Favorite Quotes

[InfiniteNow]

"What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?"

 

~ Mahatma Gandhi

[InfiniteNow]

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

 

~ Duke Ellington

[Turtle]

Stirring doesn't muddy pure water.

- Roger Thelonious George -

[Turtle]

That's not tarnish on my reputation...it's a patina.

- Roger Thelonious George -

[Queso]

"the pleasure's all mine"

[Turtle]

There is no absconding the irony of the hostile crapulence prosecuted in the name of peace. - Roger Thelonious George

[InfiniteNow]

Too frequently, people confuse a desire for peace with pacifism.

[Pyrotex]

"Everything in the universe is composed of just three things:

matter, energy and consequences."

 

---------Nelson Thompson

[InfiniteNow]

The assassination of a visionary makes what they see or saw no less relevant or valid.

[InfiniteNow]

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

~ Michelangelo

[Turtle]

Old age is no place for sissies. - Bette Davis

[Turtle]

poet Robert Bly to journalist Charlie Rose when asked if he was happy: "I can't stand so much happiness."

[DougF]

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.

Henry David Thoreau

[Turtle]

There are few things more satisfying in old age than beating a child at a game they don't know. - Beatrix Teranna Goodwon

[DougF]

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Miguel de Cervantes

[DougF]

He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes. But he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.

Tom J. Connelly

[Buffy]

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent”

-- Issac Asimov

 

(H/T Firedoglake)

 

We're kicking *** in Iraq,

Buffy