Quote of the day

[dar512]

There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
--Larry Wall (author of Perl)

[BigV]

War would end if the dead could return. -- Stanley Baldwin, statesman
(1867-1947)

[classicman]

Can't do the right thing while you're doing wrong.

[classicman]

It takes a long time to grow young - Pablo Picasso

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. - Lucille Ball

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune. English Proverb

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. - Jack Benny

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up...a lot of people don't have the courage to do it. - Helen Hayes )

Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs. – Anonymous

Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come. - Lucy Larcom

[Pico and ME]

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. - Jack Benny

I wish it were that easy. Maybe when you are past 50 or 60 it is, but during the transitional phase, it friggin sucks.

[skysidhe]

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. ~Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland

[dar512]

"You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles."
-- Miracle Max

[Urbane Guerrilla]

"This is the sort of pedantic nonsense up with which I will not put."

--Winston Churchill, attributed

You can mull it over with the help of what's here.

[dar512]

I prefer this story on the same topic:

On his first day at Harvard a young man from Arkansas approached a couple of seniors.

'Hey, y'all, where's the library at?'

One replied haughtily, 'At Harvard, we prefer not to end a sentence with a preposition.'

The young man thought for a moment, and said, 'Alright. Where's the library at, asshole?'

[My name is mud]

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
W. C. Fields

[BigV]

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. -- Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953

[HungLikeJesus]

Referring to the current financial situation:

This is worse than a divorce -- I've lost half my net worth but still have my wife.

- Gary-Bear

[Woodbutcher]

“Hell is full of musical amateurs” – George Bernard Shaw

[dar512]

Chet Baker, on meeting Jazz pianist Romano Mussolini: "Sorry about your dad."

[classicman]

I find it all too easy to become caught up in my own world, centered on my needs and desires and those of the people who are close to me. So I take time for meditative reflection and remember that we are all significant yet individual components of this great universe.