Favorite Quotes!!

[golfdelta21]

 

[trencherman]

“Luck is believing you’re lucky.”
—Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

 

[Shelter]

If I could live my life once more, I would make every mistake once more. Only ... a little bit earlier because I would have more of it!

- Marlene Dietrich, actress

 

[trencherman]

I miss that fellow so

“I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel alone.”
— Robin Williams

 

[trencherman]

Aside from “frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” Rhett Butler also told Scarlett O’hara “ reputation is something people with courage can do without.”

 

[trencherman]

I'm reminded of a BBC 1960's interview with Evelyn Waugh. Happiness is to get away from others. That's the comment he made which made a lasting impression.

It's all about reaching a position where the contact you have with others is optional. It's you're choice.

That's freedom.

Not that anyone would ever enjoy being close to Evelyn Waugh...

Sounds like Jean-Paul Sartre in No Exit (Huis Clos, in French)

Hell is other people.

 

[DBOL777]

 

[trencherman]

I remember well those fucking nuns who whacked your dominant hand with a ruler if you wrote with it. May they all rot in hell.

 

[DBOL777]

My evalaluation of someone i met

I told one person that "If you were the prize for winning a race, I would run backwards!"

 

[trencherman]

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[geetee]

The four most beautiful words in the English language: "I told you so" - Gore Vidal

 

[trencherman]

“If it’s not right, don’t do it: if it’s not true, don’t say it.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

 

[trencherman]

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[trencherman]

A Sicilian gelato?

Today, I chuckled at a picture of an indignant looking girl that’s why I cannot just copy and paste it here that says: “If revenge is best served cold and revenge is sweet, would it not be just like ice cream?”

 

[CottonIchor]

“I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia” ― Ptolemy

 

[W!nston]

 

[dargelos]

Such a nice man, that Mr Buckley, wasn't he?​

 

[W!nston]

 

[W!nston]

 

[W!nston]

Such a nice man, that Mr Buckley, wasn't he?​

Using a quote of something he wrote in 1986 at the height of the AIDS epidemic without putting it into that perspective is wholly unfair and it says more about the person using the quote in that manner than the person being quoted.

But that doesn't mean I don't still like and respect you and usually enjoy your posts, dargelos :cheers: