BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise

Subject: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: GUEST, Eb
Date: 11 Dec 11 - 07:36 PM

In sorting some of my papers today I came across some long-unseen thoughts that interested me. Maybe some other 'Catters would add some of their own?

* Hairdressers never fade, they just dye away - from Eb
* Why does popcorn pop? Conversely, why doesn't all corn pop?
* "I'd say that you hit the nose right on the head." Overheard
* And there he stayed, doing nothing, just standing on his ass." Overheard
* "After you have seen Alaska, every place else looks like Texas." Read somewhere.
* The same kid who talked of his "old man" is married now and speaks of his "old lady". In both instances, he is referring to authority. from Eb
* After listening to a tape of my mando playing. I quipped: "Not bad. I've heard better, but then, who hasn't?"

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Joe_F
Date: 11 Dec 11 - 09:51 PM

The first five in my list:

||: Everything you do costs money, dissipates heat, and makes :||
||: crumbs.                                                    :||

||: "How singular!" said the Gaussian, cautiously approaching a :||
||: delta function.                                              :||

||: Only a unique solution need have all the symmetries of the :||
||: problem.                                                    :||

||: Most of the evil in the world comes from nature, and most :||
||: of the ugliness comes from art.                            :||

||: When tempted to make a generalization about Christians, try :||
||: it out on Communists, and vice versa.                        :||

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 12:28 AM

C ..Don't Bb but B#, but B natural.

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 01:09 AM

Mustn't overlook Dorothy Parker's famous observation that ~ Everything nice is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

Ms Parker (+ others of her Alogonquin circle) were the masters & mistresses of this sort of observation: as well as Dr Johnson, Wilde, Shaw, &c.

I take as something of a watchword the exceptionally simple principle whereby Kingsley Amis's Jim Dixon ('Lucky Jim)' ordered his being — i.e., that nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

~Michael~

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: GUEST, Eb
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 03:29 AM

"Most of the evil in the world comes from nature, and most of the ugliness comes from art." Joe F   

I don't follow that reasoning, Joe F- I don't see nature as evil but as artless and pragmatic.   

One thing that has often occurred to me - especially when rhapodizing over some singularly beautiful thing - is that we are programmed to see some things as beautiful. Had we been programmed differently we would find mud, for instance, more fascinating than blue sky.

MichaeltheGM, I agree with Amis that nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 10:15 AM

"... nice things are nicer than nasty ones."

I'd bet he got that from the original in the Li'l Abner comic strip where Mammy Yokum used to say, "Good is better'n Evil, 'cause it's nicer!"

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 10:16 AM

"Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race."   - Albert Einstein

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: autolycus
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 11:40 AM

One of many favourites

Defintion of maturity. That's what you do after you've tried everything else.

Love to know the source.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Midchuck
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 11:48 AM

I like Albert Schweitzer: "There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."

I also like Sartre's "L'enfer, c'est les autres," (usually translated as "Hell is other people.") But that may say more about what was wrong with Sartre, and is wrong with me, than any universal truth.

My favorite collection of aphorisms is Heinlein's "Notebooks of Lazarus Long," which appeared as "Intermissions" in his "Time Enough for Love." Here's a link.

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: autolycus
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 12:26 PM

If it is true that "Hell is other people", then I don't know if it occurred to Sartre that he was therefore hell to at least some others in his own turn.

If he did, it would be interesting to know if that realisation affected his thinking, behaviour or feelings in any way, and if so how.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Midchuck
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 12:57 PM

He might have derived some consolation from the idea.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 01:03 PM

A camel is a horse designed by a committee.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 01:30 PM

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change." ~ Charles Darwin

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 01:36 PM

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change." ~ Charles Darwin

And reiterated by successful politicians.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: GUEST, Eb
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 01:39 PM

The above was I. For some reason, this Macintosh will not let me stay logged in.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Joe_F
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 04:52 PM

Eb: To say that most evil comes from nature is not the same as to say that nature is evil.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Bert
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 07:24 PM

...Had we been programmed differently we would find mud, for instance, more fascinating than blue sky....

We find familiar things beautiful, otherwise a tree would be a seen as an alien monster.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Bert
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 07:25 PM

And we can't talk about quotes without mentioning Lazarus Long.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: s&r
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 08:29 PM

As you get older - never pass a toilet (john), never waste an erection and never trust a fart


Stu

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 10:29 PM

||: When tempted to make a generalization about Christians, try :||
||: it out on Communists, and vice versa.                        :||

Or on this forum at least the evangelical atheists.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 13 Dec 11 - 01:49 PM

regarding political prominence--
"the higher a monkey climbs, the more of its butt is visible."

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Joe_F
Date: 13 Dec 11 - 07:56 PM

Here are five more:

||: Hogamus, higamus, Men are polygamous. :||
||: Higamus, hogamus, Women, monogamous.   :||

||: You shall love your crooked neighbor :||
||: With your crooked heart.             :||

||: Suicide: bridging the gap between abortion and euthanasia. :||

||: Failure of imagination is a weak form of courage and a :||
||: strong form of cowardice.                               :||

||: The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but :||
||: queerer than we can suppose.                           :||

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Bert
Date: 13 Dec 11 - 09:42 PM

Everything I needed to know, I learned on Mudcat.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Allen in Oz
Date: 13 Dec 11 - 10:01 PM

" Hell is one's self"

"Hell is other people ...so is Heaven "

"Everything I needed to know , I learnt in Kendergarten" ( saying please and thank you, looking both ways before crossing the road etc)

AD

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: EBarnacle
Date: 13 Dec 11 - 10:23 PM

"The river runs all the way to the sea." Stated by Eric Russell in a meeting where some people were complaining about an organization getting outside its specified area and widely quoted in print in the organization's letters and publications

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Bert
Date: 13 Dec 11 - 10:38 PM

...
"The river runs all the way to the sea."...

Not the Medway!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 13 Dec 11 - 11:53 PM

The Medway is a tributary of the Thames, reaching it just at its estuary. Bert's objection could apply to any tributary; but eventually one of the parent rivers into which it, or in turn its parent &c, flows, will reach the sea. So, in that sense...

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: autolycus
Date: 14 Dec 11 - 03:48 AM

We do not see the world as it is but as we are. [Jewish proverb]

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 14 Dec 11 - 04:24 AM

Fool me once; shame on you. Fool me twice; shame on me.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Acorn4
Date: 14 Dec 11 - 09:01 AM

A wet duck never flies at night.

There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philately.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: frogprince
Date: 14 Dec 11 - 11:18 AM

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside a dog, it's too dark to read." (Groucho)

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Dec 11 - 11:44 AM

"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality." -Dante

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Bert
Date: 14 Dec 11 - 03:19 PM

I know MtheGM, I know, I was just having fun.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: GUEST, Eb
Date: 14 Dec 11 - 03:46 PM

The ultimate sexism: She's not pretty enough to be that dumb.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Raedwulf
Date: 14 Dec 11 - 04:29 PM

"Spontaneity works best when practiced beforehand" - Me!

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 14 Dec 11 - 05:55 PM

The trouble with punctuality is that there is never anyone else there to appreciate it. {Previously published as letter in The Times, but my own SFAIK}.

My grandfather always said that it was better to look a fool with an umbrella on a dry day than to look a fool without an umbrella on a wet day.

My father brought me up to the principle, which I try always to follow, that half-an-hour early is better than half-a-minute late: obviously true with regard to trains &c; but a good maxim re appointments also IMO.

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Joe_F
Date: 15 Dec 11 - 04:49 PM

Five more:

||: We only of Creation (Oh, luckier bridge and rail!)    :||
||: Abide the twin-damnation -- To fail and know we fail. :||

||: Many are born impatient; the lucky ones become cabdrivers. :||

||: Successful systems accumulate parasites. :||

||: The world goes its way past all who will not partake of its :||
||: folly.                                                       :||

||: Feather warcast: sighs in the heaventies, reariods of pain. :||
||: Fairies of Ogga.                                             :||

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: frogprince
Date: 15 Dec 11 - 06:26 PM

"What this country needs is more men with real two-fisted guts on their shoulders"

Actually that sprung from my own fevered brain some years ago. More recently I ran it by one of the most macho-obsessed dudes I've ever met; he just nodded and agreed with me heartily, apparently fully convinced that I'd actually said something.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 12:22 AM

As I mentioned on the Things·People·Say thread, my late wife Valerie once exclaimed most vehemently in her sleep

"The people must be kept awake ~~ and amused".

She had no recollection of what dream had led to the exclamation, or what contextual significance it might have had. But I think it would do as a good principle as an MO for governments &c to adopt ~~ cf the Romans' determination to provide the plebs ["the people"] with panem et circenses.

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 03:13 AM

"What this country needs is more men with real two-fisted guts on their shoulders"frogprince

lol Kind of like standing around on one's ass but messier.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 04:03 AM

"Everything Takes Longer!"
I think this one is mine, but could be mistaken.
It isn't the same as "Everything takes longer than you think it will", because that assumes that it is taking longer relative to some arbitrary estimate. Past experience tells me that in reality it will take even longer than that...

Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 04:56 AM

One of GM's Laws is ~~ It won't get better after the interval.

And this thread is perhaps an appropriate case to post yet again, just in case there is a Catter in the Universe who hasn't seen it before, my Boring Old Fart's Credo ~~ to which, at nearly 80, feel self entitled:   viz that my Literature shall be Comprehensible;   my Art Representational;   my Music Tonal: naught else shall penetrate my perception-zone. —


~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: autolycus
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 01:33 PM

20% of the population is against everything.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 11:51 AM

This last reminds me that Theodore Sturgeon's indispensable Law Of Science Fiction, so readily extrapolable to any form of discourse, should surely figure on this thread:

viz, that ~~

90% of Science Fiction is rubbish, because 90% of everything is rubbish.

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: kendall
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 11:56 AM

50% of the population is below average.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 12:54 PM

That's obviously wrong.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Midchuck
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 01:29 PM

I have seen many paraphrases of Sturgeon's Law, but that's the first one I've seen that used a term as mild as "rubbish."

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 09:50 PM

Kendall either is ignoring me or hasn't been back to this thread, but it isn't possible for 50% of the population to be below average.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: autolycus
Date: 18 Dec 11 - 05:22 AM

A quick glance at the wiki entry for Average suggests that it will depend which 'average' you are using.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Raggytash
Date: 18 Dec 11 - 08:28 AM

Mean, Mode and Median will all give different results.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Musket
Date: 18 Dec 11 - 08:43 AM

One half of the world is trying to have fun, the other half are trying to stop them.

(Andy Capp, as written by Reg Smythe. Not sure where he got it though!)

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Micca
Date: 18 Dec 11 - 09:29 AM

Witches in Glass houses shouldn't go Skyclad

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Jeri
Date: 18 Dec 11 - 10:36 AM

"50% of the population is below average."

Median and mode definitely would not make the above consistently true.
Mean also wouldn't. If 50% are below average, I'm guessing Kendall might say the other 50% were above. That can't be right, either, and probably has less of a chance of being right than with median or mode.

Micca, would you really be "skyclad" if you were wearing a glass house?

"Every generalization is false, including this one." --att Mark
Twain
"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down." --Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Joe_F
Date: 18 Dec 11 - 01:56 PM

Five more:

||: Deficient contact with reality is called mania. Excessive :||
||: contact with reality is called depression.                  :||

||: We console ourselves by giving good advice when we are too :||
||: old to set a bad example.                                  :||

||: When there's no news in the truth, there's no truth in the :||
||: news.                                                       :||

||: Better to shut your mouth and be thought a fool than open it :||
||: and remove all doubt.                                        :||

||: The church is near, but the road is icy; the tavern is far, :||
||: but I'll go carefully.                                       :||

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 18 Dec 11 - 02:02 PM

Reg Smythe's Andy Capp to his wife Flo ~~

"Listen, woman. You'd be a better wife if you'd stop trying to make me a better husband."

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: GUEST,strad
Date: 19 Dec 11 - 11:40 AM

Sorry, Geoff the Duck. First saw "Everything takes longer" as the winner of a competition in (AFAIR) Playboy magazine in about 1981. Or was that you???

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: autolycus
Date: 20 Dec 11 - 03:07 AM

"If you keep on doing what yu've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got."

Source would be welcome.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Dec 11 - 06:22 AM

It's crazy to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 31 Dec 11 - 02:46 PM

It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon-pie and eat you up.

'A saying'

Quoted in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Ed T
Date: 31 Dec 11 - 02:59 PM

""I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it"".George Carlin

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Joe_F
Date: 31 Dec 11 - 05:24 PM

Five more:

||: A carnivorous mammal is bound to have mixed feelings about :||
||: a helpless animal.                                          :||

||: Sex is an impediment to reproduction whose function is to :||
||: complicate life.                                           :||

||: Be sincere: fool yourself first. :||

||: Those of you who think you know it all are a source of :||
||: amusement to those of us who do.                        :||

||: If wishes were horses, there would be an easy explanation :||
||: for all this horseshit.                                    :||

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Jan 12 - 03:40 PM

All during my early career I flew by this banner: "When they said it couldn't be done, what they meant was that 'they' couldn't do it. We can." And I did, and that's how come I got the Big Bucks back then!

This proverb a friend just passed along today is much shorter-- very elegant:

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person
doing it." ~ Chinese proverb

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Jan 12 - 08:01 PM

"The hardest thing in the world- to know how to do something, and to watch someone doing it wrong, and to say nothing!"

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Feb 12 - 02:03 PM

My brother passed this Mark Twain gem on to me, yesterday:

"First God created idiots. That was for practice. Then he made proofreaders!"

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 06 Feb 12 - 07:14 PM

"A woman marries believing her husband will change. A man marries believing his wife won't change.

Both are wrong!" (Author unknown to me)

______________________________________________________________________

"Abroad is unutterably bloody, and foreigners are fiends"

Geoffrey Willans ("1066 and All That")

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Feb 12 - 07:37 PM

"Science is the organized skepticism in the
reliability of expert opinion". — Richard Feynman

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Feb 12 - 07:50 PM

"Her imagination began writing checks that her intellect couldn't cash."

Paul Lutus

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: kendall
Date: 06 Feb 12 - 08:14 PM

Jeri :-)

The veil that hides the future is woven by the hand of mercy.

Why are there so many more horse's asses than horses?

Humor is the opiate of the melancholy (Me)

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Joe_F
Date: 06 Feb 12 - 08:48 PM

||: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle :||
||: if it is lightly greased.                                     :||

||: What sticks to the spoon doesn't get stirred. :||

||: Ambition is the wish to be the top worm in the can. :||

||: A man is only a woman's way of inseminating another woman. :||

||: Imprudent sexual activity completes the life cycles of many :||
||: pests.                                                       :||

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Feb 12 - 12:18 AM

----"Abroad is unutterably bloody, and foreigners are fiends"

Geoffrey Willans ("1066 and All That")

Don T. ----

.,,.

I take it this is meant as some sort of joke, Don. But, just in case not, all the attributions are wrong. The quote is from Nancy Mitford's 'The Pursuit Of Love', spoken by the narrator's Uncle Matthew, who was based on Mitford's father, Lord Redesdale. '1066 & All That' was by Sellar & Yeatman. Geoffrey Willans wrote the 'Molesworth' books.

Gardyloo

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Bert
Date: 07 Feb 12 - 03:34 AM

...Humor is the opiate of the melancholy...

Nice one Kendall!!

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: kendall
Date: 07 Feb 12 - 08:34 AM

Thanks, and it's spot on.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Amos
Date: 07 Feb 12 - 10:00 AM

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Gertrude Stein

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Feb 12 - 10:28 AM

umm.. from that, I see why she was included in this limerick.

"There's a notable clan, yclept Stein.
There's Gertrude, there's Ep and there's Ein.
   Gert's prose has no style,
   Ep's statues are vile.
And nobody understands Ein."

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Joe_F
Date: 07 Feb 12 - 08:33 PM

||: How lucky that all the war criminals were on the losing :||
||: side!                                                    :||

||: Assholes have their uses. :||

||: The doctorate, which once meant you could start teaching, :||
||: now means you can stop learning.                           :||

||: The difference between people & cats is that cats know what :||
||: people are for.                                              :||

||: The starting point of conversation is contradiction. :||

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: John P
Date: 07 Feb 12 - 10:10 PM

I care not for a man's religion whose dog is not the better for it. - Abraham Lincoln

If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of progress? - Mark Twain

We do not know what we do not know. - ??

49% of all statistics are made up on the spot. - me

There are two kinds of people: those who think there are two kinds of people and those who don't. - ??

The only thing worse than a man who apologizes with flowers is a man who doesn't apologize with flowers. - Mae West

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 08 Feb 12 - 08:01 PM

""The quote is from Nancy Mitford's 'The Pursuit Of Love', spoken by the narrator's Uncle Matthew, who was based on Mitford's father, Lord Redesdale. '1066 & All That' was by Sellar & Yeatman.""

You are right about Sellar & Yeatman (my mistake), however the quote does appear in "1066 and all that" which is where I saw it , never having read Mitford.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 09 Feb 12 - 12:16 AM

Don ~~
'Redesdale was an instinctive xenophobe: he came back from World War I with a dislike of the French and a deep hatred of the Germans. He was widely quoted as saying that: "Abroad is bloody". As Uncle Matthew put it in The Pursuit of Love: "Frogs are slightly better than Huns or Wops, but abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.' wikipedia entry on Lord Redesdale
.,,.
Can you give me a '1066+' ref for this quote, as I do not recall it there? Perhaps, tho you haven't read Mitford, it has filtered down to you AS a quote & sounded to you like a bit of Sellar & Yeatman?

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Feb 12 - 12:48 AM

I can't find the attribution but I like:

The secret to a happy old age is a bad memory.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: kendall
Date: 09 Feb 12 - 09:35 AM

Those who think yhey know everything really annoy we who do.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 09 Feb 12 - 12:36 PM

""And it still comes back to the question: what is good and evil? Who defines it? For the Buddhist, you 'create your own reality', and that includes your morals--what you believe to be good or bad.""

I recall it very vividly and you do not recall it at all. I don't dispute its use by Mitford, but I certainly didn't get it from that source in any manner at all.

To be honest, I don't care enough to re-read a book I enjoyed some 55 years ago just to settle a nit picking detail.

So have it your way!

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 09 Feb 12 - 12:38 PM

Sorry Mike, the copy didn't take and I got the wrong paste. Just ignore that bit.

Don T.