Quotable Quotes

[BoSoxGal]

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
~ Madame de Staël

[ex-khobar Andy]

I chose neither.

SFSG.

[TPFKA@W]

What a baseless and narrow minded quote. Someone must be a miserable pessimist.

[Burning Petard]

Well I am now in my 80th decade and perhaps my memory is slipping, But I cannot remember any instance where I had to make that choice.

snailgate.

[BoSoxGal]

The thread is meant to be a place to post intriguing quotes that provide food for thought.

Carry on.

[BoSoxGal]

More from Madame de Staël:

The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.

[Econoline]

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941

[Econoline]

Male, female, nonbinary, transgender: at the end of the day, everyone's preferred pronoun is "I".

— The Tweet of God (https://twitter.com/TheTweetOfGod/status/1379631693712121856)

[Econoline]

“No matter what you believe, you will someday meet a complete idiot who agrees with you.”
— Alex Krislov

[Big RR]

"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance of things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice."

Artur Schopenhauer

[Sue U]

"The future ain't what it used to be."

--- L.P. Berra

[Jarlaxle]

A wasted youth is better, by far, than a wise and productive old age.
-Jim Steinman

[Gob]

“Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.”
Spike Milligan

[Econoline]

“You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
— Anne Lamott

[Econoline]

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

—— George Bernard Shaw

[Guinevere]

"Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine."
--
Isak Dinesen

[Big RR]

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Isaac Asimov

[MajGenl.Meade]

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

—— George Bernard Shaw

One of the most dumbshit quotes of all time. Typical of GBS to believe that only modern smart people could be moral and know right from wrong. Not to mention that the concept appears often but the word hadn't been coined. Damn communist!

[Econoline]

You never notice propaganda that you already agree with.
— David Brin

[Bicycle Bill]

"Truly, whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.   If the God‐​given understanding of your mind does not resist a demand to believe what is impossible, then you will not resist a demand to do wrong to that God‐​given sense of justice in your heart.”
   — Voltaire

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