Quote for the day

[Mertex]

 

[Mertex]

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. -Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. -Sir Francis Bacon

 

[Statistikhengst]

Never look a gift denebian slime devil in the eyes, all 12 of them.

-Spock, at a dinner party after the signing of the Treaty of Khitomer, 2261

 

[Mertex]

 

[Treeshepherd]

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man" -Shaw

 

[April]

For what I give, not what I take,
For battle, not for victory,
My prayer of thanks I make.
~Odell Shepard

 

[Treeshepherd]

All great change in America begins at the dinner table

Reagan

 

[Mertex]

 

[Vigilante]

 

[Treeshepherd]

"A storm is coming. I need to get outside." - John Muir

 

[kflaux]

Eat breakfast by yourself; share your lunch with a friend; give your dinner to an enemy

--Russian proverb

 

[Treeshepherd]

We may be partial, but Fate is not.
Emerson

 

[April]

Ring out wild bells to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

~Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.

~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., 1833

Happy New Year 2015​

 

[Treeshepherd]

I love me some Tennyson...

"This fine old world of ours is but a child yet in the go-cart. Patience! Give it time to learn its limbs; there is a hand that guides. "

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance. -George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan

 

[Treeshepherd]

Democracy is a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses. -HL Mencken

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what make nations great and marriages happy. -Phyllis McGinley

 

[Treeshepherd]

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what make nations great and marriages happy. -Phyllis McGinley

I'm sensing a compromise theme, Quickhitter.

"Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked.

Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away."
- George Packer