Quote of the Day

[AuntShecky]

Hey fellow NitLetters, if it's okay with you, let's start a new thread containing quotations.

Post a line or two that strikes you as remarkable, either a short passage you've come across in your reading from any era or a line or two you have heard on current media or even — given the restraints of the current health crisis — something you've heard in real time in the so-called "real world."

Quote the words as accurately as you can, and don't forget to include the origin of the statement(s.)

Let's use the Time Magazine criterion: your selection doesn't necessarily have to be good or bad but is in some way noteworthy. You could tell us why you posted it if you want, but it's not a deal-breaker if you don't.

LitNetters could comment (or not) or just post a new quotation. We can all try to remember to follow the rules of this website regarding verboten swearwords and acutely political statements.

Allow me to get the proverbial ball rolling with a line I heard on TV early this morning because it was so beautifully understated.

"Whenever somebody mentions 'mind control,' we go to the next caller."
—Jesse Holland, host of "Washington Journal" on C-Span.

[MANICHAEAN]

"In sublimity of soul there is no contagion."

De Profundis

Oscar Wilde.

[Sancho]

I lifted this from Harpers Weekly Review:

Jacob Rees-Mogg, leader of the British House of Commons, defended new Brexit regulations that have disrupted the Scottish fishing industry. “The key thing is, we’ve got our fish back,” said Rees-Mogg. “They’re now British fish, and they’re better and happier fish for it.”

[MANICHAEAN]

Yes Sancho. Leader of the House of Commons no less & a strange fish in his own right.

[Sancho]

Thought you’d like that one, M.

Fran Lebowitz on writing:

“I'm such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don't need anything so snappy. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself.“

[MANICHAEAN]

John Montagu in the House of Commons, after a heated exchange with John Wilkes.

"Sir, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox!"

John Wilkes: “That, sir, depends on whether I first embrace your Lordship's principles or your Lordship's mistresses.”

[Sancho]

Ed Abbey on deus:

“From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.”

[Hawkman]

"Pallida Mors eaquo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas regumque turres" (Horace)

[Danik 2016]

"Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixture dementia fuit."(Anonymous)

[MANICHAEAN]

A bove ante, ab asino retro, a muliere undique caveto.

Unknown.

[Danik 2016]

"Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum"

Cicero

[AuntShecky]

"Every month should be Black History Month, because there is no American history without Black American History."

--Eugene Robinson, "Morning Joe," February 2, 2021

[free]

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

Mark Twain

[tailor STATELY]

I made a silly anagram poem out of this quote some time ago; the quote still cracks me up:

"SpongeBob was my Broadway debut, and it was really hard for me." - Stephanie Hsu

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[free]

I made a silly anagram poem out of this quote some time ago; the quote still cracks me up:

"SpongeBob was my Broadway debut, and it was really hard for me." - Stephanie Hsu

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

;)

"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her."


George Orwell

[tailor STATELY]

"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth." - Jean-Paul Sartre

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

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“A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.”

‒ Baltasar Gracián.

[tailor STATELY]

Duplicate posting bug

[tailor STATELY]

“Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.” - Dorothy Parker

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

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I posted this in another quote thread by I suspect no ones seen it, and its worth seeing...

"The delightful attention of women, almost the sole aim of man's exertions..." -- pushkin

[tailor STATELY]

Delightful quote... I'll post one tomorrow since today is covered :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

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thought I would add a cartoon to go with the quote...

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and another one...

[tailor STATELY]

I like this one by Poe: “If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.” – Edgar Allan Poe... or in my case just stand up and walk into another room.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Lol. Same feeling! Therefore a Brazilian quote: "Better late than never". Applied in this case to remembering.

[tailor STATELY]

“The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.” – Socrates (philosopher dude in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure... followed by: "Dude! That's us!" - Ted "Theodore" Logan

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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Mark Twain

[tailor STATELY]

“If you’re the smartest person in the room, for sure you’re in the wrong room.” - Invajy

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“I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.”

― Steven Wright

[tailor STATELY]

Lol... I can relate :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[free]

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am a grown up they call me a writer.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

[spikepipsqueak]

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." Winston Churchill.

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I worship, admire, cherish the fact that I know you and that I may call you my acquitance.

- My quotation from a letter to someone.

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“True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.”
- Ian Mcewan

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“Everything's science fiction until someone makes it science fact.”
― Marie Lu, Warcross

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"Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps." - Eric Bentley

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"By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, "There is no hurry. We shall get there some day."" - Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

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"By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, "There is no hurry. We shall get there some day."" - Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

Beautiful!

[free]

"Never trust a fart. Never pass up a drink. Never ignore an erection." - Roger Angell

[Danik 2016]

Seems the double of free is active again.

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Seems the double of free is active again.

No, Danik. This is my text. Maybe a bit vulgar, but sometimes it sounds funny to me. Sorry, if I have offended your sense of decency. :blush5:

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"A song is the most intangible thing in the world.” - Jimmie Davis

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"The Sumerians were the first to reform to ensure that men and women received the same pay for the same work.” - Muazzez İlmiye Çığ

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“In my life I have found two things of priceless worth – learning and loving." — Arthur C. Clarke

[tailor STATELY]

"Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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“We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us human."
― Damon Knight

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“We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin

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1. "I always cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food." —W.C. Fields

2. "The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." —Lucille Ball

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"A full belly is little worth where the mind is starved." - Mark Twain

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“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.” ― Mark Twain

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“Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.” – Paul Dirac

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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. - George Bernard Shaw

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“Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.” ― Eric Fromm

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"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot

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"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am." - Sylvia Plath

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" Don't judge my choices if you don't know my reasons." - Danesha Stanley

[tailor STATELY]

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” - Jack Kerouac

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“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.” - E. E. Cummings

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tailor, that suspiciously sounds like zombies!

[tailor STATELY]

lol... it does doesn't it !

"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it." - Ursula K. Le Guin

[tailor STATELY]

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius

[tailor STATELY]

A quote I may use as an epigraph in the development of an upcoming love poem:

“There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.” ― Ranata Suzuki

[bounty]

on the topic of "silence"

I cant remember if I have posted this elsewhere here but this is just one of the best musical things ever and worth being redundant:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o05f8yLaaKM

[tailor STATELY]

John Phillip Souza would be proud :)

"Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains." — John Philip Sousa

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor