Post A Quote – Summer 2022 Edition

[campy]

“I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”

Winston Churchill

[TransWarpDrive]

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."

~ Author unknown

[campy]

"Artists realise that mathematicians have a way of looking at the world that can make them see things differently."

~ Marcus du Sautoy

[campy]

"You can only hate someone whom you have the capacity to love, because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up the enough energy to hate him."

~ Sri Chinmoy

[campy]

"It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[jeriddian]

Interesting that you chose Von Goethe as today is his birthday. He also greatly praised Shakespeare as seen in this quote:

“Shakespeare makes the world completely transparent for us; he does not write for the eye.”

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[campy]

Interesting that you chose Von Goethe as today is his birthday.

I almost always choose a quote from someone born on the day of posting.

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

[TransWarpDrive]

“Maybe it isn’t surprising that the very same letters make ‘SILENT’ and ‘LISTEN’.”

~ Posted on the electronic sign at a church near TWD's house

[campy]

"By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it."

~ Ted Williams

[campy]

“Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.”

Maria Montessori