Quote of the Day
Please contribute your favorite quote to this new thread:
"Hate has talked so loudly for so long.", "Greed has talked so loudly for so long", Liars have talked so loudly for so long"......."Love has got to stop whispering"..:
Marianne Wiliamson
joyful “Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson after.”
~oscar wilde
Guilty-Remnant “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
― Frédéric Bastiat
"Some believe that it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I found it is the small things. Every day deeds by ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay."
-Gandalf the Grey
JeffersonRepub 
zentravl 
“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it“
- Thomas Jefferson
FarmerJake 
3wbdwnj "No man is an island.........And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
John Donne: 1624
Love thy neighbor, love thy community.
Babbit Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
--Charles Schultz - American Cartoonist and Creator of the "Peanuts" Comics--
Every test in life makes us bitter or better. Every problem comes to make us or break us. The choice is ours to become victims or victorious.” Mufti Menk
CBGB 
rob the roofer "I believe the world is going to be saved by millions of small things." --Pete Seeger
Monty 
James E Beckman "Never doubt that the world can be changed by a small group of like minded people. In fact it's the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead (Paraphrased)
MAN "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven"
John Milton , Paradise Lost
rleaf There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
Ernest Hemingway
Born: July 21, 1899
“Ve Gedt Too Soon Oldt Und Too Late Schmardt”
This old Pennsylvania Dutch quote was the title of an address given to a group of “highway men “, by Paul B. Reinhold President
American Road Builders Association Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2516&context=roadschool
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
Nutcracker 
97XBAM One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
Thomas More
Mr. Resident 
Robert Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Karl A. Menninger
Born: July 22, 1893
The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.
Alex Kozinski
Born: July 23, 1950
"no one can make you feel inferior without your consent....freedom comes from within"
E. Roosevelt
ole' timerWe can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
John Newton
Born: July 24, 1725
"Don't let anyone who hasn't been in your shoes tell you how to tie your laces." :Author Unknown
The choice in politics isn't usually between black and white. It's between two horrible shades of gray.
Peter Thorneycroft
Born: July 26, 1909
"Potluck supper this Sunday at 5 p.m.....prayers and medication to follow".: Author unknown..
“Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you'll be a mile from them, and you'll have their shoes”
― Jack Handy
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
Hilaire Belloc
Born: July 27, 1870
Everything that has beauty has a body and is a body
Everything that has being has being in the flesh
And dreams are only drawn from the bodies that are
- D.H. Lawrence Bodiless God
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
Beatrix Potter
Born: July 28, 1866
EVV "Humble enough to know I"m replaceable.....Cocky enough to know its a downgrade".: DiJo
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
Thorstein Veblen
Born: July 30, 1857
***bonus Veblen quote***
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
Thorstein Veblen
I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.
P. D. James
Born: August 3, 1920
***bonus P.D. quotes***
God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
P. D. James
and one that for me is too true of today's world
Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
P. D. James
"Everyone needs a place to retreat; a spot where the world grows quiet enough for the soul to speak".: Angie Weiland Crosby
“A veteran is someone who, at one point in his/her life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'citizens of United States ' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.'
—Unknown
"Being kissed while asleep is one of the purest forms of love....unless you are in Prison!" : Author Unknown
The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.
Os Guinness
Author Born: September 30, 1941
***bonus quote***
The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
Os Guinness
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