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Reply With QuoteGlorious great and splendid corner of my life,
Let me remember these full and hedonistic days,
When drowning sweetly deeply cast was I,
And sinking swift had no desire to swim for safety - yet!
- Anon.
This is a discussion on Don's Favourite Quotes and words of wisdom! within the Popular Culture: Literature, Art, Music etc forums, part of the Coffee Room category; "For every complex problem, there is a solution that's simple, straightforward -- and wrong." ~H.L. Mencken...
Accidental Poet
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that's simple, straightforward -- and wrong."
~H.L. Mencken
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Chancellor
Glorious great and splendid corner of my life,
Let me remember these full and hedonistic days,
When drowning sweetly deeply cast was I,
And sinking swift had no desire to swim for safety - yet!
- Anon.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised 'for the good of its victims' may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us 'for our own good' will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis
Accidental Poet
“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.”
~Stuart Chase
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Accidental Poet
"No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance."
--British historian Alan Bullock (1914-2004)
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Accidental Poet
Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.
~Russian proverb
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Accidental Poet
"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."
~James Madison
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Accidental Poet
"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."
~Thomas Paine
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Two-faced Pussy
"And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, 'Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken.' And he said, 'Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?' (2 Kings 20:18-19)Originally Posted by Don
Reading maketh the man.
A Global Socialist Visionary is one who envisions socialism globally, but unlike the Tories goes about the business of effecting its reality and does not settle on its laurels wishfully thinking and hoping for the Status Quo to work. We believe in Change where it's needed, such as where areas are most impoverished and there is a possibility for regeneration. Join us...or inevitably die through social malnutrition!
Two-faced Pussy
"Nothing much" by Don.
A Global Socialist Visionary is one who envisions socialism globally, but unlike the Tories goes about the business of effecting its reality and does not settle on its laurels wishfully thinking and hoping for the Status Quo to work. We believe in Change where it's needed, such as where areas are most impoverished and there is a possibility for regeneration. Join us...or inevitably die through social malnutrition!
Accidental Poet
Which is far and away more than you've ever said here, 'Pussy'
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
accidental genius!
OK boys lets try and keep it nice, unless you want to take it to TOP.
"The object of universities is not to make skilful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings." John Stewart Mill
Accidental Poet
If you are referring to my calling him "Pussy", it's part of his user name. I was trying to be polite, honest.
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
busy body
Frankly Janus is baiting you and you know it. Take him to the TOS if you want to go at him and if he is willing to take you on for real
Accidental Poet
It is done
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Accidental Poet
"Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box."
~Italian Proverb
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Accidental Poet
"The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys."
~Thomas Jefferson
This should rightly apply to any government, anywhere.
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
big.davie.g
Boys will play
All it takes for evil to succeed is that good people do nothing
When men cease to believe in god, thay do not therefore believe in nothing ,thay then become capable of believing anything. G.K Chesterton
If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" William Shakespeare,
The cleverest thing the New World Order has done, is to convince mankind that It's a good thing to be enslaved.
Senior MP
Im as nervous as a cat in room full of rocking chairs. anon
Accidental Poet
"In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will now and then peek out and show itself."
~Benjamin Franklin
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Accidental Poet
"A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy."
~Jean Racine
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Accidental Poet
"A true Warrior does not seek war, nor does he wish to do battle. He merely believes it is honorable to cling to a worthy cause. It is noble to reach out to those weaker than himself and it is valiant to believe that many things are worth giving up everything for."
~Phil Messina
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Accidental Poet
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts."
~Daniel Patrick Moynihan
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Senior MP
Its always the fool that that starts the fight ,do we want to follow fools ?
Streetwalker
Accidental Poet
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Accidental Poet
“If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.”
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Accidental Poet
"I do not advocate capital punishment for stupidity, but I think we need to take the warning labels off of everything and let the problem sort itself out."
~Anon
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Senior MP
Who sent you to school and who bought you books, how did other student obtained monies from grants ? find my name there , no, £500.00 yearly maintainance grant, find our name there No.
Then one thing i hate is a country or a person getting arrogant for no apparrent reason whatsoever, then, when you're talking about history of your goldcoast reapeating itself you must have evidence of wrongdoings of a persons or people.
Right now, woast history is currently repeating itself unreported, so get over it mate, figures please ?
Cloud Nine.
Accidental Poet
"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."
~James Madison, speech in the Virginia constitutional convention, 1829
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Accidental Poet
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others"
~Cicero
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Accidental Poet
"... A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
~John Stuart Mill
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Accidental Poet
"War is old men talking and young men dying."
~Anon
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Accidental Poet
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it."
~Thomas Jefferson
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Accidental Poet
“…the extreme willingness of adults to go to almost any length on the command of authority … most urgently demand[s] explanation.”
~Yale University Psychologist Stanley Milgram circa 1960
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Two-faced Pussy
"It may well follow, my good friends, that he that knows how to lead others to victory need take no orders from them."-Prince Janus the Ist.
A Global Socialist Visionary is one who envisions socialism globally, but unlike the Tories goes about the business of effecting its reality and does not settle on its laurels wishfully thinking and hoping for the Status Quo to work. We believe in Change where it's needed, such as where areas are most impoverished and there is a possibility for regeneration. Join us...or inevitably die through social malnutrition!
Accidental Poet
Life is a bad tactical position.
~Anon
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
busy body
I believe it was Wilkes and the Earl of Sanwich (both British politicians) - Wilkes had enjoyed the favours of a certain lady who then attached herself to Sandwich. Sandwich decided to denounce Wilkes in Parliament saying
"I don't know whether he will die on the gallows or of the pox"
Wilkes replied:
"That would depend on whether I embrace your morals or your mistress sir"
Leftwing Liberal
I remember reading somewhere a while back about a time when Winston Churchill had drank one too many, and his secretary or some such female criticised him for being drunk. His retort was something like,"Yes madam, and in the morning I shall be sober, but you shall still be ugly!"
Accidental Poet
I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, "Verify your quotations."
~Winston Churchill, The Second World War, Volume IV : The Hinge of Fate (1951)
Bessie Braddock (MP): Winston, you are drunk, and what's more, you are disgustingly drunk.
Churchill: Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and what's more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly.
This exchange was confirmed to Richard Langworth by Ronald Golding, a bodyguard present on the occasion (as Churchill was leaving the House of Commons in 1946).
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Conservative Member
In the 1950s, when Winston Churchill was Prime Minister, he was told about a scandal about a backbench MP who was caught in St. James' Park having sex with a Guardsman. Churchill asked if it was cold the previous night. The man giving him the news told him it was one of the coldest February nights in 30 years, to which Churchill replied "makes you proud to be British"
Accidental Poet
"Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you."
~Susan Sontag (At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches)
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Accidental Poet
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
~Martin Luther King Jr.
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Conservative Member
To conquer Fritzl you must become Fritzl
~ Reginald D Hunter
Accidental Poet
“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
~ Jane Austen
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Accidental Poet
"...In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
~James Madison, Federalist No. 51
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Monster, monster, monster.
Only good sex is degrading, bad is just embarrassing. Mae West.
Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more.
We men were deceivers ever.
One foot in the sea and one on the shore,
to one thing constant never.
So sigh not so, but let us go,
and be blithe and bonny.
Converting all your sighs of woe,
To hey nonny nonny.
Accidental Poet
Sometimes only the numbers change...
"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected."
~Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, 1821
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Accidental Poet
"The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any."
~Fred Astaire - American Dancer, Actor and Choreographer
Unfortunately, things haven't changed much.
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
Senior MP
Play the ball as it lies
Play the course as you find it
And if you cant do either
Do what is fair
(from the rules of golf)
...or is nature 'racist'?
If you've got nothing to say, say it - copyright MarkMuses 2009
I didn't leave the toilet seat up because it's a fecking verb or should be by rights - copyright MarkMuses 2011
I'll do it tomorrow - copyright MarkMuses 2011 (hehe tomorrow never comes)
Cunstible Flatfoot, I'd just like to say how much I regret the altercation we had outside the Felching Arms on Friday night, although you were out of order - Paul Calf 2000andcantremember.
Racism refers to "White people". Now you know what "Make racism history" really means - White genocide: Mixed-Race SUPREMACISM now 'cool'...
Accidental Poet
This sounds like something Yogi Berra (Baseball player and coach) would have said.
Yogi Berra Baseball Coach Famous Quotes Homepage
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
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