Thought for the day

[2020hindsight]

Bill Clinton: If I'll not inhale, what's the point of putting it in my mouth ?

Adolf Hitler: I'll have the Rhinelands and that's it.

Michael Jackson: There is no such thing as a perfect face

 

[noirua]

Bill Clinton: If I'll not inhale, what's the point of putting it in my mouth ?

Adolf Hitler: I'll have the Rhinelands and that's it.

Michael Jackson: There is no such thing as a perfect face

noirua: One of my Great, Great, Great Grandfather's, Grandson's discovered the North West Passage in 1851.

 

[noirua]

Trust thee not in American caucus comment, for they pretend to be Presidential and of their own minds, but are there only to be all powerful and important. In death, they are remembered and the rest forgotten, their end however is the same.

 

[noirua]

Ne'er try to weather the storm, if your ability is not a painting but only a frame.

 

[2020hindsight]

Educate a man, you educate a man -
Educate a woman, you educate a family.

 

[noirua]

...you know what thought did, he only thought he did.

 

[Birdster]

It is said:

He who goes to bed with problem in hand, wakes up with solution on chest!

 

[noirua]

It fits like a Dutch boys finger in a leaky dike.

 

[noirua]

Death is but an easy event, it is the road to your death that will be difficult.

John (Jack) Ketch "Hanging Jack", executioner, 1668

 

[noirua]

...those who are annoyed and complain so often, send a message, a message to others as to how unhappy they are.

 

[2020hindsight]

Hey, if we want to mixture of happy, satire, serious and sad, try these

When the freedom that Rome aspired to was freedom from responsibility, Rome lost its freedom, and was never free again.

“In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Coliseum called the Caesarian Section” George Carlin

“When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Spanish writer, author of the masterwork 'El quijote', 1547-1616)

“While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; / When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; / And when Rome falls - the World.” Lord Byron (English Romantic poet and satirist, 1788-1824)

“I found Rome brick, I left it marble.” Augustus Caesar quotes

“You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason” Voltaire (French Philosopher and Writer. One of the greatest of all French authors, 1694-1778)

PS An old Colonel used to say "Humans (in particular soldiers) enjoy every emotion - except boredom"
PS I personally don't think he was right lol - as I told him at the time. I mean, pain and grief ?

 

[2020hindsight]

Ne'er try to weather the storm, if your ability is not a painting but only a frame.

Those who cherish too much, those who love too much, those who celebrate themselves too much, those who want respect too much, are those who might destroy all they stand for by sudden anger.

hey noi, do any of these thoughts come with any sort of pedigree?
or are you just making em up? (I'm guessing they have an author)

PS If they do have an author - and if you know it - it would really help if you added that bit of detail yes?

... those who are annoyed and complain so often, send a message, a message to others as to how unhappy they are.

lemme guess
George Bernard Shaw?
Shakespeare? lol

 

[2020hindsight]

“Wealth conquered Rome after Rome had conquered the world”
Italian Proverb

“All roads lead to Rome” ditto

 

[noirua]

hey noi, do any of these thoughts come with any sort of pedigree?
or are you just making em up? (I'm guessing they have an author)

PS If they do have an author - and if you know it - it would really help if you added that bit of detail yes?


lemme guess
George Bernard Shaw?
Shakespeare? lol

Hi 2020, Most of the time I make them up. It is possible that they once had an author and my fuzzy memory leans on this and I think it's only coming from my brain. If I know the author I always post their name.

Perhaps it all comes from my Irish, Scottish and Northumbrian descendants. I'm thinking now that I might have some Aboriginal descendants afterall with 1 billion dollars up for grabs.

 

[nioka]

Is inflation really only just a measurement of the value of the gap between value of the "things" we desire and the value of the effort we are prepared to put towards earning these things.

Inflation = Wants - Effort.

 

[2020hindsight]

Perhaps it all comes from my Irish, Scottish and Northumbrian descendants.

Like one of my brothers in law who reckons he's third Irish, third Scottish, and third crazy.

I'll let the other point go through to the keeper.

As for quoting quotes from memory - no probs - I have the same problem remembering the source - just don't make em too snide

PS Reminds me, I didn't post the author of a couple of mine - because I did them in a hurry in response to Prospector saying her mother was told that education would be wasted on the fairer sex.

Amazing this internet. When you google a few words you find what you're after in a second or three.

"If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman, you educate a family." - Rudy Manikan
PS I had this argument/discussion with another bloke once - who thought more along the lines of "education is wasted on women" - and one of his daughters went on to have brilliant education, (although he moaned about it all the way), has had brilliant career, and is a brilliant mother.

Moving along to the next idea...
"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." - Theodore Roosevelt

 

[noirua]

The more people try to hide the truth, the more painfull the discovery.

 

[noirua]

Getting involved to the point of trying to solve anothers problems can lead you to dig their hole for them, but it's you who ends up falling in it.

 

[noirua]

The faster you run and the longer you run, the bigger the distance covered. But why and to where are you running and are you on the correct route?

 

[Jett_Star]

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence

Martin Luther King Jnr