Quote O' The Day

[Peelz]

Funyun:  pringles delicious.. even the plain originals they so salty
Funyun:  once i get like 1/2 through or whatever i just shake the shit out of it crunch them bitches up real small
then drink that shit and swallow them whole


genius

[Krandall]

"Whenever men are not obliged to fight from necessity, they fight from ambition." -Niccolo Machiavelli


This quote is from Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy, a book of political philosophy whose conclusions are much less Machiavellian than those endorsed in his more famous The Prince. "Nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything," Machiavelli writes in Discourses. "The desire being always greater than the acquisition, their results discontent with the possession and little satisfaction... as men desire, some to have more, some in fear of losing their acquisition, there ensues enmity and war."

[Krandall]

"This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants." -Walt Whitman


This quote is part of a litany that appears in the preface to Whitman's 1855 magnum opus Leaves of Grass. "All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman, it is enough," he writes.

[Krandall]

no idea what he's talking about....

[Today at 12:11:58 PM] PeelsSE2: MD pullin out was the final straw though

[Peelz]

no idea what he's talking about....

[Today at 12:11:58 PM] PeelsSE2: MD pullin out was the final straw though

not sure what to tell ya....I felt cheap 

[Krandall]

"A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having." -George Horace Lorimer


Lorimer was a well-known American magazine editor. He took over The Saturday Evening Post, which at the time sold about 2,000 copies a year, in 1899, and by the time he retired from that position in 1936, he had grown that number to three million. Lorimer also published several books, including Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son, from which this quote comes. "You'll read a good deal about 'love at first sight' in novels, and there may be something in it for all I know; but I'm dead certain there's no such thing as love at first sight in business," wrote Lorimer. "There's nothing comes without calling in this world, and after you've called you've generally got to go and fetch it yourself."

[Krandall]

"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it."



-Charles Dickens
Dickens is of course one of the most well-known authors of all time, and one of the few who remains as famous today as he was in his era. Less remembered today is the fact that Dickens was a legitimately influential social critic, whose Oliver Twist was nearly scandalous in its day for its frank depiction of poverty.

[Peelz]

[Today at 12:47:21 PM] del ban Hefe: who here hasn't drank their own pee?


bombshell of an admission...though not TOTALLY surprised by it. 

[Hefe]

the REALLY surprising part...
someone on this forum used the word "THEIR" properly

[dragonz]

when consoling a Grammar Nazi, pat them on the back while wispering in their ear "the'ye, there, their".....................

[Krandall]

^

[Krandall]

"The destiny of all men is not to sit in the rubble of their own making but to reach out for an ultimate perfection which is to be had... If you want to prove that GERD is not dead, first prove that man is alive." -Rod Serling


Before Rod Serling became a famous screenwriter and television personality in the 1960s, he had already lived a remarkable life. He'd enlisted in World War II straight out of high school, where he had tried his hand at boxing (during basic training, he won 17 of his 18 bouts). Serling's regiment saw heavy fighting, and he was wounded in combat; he was later awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. By the time Vietnam rolled around, Serling was vocal in his opposition to that conflict, which is one of the themes of the speech from which this quote comes (given at Moorpark College, December 3, 1968).

[Peelz]

Randy got filter fuked! 

[Krandall]

"Men do not escape from life because life is dull, but life escapes from men because men are little." -Thomas Wolfe


This line is from Wolfe's most famous book, Look Homeward, Angel, a mostly autobiographical coming-of-age story. "Eugene was no rebel. He had no greater need for rebellion than have most Americans, which is none at all. He did not want to reform the world, or to make it a better place to live in: his whole conviction was that the world was full of pleasant places, enchanted places, if he could only go and find them. ...He felt that the passions of the play were greater than the actors. It seemed to him that he had never had a great moment of living in which he had measured up to its fulness."

[Krandall]

"Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly." -Tennessee Williams


This quote is spoken by Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams' most famous play (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948). The original performance was a constellation of talent: On top of Williams' writing credit, the play was directed by Elia Kazan, one of the most influential directors on Broadway, and starred Jessica Tandy and a 24-year-old Marlon Brando, who had driven to Williams' house to audition for the part and also performed some home repairs. The play would help launch both their careers; Tandy won a Tony award, and Brando was nominated for Best Actor for the film version of the play. The opening-night production of Streetcar was met with half an hour of sustained applause.