Quotes of the Day...

[Gauntlet]

Here is a place to put your quotes of the day.

 

Mine to start with:

How many dead people does it take to change a lightbulb?

None Stupid! Dead People aren't afraid of the Dark!

[Ragitsu]

[death tribble]

I don't care if you do surrender, I'm still going to kill you

[Gauntlet]

18 hours ago, Ragitsu said:

 

Ahhhh, so your the kind who lives with Action and not Words!

[Cancer]

Quote

Jones's father was summoned to the council; he suggested his son was insane.

 

[tkdguy]

Sister on watching the progression of the eclipse (partial in California):

 

"Prety cool, it went from Pac Man to Kirby!"

Edited April 8 by tkdguy

[Pariah]

"What the gods get away with, the cows don't."

[DShomshak]

"The Truth Teller is wise to keep one foot in the stirrup."

-- Mongol proverb

 

Dean Shomshak

[Pariah]

"The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say."

 

~ JRR Tolkien 

[Cancer]

Oh.  That's Dempster Street, not Dumpster Street."

[Bazza]

“America was growing great by the systematic creation of dissatisfaction“ ~ Vance Packard

[Pariah]

Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid. People will believe any lie if they want it to be true, or if they're afraid that it might be true.

[Gauntlet]

"Don't you just hate it when that monster says he is going to eat your face and then follows up on its threat?"

[Cancer]

On 4/4/2024 at 10:48 AM, Gauntlet said:

Here is a place to put your quotes of the day.

 

Mine to start with:

How many dead people does it take to change a lightbulb?

None Stupid! Dead People aren't afraid of the Dark!

 

Also relevant here is this old piece of advice.

[unclevlad]

On 4/10/2024 at 11:09 AM, Pariah said:

"The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say."

 

~ JRR Tolkien 

 

Or the, IMO, even better version.  I had this poster at one point;  probably of all the things I had in college that got lost during the various moves/over the years, this is still the one I wish I'd kept.  You can still find them, but you'll pay for one.

 

 

Day is ended, dim my eyes,
but journey long before me lies.
Farewell, friends! I hear the call.
The ship's beside the stony wall.
Foam is white and waves are grey;
beyond the sunset leads my way.
Foam is salt, the wind is free;
I hear the rising of the Sea.

Farewell, friends! The sails are set,
the wind is east, the moorings fret.
Shadows long before me lie,
beneath the ever-bending sky,
but islands lie behind the Sun
that I shall raise ere all is done;
lands there are to west of West,
where night is quiet and sleep is rest.

Guided by the Lonely Star,
beyond the utmost harbour-bar
I'll find the havens fair and free,
and beaches of the Starlit Sea.
Ship, my ship! I seek the West,
and fields and mountains ever blest.
Farewell to Middle-Earth at last.
I see the Star above your mast!

Oh, and as musical accompaniment:

 

[Pariah]

"Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show." ~ Terry Pratchett

[Pariah]

"Remember, your tax bracket determines whether your day drinking is classy or trashy."

[Bazza]

Concerning sprezzatura, Castiglione said:

 

I have found quite a universal rule which in this matter seems to me valid above all other, and in all human affairs whether in word or deed: and that is to avoid affectation in every way possible as though it were some rough and dangerous reef; and (to pronounce a new word perhaps) to practice in all things a certain sprezzatura[nonchalance], so as to conceal all art and make whatever is done or said appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it.

Edited May 5 by Bazza

[Pariah]

 

Edit: Since the link to the image is broken, here's the text—

 

"The battle against mental illness cannot be won decisively. It is a long campaign against an enemy who never tires, whose forces swell to twice their size whenever you look away. Battle against a foe of such magnitude, who occupies your very mind… every moment you survive is a triumph against all odds. There is no more honorable combat."

 

 

Edited May 21 by Pariah
Since the link to the image is broken, here's the text.

[Gauntlet]

12 hours ago, Pariah said:

 

Actually this one makes me feel rather better concerning my Depression. 

[Pariah]

30 minutes ago, Gauntlet said:

Actually this one makes me feel rather better concerning my Depression. 

 

I'm with you, man. Stay strong. We're all in this together.

[Pariah]

“Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”

― Isaac Asimov 

[Pariah]

"I can’t tell you where your dream is. Only you know that. But I can tell you where it isn’t. It isn’t in your comfort zone. It isn’t in your wheelhouse. It’s not where you feel safe. It’s not where conditions are perfect. It is not where you are usually right and rarely challenged. Your blossoming and your growth — which is to say, your success — is always, always, inevitably, on the other side of a risk. It’s on the other side of a bold choice. It’s on the edge, waiting for you, on the other side of your fear."

 

-Savannah Guthrie, to the graduating class of 2019 at George Washington University

[Gauntlet]

"I wanna go home, take off this uniform and leave the show
I'm waiting in this cell because I have to know (have to know)
Have I been guilty all this time?"

[Pariah]

"I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief." 

~ C.S. Lewis