From Pine View Farm

QOTD category archive

QOTD 0

J. B. Priestley:

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

Share

QOTD 0

Philip K. Dick:

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.

Share

QOTD 0

Mark Twain:

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man.

Share

QOTD 0

Margaret Mead:

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Share

QOTD 0

Groucho Marx:

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Share

QOTD 0

Jamele Hill:

No problem in the history of humankind has ever gotten solved by evading it.

Share

QOTD 0

Stephen L. Carter:

We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture seeks to deny? You cannot escape the consequences of your choices. Time runs in only one direction.

Share

QOTD 0

George Alec Effinger:

Government by emotion is identified with rule by tyranny.

Share

QOTD 0

Stacy Keach, in the voice of Mike Hammer:

Self-esteem is overrated. A lot of bad people love themselves.

Share

QOTD 0

Flemming Rose:

The lesson from the Cold War is, if you give in to totalitarian impulses once, new demands follow… The West prevailed in the Cold War because we stood by our fundamental values and did not appease totalitarian tyrants.

I pray that we will not forget this lesson, though some amongst us seem to have done so.

Share

QOTD 0

Theodore Roossevelt:

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Share

QOTD 0

Pearl S. Buck:

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

Share

QOTD 0

Ken Kesey:

The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.

Share

QOTD 0

Ameen Rihani:

Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.

Share

Extra Special Bonus QOTD 0

Bob Cesca:

Make politics boring again.

Share

QOTD 0

John HOpe Franklin:

If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.

Aside:

Which is precisely why so many of the New Secesh are attempting (again) to erase the past.

Share

QOTD 0

Honore de Balzac:

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Share

QOTD 0

Stacy Keach, in the voice of Mike Hammer:

Forget Vegas and Atlantic City. Wall Street is the ultimate casino.

Share

QOTD 0

John Stuart Mill:

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

Share

QOTD 0

Jesse Owens:

Although I wasn’t invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

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.