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Quote of the Day — Robert A. Heinlein

Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.

 

“Tomorrow I will seven eagles see, a great comet will appear, and voices will speak from whirlwinds foretelling monstrous and fearful things — This Universe never did make sense;  I suspect that it was built on government contract.” ~~  Robert A. Heinlein

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Quote of the Day – Pam Bondi

Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.


“You don’t tell me anything, you washed-up, loser lawyer.” ~~ Pam Bondi, Attorney General of the United States in a recent Congressional hearing.

I don’t really know, but I would imagine that Robert’s Rule of Order, used by many deliberative bodies, would frown upon such ad hominem  attacks.  Not to mention the sheer unprofessionalism it displays.  But then again, I am not seeing any other members of this malAdministration showing any semblance of professionalism.

I gleaned this from Paul Krugman’s newsletter on SubStack.  He went on:

“Yet what truly amazed me was her demand that Democrats stop talking about Jeffrey Epstein because the Dow was above 50,000. This plumbed new depths of moral bankruptcy, effectively saying: ‘How dare you complain about child rape when the stock market is up?’”

Oh the times we live in, when this passes for a government in a free democracy.

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Quote of the Day – Stephen Colbert

Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.

“Reality has a well-known liberal bias.” ~~ Stephen Colbert

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Quote of the Day – Samuel Butler

Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.


“The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.”  ~~ Samuel Butler

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Quote of the Day – Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.

“Mental and moral excellence requires peace and quietness.” ~~ Publius Cornelius Tacitus

I’ve been more than a little dark lately.  I was going through my pending posts trying to find one lighter.  Apparently I have been dark for a while. This quote, however, is very applicable to our current times of over stimulation by media in 42 different directions.

Om Mani Padme Hum…

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Quote of the Day – W.C. Fields

Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.

“Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she’ll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.” ~~ W. C. Fields

So NOW they tell me… At any rate I have gotten where I cannot do handstands on monkey bars anymore.

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Quote of the Day – Fred Allen

Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.

“Hanging is too good for the man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.” ~~ Fred Allen

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Quote of the Day – Mark Twain

Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.

“When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.” ~~ Mark Twain

My red-headed mother – the child of sharecroppers – seemed to go back and forth between red-headed and auburn…

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Quote of the Day – Señor Anónimo

Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence. I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.

“I get more liberal with the more knowledge I acquire.”  ~~ Señor Anónimo

This from an acquaintance – well a relative- who wishes to remain, well, anonymous.  After a bit of a rant from them about the current beyond dysfunctional administration, I remarked that he was sounding like a liberal. The above quote was their reply.

Given that they have been a life long Republican and a self-described Libertarian, I found the quote interesting and amusing.

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Quote of the Day – Yuval Noah Harari

Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence. I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.

“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”  ~~ Yuval Noah Harari in   Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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