Quote of the Day

[Bravus]

Hi All

Found this (as a sig in someone's e-mail) and thought it was cool, and perhaps useful around here...

Two people must first contradict each other if they

really wish to understand each other. Truth is the

child of argument, not of fond affinity.

Bachelard (1940)

This thread could contain some of our favourite quotes, if you like, but since (a) I started it and ( I'm the sheriff in this here one-hoss burg, I reserve the right to delete any quotes that smell of being pointed, weapon-like, at others...

[Gail]

"A laugh's the best answer to all that's strange in life"

--- Herman Melville, Moby Dick

[Gail]

God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But let a man once see his God down in the arena as a Man, -- suffering, tempted, sweating, and agonized, finally dying a criminal's death -- and he is a hard man indeed who is untouched.... J. B. Phillips (1906-1982), Your God is Too Small [1953]

[cricket]

TFK: [:"red"] How are your spirits? [/]

Bancroft: [:"blue"] We're sort of numb right now... [/]

This is from an interview by Time For Kids of Ann Bancroft, one of two women who had planned to be the first women to cross the Arctic Ocean--their expedition expedition was cut short due to circumstances beyond their control.

[GreatLakesGramma]

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter-productivity.

-- Erma Bombeck

[Guest]

Quote:

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God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But let a man once see his God down in the arena as a Man, -- suffering, tempted, sweating, and agonized, finally dying a criminal's death -- and he is a hard man indeed who is untouched.... J. B. Phillips (1906-1982), Your God is Too Small [1953]

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My God is not too small...He did both