quote of the day

[Jarmara]

The boundaries which divide life from death
are at best shadowy and vague.
Who shall say where one ends,
and the other begins?
Edgar Alan Poe

[baldowrie]

Stonehead

One that always gets me in trouble:

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks. (Davy Crockett)

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. (Daniel Boone)

gonna have to remember that one when I have gone round a roundabout for the second time!

A couple from Oscar Wilde I like..there are so many I like

"It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fanâ€

[Karen_D]

"I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read." Thomas Babington Macaulay

[Karen_D]

The commercial world, then, treats us like celebrities - 'Because you're worth it', it says. It flatters and kowtows to us and keeps on doing so right up to the moment when we hand over our credit card details . Then we are cast aside and condemed to a purgatory of being held in a queue on a customer service line for all eternity. What fools we are. ~ Tom Hodgkinson

[the.fee.fairy]

Reality is an opinion forged by mutual consent

[Milims]

A long time ago I couldn't sleep so I put the TV on and there was a film on about a woman from the deep south of America who looked back on her childhood and realised that it wasn't quite as she had perceived it as a child. It ended with a fantastic quote - "the truth depends on the light".

I'd love to know what the film was!!

[yugogypsy]

"Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone"

REMEMBER it the next time you all get the urge to slam someones ideas

Lois

[Andy Hamilton]

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

[Shirley]

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

I've never heard that one before - I like it. Very good!

[Wombat]

Following on from Milims -

"But what is truth, is truth unchanging Law, people have truths are mine the same as yours?"

Herod in JC Superstar

[Martin]

A native North American's view of the white man

"-for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs.
The Earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it,
he moves on.
His appetite will devour the Earth and leave behind only a desert"

credited to Chief Seattle circa 1850

[Shirley]

When I am grown-up I will understand how beautiful it feels to administrate my life effectively.

Until then I will continue to torch all correspondence that bores me and to dance naked over the remnants of its still glowing embers.

Edward Monkton

[Annpan]

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. -Abraham Lincon

And one which perhaps ring true for a few of us on here:

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. - Oscar Wilde

[Shirley]

Another by Edward Monkton

I really like this one

Let us be lovely

And let us be kind

Let us be silly and free

It won't make us famous

And it won't make us rich

But damnit how HAPPY we'll be!

[Muddypause]

Now that one I do like.

I've never heard of Edward Monkton, so I looked him up on Wikipedia.

There seem to be several versions of him, but his real life persona "...shares an office with writer Richard Curtis and radio and TV presenter Mariella Frostrup."

Can you imagine what an office with those three in it must be like?