Quote of the Day - 2

[StalkeR]

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard Shaw

 

[johnwillyums]

I only did to you what the sparrow
did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be
young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh.
I hated you when it would have taken less courage
to love. - Charles Bukowski, As The Sparrow

Just spotted this quoted on Facebook by Brian-blackroseMD1. It's got a lovely melancholic tone to it, just had to put it on here.

 

[A Guy]

Success and failure are the same impostor
~Rudyard Kipling

A Guy

 

[TheReaper]

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_life.html#ixzz1NX4eV4jq
William Wallace
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[Irene]

"My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it."

~ Buddy Hackett
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[Layback Bear]

Getting older is a great thing considering the alternative.
Layback Bear

 

[Irene]

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

~ Madeleine L'Engle​

 

[StalkeR]

More of me comes out when I improvise.
Edward Hopper

 

[rbeldua]

"Shopping is better than sex. At least if you're not satisfied, you can exchange it for something you really like."

--Adrienne Gusoff--

 

[A Guy]

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. ~Henny Youngman

A Guy

 

[Irene]

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humour to console him for what he is."

~ Sir Francis Bacon
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[JMH]

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.


William Shakespeare.
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[rbeldua]

"Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born?"

--Benny Hill--

 

[noobvious]

"Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born?"

--Benny Hill--

That is brilliant!

 

[BrightBlessings]

"O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength! But it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. William Shakespeare " "Measure for Measure," Act II, Scn. II

 

[zigzag3143]

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Comte DeBussy-Rabutin​

 

[JMH]

"Every person,
all the events of your life,
are there because you have drawn them there.
What you choose to do with them is up to you."

Richard Bach.
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[johnwillyums]

Oh yes it will. Rip Gil-Scott Heron.

"You will not be able to stay home, brother./You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out./You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,/Skip out for beer during commercials,/Because the revolution will not be televised."
— Gil Scott-Heron

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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/501707.So_Far_So_Good

 

[seavixen32]

I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.
Anon.

 

[johnwillyums]

The Constitution
A noble piece of paper
With free society
Struggled but it died in vain
And now Democracy is ragtime on the corner
Hoping for some rain
Looks like it's hoping
Hoping for some rain

Gil-Scott Heron-Winter In America