Quote O' The Day

[Krandall]

"My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were." -Cormac McCarthy


This quote is written in Cormac McCarthy's traditional style, eschewing most punctuation and using spelling that reflects the spoken style of the character (of punctuation, the writer has famously expressed his reluctance to "blot the page with weird little marks"). The above quote, from >i>No Country For Old Men, (spoken by Sheriff Ed Tom Bell) continues: "And if you done something wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you're sorry and get on with it. Dont haul stuff around with you. I guess all that sounds pretty simple today. Even to me. ...I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late."

[Krandall]

"Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day." -Romain Rolland


Romain Rolland was a French novelist and dramatist and is most famous for Jean-Christophe, the ten-book bildungsroman from which this quote comes. "Leave your theories," the quote continues, "All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous. Do not abuse life. Live in to-day. Be reverent towards each day. Love it, respect it, do not sully it, do not hinder it from coming to flower. Love it even when it is gray and sad like to-day. Do not be anxious. See. It is winter now. Everything is asleep. The good earth will awake again. You have only to be good and patient like the earth. Be reverent. Wait. If you are good, all will go well. If you are not, if you are weak, if you do not succeed, well, you must be happy in that. No doubt it is the best you can do. So, then, why will? Why be angry because of what you cannot do? We all have to do what we can."

[Peelz]

[Today at 12:13:23 PM] del ban MagzSE2: mine are tiny too.


anyone else not surprised? 

[Krandall]

"Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day." -Romain Rolland


Romain Rolland was a French novelist and dramatist and is most famous for Jean-Christophe, the ten-book bildungsroman from which this quote comes. "Leave your theories," the quote continues, "All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous. Do not abuse life. Live in to-day. Be reverent towards each day. Love it, respect it, do not sully it, do not hinder it from coming to flower. Love it even when it is gray and sad like to-day. Do not be anxious. See. It is winter now. Everything is asleep. The good earth will awake again. You have only to be good and patient like the earth. Be reverent. Wait. If you are good, all will go well. If you are not, if you are weak, if you do not succeed, well, you must be happy in that. No doubt it is the best you can do. So, then, why will? Why be angry because of what you cannot do? We all have to do what we can."

[Krandall]

[Today at 04:05:15 PM] del ban PeelsBoat: i prefer the white caulk...less stretching

[Krandall]

Great liars are also great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler

[Krandall]

"A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it." - John Galsworthy


British-born novelist John Galsworthy is best remembered for his massive generational trilogy The Forsyte Saga, which has been adapted for movies and television a handful of times between 1920 and 2002. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932 and just in time -- he died not long after the announcement.

[Krandall]

"A truly great man can do anything. Only little men refuse." -Albert Schweitzer

A Nobel Prize-winning theologian and missionary, Schweitzer was known for his humanitarian work in Gabon (then French Equatorial Africa), where in 1913 he established a hospital that started as a two-room hut. The philosopher felt that his more important legacy was his tenet of "Reverence for Life," a phrase that occurred to Schweitzer as he traveled in Africa. Previous philosophies, Schweitzer argued, examined only man's relationship to man. "In reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the world and all life that comes within his reach. A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, and that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. Only the universal ethic of the feeling of responsibility in an ever-widening sphere for all that lives-only that ethic can be founded in thought."

[Krandall]

"You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it." -Henny Youngman


Henny Youngman was one of the most popular comedians in America for over sixty years. His career stretched from the late 1930s until his death in 1998; he worked all venues, of all sizes, tirelessly performing his rapid-fire routine. Dubbed "The King of One-Liners," Youngman perfected moving from setup to punch line within seconds in an era when jokes were almost exclusively much more drawn-out. ("My wife told me the car wasn't running well. There was water in the carburetor. I asked where the car was, and she told me it was in the lake.")

[Krandall]

"An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience." -Don Marquis


Marquis (pronounced mark'wis) was an American writer and humorist best known for two characters: Archy, a cockroach, and Mehitabel, a cat who was his best buddy. Marquis wrote 35 books in his career and was a regular columnist and contributor to The New York Tribune, The Saturday Evening Post, The New Yorker, and a number of other major rags of the day.

[Krandall]

"He's a gentleman: Look at his boots." -George Bernard Shaw


Pygmalion, from which this line originates, is one of Shaw's best-known plays. It centers on all the minor status symbols that define class. This line, in particular, is used to describe Henry Higgins, who describes his calling as a note taker: "Simply phonetics. The science of speech. That's my profession, also my hobby. Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby!"

[Krandall]

"In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the line hard." -Theodore Roosevelt


Roosevelt is among the greatest of US Presidents because he was an unflinching man of action.

At 42 he was the youngest president in the nation's history, thrown into the job when McKinley was assassinated. Instead of buckling under the pressure, he took the oath without a bible and remains the only president to do so. The first Jewish cabinet member served under him; the first black man to dine at the White House dined with him; he was the first American to win a Nobel Prize.

[Colorado700R]

Show me another "Sec. of the Navy" that leads his troops into combat....


BULLY!

[Krandall]

"Kill the other guy before he kills you." -Jack Dempsey

[Krandall]

"Have you ever met a man without wondering what shining sorrows he hides from the world, what contrast between vision and accomplishment torments him?" -Christopher Morley



In the American essayist's 1919 novel The Haunted Bookshop, he reflected on the torment of dreams not accomplished. He continued: "Behind every smiling mask is there not some cryptic grimace of pain?" The mind, he writes, "is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages. After sixty years or so of growing astonishment the mind wakes to find itself looking blankly into the void of death." Morley wrote over 100 novels and other works.