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Post by andydp on Jul 12, 2021 11:47:35 GMT
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
Gian Carlo Menotti
Best insult in a noir film: Raymond Burr, in Desperate -
“You’d have to study to be that stupid.”
Brilliant.
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Post by RichTBikkies on Jul 12, 2021 18:16:34 GMT
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance. Gian Carlo Menotti Best insult in a noir film. Raymond Burr in Desperate - “You’d have to study to be that stupid.” Brilliant. "Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull, but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature." Dr Johnson. |
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Post by andydp on Jul 13, 2021 11:32:43 GMT
Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
Claudius
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Post by andydp on Jul 13, 2021 11:36:00 GMT
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance. Gian Carlo Menotti Best insult in a noir film. Raymond Burr in Desperate - “You’d have to study to be that stupid.” Brilliant. "Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull, but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature." Dr Johnson. He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others. Samuel Johnson |
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Post by RichTBikkies on Jul 13, 2021 21:38:58 GMT
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others. Samuel Johnson In fact by Samuel Foote, reported by James Boswell in "Life of Johnson". I'm not a pedant, just a lover of accuracy.  |
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Post by RichTBikkies on Jul 13, 2021 23:13:24 GMT
EDWARDS (a college friend of Johnson): 'You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.'
From Boswell's Life of Johnson.
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Post by andydp on Jul 14, 2021 13:06:39 GMT
As long as we're on Dr Johnson:
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Samuel Johnson
Bonus:
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
Samuel Johnson
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Post by andydp on Jul 15, 2021 12:19:52 GMT
"Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion." (1)
Pope Francis
(1) it was a lot easier when the Pope didn't sound like a liberal commie socialist like Jesus.
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Post by andydp on Jul 16, 2021 13:06:02 GMT
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
William Shakespeare
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Post by andydp on Jul 17, 2021 10:52:31 GMT
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
Heraclitus
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Post by andydp on Jul 20, 2021 12:02:02 GMT
I was busy over the weekend, celebrating a friend's 65th and my 72nd so here's a quote I hope to be emulating:
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Germaine Greer
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Post by Traveler on Jul 21, 2021 1:43:25 GMT
If ever that explains me!
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Post by RichTBikkies on Jul 21, 2021 7:54:44 GMT
If ever that explains me! I get regular urges to get a T-shirt with the slogan Maturity Sucks. |
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Post by andydp on Jul 22, 2021 13:10:37 GMT
High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit — reptiles and eagles.
Jean le Rond d'Alembert
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Post by andydp on Jul 23, 2021 12:14:57 GMT
Talk about prescient !! (I came across this beauty while looking for the "official" daily quote.)
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
John Stuart Mill
It must be "find apppropriate dummy quotes" day.
The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Post by andydp on Jul 24, 2021 13:30:50 GMT
For some reason, I keep finding quotes about Tucker:
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happy quote of the day:
The happy man does not notice the flight of time.
Friedrich Schiller
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Post by andydp on Jul 27, 2021 13:53:10 GMT
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.William Cowper  In case you're wondering what a C8 Corvette ZO6 photo is doing here, yesterday Mr and Mrs AndyDP put a binder down to get our name on the list. Since production is not scheduled until sometime next year, I have time to build up my Corvette money fund. I will keep the members updated on the status, but don't expect to hear anything until next year.
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Post by andydp on Jul 28, 2021 12:50:15 GMT
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
Saint Augustine
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Post by RichTBikkies on Jul 28, 2021 16:01:59 GMT
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.William Cowper A tasty motor! I'm buying a new car shortly. Probably a Skoda Octavia. Most uncool — nay, square — but cheaper than that machine, and I've liked my present Octavia very much. |
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Post by andydp on Jul 28, 2021 18:56:53 GMT
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.William Cowper A tasty motor! I'm buying a new car shortly. Probably a Skoda Octavia. Most uncool — nay, square — but cheaper than that machine, and I've liked my present Octavia very much. On a happy note, Corvettes are now being made with right hand drive for those folks that drive on the wrong side. (I heard it was so the coach drivers did not get their hats knocked off by the hedges at the side of the road) |
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Post by andydp on Jul 29, 2021 11:24:07 GMT
Do "stable geniuses" count ?
He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.
Johann Ludwig Tieck
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Post by indy on Jul 29, 2021 13:15:29 GMT
Do "stable geniuses" count ?
It does if we are considering it to be those with an uncanny ability to shovel horseshit.
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Post by goldenvalley on Jul 29, 2021 16:30:51 GMT
Do "stable geniuses" count ?
It does if we are considering it to be those with an uncanny ability to shovel horseshit.
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Post by andydp on Jul 31, 2021 12:22:32 GMT
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
Galileo Galilei
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Post by indy on Jul 31, 2021 14:44:41 GMT
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Epictetus
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