Your quote of the day - History Forum ~ All Empires

"...Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms...."
Chekhov

"It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
T.S.Eliot

Reading good poetry is a man's later attempts to reconcile his former mistakes.

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"

S. T. Friedman

Pilger's law: 'If it's been officially denied, then it's probably true'

Be yourself - because everyone else is already taken.
/I have no idea who said that, I saw in a classroom/.

Trust is earned. And not to be given lightly as it can be as self-destructive as rewarding.

Consequently..trust no one till ya trust yourself.

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"

S. T. Friedman

Pilger's law: 'If it's been officially denied, then it's probably true'

Then remember your Churchill.....

"Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future."

Edited by Centrix Vigilis - 24-Mar-2012 at 08:06

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"

S. T. Friedman

Pilger's law: 'If it's been officially denied, then it's probably true'

A brave person stabs you in the front, so you can correct yourself; a coward stabs you in the back, so you don't even know it.
My paraphasing of Oscar Wilde, in which I tried to put the gist of those two hos quotes:
"“A true friend stabs you in the front."

"Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss
The brave man with a sword".

Edited by Don Quixote - 24-Mar-2012 at 11:18

I've just been looking at some more entertaining and funny quote, and found this one. Unfortunately I have no idea of its origin. Can anyone enlighten me on this?

If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.-Unknown by me

What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.

“You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned-the dates of the Hay-Herran Treaty and Pythagorean Theorem. You especially forget everything you didn't really learn, but just memorized the night before. You forget the names of all but one or two of your teachers, and eventually you'll forget those, too. You forget your junior class schedule and where you used to sit and your best friend's home phone number and the lyrics to that song you must have played a million times. For me, it was something by Simon & Garfunkel. Who knows what it will be for you? And eventually, but slowly, oh so slowly, you forget your humiliations-even the ones that seemed indelible just fade away. You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. Who went to a good college. Who threw the best parties Who could get you pot. You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They're the last to go. And then once you've forgotten enough, you love someone else.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.

A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.
Dorothea Dix