Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Ea

Your new baby! Aww, how sweet Congratulations! A girl or a boy?

It's a little graphite baby boy!

[Ea]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

It's a little graphite baby boy!

Name? Can I hold him?

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Ea

Name? Can I hold him?

See he's already gone .... we'll be lucky to hear from him for the next week.

[Ea]

Originally Posted by kennyc

See he's already gone .... we'll be lucky to hear from him for the next week.

But they are so cute at that age

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

It's true about what we owe to the feminists though. Even though most young women these days don't seem to realize it. Or worse, they think feminism is obsolete, because it has attained its goal.

Originally Posted by Ea

Unfortunately yes, I must agree. They have no idea. But then they weren't raised by my mother - might have helped...

Sad, but true:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...postcount=1682

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Sad, but true:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...postcount=1682

Well, and this from the previous page of that thread;

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...postcount=1666

Easy to quote something out of context to make a point, Tom

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Well, and this from the previous page of that thread;

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...postcount=1666

Easy to quote something out of context to make a point, Tom

I don't understand what I'm suppose to be quoting out of context. I was only quoting that jest by way of agreeing with Ea and Florence about how young women today take the gains won by their elders for granted. And it's not just young women, but young people in general who don't seem to appreciate the history of the struggles for their hard-won freedoms. Perhaps it has always been this way.

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

I don't understand what I'm suppose to be quoting out of context. I was only quoting that jest by way of agreeing with Ea and Florence about how young women today take the gains won by their elders for granted. And it's not just young women, but young people in general who don't seem to appreciate the history of the struggles for their hard-won freedoms. Perhaps it has always been this way.

Lesson learnt by me: don't drink quite so much Sauvignon Blanc before making kneejerk reactions to innocent posts

Apologies

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Lesson learnt by me: don't drink quite so much Sauvignon Blanc before making kneejerk reactions to innocent posts

Apologies

Accepted, my friend!

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Accepted, my friend!

Thanks.

Think I'll have one more glass to celebrate and then...to bed!

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Thanks.

Think I'll have one more glass to celebrate and then...to bed!

[Ea]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

I don't understand what I'm suppose to be quoting out of context. I was only quoting that jest by way of agreeing with Ea and Florence about how young women today take the gains won by their elders for granted. And it's not just young women, but young people in general who don't seem to appreciate the history of the struggles for their hard-won freedoms. Perhaps it has always been this way.

Perhaps we lack a bigger perspective. If we look at it historically, from the suffragettes over the red-stockings of the 70's and until today, I am sure there were periods of apparent standstill. I am hopeful at least.

[WT Sharpe]

.....You see what love is, begun with griefe, continued with sorrow, ended with death. A paine full of pleasure, a joye replenished with misery, a Heaven, a Hell, a Divell, and what not, that either hath in it solace or sorrowe?
..........— John Lyly (1553-1606), English writer. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1579).

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....You see what love is, begun with griefe, continued with sorrow, ended with death. A paine full of pleasure, a joye replenished with misery, a Heaven, a Hell, a Divell, and what not, that either hath in it solace or sorrowe?
..........— John Lyly (1553-1606), English writer. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1579).

Hmmm... I always thought love was five feet of heaven with a pony-tail! The cutest pony-tail that sways with a wiggle when she walks!
That's what it said in the song anyway.


Stitchawl

[WT Sharpe]

94. Capital Laws.
.....1. If any man after legall conviction shall have or worship any other god, but the lord god, he shall be put to death.
.....2. If any man or woman be a witch, (that is hath consulteth with a familiar spirit,) They shall be put to death.
.....3. If any person shall Blaspheme the name of god, the father, Sonne or Holie ghost, with direct, expresse, presumptuous or high handed blasphemie, or shall curse God in the like manner, he shall be put to death.
..........— Massachusetts Colony. Body of Liberties (1641), Page 274.