Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

I'm joining in this thread with a quote...

"Like everyone else he had a label, since at that time no-one could live without one, but his 'ism' was of a non-committed kind: he was not a royalist, a Bonapartist, a chartist, an Orleanist, or an anarchist - simply a book-ist"
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
(I'm sure it's better in the original French, but I've only read it in translation, but being exactly fluent in French)

[WT Sharpe]

.....Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said: "one CAN'T believe impossible things."
....."I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
..........— Lewis Carroll (penname of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832 – 1898), English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. Through the Looking-Glass (1871).

[kennyc]

Oh I love that one Tom! That's definitely one of my all time favorite quotes!

Thank You for that!

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Also from Through the Looking Glass:

`When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'

[WT Sharpe]

I was tempted to quote that one. Carroll left us many quotable gems in those Alice books!

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

Also from Through the Looking Glass:

`When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'

yes, that one is a gem ....

[WT Sharpe]

.....At a dinner party one evening, Shaw sat next to a pompous young bore who proved to be a mine of uninteresting information. After suffering his neighbor’s interminable monologue throughout the meal, Shaw observed, "You know, between the two of us we know all there is to know." His interlocutor was fascinated. "How is that?" he asked. "Well," replied Shaw, "you seem to know everything except that you’re a bore. And I know that!"
..........— George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish playwright, is quoted from The Little, Brown Book Of Anecdotes (1985), ed. by Clifton Fadiman.

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....At a dinner party one evening, Shaw sat next to a pompous young bore who proved to be a mine of uninteresting information. After suffering his neighbor’s interminable monologue throughout the meal, Shaw observed, "You know, between the two of us we know all there is to know." His interlocutor was fascinated. "How is that?" he asked. "Well," replied Shaw, "you seem to know everything except that you’re a bore. And I know that!"
..........— George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish playwright. Quoted from The Little, Brown Book Of Anecdotes (1985), ed. by Clifton Fadiman.

Wow! I said the very same thing to my sister-in-law 15 years ago (it was the last time we spoke together ) and I never even realized I was quoting someone!


Stitchawl

[WT Sharpe]

.....Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger.
..........— The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral by Francis Bacon (1601), "Of Anger." Bacon is making a reference here to Ephesians 4:26-27: "Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil." I've always considered the phrase let not the sun go down upon your anger to be perhaps the best one line piece of advice ever for a successful marriage.

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....At a dinner party one evening, Shaw sat next to a pompous young bore who proved to be a mine of uninteresting information. After suffering his neighbor’s interminable monologue throughout the meal, Shaw observed, "You know, between the two of us we know all there is to know." His interlocutor was fascinated. "How is that?" he asked. "Well," replied Shaw, "you seem to know everything except that you’re a bore. And I know that!"
..........— George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish playwright, is quoted from The Little, Brown Book Of Anecdotes (1985), ed. by Clifton Fadiman.

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Wow! I said the very same thing to my sister-in-law 15 years ago (it was the last time we spoke together ) and I never even realized I was quoting someone!


Stitchawl

Wonderful! I have a female in-law I shall have to try that on

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger.
..........— The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral by Francis Bacon (1601), "Of Anger." Bacon is making a reference here to Ephesians 4:26-27: "Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil." I've always considered the phrase let not the sun go down upon your anger to be perhaps the best one line piece of advice ever for a successful marriage.

The yeti and I were given that piece of advice twice on our wedding day (we had a point in the reception were we asked all the guests to line up and give us a piece of advice). We've mostly kept to it, too. It has made for some very late nights at times, but better that than waking up still angry.

[WT Sharpe]

.....Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
..........— Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882), American philosopher, essayist, and poet. Letters and Social Aims (1876), "Greatness."

[GeoffC]

interesting quote.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....At a dinner party one evening, Shaw sat next to a pompous young bore who proved to be a mine of uninteresting information. After suffering his neighbor’s interminable monologue throughout the meal, Shaw observed, "You know, between the two of us we know all there is to know." His interlocutor was fascinated. "How is that?" he asked. "Well," replied Shaw, "you seem to know everything except that you’re a bore. And I know that!"
..........— George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish playwright, is quoted from The Little, Brown Book Of Anecdotes (1985), ed. by Clifton Fadiman.

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Wow! I said the very same thing to my sister-in-law 15 years ago (it was the last time we spoke together ) and I never even realized I was quoting someone!


Stitchawl

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

Wonderful! I have a female in-law I shall have to try that on

Don't do it unless you're prepared to achieve Stitchawl's results! Of course, sometimes that's a good thing!

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

The yeti and I were given that piece of advice twice on our wedding day (we had a point in the reception were we asked all the guests to line up and give us a piece of advice). We've mostly kept to it, too. It has made for some very late nights at times, but better that than waking up still angry.

We were given the same advice, and it seems to have worked well for the past 37 years! Not that we haven't failed to follow it a few times, but it's wonderful advice, IMO.

[FlorenceArt]

L'Europe est en train de devenir une terre d'interdits, plus une terre de liberté. Vous n'aimez pas les minarets ? Vous interdisez. Vous n'aimez pas les burqas ? Interdites ! Je ne défends pas la burqa, mais je m'interroge : quoi, après ?

Europe is becoming a land of the forbidden, not a land of freedom. Don't like minarets? Just forbid them! Don't like the burka? Outlawed! I am not defending the burka, but I am wondering: what comes next?

Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Secretary-General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), in an interview to le Monde dated Friday, 24th September 2010.

[kennyc]

Interesting times we live in eh?