The daily quote thread

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

It is unjust and wrong to attach the predicate "capricious" and "volatile" to happiness. Not luck... it is we who change and alter our concept of happiness every day.

Wilhelm Vogel

[Flinn]

"Italy is now a great country to invest in... Today we have fewer communists and those who are still there deny having been one. Another reason to invest in Italy is that we have beautiful secretaries... superb girls."

Silvio Berlusconi

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

When men talk out loud, you think they are full of energy.
When women talk out loud, they say they are hysterical.


German proverb

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Someone who always told the truth would certainly be an ideal person. But he was hardly fit for life.

Unknown

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Don't be superstitiuos, it only brings misfortune.

Unknown

[Flinn]

"Only Napoleon did more than I have done. But I am definitely taller."

Silvio Berlusconi

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

You have not only a avatar collection of him, but obviously a quote collection of him too.

[Flinn]

Yes, but you always come first, Querida

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

The heart of a woman of twenty-five is no more the heart of an eighteen-year-old girl than the heart of a woman of forty is that of a woman of thirty. In the lives of women, there are four age groups. Every age creates a new woman.

Honore de Balzac

[Flinn]

"The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power."

Silvio Berlusconi

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

A clumsy lover is like a monkey, who is trying to play a violin.

Honore de Balzac.

[Flinn]

"I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality"

You know who he is

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

[Flinn]

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

Isaac Asimov

Not only in the US, though.

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

To marry once is duty, to marry twice is stupidity, to marry thrice is madness.

from Holland

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

Ideals have strange properties, including those,
that they turn into their opposite as soon as they are realized.

Robert Musil

(1880 - 1942), since 1918 also Robert Edler von Musil, Austrian novelist, playwright and aphorist

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

That it never returns makes life so sweet.

Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, American religious poet and poet

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

That the dog is my dearest,
Do you say, O man, be sin?
The dog remained faithful to me in the storm,
man not even in a breeze.


Francis of Assisi (1182 - 1226), actually Giovanni Bernadone, Catholic saint, founder of the Franciscan Order

[irontaino]

"Do you feel blame? Are you mad? Uh, do you feel like wolf kabob Roth vantage?
Gefrannis booj pooch boo jujube; bear-ramage. Jigiji geeji geeja geeble Google.
Begep flagaggle vaggle veditch-waggle bagga?" - Charles Manson

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

“I don't wanna take my time going to work, I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag and ten or fifteen girls. What the hell I wanna go off and go to work for? Work for what? Money? I got all the money in the world. I'm the king, man. I run the underworld, guy. I decide who does what and where they do it at. What am I gonna run around like some teeny bopper somewhere for someone elses money? I make the money man, I roll the nickels. The game is mine. I deal the cards”

― Charles Manson


I can't help myself, but he sounds like a common tv preacher talking, when the cameras are off.