Quote of the Day

[elvislady]

Great idea, David, but where to find such a man ?

Unless he needs the money

But if he's doing it for the 'love of it' he won't be getting paid, will he ?

It was just (tongue in cheek Colin)

[Colin B]

Quote of the Day - 27th January 2024:

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Aesop - Greek fabulist & storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.
c. 620–564 BCE

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...and treat all advice with scepticism...

[John]

Quote of the Day - 27th January 2024:

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Aesop - Greek fabulist & storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.
c. 620–564 BCE

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...and treat all advice with scepticism...

Is that your advice?

[Colin B]

...and treat all advice with scepticism...

Is that your advice?

Yes, but don't take it as gospel...

[Colin B]

Quote of the Day - 29th January 2024:

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Anne Michaels - Canadian poet & novelist whose work has been translated and published in over 45 countries.
Her books have garnered dozens of international awards including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize,
the Lannan Award for Fiction & the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Americas.
Born 15th April 1958

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With my library, I must have got it made !

[John]

Quote of the Day - 29th January 2024:

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Anne Michaels - Canadian poet & novelist whose work has been translated and published in over 45 countries.
Her books have garnered dozens of international awards including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize,
the Lannan Award for Fiction & the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Americas.
Born 15th April 1958

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With my library, I must have got it made !

At what point do you walk through the gates?

[Colin B]

At what point do you walk through the gates?

As you start reading the book, I suppose...

[Colin B]

Quote of the Day - 30th January 2024:

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Depends on whether there's a reasonable chance of achieving that desire.

Could waste a whole life chasing an unobtainable goal, to the detriment of all other aspects of your situation.

[John]

Quote of the Day - 30th January 2024:

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Depends on whether there's a reasonable chance of achieving that desire.

Could waste a whole life chasing an unobtainable goal, to the detriment of all other aspects of your situation.

Could get arrested for stalking.

[Colin B]

Quote of the Day - 31st January 2024:

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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin - French lawyer and politician, who, as the author of Physiologie du goût (The Physiology of Taste),
became celebrated for his culinary reminiscences & reflections on the craft and science of cookery & the art of eating.
Born 2nd April 1755 – Died 2nd February 1826.

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Easy in my case, Anthelme, I'm a vegetarian [strictly speaking a pescatarian] & try to eat healthily.

[John]

Quote of the Day - 31st January 2024:

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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin - French lawyer and politician, who, as the author of Physiologie du goût (The Physiology of Taste),
became celebrated for his culinary reminiscences & reflections on the craft and science of cookery & the art of eating.
Born 2nd April 1755 – Died 2nd February 1826.

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Easy in my case, Anthelme, I'm a vegetarian [strictly speaking a pescatarian] & try to eat healthily.

I'm just tucking into a large, fresh vegetable samosa.

[Colin B]

Quote of the Day - 1st February 2024:

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Thomas Paine [born Thomas Pain] - English-born US Founding Father, French Revolutionary, political activist, philosopher,
political theorist, & revolutionary.
Born February 9th 1737 - Died June 8th, 1809.

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Translation: However great you think you are, your descendants could turn out to be shit.

[Colin B]

Quote of the Day - 2nd January 2024:

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Frances Ann Lebowitz - US author, public speaker, & occasional actor.
She is known for her sardonic social commentary on US life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities & her association with many prominent figures of the 1970s & 1980s New York art scene, including Andy Warhol, Martin Scorsese, Jerome Robbins, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Wojnarowicz, Candy Darling, & the New York Dolls.
Born October 27th 1950.

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When I was a youngster, everybody around the family dinner table got the same & you ate what you were given, like it or not.

These days, I notice my grandchildren all have different requirements [which are catered for] like 'no cabbage' or 'no carrots'.

[John]

Quote of the Day - 2nd January 2024:

Quote of the Day - 2nd february 2024 - 001.jpgFran Lebowitz [2].jpg

Frances Ann Lebowitz - US author, public speaker, & occasional actor.
She is known for her sardonic social commentary on US life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities & her association with many prominent figures of the 1970s & 1980s New York art scene, including Andy Warhol, Martin Scorsese, Jerome Robbins, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Wojnarowicz, Candy Darling, & the New York Dolls.
Born October 27th 1950.

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When I was a youngster, everybody around the family dinner table got the same & you ate what you were given, like it or not.

These days, I notice my grandchildren all have different requirements [which are catered for] like 'no cabbage' or 'no carrots'.

That's the way it is these days. My grandchildren are the same.

[Colin B]

When I was a youngster, everybody around the family dinner table got the same & you ate what you were given, like it or not.
These days, I notice my grandchildren all have different requirements [which are catered for] like 'no cabbage' or 'no carrots'.

That's the way it is these days. My grandchildren are the same.

We were required to eat what was on our plate no matter what.

For Sunday dinner, Dad stood at the end of the table carving the meat & putting it on the plates.

I don't remember, but one of my older sisters tells that mum, knowing my aversion to meat, would take some from my plate & put on others,
when his attention was elsewhere !