Quote O' The Day

[Krandall]

"A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man." -Paul Gauguin


The 19th-century French painter only really became an influential figure after his death. During his lifetime, Gauguin rejected materialism and the art-scene bourgeoisie; he eventually fled the West entirely and spent the rest of his life in French Polynesia. This line comes from The Writings of a Savage. Gauguin added: "I have worked and put my life to good use, even intelligent, courageous use. Without crying. Without tearing anything, though I had very good teeth."

[Krandall]

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on." -Robert Frost


Four-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Frost was perhaps the most famous poet of his era; he served as the national poet laureate and was invited to perform a reading at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy. He wrote a poem for the occasion called Dedication, but the ink from his typewriter was too faint for the 87-year-old Frost to read, so he recited The Gift Outright instead, from memory. ("We gave ourselves outright... To the land vaguely realizing westward, but still unstoried, artless, unenhanced, such as she was, such as she would become.")

[Krandall]

[Today at 11:11:13 AM] preddy08: I've had Cox for almost 4 and its the same

[Krandall]

[Today at 11:08:54 AM] Flaming Hot Funyun: bet you love cox huh

[Today at 11:09:10 AM] Spartan: Who doesn't love Cox?

[Spartan]

[Today at 04:36:55 PM] Flaming Hot Funyun: i liked a butthole
[Today at 04:36:58 PM] Flaming Hot Funyun: but i plugged my nose
[Today at 04:37:02 PM] Flaming Hot Funyun: so im not 100% sure on the taste

[Krandall]

"In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her." -Marcel Proust


This line is from the first volume of In Search of Lost Time (originally translated as Remembrance of Things Past), Proust's magnum opus. The massive, seven-volume work begins with Swann's Way (the source of this quote), which was rejected repeatedly before it finally found a publisher. "At this time," the quote continues, "the life of a man has already been wounded more than once by the darts of love; it no longer evolves by itself, obeying its own incomprehensible and fatal flaws, before his passive and astonished heart."

[Krandall]

"It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you." -Ernest Hemingway


"But if you do it year after year," Hemingway continues, "then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings." This quote comes from A Portrait of Mr. Papa, an article appearing in Life magazine, and one to which Hemingway only agreed because the fee from writing it would send the journalist's son to college.

[Krandall]

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." -Charles Darwin


This line comes from Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle, which won the scientist international renown. "I loathe, I abhor the sea and all ships which sail on it," Darwin wrote after traveling the ocean for nearly five years and is very clearly homesick. "I can now walk soberly through a Brazilian forest; not but what it is exquisitely beautiful, but now, instead of seeking for splendid contrasts, I compare the stately mango trees with the horse-chestnuts of England."

[Krandall]

"Talk to a man about himself, and he is generally captivated. That is the real way to win him." -Benjamin Disraeli.


This quote is from Disraeli's Coningsby, the second in a trilogy of political novels Disraeli wrote before his ascendancy in politics; he ultimately became the first and only British Prime Minster of Jewish descent. The quote continues: "The only difference between men and women in this respect is, that most women are vain, and some men are not. There are some men who have no self-love; but if they have, female vanity is but a trifling and airy passion compared with the vast voracity of appetite which in the sterner sex can swallow anything, and always crave for more."

[dragonz]

"vast voracity of appetite which in the sterner sex can swallow anything, and always crave for more"
sounds like a script for the average raptor rally....................

[Krandall]

"Every woman is just a different kind of problem." -Chuck Palahniuk


This quote appears in Choke, the Fight Club author's fourth work. The novel follows a protagonist who spends his life working as a historical re-enactor in Colonial Dunsboro, scamming hopeless marks in restaurants by pretending to choke on his food and frequenting sexual addiction support groups. "All my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people," Palahniuk wrote in the introduction to Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories. "Whether it's a ranch in Montana or basement apartment with ten thousand DVDs and high-speed Internet access, it never fails. We get there, and w

[Krandall]

"Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid." -William Faulkner


The short story "The Bear" appears in Faulkner's collection Go Down, Moses. The seven stories are all interrelated; the collection is often treated as a novel, despite the fact that most of the stories were initially published as stand-alone short fiction. This line is spoken by the protagonist Isaac as he remembers the words of his mentor, Sam Fathers: "Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be."

[Spartan]

[Today at 12:49:36 PM] Geo: wut does a lesbian taste like
[Today at 12:49:38 PM] Pedophile Peelz: dick

epic timing

[Krandall]

"It is by little things that we know ourselves." -Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.


This quote comes from his The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, a series of essays. Holmes also wrote that our souls might be interchangeable if not for the "individual experiences which differ from those of others only in details seemingly trifling... One could never remember himself in eternity by the mere fact of having loved or hated, but the accidents or trivial marks which distinguished those whom we loved or hated make their memory our own forever, and with it that of our own personality also."

[Peelz]

well you should really know yourself then...nobody's thing is littler than yours