Quotation of the day

"The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star."

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826), Physiologie du Gout, 1825

"Americans never quit."

General Douglas Macarthur (1880 - 1964)

"Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people."

Lillian Eichler Watson

"The single clenched fist lifted and ready, or the open asking hand held out and waiting -- choose, for we meet by one or the other."

-the poem "Choose" by Carl Sandburg. Personally, I find the poem too cut and dried, perhaps even close-minded. Still, I admire it because it says more in a couple of lines than many poems that go on for countless pages. There is something very honest about a poem so short.

Originally posted by royalchicken
This is a point, although obscure junior colleges have their merits as well. I don't remember bringing this up, although I started out quite nervous and may have done...I am certain that there was (happily) no dream-talk 😛!

"When I told my friends I wanted to be a comedian, they laughed at me. Well they arnt laughing now" - The Late Bob Monkhouse.

"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."

Hannah Arendt.

"If Jesus Christ were to come again today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it."


Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881).

Originally posted by Acolyte
I can see it now... Dr. Mark Hagen, Professor of Applied Numerology. 😉

I wonder what theoretical numerology would look like?

"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."

Henry Kissinger, New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973

"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III

"Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States."

J. Bartlett Brebner

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind."

William James (1842 - 1910)

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Then Job answered the LORD and said:
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1 I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be hindered.
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I have dealt with great things that I do not understand; things too wonderful for me, which I cannot know.
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I had heard of you by word of mouth, but now my eye has seen you.
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Therefore I disown what I have said, and repent in dust and ashes.

1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.