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To quote Vladimir Lenin

Submitted by Roanman on Sat, 02/08/2020 - 20:49

                                                                        

                                                                                                                     

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                                                      

To quote George Bernard Shaw over and over and ...

Submitted by Roanman on Thu, 06/07/2018 - 06:34
 
Some men see things as they are and ask why.  Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
 
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
 
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
 
People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.
 
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
 
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
 
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.
 
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
 
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
 
I never resist temptation,  I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
 
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
 
Most people do not pray; they only beg.
 
We have not lost faith, we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
 
The Jews generally give value.  They make you pay; but they deliver the goods.  In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.
 
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
 
Liberty means responsibility.  That is why most men dread it.
 
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
 
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
 
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
 

To quote Oscar Wilde over and over ... and over

Submitted by Roanman on Tue, 12/12/2017 - 06:38
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
 
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
 
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
 
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
 
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
 
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
 
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
 
  A true friend stabs you in the front.
 
All women become like their mothers.  That is their tragedy.  No man does.  That's his.
 
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
 
Biography lends to death a new terror.
 
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
 
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
 
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
 
 Bigamy is having one wife too many.  Monogamy is the same.
 
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
 
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
 
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
 
I am not young enough to know everything.
 
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
 
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
 
I dislike arguments of any kind.  They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
 
I have the simplest of tastes.  I am always satisfied with the best.
 
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time.  That would be hypocrisy.
 
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
 
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
 
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
 
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
 
Who, being loved, is poor?
 
 Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
 
I put all my genius into my life;  I put only my talent into my works.
 
Of course America  had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. 
 
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
 
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
 
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
 
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
 
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
 
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
 
Only the shallow know themselves.
 
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
 
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
 
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
 
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
 
Moderation is a fatal thing.  Nothing succeeds like excess.
 
One should always be in love.  That is the reason one should never marry.
 
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
 
One's past is what one is.  It is the only way by which people should be judged.
 
The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
 
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.  It is never of any use to oneself.
 
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
 
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
 
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman.  It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
 
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
 
Those whom the gods love grow young.
 
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
 
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
 
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know it is.
 
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
 
Women are made to be loved, not understood. 

 

To quote a lot of people on thanksgiving although not necessarily on Thanksgiving.

Submitted by Roanman on Wed, 11/22/2017 - 18:27

 

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice. Meister Eckhart

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.  Melody Beattie

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.  Frank A. Clark

None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy. Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.  Estonian Poverb  

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced, discharged and used up in order to exist at all.  William Faulkner

Thanksgiving after all, is a word of action.  W.J. Cameron

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.  Thornton Wilder

Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.  Unknown

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.  Johannes A. Gaertner

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.  Cicero

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.  Izaak Walton

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.  Seneca

O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.  William Shakespeare

Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.  Unknown

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.  Aesop

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today.  Have you used one to say "thank you?"   William A. Ward

 

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