Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by Paegan2246

Thanks...I've been spending my time hear reading all the interesting threads. What a great place to spend time.

---Susan

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[BenG]

"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by BenG

"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton

I'd never heard that one before, but it just became one of my favorite all-time quotes! Great find!

(And now I know what quote I'm posting tomorrow!)

[Paegan2246]

"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like."
— Lemony Snicket

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Paegan2246

"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like."
— Lemony Snicket

I like that Paegan! Welcome to mr and the quote thread!

[WT Sharpe]

.....The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
..........— Anatole France (né Jacques Anatole François Thibault) (1844-1924), French writer. Le Lys rouge (1894).

[WT Sharpe]

.....For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
.....The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
..........— John Greenleaf Whittier (1807 – 1892), American poet, abolitionist. "Maud Muller" (1856).

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
.....The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
..........— John Greenleaf Whittier (1807 – 1892), American poet, abolitionist. "Maud Muller" (1856).

That's a great one!

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by Paegan2246

"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like."
— Lemony Snicket

I may have to steal this one!
And welcome to MR!

[WT Sharpe]

..... Just as the stomach, when disordered by disease and secreting bile, changes all the food which it receives, and turns every kind of sustenance into a source of pain, so whatever you entrust to an ill-regulated mind becomes to it a burden, an annoyance, and a source of misery. Thus the most prosperous and the richest men have the most trouble; and the more property they have to perplex them, the less likely they are to find out what they really are. Nothing, therefore, can reach bad men which would do them good; nay, nothing which would not do them harm. They change whatever falls to their lot into their own evil nature; and things which elsewhere would, if given to better men, be both beautiful and profitable, are ruinous to them. They cannot, therefore, bestow benefits, because no one can give what he does not possess, and, therefore, they lack the pleasure of doing good to others.
..........— Lucius Annaeus Seneca (circa 4 BCE – 65 CE), Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist. On Benefits, Book V, Section XII (circa 63 CE). From the De Beneficiis text (1876) of Berlin Gertz, edited (1887) by Aubrey Stewart.

[dorino]

Epigraph from American on Purpose, by Craig Ferguson:

I am a Scotsman which means I had to fight my way into the world. -Sir Walter Scott

I'm a Yankee doodle dandy. -George M. Cohan

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by dorino

Epigraph from American on Purpose, by Craig Ferguson:

Great quote from a great book. I read it last year. I love his talk-show, but rarely catch it.

Unlike many comedians who write short books with double-space pages and large fonts, Ferguson really put some effort into American on Purpose and it shows.

[dorino]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Great quote from a great book. I read it last year. I love his talk-show, but rarely catch it.

I'm on chapter four, as I just started reading it. I can't usually catch his show later, but I've got a DVR.

[WT Sharpe]

.....[I]t would be many years before Yahwism became a religion of the book. The exiles had brought a number of scrolls from the royal archive in Jerusalem with them to Babylon, and there they studied and edited these documents. If they were allowed to return home, these records of the history and cult of their people could play an important role in the restoration of national life. But the scribes did not regard these writings as sacrosanct and felt free to add new passages, altering them to fit their changed circumstances. They had as yet no notion of a sacred text.
..........— Karen Armstrong (1944 - ), British author, former nun. A History of God (1993).

[WT Sharpe]

.....The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
..........— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), American libertarian writer. Walden (1854).