BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: saulgoldie
Date: 07 Oct 11 - 08:58 PM

From Kathy Mattea:

You've got to sing like you don't need the money,
Love like you'll never get hurt,
You've got to dance like nobody's watching,
It's gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work.



Saul

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 07 Oct 11 - 08:42 PM

Bureaucracy is the art of rendering the simple impossible.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: autolycus
Date: 01 Oct 11 - 07:15 AM

Found this easily enough

The post is at
http://forum.quoteland.com/eve/forums?q=Y&a=tpc&s=586192041&f=785191641&m=8361979722
I contacted Mr. Purkey asking him (here is the beginning of my message to him):
Are you the author of a quote that goes something like:
"Dance like no one is watching,
Work like you don't need the money..."

and this is his reply:

Dear John,

Thanks for your note regarding the quote. It is
obvious that the theme has worked its way through many minds.
I certainly want to give credit to those who have tinkered with this beautiful concept.
My version follows. I am sure that most of the words are mine.
"You've gotta' dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt.
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth."
(And speak from the heart to be heard.)
Hope this helps.
Best wishes,

William W. Purkey

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: Musket
Date: 30 Sep 11 - 01:42 PM

Live like there's no tomorrow,
Love like you've never been hurt,
Dance like nobody's watching,
and fuck like you're being filmed.

(A mate of mine in Dublin.)

I actually like the words of Andy Capp, a cartoon strip in The Daily Mirror years ago, created by Reg Smythe, who said, amongst other gems "One half of the world is trying to have fun and the other half are trying to stop them."

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: autolycus
Date: 29 Sep 11 - 07:19 PM

Novelist David Foster Wallace about television.

"Who would want to live when you can watch?"

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: autolycus
Date: 28 Sep 11 - 05:09 AM

you're welcome.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: autolycus
Date: 27 Sep 11 - 11:41 AM

Simon Cameron was Lincoln's Minister of State for War. It says here.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: autolycus
Date: 27 Sep 11 - 04:24 AM

' I have "distrust all those in whom the urge to punish is strong" as being by Goethe.'

According to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 14th ed., it's Nietzsche, from Thus Spake Zarathustra, part 2 ch.29.

It is there in those words in my copy of Zarathustra, translated by Thomas Common.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: autolycus
Date: 27 Sep 11 - 03:55 AM

"Was it Al Capone who said "An honest Politician is one who stays bought" ? "

According to "Quotations with an Attitude. A Wickedly funny source book" by Roy L. Stewart, that was said by one Simon Cameron [1799-1889].

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 Sep 11 - 12:26 AM

I'd have sworn I posted on this one years ago but................so here are two that I think of daily:

"And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep"....... Lord Byron (George Gordon)

"There is only what is;what should be never existed." ....Leonard A. Schneider, Stand-Up Philosopher


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: Leadfingers
Date: 24 Sep 11 - 07:48 PM

Was it Al Capone who said "An honest Politician is one who stays bought" ?

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 11:47 PM

I would not wish to log on to any site which would welcome posts from me.

Not Groucho Marx

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: Van
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 11:44 PM

Kendal
I have "distrust all those in whom the urge to punish is strong" as being by Goethe.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: autolycus
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 01:15 AM

The cynic definition is, indeed, Mencken's.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: Smokey.
Date: 20 Sep 11 - 12:12 AM

"Normal? If you are normal I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from 'Now We Are Six' through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So there."

(Vivian Stanshall, My Pink Half of the Drainpipe)

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: mrdux
Date: 19 Sep 11 - 11:55 PM

"A cynic is someone who, when he smells flowers, looks for the coffin."

i have that as a Mencken quote.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Sep 11 - 11:34 AM

"In shallow waters, shrimps make fools of dragons."   
   - Chinese Proverb

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 19 Sep 11 - 10:36 AM

Who originally described life as "a sexually transmitted condition with 100% mortality rate"?

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: autolycus
Date: 19 Sep 11 - 05:42 AM

"an unacknowledged part of us has been actively creating this apparent outside 'fate' all along, but without our conscious understanding."   Prudence Jones.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 19 Sep 11 - 04:06 AM

Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher
Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter
So let the imprisoned Larks escape and fly
Singing about her head, as she rode by.
               
·Robert Graves·

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 18 Sep 11 - 10:07 PM

"If we, as a global audience, focus solely on violence and militarism, we reinforce the notion that they are the most effective form of action. On the other hand, if we pay more attention to nonviolent or unarmed efforts, we strengthen the legitimacy and influence of those choosing to use these means." .....Julia Bacha executive director Just Vision


... biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 18 Sep 11 - 08:45 PM

"Be careful not to speak clearer than you think."
I heard Howard Baker say it but I'm not sure whose it is.
It might be good advice for Michelle Bachman.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: saulgoldie
Date: 18 Sep 11 - 08:26 PM

That's a pretty big thought, Bill.

Saul

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Sep 11 - 08:21 PM

"Most people would rather live with a problem they cannot solve, rather than accept a solution they cannot understand."

Robert Woolsey

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: autolycus
Date: 15 Sep 11 - 03:30 AM

The man always has the last word in any argument. "Yes, dear."

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: Smokey.
Date: 14 Sep 11 - 07:33 PM

The right answer to "Does my bum look big in this?" is "It looks perfect".

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: Midchuck
Date: 14 Sep 11 - 07:17 PM

Strive every day to be at least half as good as your dog believes you to be.

Or, if you can't manage that, to live up to your cat's expectations with regard to the quality of your service to her...

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 14 Sep 11 - 02:02 PM

Strive every day to be at least half as good as your dog believes you to be.

Source unknown to me.

Lying is anathema to me, but when my wife asks "Does my bum look big in this?" I shall reply "No Dear".

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 14 Sep 11 - 01:27 PM

Watch closely he in whom the need to punish is strong. (?)

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: autolycus
Date: 14 Sep 11 - 11:20 AM

To sit a risk is as dangerous as to stand a risk.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: kendall
Date: 13 Sep 11 - 09:15 PM

Getting on your feet means getting off your ass.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 13 Sep 11 - 09:14 PM

Failure is not an option....I's an integral part of the package.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: autolycus
Date: 13 Sep 11 - 05:12 AM

"All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening" , is usually attributed to Alexander Woollcott in Dictionaries of Quotations, an area I collect.


A cynic is someone who, when he smells flowers, looks for the coffin. [Source required.]

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 12 Sep 11 - 08:12 PM

The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue.        -Anonymous

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. -Andy Rooney

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous,
he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.                        - Mark Twain

"Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends"
~George Bernard Shaw

The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."
~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Our grandchildren will ask us one day: Where were you during the Holocaust of the animals? What did you do against these horrifying crimes? We won't be able to offer the same excuse for the second time, that we didn't know.. -Dr. Helmut Kaplan

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: GUEST,roderick warner
Date: 12 Sep 11 - 07:44 PM

'A complex God is less likely to rally violent mobs.' Jaron Lanier.

And slightly at variance maybe:

'that eternal dissent

and the ravages of

faction are preferable

to the voluntary

servitude of blind

obedience'

from 'The Protestant View' by the great, late Edward Dorn...

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: GUEST,Uncle_DaveO
Date: 12 Sep 11 - 03:44 PM

Lies: "A lie is a sin, and a shame . . . and an ever-present help in time of trouble."
       Adlai Stevenson

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: kendall
Date: 12 Sep 11 - 12:17 PM

When in Rome, do as the Romanians do. (G. Bush)

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: Don Firth
Date: 12 Sep 11 - 01:01 AM

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
                                                                                                                                           --W. C. Fields

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: Smokey.
Date: 11 Sep 11 - 11:01 PM

Idleness is the grandmother of invention.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: GUEST,Bert
Date: 11 Sep 11 - 06:11 PM

Give me a key and I'll play in any flat. - Jack Fallon

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: kendall
Date: 11 Sep 11 - 04:47 PM

When all your relationships become battle ships it's time to change course.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 11 Sep 11 - 10:41 AM

Thanks, Lighter. Yes, Prohibition seems a good suggestion re the 'illegal', indeed.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 11 Sep 11 - 09:28 AM

MtheGM, the most likely coiner was the theater critic Alexander Woollcott. According to an article in the Reader's Digest in 1933, he said more than once, "All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening."

Woollcott rarely gets credit because he's no longer famous.

The inclusion of "illegal" raises the possibility - no more than that - that he was thinking of Prohibition, in effect in the U.S. from 1920 through 1933.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 11 Sep 11 - 05:33 AM

No-one seems quite sure who first said "Everything nice is either illegal, immoral or fattening". I have heard both Dorothy Parker & W C Fields put forward as candidates.

But, whoever said it, there it is ...

~Michael~

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: Smokey.
Date: 10 Sep 11 - 06:33 PM

Very true, Autolycus.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: autolycus
Date: 10 Sep 11 - 05:59 PM

The one about "What doesn't kill me makes me stronger" is untrue because, apart from those killed, there are others who get weakened woithout dying.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: Smokey.
Date: 10 Sep 11 - 03:46 PM

What doesn't kill me makes me stranger. (trad)

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 10 Sep 11 - 03:25 PM

"What does not kill me makes me so miserable that I wish were dead."
--Mad magazine.

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: Midchuck
Date: 10 Sep 11 - 12:50 PM

Heilein's idea (later) of not being sexist was to write women being exactly like men

Then why did he say: Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.?

...But then again he did say some good things:

Such as:

Rub her feet.

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.

Political tags--such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and. so forth--are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.

But enough. Google "notebooks of Lazarus Long" and decide for yourself.

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: Great Quotes - relevant to today's world
From: Mrrzy
Date: 10 Sep 11 - 12:29 PM

Heilein's idea (later) of not being sexist was to write women being exactly like men (never too busy for a little squeeze-titty etc). That is sexist to me, I like my women womanly.

But then again he did say some good things:

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." (still sexist but I like it.)

"The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract."

"Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again."

Then here are some more from Ingersoll:

"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."

"Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself."

and

"Anger blows out the lamp of the mind."