BS: Obscure quotations

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: GUEST,randy
Date: 08 Oct 15 - 07:52 PM

God this place is boring. What ever happened to fhe spirited discussions that used to happen here? This whole place is obscure.

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Mrrzy
Date: 08 Oct 15 - 04:23 PM

"You can be in my dream if I can be in yours" - I said that.

Said Dylan.

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Oct 15 - 11:03 AM

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
- Mark Twain, quoted by Rudyard Kipling in "From Sea to Shining Sea"

Irreverence is the champion of liberty. -- Mark Twain, 1888.

Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon -- so long as there is no answer to it -- gives claws to the weak.                --George Orwell, 1945

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act [of 1878] to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.                --Mohandas Gandhi

A rifle this hand will never fire.
                         --Mohandas Gandhi, given a rifle during his service in the Ambulance Corps in WWI.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it. --A. Lincoln, 6 Apr 1859

Once you learn to read you will be forever free. --Fredrick Douglass

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Oct 15 - 10:32 AM

I know many things about several modes of 'nothing'.

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Oct 15 - 09:54 AM

"I want to know more and more about less and less, until I know everything about nothing." --??

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Ed T
Date: 07 Oct 15 - 04:25 PM

"I want to be a professional boxer. But I won't wear gloves, because I like the way cardboard feels." 
― Jarod Kintz, If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: JHW
Date: 07 Oct 15 - 03:12 PM

I said "For richer, for poorer; in sickness and in health".
I never said anything about home all day every day.

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Oct 15 - 11:56 AM

I don't discern any other meaning... and I don't know any Althea Butler. It sure feels wrong to me!

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re: revolutions

"I advocate a semi-revolution.
The trouble with a total revolution
(Ask any reputable Rosicrucian)
Is that it brings the same class up on top.
Executives of skillful execution
Will therefore plan to go halfway and stop.
Yes, revolutions are the only salves,
But they're the one thing that should be done by halves."

Robert Frost

an answer, by Oscar Williams

"I advocate a total revolution.
The trouble with semi-revolution,
It's likely to be slow as evolution.
Who wants to spend the ages in collusion
With Compromise, Complacence and Confusion?
As for the same class coming up on top,
That's whole cloth from the propaganda shop;
The old saw says there's loads of room on top,
That's where the poor should really plan to stop.
And speaking of those people called the "haves",
Who own the whole cow and must have the calves
(And plant the wounds so they can sell the salves)
They wont be stopped by doing things by halves.
I say that for a permanent solution
There's nothing like a total revolution.

P.S. And may I add by way of a conclusion,
I wouldn't dream to ask a Rosicrucian."

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Mr Red
Date: 07 Oct 15 - 11:52 AM

said among the women of Bletchley Park during WW2. There were many more men than women and regarding the chances of finding a suitor:

"The odds are good, but the goods are odd".

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: frogprince
Date: 07 Oct 15 - 11:36 AM

Please tell me that the quote at 11:08 has a meaning other than what would seem obvious to many Americans.

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: GUEST,Althea Butler
Date: 07 Oct 15 - 11:08 AM

"If only there was a coon of the year award"

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 07 Oct 15 - 05:44 AM

The older I get the better I used to be at things.

(posted by Gobby O'Gobbo 3 hours ago on TheSession discussion forum - with apologies to Gobby if he sees this!)

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 06 Oct 15 - 09:51 AM

"Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes."
Sam Vimes, Night Watch (Pratchett)

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Mr Red
Date: 06 Oct 15 - 04:25 AM

"We are the people our parents warned us about" - Augustus John, painter

My favourite from who knows who
"History repeats itself, it has to, nobody is listening"
GBS said something wordier but essentially the same message.

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 06 Oct 15 - 02:42 AM

" The trouble with normal is it always gets worse"! Bruce Cockburn

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Oct 15 - 10:51 PM

"We do not know what we do not know."
-I've see this variously attributed to Wittgenstein, Confucius and Donald Rumsfeld. Oddly profound.

"If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around."
-Will Rogers

"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

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: GUEST,Sol
Date: 05 Oct 15 - 03:00 PM

"Sex at my age is like shooting pool with a piece of rope." - George Burns

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Bert
Date: 05 Oct 15 - 01:32 PM

Things that don't alter, remain as they are.

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: G-Force
Date: 05 Oct 15 - 09:43 AM

You can be in my dream if I can be in yours.

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Ed T
Date: 05 Oct 15 - 09:36 AM

""We learn from history that we do not learn from history""

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Ed T
Date: 05 Oct 15 - 09:28 AM

""Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair."" 
― George Burns

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Ed T
Date: 05 Oct 15 - 09:26 AM

""What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?""
― Mahatma Gandhi

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Mr Red
Date: 05 Oct 15 - 08:03 AM

"Political satire is more difficult than poetry."

hmm "Point of Order", Mr Speaker, "Point of Order", could I point to Trump, Berlusconi & Farrage for starters.

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 05 Oct 15 - 06:17 AM

Probably the most politically astute quote came from the Italian author, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, when he has his main character in his novel, 'The Leopard', say, on observing the Garibaldi Revolution; "Things are going to have to change if they are going to remain the same".
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Oct 15 - 03:36 AM

"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea." --Eric Cantona, footballer and philosopher.

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: GUEST,Gestes
Date: 04 Oct 15 - 10:21 PM

Come and take it  

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Oct 15 - 08:11 PM

For one thing it keeps on being overtaken by reality. For example Donald Trump.

Subject: BS: Obscure quotations
From: gnu
Date: 04 Oct 15 - 08:04 PM

Just saw Ralph Nader in a movie about Saturday Night Live (US TV comedy show) say "Political satire is more difficult than poetry."

I found that profound.

BTW, Nader is one of my all time heroes.