And I quote...

[Flangepart]

"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
- G. K. Chesterton-

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
- G. K. Chesterton-

[ER]

Existence well what does it matter?
I exist on the best terms I can.
The past is now part of my future,
The present is well out of hand.

---Ian Curtis, from Heart and Soul, by Joy Division
(Good song, but ever notice how suicide suddenly makes someone's words seem artificially profound?)

[Trevor]

Preach it, Uncle John! 

[ER]

"The key to wisdom lies in understanding that we control but three things. Our mind. What we think with that mind. And the actions we take based on our thoughts."

---Epictetus

[Newt]

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. - George Bernard Shaw

[ER]

"Prove it!"

---Dora Winifred Read

Arthur, season four, episode four.



"Prove it! Prove it! Prove it! Prove it! Prove it! Prove it!"

--My daughter.

Who for some reason singled that line out from that show to now quote sixty-three trillion times an hour without drawing a breath.

[ER]

"It later came to light that Otto Thorbeck, the SS judge who sentenced Dietrich Bonhoeffer to be hanged in 1945, had read most of the same books as Bonhoeffer, had received an education very similar to Bonhoeffer's, had come from a strikingly similar family background, belonged to the same church, prayed devoutly to the same God, tested roughly the same IQ as Bonhoeffer, spoke the same language, and grew up not far from Bonhoeffer. Yet Thorbeck took the same education and circumstances, and turned his talents to cruelty, injustice, the service of evil. What is it that makes one man a saint, another man so otherwise like him, a monster?"

---J. Rufus Fears
Meditations

[ER]

"Before knowing that God is truth, first know that Truth is God."

--Bhagavad Gita (The Song of God)

[Flangepart]

[Newt]

Laws control the lesser man...right conduct controls the greater one.  - Mark Twain

[ER]

"To say that all things end is less true than to say all things are in a constant state of change."

--A Texan I once knew.

[ER]

"Silence is golden, except when you have small children in the house. Then it's suspicious."

---Erma Bombeck

[Flangepart]

[Newt]

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."  - Friedrich Nietzsche

[Newt]

 “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
- Elbert Hubbard (American editor, publisher and writer, 1856-1915)