Quotes You Like

The world is full of horrible things that will eventually get you and everything you care about. Laughter is a universal way to lift your head up and say 'Not today, you b*****ds.'

(Antony Jeselink....US comedian, at a guess?)

"The older you get the more you understand why people disappear into art, music, books and quiet living."

@moonbus said
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

― Plato

hang the little thieves
elect the great ones

Der Geist der Gewalt ist so stark geworden, weil die Gewalt des Geistes so schwach geworden ist.
Leonhard Ragaz

The spirit of force became so strong because the force of the spirit became weak. (my translation)

"And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he forever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than the other birds upon the plain, even though they soar."
–Herman Melville, 1819-1891 (from Moby Dick)

"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
- Woody Allen

“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?” ~ David Baldacci

Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.

Alan Furst, novelist.

I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
- Winston Churchill

"Gort, Klaatu barada nikto."

@moonbus said
"Gort, Klaatu barada nikto."

@AlanTal


The college gardens at Cambridge University are famously perfectly smooth and lush. I once asked the college gardener how he kept them so flawless, and he answered, "plant them 500 years ago and don't let anybody walk on them."


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"Don't count the days, make the days count." -- Muhammad Ali