There are lots of great quotes to choose from but this is and has always been my favourite :
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
From the translation by Edward Fitzgerald from the poem : The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1859
I'm looking forward to reading your favourites.
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Katrien Meire, 2015, 2016, 2017.
Do we know anyone that could learn from that, Roly?
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
LC Curbishley 1999, 2001-2006 (inc)
Good times back then....
Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
(don't know who said that!!)
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
Invictus - William Ernest Henley
"... any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee."
John Donne
and simply hundreds of Shakespeare quotes.
Actress Miriam Margoyles, when asked about her sexuality.
And this is one of the great tasks of leadership for us, as individuals and citizens this year. But even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction - purpose and dignity - that afflicts us all. Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product - if we judge the United States of America by that - that Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children. Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.
' No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy '
No idea who is the author but found it so true.
"Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference" - Mark Twain
Someone, sometime, somewhere.
Groucho Marx
"A three-legged dog is still a dog, it just learns to walk a little differently."
I find it applies to a lot in life.