Quotes of the day from previous years:
| There is a certainnobility anddignity in combatsoldiers andmedical aidmen with dirt in their ears. They are rough and theirlanguage gets coarse because they live a life stripped of convention and niceties. Their nobility and dignity come from the way theylive unselfishly and risk their lives tohelp each other. |
| ~Bill Mauldin ~ |
| There never comes a point where atheory can be said to betrue. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared thesuccesses ofall its rivals and that it has passed at least onetest which they havefailed. |
| ~Alfred Jules Ayer ~ |
| I saw aDivineBeing. I'mafraid I'm going to have to revise all my variousbooks andopinions. |
| ~Alfred Jules Ayer ~ |
| Only themediocre are always at theirbest. |
| ~Jean Giraudoux ~ |
| One of myprinciples is, Thou shall notbully. The only answer is to muscle the bully. I'm very combative that way. |
| ~Bill Mauldin ~ |
| TheAmerican public highly overrates its sense ofhumor. We'regreat bellylaughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real sense of humor. Notsatire anyway. … When we realize finally that we aren'tGod's givenchildren, we'llunderstand satire. Humor is really laughing off ahurt,grinning atmisery. |
| ~Bill Mauldin ~ |
| Take care that thou be not made afool byflatterers, for even thewisest men are abused by these. Know, therefore, that flatterers are the worst kind oftraitors; for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils,correct thee innothing; but so shadow and paint all thy vices andfollies, as thou shalt never, by their will,discernevil fromgood, orvice fromvirtue. And, because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the additions of other men'spraises is mostperilous. Do not therefore praise thyself, except thou wilt be counted a vain-glorious fool; neither takedelight in the praises of other men, except thoudeserve it, and receive it from such as areworthy andhonest, and will withalwarn thee of thy faults; for flatterers have never any virtue — they are ever base, creeping,cowardly persons. … But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for as awolf resembles adog, so doth a flatterer afriend. |
| ~Walter Raleigh ~ |
| There is no better way of exercising theimagination than thestudy oflaw. Nopoet ever interpretednature as freely as alawyer interprets thetruth. |
| ~Jean Giraudoux ~ |
| Awiseman ought not todesire to inhabit thatcountry where men have moreauthority thanlaws. |
| ~Walter Raleigh ~ |
| Even such istime, that takes in trust Ouryouth, ourjoys, our all we have, And pays us but withage anddust; Who in thedark andsilent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up thestory of ourdays. But from thisearth, this grave, this dust, MyGod shallraise me up, Itrust! |
| ~Walter Raleigh ~ |
| Look a-here, sweet mama, Let's burn off both our shoes Well, myheart's a-beatin' rhythm And mysoul issingin' the blues. |
| ~Jerry Lee Lewis ~ |
| The ground for takingignorance to be restrictive offreedom is that it causespeople to makechoices which they would not have made if they had seen what therealization of their choices involved. |
| ~Alfred Jules Ayer ~ |
| The criterion which we use totest the genuineness ofapparent statements offact is the criterion of verifiability. |
| ~Alfred Jules Ayer ~ |
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If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. ~Joseph Goebbels (born October 29)
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Alternate version: If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.
Alternate version: If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it.
Alternate version: If you repeat a lie long enough, it becomes truth.
Alternate version: If you repeat a lie many times, people are bound to start believing it.
A child laughs when it feels joy and cries when it feels pain. Both things, laughing and crying it does with its whole heart. We all became so tall and so clever. We know so much and we have read so much. But one thing we forgot: to laugh and cry like the children do. ~Joseph Goebbels
Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection. ~Walter Raleigh (date of death)
So when thou hast, as I
Commanded thee, done blabbing —
Although to give the lie
Deserves no less than stabbing —
Stab at thee he that will,
No stab the soul can kill. ~Walter Raleigh
OR
Stab at thee he that will,
No stab the soul can kill. ~Walter Raleigh
Cowards fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out. ~Walter Raleigh
Silence in love bewrays more woe
Than words, though ne'er so witty:
A beggar that is dumb, you know,
May challenge double pity. ~Walter Raleigh
Remember...that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will never last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all, for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied. ~Walter Raleigh
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum. ~Jean Giraudoux
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. ~Jean Giraudoux
Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo. ~Bill Mauldin
Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience. You step out on the stage and you can feel it is a nervous audience. So you calm them down. I come out before an audience and maybe my house burned down an hour ago, maybe my husband stayed out all night, but I stand there. I'm still. I don't move. I wait for the introduction. Maybe I cough. Maybe I touch myself. But before I do anything, I got them with me, right there in my hand and comfortable. That's my job, to make them comfortable, because if they wanted to be nervous they could have stayed home and added up their bills. ~Fanny Brice, (born 29 October 1891)
| All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty. |
| ~Walter Raleigh ~ |