Wise Sayings...or Not

[docw1]

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” —James Baldwin

 

[Daboo]

"Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive." — C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

 

[docw1]

“One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.” —Will Durant

 

[Daboo]

I posted a quote last night that mysteriously disappeared. It proves I can predict the future.

So here's another:
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.” — C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Chris

 

[docw1]

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it!” —Jonathan Winters

 

[docw1]

“Be like a duck. Calm on the surface but always paddling like the dickens underneath.” —Michael Caine

 

[Larry Fine]

“Be like a duck. Calm on the surface but always paddling like the dickens underneath.” —Michael Caine

Gene Hackman said basically the same thing in The Replacements

 

[RaYzerman]

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination" - John Lennon

 

[docw1]

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

 

[Daboo]

“No people find each other more absurd than lovers.”— C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

 

[docw1]

“Man is the only animal that blushes—or needs to.” —Mark Twain

 

[Daboo]

Alan Greenspan died today at the age of 100. "Irrational exuberance" was the words I remember him by.

A bit of background from the Brave browser search results.

Former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan coined the phrase "irrational exuberance" during a speech at the American Enterprise Institute on December 5, 1996, asking, "How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?"

Greenspan later recalled that the concept came to him in the bathtub and that he intentionally used "Fedspeak" to obfuscate his opinion, though the remark triggered immediate global market drops.

 

[docw1]

“Age is a high price to pay for maturity.” —Tom Stoppard

 

[ST1100Y]

One day you’ll park it for the last time.
Make sure you rode it enough...

 

[Daboo]

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.”— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

 

[ST1100Y]

The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.

And stupid.
We should be scared -les of stupid.

 

[ST1100Y]

So far is the sum of intelligence on this planet a constant,
but the population is constantly growing...

 

[docw1]

Think of how stupid the average person is and realize half of them are stupider than that-George Carlin

 

[docw1]

“Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and give her a house.” —Rod Stewart

 

[ST1100Y]

"We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom" -- E. O. Wilson