Sepiatone Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 I thought the famous answer was, "I'll know it when I SEE it." Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted August 17, 2017 Author Share Posted August 17, 2017 I thought the famous answer was, "I'll know it when I SEE it." Sepiatone ...which of course is correct. I didn't name it because I wanted someone else to ... and you did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted August 18, 2017 Author Share Posted August 18, 2017 "On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does." ---Will Rogers [Run by the people? Is that how it was in your day?] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 Rogers is also a lifelong favorite. And while we're on that one track, here's one I like..... "Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for." Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted August 19, 2017 Author Share Posted August 19, 2017 "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." ---Soren Kierkegaard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 "In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it is just as bad not to say it" - Jacques Cousteau Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted August 19, 2017 Author Share Posted August 19, 2017 Okay, Jacques, we'll let you inform them in person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 "In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it is just as bad not to say it" - Jacques Cousteau Entre nous-- Jacques wanted to start with his own son Jacques Cousteau Jr. BTW-- What's up with the Juniors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 Mark Twain again---- "To succeed in other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do." (sounds as if he met my divorce lawyer!) Sepiatone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted August 22, 2017 Author Share Posted August 22, 2017 "Never tell everything at once." ---Ken Venturi, golfer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 "Love is never having anything TO say but ' sorry ' "---Rodney Dangerfield Sepiatone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted August 23, 2017 Author Share Posted August 23, 2017 "The sense of wishing to be known only for what one really is is like putting on an old, easy, comfortable garment. You are no longer afraid of anybody or anything. You say to yourself, 'Here I am --- just so ugly, dull, poor, beautiful, rich, interesting, amusing, ridiculous -- take me or leave me.' And how absolutely beautiful it is to be doing only what lies within your own capabilities and is part of your own nature. It is like a great burden rolled off a man's back when he comes to want to appear nothing that he is not, to take out of life only what is truly his own." ---David Grayson, journalist and author (1870-1946) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Heh! Not seeing THAT one on a sampler anytime soon. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted August 24, 2017 Author Share Posted August 24, 2017 > Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted August 24, 2017 Author Share Posted August 24, 2017 "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." ---Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (1858-1919) [Take that, Trumpies! Yer unpatriotic and servile on account of yer morally treasonable!] 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted August 24, 2017 Author Share Posted August 24, 2017 Heh! Not seeing THAT one on a sampler anytime soon. Sepiatone Yes, Mr Grayson tends to be prolix. But I doubt if he would blanch at the criticism. "Here I am, just so prolix. Take me or leave me." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." ---Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (1858-1919) [Take that, Trumpies! Yer unpatriotic and servile on account of yer morally treasonable!] HAH! AND it was a REPUBLICAN that SAID it! Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 "Forty is the old age of youth; Fifty is the youth of old age"--Victor Hugo( paraphrased by William Powell in "Mr. Peabody and The Mermaid".) Sepiatone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted August 31, 2017 Author Share Posted August 31, 2017 "To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged." ---Norman Mailer 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 "!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted August 31, 2017 Author Share Posted August 31, 2017 "A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization." ---Samuel Johnson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted September 1, 2017 Author Share Posted September 1, 2017 "The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic." ---James Marston Fitch, historic preservationist (1909-2000) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 "It is the quality of our work which will please God, and not the quantity."---Mahatma Gandhi Sepiatone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted September 3, 2017 Author Share Posted September 3, 2017 "We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted." ---Ralph Waldo Emerson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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