Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[WT Sharpe]

.....Our virtues and our vices depend too much on our circumstances.
..........— John Cleland (1709 –1789), English novelist. Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [AKA Fanny Hill] (1748).

[TenaciousBadger]

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

--Moliere

[WT Sharpe]

.....After Florida passed an "English-only" law barring counties from spending public funds to provide services in any language but English, the Dade County zoo changed its animal-name signs, omitting the Latin names of species.
..........— Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras, American brother and sister writing team. Unusually Stupid Americans: A Compendium of All-American Stupidity (2003).

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....After Florida passed an "English-only" law barring counties from spending public funds to provide services in any language but English, the Dade County zoo changed its animal-name signs, omitting the Latin names of species.
..........— Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras, American brother and sister writing team. Unusually Stupid Americans: A Compendium of All-American Stupidity (2003).

My sister lives in Dade County, and I can tell you that's not the most stupid thing they do there.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

My sister lives in Dade County, and I can tell you that's not the most stupid thing they do there.

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

My sister lives in Dade County, and I can tell you that's not the most stupid thing they do there.

Hanging chads! Hanging chads!

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Hanging chads! Hanging chads!

Had to look that up... oh yeah, I'd forgotten about that one! Actually I was thinking about counting the ketchup as a vegetable in children's lunches at school, or abolishing recess altogether because the kids might get hurt playing.

[covingtoncat73]

Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man, Creation unfolds around us, despite us, and through us, at the speed of days and nights, and we like to call it "love." from The Thousand Autums of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell.

[WT Sharpe]

.....One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
..........— Booker T(aliaferro) Washington (1856-1915), African-American leader. "An Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City" (1909-02-12). The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol. 10: 1909-1911, University of Illinois Press.

[BenG]

I wonder if he pronounced "Taliaferro" as "Tolliver", like Taliaferro County, Georgia.

[TenaciousBadger]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
..........— Booker T(aliaferro) Washington (1856-1915), African-American leader. "An Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City" (1909-02-12). The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol. 10: 1909-1911, University of Illinois Press.

Excellent!

[WT Sharpe]

.....Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
..........— Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs (1921 - ), British historian. The BBC: the First Fifty Years (1985).

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
..........— Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs (1921 - ), British historian. The BBC: the First Fifty Years (1985).

So is automobile!

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
..........— Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs (1921 - ), British historian. The BBC: the First Fifty Years (1985).

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

So is automobile!

And TRUE in both cases!

[kennyc]

"We have this idea--it's almost a fetish--that progress is its own justification, that if something is promising, then how can we not rush to relieve suffering?"
-- Paul Root Wolpe, medical ethicist at Emory University