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here's a couple I just read :
"it
is the beliefs held in the mind that splinters our perceptions of the
reality in front of us that on their return, divide our desires". Matt Mandell"Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always." Rainer Maria Rilke
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"The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is." Mary Pettibone Poole
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." Plato
I had a perfectly wonderful evening, but not tonight. Groucho
He had delusions of adequacy.
He loves nature despite its cruelty to him.
Some cause happiness where ever they go; others whenever they go. Wilde
"A modest little person, with much to be modest about." - Winston Churchill
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?" - Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain
"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend... if you have one." -- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one." - Winston Churchill, in reply
"All honors wounds are self-inflicted." Andrew Carnegie
"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost." Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher
"I pray that our heavenly father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have lain so costly a sacrifice on the altar of freedom." President Abraham Lincoln as quoted in the movie Saving Private Ryan
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of [their own] folly is to fill the world with fools." Herbert Spencer
"There is no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra 3 years in the geriatric ward." John Mortimer
"Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." Benjamin Franklin
"A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular and what no just government should refuse to rest on inference." Thomas Jefferson
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." Thomas Paine
"Choose your enemy well, for he is who you will become." old Hebrew adage
John Wilkes (to the Earl of Sandwich):
- Egad sir, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox. -
Earl of Sandwich replied:
- That will depend, my lord, on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress. -
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Excellent Sear, thanks for those.
How do you understand this one....
"Choose your enemy well, for he is who you will become." old Hebrew adage
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"How do you understand this one...." "Choose your enemy well, for he is who you will become." old Hebrew adage
I don't think it's a certitude, in 100% of all cases.
But I suppose there's some truth to it.
You know how shabbily the Nazis treated the Jews.
And the Jews chanted "Never Again! Never Again!".
And now look at how shabbily the Israelis treat the Palestinians.
Seems rather like bad karma to me.
Momma told me the traits we dislike most in others are traits we may ourselves display.
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Homer Simpson is my favorite to quote
* Operator! Give me the number for 911!
* Oh, so they have internet on computers now!
* Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like...love!
* Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
* I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.
* Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers.
* Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.
* Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'
* Marge, don't discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel.
* Doughnuts. Is there anything they can't do?
* You know, boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like a woman. You just have to read the manual and press the right buttons.
* Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
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NL,
Michael Medved is a Simpson's fan.
I'm more of a Family Guy guy.
One of my favorite quotations of all is from Oscar Wilde.
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes." Wilde
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PS
I don't watch the Simpson's much. Perhaps I'd like them more in their new HD format.
In any case, I recall an interaction between Homer & Lisa:
Lisa:
"That's a specious argument Dad."
Homer:
"Thanks sweetie."
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yeah, lol.
I didn't watch them too often in teh States...I liked the Simpsons but just never watched TV (movies but not TV) so didn't catch them. Then here in China you can get series on DVD, and so we got the 21 seasons of Simposons and started watching them in June and its Feb now and we are on season 18, lol. It takes a while...
They reveal the folly very well.
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"They reveal the folly very well." NL
True.
I'm not diminishing the writers. Obviously they're world class.
But regarding Simpson's, 3 fingered yellow people are sufficiently estranged from their 5 fingered human cousins to change the mirror to a viewing screen. It's a subjectivity depleater.
Similar deal with Sci Fi such as Star Trek. If the plot's about the Vietnam War, & the Western allied South against the communist allied North, audient bias creeps in.
But when it's the Telosians against the Ragilians, that pre-existing bias goes away, and the audience is more objective (and thus reachable through their otherwise brain paralyzing bias).
PS:
The Simpson's got there first; a cartoon about a stupid fat family man, with a low achieving oldest son, and an intelligent youngest child, and an ever-forgiving charming wife.
Family Guy shares those same formulaic characteristics, but with a somewhat more ribald script.
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and an intelligent youngest childWho Maggie? She is the youngest...but I think you meant Lisa. Maggie is kind of like the wild card...she can be anything.
She has the markings of a nagual...never overly emotional like the rest of them, almost never speaks, always witnessing events, pivotal in many,... can do things like fly through the air and land in the right spot. Effortless.
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"I think you meant Lisa." NL
I don't watch the series much.
I know Lisa is the brightest speaking Simpson.
But I thought Maggie has shown some savvy insight, not typical for her youthful appearance; though if that show has been on for decades, she'd be an adult by now.
I'm trying to recall the details. I recall an episode where the Simpsons were trapped on the roof. The needed immediate rescue. Maggie threw her pacifier to the ground, showing the rest of them what only Maggie (not Lisa) had figured out; that if they leapt from the roof, and landed where the pacifier was, they'd be safe.
Pretty good for a pre-lingual child.
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Yes, thats only the beginning of what she can do.
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