Quotes of the day

"You must gather your party before venturing forth"

'The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.'
– Albert Camus

"When bad things happen, I know you want to believe they are a joke, but sometimes life is scary and dark. that is why we must find the light" - BMO, Adventure Time

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
-William Shakespeare

Today you made me shiver with excitement.
The woman I'm hitting on, yesterday. I win.

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Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.
~William Shakespeare

To everyone in the USA with a mother, don't forget to wish her a good day.

My mother taught me many things. Among the most useful is that one must always have Shakespeare at hand.
-Dr.Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

'Hail Gurthang! No lord or loyalty dost thou know, save the hand that wieldeth thee. From no blood wilt thou shrink. Wilt thou therefore take Túrin Turambar, wilt thou slay me swiftly?' " "And from the blade rang a cold voice in answer: 'Yea, I will drink thy blood gladly, that so I may forget the blood of Beleg my master, and the blood of Brandir slain unjustly. I will slay thee swiftly.'

You don’t write poems, Laelius, you criticise

mine. Stop criticising me or write your own.
-Anonymous poem from ancient Rome, translated from the Latin.

"Updated my journal."

"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." - Calvin Coolidge

"True courage is not knowing when to take a life, but when to spare one."
-Gandalf talking to Bilbo in The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey

I started this thread six months ago.-Me

"Put tank in a mall" -a Peenoise

“Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

My Lief Is Faren in Londe

My lief is faren in londe -
Allas, why is she so?
And I am so sore bonde
I may nat come her to.
She hath myn herte in holde
Wherever she ride or go -
With trewe love a thousand folde.

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“I forgot to mention,” Father Christopher said, smiling seraphically at Sir Martin, “that I am also a priest. So let me offer you a blessing.” He pulled out a golden crucifix that had been hidden beneath his shirt and held it toward Lord Slayton’s men. “May the peace and love of our Lord Jesus Christ,” he said, “comfort and sustain you while you take your farting mouths and your turd-reeking presence out of our sight.” He waved a sketchy cross toward the horsemen. “And thus farewell.”
-From Agincourt, a novel by Bernard Cornwell.

If nothing else works, then a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through.
-Melchett , Blackadder

“Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom

" Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read."

Raymond Carver

Before finding success as a writer, Raymond Carver (born May 25, 1938) was a night custodian at a hospital. He finished all his janitorial work in the first hour so he could spend the rest of the night writing.

Incidentally, this guy is a favorite writer of mine.