The daily quote thread

[irontaino]

Well he was a cult leader, so that checks out.

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Women have a wonderful ability to write off their wrongs by joking about them. They know and can wipe everything away with a smile, with a question that feigns surprise. They don't remember anything, they explain everything, they wonder, they question, they explain, they exaggerate, they argue, and finally they remove their wrongs as one removes a black spot with a little soapy bath. Black as sin, they turn white and innocent in no time. A man can count himself lucky not to be guilty of some unforgivable crime himself at the end!

Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850), French philosopher and novelist

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

One can strive for abstinence, but a drunkard remains a drunkard and a lecher remains a lecher – at the first loss of attention he relapses.

Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910), Lev Nikolayevich Count Tolstoy, Russian storyteller and novelist
Source: Tolstoy, diaries. 1889

[Flinn]

"Chi vuol esser lieto sia, di doman non v'è certezza" (roughly translates into "Be happy, if you want to be: Of tomorrow there's no certainty")

Lorenzo de Medici, aka Lorenzo the Magnificent

[Derc]

Three good ones:

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

I am not deep, but I am very wide.

— Honoré de Balzac

[EmperorBatman999]

There once was a man from Peru
Who had a dream he was eating his shoe
He woke with a fright
Late one night
Only to find that his dream had come true

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

The Woman is expecting everything from man, the man from woman almost always only one thing.

Unknown.

[ggggtotalwarrior]

NGL Honore de Balzac sounds like the kind of name I'd have come up with for a prank call when I was 13.

[Lifthrasir]

^^ That's not worse than Truman Capote, at least for the French

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

I heard of Balzac first in school, 32 years ago...^^ Before the Internet age you must read books, if you were hungry for knowledge.

Truman Capote sounds like US mafia.


My aim is to prove that there are no fundamental differences between man and higher mammals as far as mental strength is concerned. Never use the words "exalted" and "minor."

Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

One thing you must leave to the woman:That she is too soft, to hate all the time.
A hundred men may grieve her,
She will still love the hundred and first.

Gottfried Kinkel (1815 - 1882), Johann Gottfried Kinkel, German political poet, publicist and writer

[Bo1Bo1Sha3]

"A man may dream of drinking wine then wake up crying; a man may dream of crying and the next morning he may go hunting.
Thus, when dreaming, one doesn't know one is dreaming.
But a man may also interpret a dream within a dream, and it is only after one awakens that he realizes it was a dream.
Moreover, after having a great awakening, he knows that it was a great dream.
But the foolish assume themselves to be awakened, pretending to know what is going on.
Calling this man a ruler! That man a herdsman! How bigoted was Confucius!
You are all dreaming!
And my saying that you are dreaming is also a dream!
Such talk may seem paradoxical, but ten thousand generations hence, there will appear a great sage who will understand it's meaning,
but it will feel as though he appeared faster than the interval between dawn and dusk."

-Zhuangzi
4th century BC

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

War is making thieves and Peace is hanging them.

From England

[AoRun]

"Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?"

[Flinn]

Not sure they are real, still awesome

I feel so anarchist today

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

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[Roma_Victrix]

"I wet the bed every night and I'm proud of it."
- Cookiegod

"Man who pushes piano down mineshaft get a tone of A flat miner."
- Confucius on music