Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[wayspooled]

“It was a piece of advice only, and aimed at myself as much, I suppose, as at you.—For those of easy tongues, she said. Remember, some live all their lives without discovering this truth; that the noblest and most terrible power we possess is the power we have, each of us, over the chance-met, the stranger, the passer-by outside your life and your kin. Speak, she said, as you would write: as if your words were letters of lead, graven there for all time, for which you must take the consequences. And take the consequences.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, Queens' Play

[kennyc]

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
- Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird was published 53 years ago today....
(goodreads quote of the day)

[covingtoncat73]

“Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don't speak bird.”


― Kurt Cobain

[covingtoncat73]

"All I wanted was to eat the chicken that is smarter than other chickens and absorb its power. And make a nice Kiev but, oh, well."

-"Red" from Orange is the new Black

[kennyc]

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
- Henry David Thoreau born 7/12/1817

[HomeInMyShoes]

“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.” Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

[covingtoncat73]

"The ideas ruins evoke in me are grand. Everything comes to nothing, everything perishes, only the world remains, only time endures. How old is the world! I walk between two eternities."
-Diderot

[kennyc]

"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
- Neil Armstrong July 20, 1969

[kennyc]

There is no friend as loyal as a book.
- Ernest Hemingway - born on this day 7/21/1899

[BenG]

“Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port”
— From The Bell by Iris Murdoch

[covingtoncat73]

"In wine there is wisdom,
In beer there is freedom,
In water there is bacteria."

-Unknown, often (mis) attributed to Benjamin Franklin

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

"In wine there is wisdom,
In beer there is freedom,
In water there is bacteria."

~Benjamin Franklin

Interesting quote, but I doubt it was said by Franklin. Benjamin Franklin died in 1790. The name Bacterium was coined by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg in 1828. Franklin would have more likely called them "animalcules", the name given bacteria by their discoverer Antonie van Leeuwenhoek in 1676.

[covingtoncat73]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Interesting quote, but I doubt it was said by Franklin. Benjamin Franklin died in 1790. The name Bacterium was coined by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg in 1828. Franklin would have more likely called them "animalcules", the name given bacteria by their discoverer Antonie van Leeuwenhoek in 1676.

Eh. Probably so, WT. My cousin had sent me that in an email.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

Eh. Probably so, WT. My cousin had sent me that in an email.

I'm always getting those from relatives, or I used to before I started sending them back with corrections. I found the following quote here at MobileRead years ago and have used it ever since as the tag line on all my outgoing emails.

"The problem with Internet quotations is that many are not genuine."
— Abraham Lincoln

[kennyc]

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
- Albert Einstein