Random Quotes

[Tom]

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. - Voltaire

[renren]

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.
Friedrich Nietzsche

[Tom]

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. - Eugene Ionesco

[Tom]

You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea. - Medgar Evers

[RedHatQueen]

"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." - Hippolyte Taine

[Tom]

Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. - The Dread Pirate Roberts

[Anna Iram]

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.  ~Gertrude Jekyll

[Tom]

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. - Mel Brooks

[Molden]

I love when someone is consistent in their treatment and understanding of others. Bob Costas heads the list of people I would like to meet. He was quoted once about one thing he said about Kirby Puckett, and subsequently said the same of Mike Tyson several years ago.

"Tell me: When a dark side is revealed in a man, does that render all the good that man did as untrue?".

The payoff? When asked by Peter King, who was writing a commencement address, what advice he would give to the graduating class - he said:

"Things are very seldom black and white. Don't demonize. Try to understand."

[Molden]

"When we're kids, we dream wildly. As we grow up - we dream realistically. We shouldn't. I got where I am today being a ridiculous dreamer."

      - Mike Tomlin, 35-year old Head Coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers

[Tom]

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. - John Barrymore

[Count Adolfo]

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him... The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself... All progress depends on the unreasonable man."

George Bernard Shaw

[Once Debauched]

Well-behaved women seldom make history.    ~unknown~

"Well-behaved women rarely make history"
   ~Laurel Thatcher Ulrich


Tis a quote on one of my profiles!


"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety."       ~ Benjamin Franklin

[Trillium]

I had this one on my calendar the other day:

I am not eccentric.  It's just that I am more alive than most people.  I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
~Dame Edith Sitwell

[Anna Iram]

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.  ~John Lubbock



Happy Solstice everyone.