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Post by andydp on Aug 9, 2021 11:49:20 GMT
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. **
Benjamin Franklin
** For current examples, see the FOX "News" lienups.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2021 12:50:33 GMT
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. **Benjamin Franklin ** For current examples, see the FOX "News" lienups. This forum has 22 fools. (My apologies to the Canadian TV program) |
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Post by andydp on Aug 10, 2021 13:17:02 GMT
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. ***
Livy
*** I keep telling my wife that.
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Post by andydp on Aug 11, 2021 18:07:44 GMT
Just wanted to go "light" today:
There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.
Raymond Chandler
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Post by andydp on Aug 12, 2021 16:50:03 GMT
A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Post by andydp on Aug 13, 2021 10:15:57 GMT
It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
In case you missed it: today is "Reinstatement Day". Does anyone know if Fox is going to cover it ?
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Post by andydp on Aug 14, 2021 11:40:08 GMT
A little of everything today:
Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale.
William Carlos Williams
In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.
Laozi
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Post by andydp on Aug 15, 2021 11:01:57 GMT
Basically a two fer about my life: Overeating and over speed.
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
Steven Wright
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Post by andydp on Aug 16, 2021 16:32:32 GMT
The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.
Socrates
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Post by andydp on Aug 17, 2021 12:14:20 GMT
A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
John Hancock
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2021 13:25:55 GMT
A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.John Hancock Said Atlas "Stop whinging". |
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Post by andydp on Aug 18, 2021 12:53:07 GMT
And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.
Nelson Algren
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Post by andydp on Aug 19, 2021 13:10:10 GMT
Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.
Zoroaster
Going along with that: "its no fun owning something if you can't share it."
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Post by andydp on Aug 20, 2021 12:41:15 GMT
Words of wisdom from the source:
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
Yogi Berra
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Post by RichTBikkies on Aug 21, 2021 10:43:34 GMT
Words of wisdom from the source: You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.Yogi Berra |
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Post by andydp on Aug 23, 2021 15:36:21 GMT
In case you were wondering...
I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.
Albert Brooks
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Post by andydp on Aug 25, 2021 20:18:17 GMT
"First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience."
Oliver Sacks
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Post by andydp on Aug 25, 2021 20:21:31 GMT
Oldie but a goodie. The "solitude" ends September 3. Hide your liquor !  |
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Post by andydp on Aug 26, 2021 13:23:04 GMT
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
Benjamin Jowett
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Post by andydp on Aug 27, 2021 18:17:51 GMT
There's nothing wrong with you that a little Prozac and a polo mallet can't cure.
Woody Allen
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Post by andydp on Aug 28, 2021 14:58:45 GMT
Wrong must not win by technicalities.
Aeschylus
Even a fool learns something once it hits him.
Homer
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Post by andydp on Aug 29, 2021 13:24:22 GMT
Some Sunday quotes:
Life is too short to be in a hurry.
Oscar Wilde
They say the Lord's Day is a day of rest, but those who preach this generally are not women.
Geraldine Brooks
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Post by andydp on Aug 30, 2021 12:58:27 GMT
To have joy, one must share it.
Lord Byron
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Post by andydp on Aug 31, 2021 12:03:35 GMT
Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.
Immanuel Kant
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Post by andydp on Sept 1, 2021 12:34:56 GMT
If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.
Pythagoras
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