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09 Mar 00 - 08:29 PM (#192760) Subject: Thought for the day - March 9th From: McGrath of Harlow (Well, it's actually March 10th by now where I am, but Mudcat time rules...)
Silence is the unberable repartee (Chesterton) |
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09 Mar 00 - 08:59 PM (#192772) Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the day - March 9th From: katlaughing And my husband is a Master at it! |
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09 Mar 00 - 10:50 PM (#192835) Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the day - March 9th From: Bill D "When I say nothing, I don't necessarily mean nothing." Ashleigh Brilliant...."Potshots" |
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09 Mar 00 - 11:52 PM (#192871) Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the day - March 9th From: Little Neophyte I love silence. It is amazing what it will produce. Ever see the movie Being There? People will make the most interesting assumptions based on your silence. You can also save yourself a great deal of energy by allowing some of the drama to float on by. Little Neo
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09 Mar 00 - 11:56 PM (#192874) Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the day - March 9th From: katlaughing Ah, Chance the Gardener...thanks for the reminder, LilPhyte |
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09 Mar 00 - 11:58 PM (#192876) Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the day - March 9th From: Bill D "Being There" is a classic!...I would watch it once a year just to remeind myself |
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10 Mar 00 - 02:54 AM (#192939) Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the day - March 9th From: bseed(charleskratz) |
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10 Mar 00 - 02:55 AM (#192940) Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the day - March 9th From: bseed(charleskratz) There! How eloquent was that? --seed |
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10 Mar 00 - 03:14 AM (#192943) Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the day - March 9th From: thosp i love coffee i like tea java java java java it likes me peace (Y) thosp |
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10 Mar 00 - 04:55 AM (#192953) Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the day - March 9th From: GUEST,John Gray / Australia Hey McGrath, you're not reading from 5000 Quotations For All Occasions are you ? ( Please don't tell me that my copy isn't the only 1952 print left in the world ! ) Two quotes above Chesterton's is the ominous one by Pope Boniface VIII, "silence gives consent". I trust I'm never so afflicted. |
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10 Mar 00 - 07:45 AM (#192968) Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the day - March 9th From: Little Neophyte Charles, your home! |
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10 Mar 00 - 08:31 AM (#192972) Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the day - March 9th From: Crowhugger Ah, so it was the Pope who decided that silence means acquiesence, and not resistance! |
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10 Mar 00 - 09:36 AM (#192993) Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the day - March 9th From: Ringer "Least said, soonest mended." "Silence is golden." My father, born 1888, a farmworker, had many old saws, one of which was "If I've note to say I say note" (Nottingham dialect, not Yorkshire), which still strikes me as worthy of emulation. (He would also say, in approbation, "You'll mek a man before yer Mother" (pronouncing "Mother" as spelt, not "muther"), and, in disapprobation, "Yer like an old man wi' a wooden leg made a' smoke"). kat: I think most wives regard their husbands as taciturn (I know mine does); we, for our part, tend to think our wives garrulous. |
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10 Mar 00 - 12:59 PM (#193097) Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the day - March 9th From: annamill thosp, One of my favorite songs called "Java Jive" I love coffee, I love tea, I love the Java Jive and it loves me. Hubba Hubba Hubba Hub boy. YES! I have "Being There" in my collection. Of course I'm now the proud owner of 12,000 tape. I probably have it a couple of times ;-) One of my favorites. I've often wondered how often in real life this happens. Actually, this movie may have been intrumental in they way I question everything and do not except it all at face value. "is this real??" Love, annap |
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10 Mar 00 - 04:03 PM (#193188) Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the day - March 9th From: McGrath of Harlow "Silence presumes consent" - it was a pretty general legal position, and I think it still applies, in certtain situations.
Makes a lot of sense in certain situations. For example if you know someone is committing some kind of crime, and don't make any objection, you have to be some kind of accomplice, unless you've got strong grounds for it.
For example when your government is engaged in some kind of unjust war.
(No John, I haven't got that compendium. I've got a lot of books by Chesterton. Like Shakespeare, he's full of quotations - open any page and you find yourself saying "so that's where that comes from.")
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