Reply With Quote"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."
-- Hemingway.
Best wishes,
Bob
"The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. " Baltasar Gracián
“He said, Master! Master! Speed up. These dogs might bite us' ... 'Be quiet, when the dogs bark it is because we are working.” Don Quixote and Sancho
"Sancho Panza: I thought your name was Alonso Quixano.
Don Quixote: I know who I am, and I know that I am perfectly capable of being whom I choose to be."
"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."
-- Hemingway.
Best wishes,
Bob
Here's another. Not so much a quote, but a short passage from a book. The tenor of it has stayed with ever since I first read it. And, indeed, it has informed my work.
CS Lewis, That Hideous Strength, p 136.
Best wishes,That was the first thing Mark had been asked to do which he himself, before he did it, clearly knew to be criminal. But the moment of his consent almost escaped his notice; certainly, there was no struggle, no sense of turning a corner. There may have been a time in the world's history when such moments fully revealed their gravity, with witches prophesying on a blasted heath or visible Rubicons to be crossed. But, for him, it all slipped past in a chatter of laughter, of that intimate laughter between fellow professionals, which of all earthly powers is strongest to make men do very bad things before they are yet, individually, very bad men.
Bob
"Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God's grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and the West Indies and the millions in Africa to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life."
Marcus Garvey, from his "First Message to the Negroes of the World From Atlanta Prison"
A few of my favourites...
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery." Winston Churchill
"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem." Milton Friedman
"We, and all others, who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees." FDR
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." Thomas Jefferson
"For every action there is an equal and opposite government program." Bob Wells
"Going to war without the French is like going deer hunting without your accordion." Norman Schwartzkopf
"The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time" Ayn Rand
"A society that robs an individual of the product of his efforts...is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule." Ayn Rand
"Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon." Winston Churchill
"The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan
"All of these stars... these vast worlds that remain out of reach. If I could, I would annex other planets." Cecil Rhodes
"The more laws, the less justice." Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The perfect form of government is democracy tempered by assassination." Voltaire
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools." Herbert Spencer
"I can only properly enjoy carol services if I am having an illicit affair with someone in the congregation." Alan Clark
"I looked with pity not untinged with scorn upon these trivial-minded passers-by"
Women - if they didn't have fannies we'd throw rocks at them.
"At Cambridge they create martyers - at Oxford they create the people that cause them - Stephan Fry.
" Better to burn-out than to fade away" - the Kergon - Highlander.
"AMF Baby" - a American friend sinking a 30 ft putt :D
"Faint heart never fuc*ed a Parriot" - another friend talking about 220 yard shot over some water.
"You never see the the tree that kills you" - Anon, but known by every 911 owner.
"If you don't wanna fu*k me baby - then baby fu*k off" - not sure who said it (poss from a song)
"A man who never makes a mistake is a man who makes nothing"
Andy
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Originally Posted by Andyg
Wayne County and the Electric Chairs.
"Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining" :D
The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires...
I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said "that's a clever anagram of art" and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.
Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.
A lot of people never use their initiative because nobody told them to
Banksymus Maximus (BANKSY)
The greatest mistake you can make in this life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
Another Banky Fan - excellent. My Screen saver.
Andy
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I went to the same primary school as "Banksy" and he was in the same class as my sister and cousin who he later designed an album cover for, absolutely amazes me it took the press so long to find out his real name.
"I looked with pity not untinged with scorn upon these trivial-minded passers-by"
"No"
Eddie Platts :wink:
could not stop laughing when I read this in his book; "wall and piece":
Another Banky Fan - excellent. My Screen saver.
Andy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4563751.stm
Anything by Gene Hunt :D
Peter
Useful thread. In getting the passage from CS Lewis, I had to look through the relevant book, [i]That Hideous Strength[i], and when getting it out, I got out the others in the series as well (Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra). So, I reread them.
Best wishes,
Bob
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