Thursday Quote Day aka TQD - Week 10, 2019
As I believe Mr. D has not contributed a quotes thread today himself here I am doing the bidding of my own accord ........ 'The soul is healed by being around children.' - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 'Few indeed have been found to resist the crowd, to stand up alo...
It is....
by some margin the most poetically written of this selection . Cheers, Filip
a couple from John Steinbeck writing in "East of Eden"
Talking about Salinas Valley, California... "It was an unlikely place for a man from a green country to come to, but he came about thirty years before the turn of the century and he brought with him his tiny Irish wife, a tight hard little woman humorless...
'Humorless as a chicken.' XD
First time I have read that metaphor, although I do think chicken can occasionally act funny xD. The second one in essence saying the glass is half full . I like them both. Cheers, Filip
A bit late to the game
"Give a man a mask and he will show his true face" Oscar Wilde....though I believe it was also the Joker too.
I particularly like
You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time." Author: Lincoln
Now why would you like this quote?
I am not in favour of ever trying to deceive people.
Lol, not his, my post above.
I thought his remark was aimed at one of my quotes in original post! Apologies, Filip
:),
This is how the sequence of events happened, as simply described as possible: 1. Cpt. A. posted his questioning answer. This for some reason, even though it was made to someone else's post, showed up in my unanswered responses tab. 2. I open my unanswered...
I think....
it is a rather objective statement . It in no way encourages deception. Cheers, Filip
It was just a question
It is a quotation about deceiving people so i was just asking why you liked it. No need to feel a problem.