Quote of the Day. No Discussions or Comments please.

[Dave]

Whats Yours? Just the quote please.

Mods, Can we keep this thread, and just copy and paste interesting quotes, on any subject, with no discussion or comments whatsoever?
So we keep our own opinions to ourselves.
Just the quote, the author, and the date?
That way we are not discussing any subject which is barred.
But Its still educational.

Example, Such as:

On the Press

"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in
America as an independent press. You know it and I know it.

There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions,
and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in
print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the
paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries
for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to
write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another
job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my
paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.

The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth;
to lie outright;
to pervert;
to vilify;
to fawn at the feet of mammon, and
to sell his country and his race for his daily bread.

You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an
independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind
the scenes. We are jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we
dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the
property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

-- John Swinton
(1829-1901) Former Head of Editorial Staff for the New York Times
was one of America's best loved newspapermen.
Called by his peers "The Dean of his Profession"
1880, At a banquet in his honor.

 

[santaman2000]

Martin Luther Said: If You've Got Nothing Worth Dying For, You've Got Nothing Worth Living For

 

[Drain Bamaged]

"It isn’t the mountains ahead that you have to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe."

Muhammad Ali

D.B.

 

[woof]

"Speed gets you nothing but big garage bills"..... my dad 1975.

& how right he was...

Rob

 

[Harlequin1974]

"By choosing your quotations (and who you quote) you are effectively making a comment..... be it political or otherwise" (me, just now)

 

[bearbait]

Don't believe everything you read on the Internet. Abraham Lincoln.

 

[sunndog]

Never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

the sunndog c. 1995

 

[Dave]

GET TO THE CHOPPER!

Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

[Hammock_man]

" All I've got to do is live long enough", when asked if coming to the moot next year

 

[Bishop]

The owner of the axe, as he released his hold on it said it was the apple of his eye;
but I returned it sharper than I received it

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862

 

[Big G]

“The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”

― James Cook

 

[Macaroon]

When a man opens a car door for a woman, it's either a new car or a new woman............

- The Duke of Edinburgh.

 

[stonehippo]

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Yogi Berra

 

[Klenchblaize]

"My soul has never been, and never can be, dipped in time. Time has never existed, and never will; it is a purely artificial arrange­ment. It is eternity now, it always was eternity, and always will be. By no possible means could I get into time if I tried. I am in eternity now, and must there remain. Haste not, be at rest, this Now is eternity."

Richard Jefferies

 

[Bishop]

Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.

Frank Herbert

 

[boatman]

Comment is free- CP Scott

 

[dasy2k1]

If it gets caught, it deserves to be eaten— to be appreciated, used entirely and with respect, and not robbed of something stupid, like a tail-feather, and discarded as useless. I honor my kill, and I am grateful that I caught it. If it has a soul, I hope that soul finds a welcome reward.”

Mercedes Lackey on hunting

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[Toddy]

"Never focus on the can't... You may need to do things differently, but never think you can't do something. We all have the choice of being positive about a situation or being negative. The decision is yours"

Jennifer Bricker- born without legs, and given up for adoption at birth. Her sister is gold medal winning Olympic gymnast Dominique Morceanu. Jennifer is herself a junior paralympian and trapeze artist despite her physical limitations.

 

[Klenchblaize]

“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”

Henry David Thoreau
(Waldon/Life In The Woods)

 

[Leshy]

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Dr. Seuss