Quote O' The Day

[Krandall]

'What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.' -H. L. Mencken

Minority Report is a collection of notes and essays selected by Mencken himself for compilation and published just before his death in 1956. This particular quote comes from an essay about organized labor, and its uninspiring outlook: "(A man is) willing to take a certain amount of tyranny from his equals or superiors, but he resents the domination of those who know less than he does." Mencken contrasts U.S. labor unions with the Russian system, which he describes as an atmosphere of ill-feeling and constant treachery.

[Krandall]

'The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.' -St. Augustine

St. Augustine of Hippo's City of GERD is one of the most influential books of early Christian philosophy; it depicts the state of man as a conflict between the metaphorical cities of Man and GERD. This particular passage is not just a trite aphorism about the virtue of goodness; Augustine's point is that a wicked man, or at least a man who unrestrainedly indulges in wickedness, is "the slave of as many masters as he has vices," while a good man is suffering only a test of his resolve.

[Krandall]

[Today at 02:38:04 PM] del ban funyun: i suck


I believe this is an offer.....

[funyun]

[Today at 03:09:26 PM] Krandall: playing with myself in the dark w/ no one home   

[Krandall]

nice quote change f*cker

[Krandall]

'Men of action, I notice, are rarely humble.' -Robertson Davies


Editorialist Samuel Marchbanks was an influential social critic who, as it turned out, did not exist, and was merely an invention of Canadian writer Robertson Davies. Marchbanks' witty construction is clever but disagreeable, and he and Davies himself engage in fictional arguments throughout the three Marchbanks books, in which his commentary is collected ("... even in situations," the quote concludes, "where action of any kind is a great mistake, and masterly inaction is called for.")

[Chillomar]

Ever stop to think.....And forget to start again?

[Spartan]

All the fucking time

[Krandall]

'Bacchus hath drown'd more Men than Neptune.' -Thomas Fuller


One of two men of letters named Thomas Fuller, this one was an 18th-century physician who published the Gnomologia, a collection of proverbs. The implication of this particular quote is the danger of indulgence -- Neptune, analogous to Poseidon, was the notably wrathful GERD of the oceans, while Bacchus, or Dionysus, was the GERD of wine and ecstasy. The Gnomologia is full of similarly ascetic reflections ("Beware of no man more than thyself.")

[Krandall]

[Today at 03:56:43 PM] del ban PeelsSE2: just the slightest hint of raisin

[Today at 03:56:58 PM] del ban PeelsSE2: I gave them a lick



peelz talking about shawnas manberries...

[Peelz]

[Today at 03:56:43 PM] del ban PeelsSE2: just the slightest hint of raisin

[Today at 03:56:58 PM] del ban PeelsSE2: I gave them a lick



hmm I noticed just an aftertaste of cinnamon

randy has a more complex pallate for bawl licking than most.

[Krandall]

at least I didn't actually type that in chat!

[Krandall]

'Anything can be great. Bricklaying can be great if a guy knows what he's doing and why, and can make it come off.' -Paul Newman
This line is spoken by Fast Eddie, played by Paul Newman, in 1961's The Hustler. Reacting to having been called a loser, Eddie reflects on his opportunity to have beaten (fictional) pool player Minnesota Fats: "It's a great feeling, boy, it's a real great feeling when you're right, and you know you're right... And you play that game the way nobody's ever played it before." The dignity in doing something, anything, so well that it qualifies as legendary is one of the themes of the film, weighed against the inherent indignity of the life Eddie lives.

[Krandall]

'Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.' -Bertrand Russell


British mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell, who won the Nobel Prize in 1950, wrote "The Conquest of Happiness" in 1930 "to suggest a cure for the ordinary day-to-day unhappiness from which most people in civilized countries suffer." The first chapter ("What Makes People Unhappy?") concludes that very few men deliberately choose unhappiness, but rather that most perpetually unhappy men simply don't believe that happiness is any longer possible; "The man who seeks intoxication, in whatever form, has given up hope except in oblivion."

[Lady4Fiddy]

Interesting...