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11 Dec 11 - 07:36 PM (#3272299) Subject: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: GUEST, Eb 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?" |
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11 Dec 11 - 09:51 PM (#3272357) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Joe_F 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. :|| |
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12 Dec 11 - 12:28 AM (#3272387) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity C ..Don't Bb but B#, but B natural. GfS |
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12 Dec 11 - 01:09 AM (#3272392) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: MGM·Lion 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~ |
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12 Dec 11 - 03:29 AM (#3272411) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: GUEST, Eb "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. |
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12 Dec 11 - 10:15 AM (#3272523) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Bill D "... 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!" |
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12 Dec 11 - 10:16 AM (#3272524) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Bill D "Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race." - Albert Einstein |
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12 Dec 11 - 11:40 AM (#3272574) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: autolycus One of many favourites Defintion of maturity. That's what you do after you've tried everything else. Love to know the source. |
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12 Dec 11 - 11:48 AM (#3272575) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Midchuck 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 |
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12 Dec 11 - 12:26 PM (#3272609) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: autolycus 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. |
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12 Dec 11 - 12:57 PM (#3272619) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Midchuck He might have derived some consolation from the idea. |
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12 Dec 11 - 01:03 PM (#3272622) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: MGM·Lion A camel is a horse designed by a committee. |
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12 Dec 11 - 01:30 PM (#3272631) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Dorothy Parshall "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change." ~ Charles Darwin |
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12 Dec 11 - 01:36 PM (#3272635) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: GUEST "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. |
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12 Dec 11 - 01:39 PM (#3272639) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: GUEST, Eb The above was I. For some reason, this Macintosh will not let me stay logged in. |
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12 Dec 11 - 04:52 PM (#3272759) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Joe_F Eb: To say that most evil comes from nature is not the same as to say that nature is evil. |
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12 Dec 11 - 07:24 PM (#3272835) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Bert ...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. |
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12 Dec 11 - 07:25 PM (#3272836) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Bert And we can't talk about quotes without mentioning Lazarus Long. |
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12 Dec 11 - 08:29 PM (#3272879) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: s&r As you get older - never pass a toilet (john), never waste an erection and never trust a fart Stu |
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12 Dec 11 - 10:29 PM (#3272916) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Jack the Sailor ||: 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. |
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13 Dec 11 - 01:49 PM (#3273225) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: dick greenhaus regarding political prominence-- "the higher a monkey climbs, the more of its butt is visible." |
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13 Dec 11 - 07:56 PM (#3273372) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Joe_F 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. :|| |
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13 Dec 11 - 09:42 PM (#3273408) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Bert Everything I needed to know, I learned on Mudcat. |
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13 Dec 11 - 10:01 PM (#3273413) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Allen in Oz " 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 |
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13 Dec 11 - 10:23 PM (#3273421) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: EBarnacle "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 |
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13 Dec 11 - 10:38 PM (#3273423) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Bert ... "The river runs all the way to the sea."... Not the Medway!!! |
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13 Dec 11 - 11:53 PM (#3273436) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: MGM·Lion 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~ |
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14 Dec 11 - 03:48 AM (#3273469) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: autolycus We do not see the world as it is but as we are. [Jewish proverb] |
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14 Dec 11 - 04:24 AM (#3273477) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: MGM·Lion Fool me once; shame on you. Fool me twice; shame on me. |
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14 Dec 11 - 09:01 AM (#3273584) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Acorn4 A wet duck never flies at night. There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philately. |
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14 Dec 11 - 11:18 AM (#3273668) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: frogprince "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside a dog, it's too dark to read." (Groucho) |
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14 Dec 11 - 11:44 AM (#3273684) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Bill D "The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality." -Dante |
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14 Dec 11 - 03:19 PM (#3273802) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Bert I know MtheGM, I know, I was just having fun. |
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14 Dec 11 - 03:46 PM (#3273815) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: GUEST, Eb The ultimate sexism: She's not pretty enough to be that dumb. |
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14 Dec 11 - 04:29 PM (#3273829) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Raedwulf "Spontaneity works best when practiced beforehand" - Me! |
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14 Dec 11 - 05:55 PM (#3273872) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: MGM·Lion 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~ |
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15 Dec 11 - 04:49 PM (#3274388) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Joe_F 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. :|| |
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15 Dec 11 - 06:26 PM (#3274449) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: frogprince "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. |
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16 Dec 11 - 12:22 AM (#3274593) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: MGM·Lion 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~ |
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16 Dec 11 - 03:13 AM (#3274630) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: GUEST "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. |
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16 Dec 11 - 04:03 AM (#3274638) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Geoff the Duck "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. |
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16 Dec 11 - 04:56 AM (#3274650) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: MGM·Lion 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~ |
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16 Dec 11 - 01:33 PM (#3274942) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: autolycus 20% of the population is against everything. |
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17 Dec 11 - 11:51 AM (#3275486) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: MGM·Lion 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~ |
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17 Dec 11 - 11:56 AM (#3275489) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: kendall 50% of the population is below average. |
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17 Dec 11 - 12:54 PM (#3275519) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Jeri That's obviously wrong. |
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17 Dec 11 - 01:29 PM (#3275531) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Midchuck 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 |
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17 Dec 11 - 09:50 PM (#3275751) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Jeri 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. |
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18 Dec 11 - 05:22 AM (#3275876) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: autolycus A quick glance at the wiki entry for Average suggests that it will depend which 'average' you are using. |
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18 Dec 11 - 08:28 AM (#3275933) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Raggytash Mean, Mode and Median will all give different results. |
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18 Dec 11 - 08:43 AM (#3275943) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Musket 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!) |
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18 Dec 11 - 09:29 AM (#3275961) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Micca Witches in Glass houses shouldn't go Skyclad |
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18 Dec 11 - 10:36 AM (#3275993) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Jeri "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. |
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18 Dec 11 - 01:56 PM (#3276088) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Joe_F 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. :|| |
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18 Dec 11 - 02:02 PM (#3276092) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: MGM·Lion 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~ |
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19 Dec 11 - 11:40 AM (#3276570) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: GUEST,strad 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??? |
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20 Dec 11 - 03:07 AM (#3276983) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: autolycus "If you keep on doing what yu've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got." Source would be welcome. |
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20 Dec 11 - 06:22 AM (#3277057) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: GUEST It's crazy to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide. |
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31 Dec 11 - 02:46 PM (#3282561) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: MGM·Lion 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 |
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31 Dec 11 - 02:59 PM (#3282573) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Ed T ""I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it"".George Carlin |
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31 Dec 11 - 05:24 PM (#3282634) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Joe_F 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. :|| |
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05 Jan 12 - 03:40 PM (#3285401) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: wysiwyg 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 |
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05 Jan 12 - 08:01 PM (#3285518) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Bill D "The hardest thing in the world- to know how to do something, and to watch someone doing it wrong, and to say nothing!" |
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06 Feb 12 - 02:03 PM (#3303183) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: katlaughing My brother passed this Mark Twain gem on to me, yesterday: "First God created idiots. That was for practice. Then he made proofreaders!" |
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06 Feb 12 - 07:14 PM (#3303356) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Don(Wyziwyg)T "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. |
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06 Feb 12 - 07:37 PM (#3303371) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Bill D "Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion". — Richard Feynman |
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06 Feb 12 - 07:50 PM (#3303382) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Bill D "Her imagination began writing checks that her intellect couldn't cash." Paul Lutus |
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06 Feb 12 - 08:14 PM (#3303401) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: kendall 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) |
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06 Feb 12 - 08:48 PM (#3303416) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Joe_F ||: 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. :|| |
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07 Feb 12 - 12:18 AM (#3303503) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: GUEST ----"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~ |
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07 Feb 12 - 03:34 AM (#3303531) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Bert ...Humor is the opiate of the melancholy... Nice one Kendall!! |
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07 Feb 12 - 08:34 AM (#3303647) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: kendall Thanks, and it's spot on. |
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07 Feb 12 - 10:00 AM (#3303687) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Amos A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. Gertrude Stein |
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07 Feb 12 - 10:28 AM (#3303710) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Bill D 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." |
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07 Feb 12 - 08:33 PM (#3304056) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Joe_F ||: 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. :|| |
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07 Feb 12 - 10:10 PM (#3304103) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: John P 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 |
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08 Feb 12 - 08:01 PM (#3304622) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Don(Wyziwyg)T ""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. |
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09 Feb 12 - 12:16 AM (#3304702) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: MGM·Lion 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~ |
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09 Feb 12 - 12:48 AM (#3304712) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Ebbie I can't find the attribution but I like: The secret to a happy old age is a bad memory. |
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09 Feb 12 - 09:35 AM (#3304858) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: kendall Those who think yhey know everything really annoy we who do. |
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09 Feb 12 - 12:36 PM (#3304953) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Don(Wyziwyg)T ""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. |
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09 Feb 12 - 12:38 PM (#3304955) Subject: RE: BS: Aphorisms & Quotes- Original & Otherwise From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Sorry Mike, the copy didn't take and I got the wrong paste. Just ignore that bit. Don T. |