Quote of the Day - 2

[Dwarf]

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
~Ronald Reagan, in the Saturday Evening Post, 1965

 

[mickey megabyte]

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

William C. Dement, professor of psychiatry (b. 1928)

 

[Dwarf]

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

William C. Dement, professor of psychiatry (b. 1928)

Some of us are quietly and safely (?) insane during the day as well.

 

[Hopalong X]

Some of us are quietly and safely (?) insane during the day as well.

....and we meet here on the Seven7Forums.

 

[Devux]

"Don't try to be a great man; just be a man, and let history make its own judgments."
-Zefram Chchrane

 

[noobvious]

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

William C. Dement, professor of psychiatry (b. 1928)

Any chance this professor's surname is the origin of the word "demented"?

 

[mickey megabyte]

hehe - i noticed that too.

i think dementia is a latin word for 'madness, distraction, folly', or look here.

here's some more info on him, a sleep researcher.

Life ends when you stop dreaming, hope ends when you stop believing, love ends when you stop caring, friendship ends when you stop sharing... so share this with whom ever you consider a friend.

anon

 

[StalkeR]

I want to put a ding in the universe.
Steve Jobs

 

[A Guy]

I have acted fearless and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried that to be hypocritically immortalized.
~Davy Crockett

A Guy

 

[Dwarf]

I want to put a ding in the universe.
Steve Jobs

There's only one thing to be said about that...



What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
~Richard Harkness, quoted in the New York Herald Tribune, 1960.

If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit: no use being a damn fool about it.
~W. C. Fields

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
~H. L. Mencken, Sententiae, 1916.

 

[StalkeR]

Nice song Dwarf

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard

 

[Dwarf]

Apparently, Chuck Berry is 84 years old and still performing!

 

[Barman58]

Apparently, Chuck Berry is 84 years old and still performing!

That's some Ding-a Ling ing

 

[01101001]

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.

That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away
and you have their shoes.

 

[JMH]

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Buddha
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[A Guy]

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
~Alexander Solzhenitsyn

A Guy

 

[JMH]

“In all things it is better to hope than to despair”

{Johann Wolfgang von Goethe}​

 

[BrightBlessings]

"Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized." - Steve Allen

 

[JMH]

The mind is everything.
What you think you become.

Buddha.​

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[A Guy]

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
~Winston Churchill

A Guy