From Pine View Farm

QOTD category archive

QOTD 0

Carroll Quigley:

The vested interests encourage the growth of imperialist wars and irrationality because both serve to divert the discontent of the masses away from their vested interests ( the uninvested surplus).

Share

QOTD 0

Mary Tyler Moore, as Mary Richards:

If you can’t fight with your family, who can you fight with?

Share

QOTD 0

Charles Kettering:

A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.

Share

QOTD 0

Emile Durkheim:

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

Share

QOTD 0

John Kenneth Galbraith:

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Share

QOTD 0

Robert Goldsborough, in the voice of Nero Wolfe:

Man’s ability to indulge in self-deception knows no bounds.

Goldsborough, Robert, Stop the Presses (New York: MysteriousPress, 20176) p. 121

Share

QOTD 0

Fernando de Rojas:

The use of riches is better than their possession.

Share

QOTD 0

Paolo Lins:

Brazil is a racist country and a racist society…But the funny thing is that nobody will admit to being a racist, and that’s the problem. Blacks in Brazil are always in an inferior, subaltern position, but you can’t find a white person who is a racist.

Not just Brazil, folks.

Share

QOTD 0

Ed Asner, in the voice of Lou Grant:

Bartender, a drink for everyone in the house. Give them all to me.

Share

QOTD 0

Anthony Eisley, in the voice of Tracy Steele:

Nobody licks the world alone.

Share

QOTD 0

James Joyce:

Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.

Share

QOTD 0

Judy LaMarsh:

A government may only govern so long as the people, through their representatives, vote it the money to carry on.

Aside:

I wonder whether Kevin McCarthy–oh, never mind.

Share

QOTD 0

Robert Goldsborough, in the voice of Nero Wolfe:

. . . too often, what we refer to as as humility is only false modesty strutting on the parade ground.

Goldsborough, Robert, The Bloodied Ivy (New York: Bantam,1989) p. 167

Share

QOTD 0

Buzz Burbank:

The opposite of “woke” is asleep.

Share

QOTD 0

Ed Asner, in the voice of Lou Grant:

There are times in life when being a man means making an absolute ass of yourself.

Share

QOTD 0

Friedrich Durrenmatt:

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

Share

QOTD 0

John Avlon:

Us and against them is the opposite of our national motto, e pluribus unum: Out of many, one.

Share

QOTD 0

Theodore Parker:

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

Share

QOTD 0

Joseph Roux:

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Share

QOTD 0

Alfred Nobel:

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

Share
From Pine View Farm
Privacy Policy

This website does not track you.

It contains no private information. It does not drop persistent cookies, does not collect data other than incoming ip addresses and page views (the internet is a public place), and certainly does not collect and sell your information to others.

Some sites that I link to may try to track you, but that's between you and them, not you and me.

I do collect statistics, but I use a simple stand-alone Wordpress plugin, not third-party services such as Google Analitics over which I have no control.

Finally, this is website is a hobby. It's a hobby in which I am deeply invested, about which I care deeply, and which has enabled me to learn a lot about computers and computing, but it is still ultimately an avocation, not a vocation; it is certainly not a money-making enterprise (unless you click the "Donate" button--go ahead, you can be the first!).

I appreciate your visiting this site, and I desire not to violate your trust.