Sun May 17, 2020, 10:33 AM

Please share a favorite quote, saying, proverb...

"Your society values people by how much you have. Ours by how much we give away."

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Please share a favorite quote, saying, proverb... (Original post)	discntnt_irny_srcsm	May 2020	OP
John Kenneth Galbraith	Cirque du So-What	May 2020	#1
Irish Proverb	Flo Mingo	May 2020	#2
"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do."	chia	May 2020	#3
Elwood P. Dowd	wryter2000	May 2020	#4
'This time like any other, is a good time, if we know what to do with it' - R.W. Emerson	empedocles	May 2020	#5
'This too shall pass'	empedocles	May 2020	#7
"It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks."	DemoTex	May 2020	#6
[Had to look it up], KJV, new King James version	empedocles	May 2020	#9
Heard this once on an OLD TV show	MyOwnPeace	May 2020	#8
Dylan:	LakeArenal	May 2020	#10
My maternal grandmother.	Arkansas Granny	May 2020	#11
Kenneth Roberts	The Magistrate	May 2020	#12
#1. A winner.	yonder	May 2020	#16
Thanks -- that's a keeper! (nt)	Duncan Grant	May 2020	#32
NSFW but,	RGinNJ	May 2020	#13
"I am not a member of any organized political party."	Laelth	May 2020	#14
I'll throw in another Will Rogers quote I've always liked -- and believed.	Different Drummer	May 2020	#33
+1 n/t	Laelth	May 2020	#38
Two from the economist Keynes	DBoon	May 2020	#15
World's Greatest Dad	ItsjustMe	May 2020	#17
+1 n/t	Laelth	May 2020	#19
"I can't make everybody happy; I'm not coffee"	donkeypoofed	May 2020	#18
"Don't believe everything you read on the internet." -- Abraham Lincoln	malchickiwick	May 2020	#20
Oscar Wilde	SKKY	May 2020	#21
I always thought that was a line from The Pretenders (Chrissie Hynde)	IcyPeas	May 2020	#40
It may very well be, but I know it from Wilde's...	SKKY	May 2020	#46
"A promise made is a debt unpaid"	Glorfindel	May 2020	#22
Never argue with stupid people ...	Martin Eden	May 2020	#23
This was a poster hanging on lots of walls of early '70s post-Hippies:	UTUSN	May 2020	#24
LOL! Mostly posted by lazy room/housemates	SharonClark	May 2020	#25
I guess there's nothing left to say but this:	UTUSN	May 2020	#27
Love that!	Different Drummer	May 2020	#35
It's handy for shutting down Flamers, but they mostly don't stop!1	UTUSN	May 2020	#36
If If there are no dogs in heaven,	SharonClark	May 2020	#26
Edward Lear	quaint	May 2020	#28
The man quoted is somewhat questionable in his politics but it is still pertinent	marked50	May 2020	#29
John F. Kennedy? Edmund Burke? R. Murray Hyslop? Charles F. Aked? John Stuart Mill?	quaint	May 2020	#31
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I was referring to my selection in the	marked50	May 2020	#37
Me, too.	quaint	May 2020	#39
Got it. Should of Clicked on your link. n/t	marked50	May 2020	#42
"Never Assume"	demigoddess	May 2020	#30
Three I can think of off the top of my head	ailsagirl	May 2020	#34
Alan Watts (I think)	IcyPeas	May 2020	#41
John Kenneth Galbraith:	July	May 2020	#43
All great changes are preceeded by chaos. nt	littlemissmartypants	May 2020	#44
British Airways Pilot is alleged to have come up with	bluecollar2	May 2020	#45

Response to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 10:36 AM

Cirque du So-What (17,669 posts)

1. John Kenneth Galbraith

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

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Response to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 10:39 AM

Flo Mingo (363 posts)

2. Irish Proverb

May those who love us, love us
And those that don't, may God turn their hearts
And if He can't turn their hearts
May he turn their ankles so we'll know them by their limping.

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Response to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 10:45 AM

chia (1,252 posts)

3. "You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do."

--Olin Miller

(Often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt)

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Response to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 10:46 AM

wryter2000 (40,418 posts)

4. Elwood P. Dowd

"In this life, you must be oh-so-clever or oh-so-pleasant. Well, I tried clever. I recommend pleasant."

May not be an exact quote.

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Response to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 10:46 AM

empedocles (11,824 posts)

5. 'This time like any other, is a good time, if we know what to do with it' - R.W. Emerson

[ on my desk wall I modify that to my need, ' . . . if I can figure out what to do with it.'

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Sun May 17, 2020, 10:48 AM

empedocles (11,824 posts)

7. 'This too shall pass'

[widely quoted from King James bible, through Abe Lincoln, to Ann Landers, . . . ]

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Response to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 10:48 AM

DemoTex (24,353 posts)

6. "It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks."

Acts 9:5 (KJV)

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Sun May 17, 2020, 10:52 AM

empedocles (11,824 posts)

9. [Had to look it up], KJV, new King James version

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Response to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 10:52 AM

MyOwnPeace (11,964 posts)

8. Heard this once on an OLD TV show

starring Ben Gazzara - "Run For Your Life"............. (really rather apt for these days!)

"With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."

........William Lloyd Garrison

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Response to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 10:52 AM

LakeArenal (16,471 posts)

10. Dylan:

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment I could be you
Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is to see you

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Response to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 10:57 AM

Arkansas Granny (29,001 posts)

11. My maternal grandmother.

"Live and learn. Some people only live."

I don't know if that quote is original to her, but good advice, nonetheless.

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Response to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 10:58 AM

The Magistrate (90,432 posts)

12. Kenneth Roberts

"They call war an art, but it's not. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends, and that's not art: That's business."

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Sun May 17, 2020, 11:16 AM

yonder (6,105 posts)

16. #1. A winner.

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Response to The Magistrate (Reply #12)

Sun May 17, 2020, 02:06 PM

Duncan Grant (7,658 posts)

32. Thanks -- that's a keeper! (nt)

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Response to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 11:04 AM

RGinNJ (816 posts)

13. NSFW but,

Fuck you, you fucking fuck.

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Response to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 11:12 AM

Laelth (31,774 posts)

14. "I am not a member of any organized political party."

“I am a Democrat.”

- Will Rogers

-Laelth

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Response to Laelth (Reply #14)

Sun May 17, 2020, 02:19 PM

Different Drummer (5,507 posts)

33. I'll throw in another Will Rogers quote I've always liked -- and believed.

The image of it below is my Twitter background photo.

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Response to Different Drummer (Reply #33)

Sun May 17, 2020, 03:29 PM

Laelth (31,774 posts)

38. +1 n/t

-Laelth

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Response to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 11:13 AM

DBoon (17,835 posts)

15. Two from the economist Keynes

"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."

"In the long run we are all dead."

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Sun May 17, 2020, 11:17 AM

ItsjustMe (1,992 posts)

17. World's Greatest Dad

I used to think the worst thing In life was to end up all alone, It's not. The worst thing In life Is ending up with people who make you feel all alone. - Robin Williams - From the film “World’s Greatest Dad”

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Response to ItsjustMe (Reply #17)

Sun May 17, 2020, 11:22 AM

Laelth (31,774 posts)

19. +1 n/t

-Laelth

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Response to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 11:18 AM

donkeypoofed (2,187 posts)

18. "I can't make everybody happy; I'm not coffee"

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Response to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 11:26 AM

malchickiwick (1,311 posts)

20. "Don't believe everything you read on the internet." -- Abraham Lincoln

More seriously: "The one thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history" -- W.F. Hegel

This is the DU member formerly known as malchickiwick.

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Response to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 11:31 AM

SKKY (9,775 posts)

21. Oscar Wilde

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars".

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Response to SKKY (Reply #21)

Sun May 17, 2020, 04:36 PM

IcyPeas (12,789 posts)

40. I always thought that was a line from The Pretenders (Chrissie Hynde)

Message of Love song.

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Mon May 18, 2020, 07:07 AM

SKKY (9,775 posts)

46. It may very well be, but I know it from Wilde's...

....Lady Windermere's Fan.

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Response to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 11:52 AM

Glorfindel (8,008 posts)

22. "A promise made is a debt unpaid"

Robert Service, The Cremation of Sam McGee

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Sun May 17, 2020, 11:57 AM

Martin Eden (10,540 posts)

23. Never argue with stupid people ...

... they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
- Mark Twain

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Sun May 17, 2020, 12:04 PM

UTUSN (58,057 posts)

24. This was a poster hanging on lots of walls of early '70s post-Hippies:

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Response to UTUSN (Reply #24)

Sun May 17, 2020, 12:20 PM

SharonClark (7,503 posts)

25. LOL! Mostly posted by lazy room/housemates

who didn't want to do their share of the dishes or take out the garbage.

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Response to SharonClark (Reply #25)

Sun May 17, 2020, 12:23 PM

UTUSN (58,057 posts)

27. I guess there's nothing left to say but this:

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Response to UTUSN (Reply #24)

Sun May 17, 2020, 02:27 PM

Different Drummer (5,507 posts)

35. Love that!

It expresses my views entirely. I was alive in 1969, so I can't understand why this is my first time seeing this.

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Response to Different Drummer (Reply #35)

Sun May 17, 2020, 02:32 PM

UTUSN (58,057 posts)

36. It's handy for shutting down Flamers, but they mostly don't stop!1

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Response to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 12:23 PM

SharonClark (7,503 posts)

26. If If there are no dogs in heaven,

then when I die I want to go where they went.

- Will Rogers

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Sun May 17, 2020, 12:26 PM

quaint (404 posts)

28. Edward Lear

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.

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Response to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 12:28 PM

marked50 (1,001 posts)

29. The man quoted is somewhat questionable in his politics but it is still pertinent

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”― Edmund Burke

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Response to marked50 (Reply #29)

Sun May 17, 2020, 01:21 PM

quaint (404 posts)

31. John F. Kennedy? Edmund Burke? R. Murray Hyslop? Charles F. Aked? John Stuart Mill?

Quote Investigator

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Response to quaint (Reply #31)

Sun May 17, 2020, 02:37 PM

marked50 (1,001 posts)

37. Sorry, I wasn't clear. I was referring to my selection in the

added text not to the OP's quote. My mistake.

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Response to marked50 (Reply #37)

Sun May 17, 2020, 04:30 PM

quaint (404 posts)

39. Me, too.

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Sun May 17, 2020, 05:39 PM

marked50 (1,001 posts)

42. Got it. Should of Clicked on your link. n/t

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Response to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 01:09 PM

demigoddess (5,699 posts)

30. "Never Assume"

military brats motto, I usually want to say "Never Assume, it is a sign of stupidity"

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Sun May 17, 2020, 02:19 PM

ailsagirl (20,902 posts)

34. Three I can think of off the top of my head

Living well is the best revenge

Nobody has ever gone broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people

Lord, what fools these mortals be

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Sun May 17, 2020, 04:41 PM

IcyPeas (12,789 posts)

41. Alan Watts (I think)

Saying "let me help you out of the pond before you drown", the kindly monkey put the goldfish safely up the tree.

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Sun May 17, 2020, 06:07 PM

July (4,692 posts)

43. John Kenneth Galbraith:

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior justification for selfishness.”

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Response to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Original post)

Mon May 18, 2020, 01:56 AM

littlemissmartypants (14,350 posts)

44. All great changes are preceeded by chaos. nt

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Mon May 18, 2020, 06:23 AM

bluecollar2 (2,485 posts)

45. British Airways Pilot is alleged to have come up with

"Using the checklist is statistically safer than thinking"

My other phrase is "Quality is not an accident but the result of intelligent effort"

I don't recall who came up with that one.

Both of those were my go tos as an aircraft mechanic and inspector for almost 35 years.

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