching on the blackboard
Date: Sun Aug 7 04:26:36 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:I used to love geometry in h.s. - and actually placed in a state math contest in it. So altho rusty, I was able to follow all that, even tho I had completely forgotten the power of the point thing.
You probably didn't see it, but I posted some stuff in a thread two years ago, about how valuable a specific kind of Japanese chalk is, and how it's being hoarded. I had somewhat(?) accepted james's and ejchap's comments about it not being used anymore.
Link: hoarding primo chalk, vs. whiteboards
Date: Mon Aug 8 08:39:45 2022
User: RosieScenario
Message:"Orville Wright didn't have a pilot's license."
Date: Mon Aug 8 13:20:16 2022
User: redberet
Message:Lionel Barrymore movie quote on being told,
you must have some very influential friends.
"None that I can recall being on speaking terms with."
Date: Tue Aug 16 17:45:45 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:"I can sum up in three words what I've learned about life: it goes on."
-- Robert Frost
Date: Mon Aug 22 12:23:04 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:About that Ben Franklin quote concerning wine, beer, and bacteria in water: Seems unlikely. The term "bacteria" was coined as a scientific term about 50 years after Franklin's death.
It's a fun quote, just not Ben's.
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