Quote O' The Day

[Krandall]

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection." -Thomas Paine


This line is from "The Crisis No. I" published December 23, 1776, nearly one year after the publication of Common Sense. This was the first in a series of articles and it begins with the iconic phrase: "These are the times that try men's souls." Later, in a continuation of the above quote, Paine wrote: "'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

[Krandall]

"A man has to be something. He has to matter." -Hunter S. Thompson


This line is from The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, a collection of Thompson's correspondence from the '50s and '60s. In a letter to his friend Hume Logan, Thompson offered the following advice: "We do not strive to be firemen, we do not strive to be bankers, nor policemen, nor doctors. WE STRIVE TO BE OURSELVES... No one HAS to do something he doesn't want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that's what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You'll have lots of company."

[Krandall]

"I don't like work -- no man does -- but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself." -Joseph Conrad

This quote on the nature of work and identity was spoken by Marlow, the protagonist of Heart of Darkness. Conrad continued, "Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show and never can tell what it really means."

[Krandall]

[Today at 03:51:03 PM] del ban Krandall: I'm bannin everyone

[Today at 03:51:05 PM] del ban Krandall: except funyun

[Today at 03:51:07 PM] del ban Krandall: and pat

[Today at 03:51:08 PM] del ban funyun:

[Today at 03:51:10 PM] del ban Colorado700R:

[Today at 03:51:10 PM] del ban Krandall: cuz he cant hear me.

[Today at 03:51:12 PM] del ban funyun: woot

[Today at 03:51:12 PM] del ban Krandall:

[Today at 03:51:14 PM] del ban Geo:

[Today at 03:51:21 PM] del ban Geo: is he still alive?

[Today at 03:51:53 PM] del ban Colorado700R: he didnt here is alarm go off in the morning, he's been asleep for three weeks

[Krandall]

"Adventures do occur, but not punctually." -E. M. Forster


A Passage to India -- No. 25 in the Modern Library's list of the 100 greatest novels -- explores the cultural climate in India under British rule. It was Forster's last novel and arguably his greatest, complex in both its political themes and its modernist structure. "Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it," wrote Forster, "and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part."

[Krandall]

"All a man has is pride." -Ernest Hemingway


Hemingway started writing Islands in the Stream in 1950, initially as part of a trilogy that would conclude with The Old Man And The Sea. He completed the novel but never published it in his lifetime -- it was only released posthumously in 1970. "Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin," the quote continues, "We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care."

[Krandall]

"There was sadness in being a man, but it was a proud thing too." -Stephen Vincent Benet


Benet's story "The Devil and Daniel Webster" is a rendition of the Faust legend. It follows the trial of farmer Jabez Stone, who sold his soul to the devil and is being represented in court by a lawyer named Daniel Webster. This line is from Webster's dramatic closing speech, which begins with him "talking about the things that make a country a country, and a man a man... the freshness of a fine morning when you're young, and the taste of food when you're hungry, and the new day that's every day when you're a child. ...They were good things for any man. But without freedom, they sickened."

[phucker]

 Spartan: what's up marty? you're not getting any texts from me right now are you?

TWISTER: no? why?

Spartan: phone is phucking up

TWISTER: phone in the other room

Spartan: ok delete the pic without looking then, thx

Langford: pat send you a picture of his junk? 

phucker: BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Langford: another picture of his junk I should say...

Spartan: it might've sent 3 times

[Krandall]

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"Money is the poor man's credit card." -Marshall McLuhan


This oft-quoted line is a paraphrase of a heading in one of McLuhan's books, Understanding Media. The media theorist traced the roots of money ("when the Spaniards were besieging Leyden in 1574," he wrote, "leather money was issued, but as hardship increased the population boiled and ate the new currency"). McLuhan also argued that money has become less a function of work than a function of information: "Just as speech lost its magic with writing, and further with printing, when printed money supplanted gold the compelling aura of it disappeared."

[Krandall]

"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost." -Arthur Schopenhauer


"The man who seeks to do what is good and genuine, must avoid what is bad, and be ready to defy the opinions of the mob, nay, even to despise it and its misleaders," writes Schopenhauer in The Wisdom of Life. Hence, "Fame shuns those who seek it, and seeks those who shun it," and the only men who end up immortalized for their achievements pursued them out of passion, not as a means to an end. "The truth is that fame means nothing but what a man is in comparison with others," he concludes, contrasting fame with honor; "Fame is only an accident."

[Krandall]

"Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from." -Cormac McCarthy


The Crossing is the second book in McCarthy's Border trilogy, which begins with All The Pretty Horses and concludes with Cities of the Plain. McCarty, who grew up Catholic, is not religious in the traditional sense. ("I agree it is more important to be good than it is to be smart. That is all I can offer you," is how he described his spirituality in a 2009 interview.) However, McCarthy's work does feature characters who grapple with religion: "There was GERD and there was the world. He knew that the world would forget him but that GERD could not. And yet that was the very thing he wished for."

[Krandall]

"The soil of a man's heart is stonier... Bedrock's close. A man grows what he can... and he tends it." -Stephen King


This line is from Stephen King's 1983 bestseller Pet Sematary, a novel that almost wasn't published due to its dark nature. It is part of an ominous conversation between the book's protagonist, Louis Creed, and his mysterious neighbor Jud Crandall. "The things that are in a man's heart -- it don't do him much good to talk about those things, does it?" Jud asks rhetorically. "They are secret things. Women are supposed to be the ones good at keeping secrets, and I guess they do keep a few, but any woman who knows anything at all would tell you she's never really seen into a man's heart."

[Krandall]

"Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography." -Robert Byrne


Robert Byrne is a civil engineer, novelist and professional pool player. He was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame in 2001, the highest honor in billiards. In addition to his books on cue sports and his many novels, Byrne has also published seven books of quotations, which include sayings of his own. Also from The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said: "Getting caught is the mother of invention."

[Krandall]

[Today at 12:27:19 PM] del ban PeelsSE2: I could rock about 10 of those weiners....no lie

talking about a picture of the harlem globe trotters.

[Colorado700R]

Peels' dream is to be rear ended by the Oscar Meyer wienermobile