Quotes - April 28, 2012

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

Thanks Stephen.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, Oct. 26, 1939

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
-- Robert Half

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
-- James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times (1933)

[St8arrow]

Paraphrasing John F. Kennedy:

"Ask not what the human race can do for you. Ask rather what you can do for the human race itself."

[St8arrow]

I can see the sliver in your eye, but I cannot see the two by four in my own.

The Cockle Bur (I don't know for sure what those three words mean but I think it was some kind of group or maybe a person from long ago in Ireland.) Does anybody know what --- The Cockle Bur --- refers to

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

Cockleburs (Xanthium) are a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to the Americas and eastern Asia.


Turquoise blue

[St8arrow]

Hello Warmsoul/Jeanie13:

"Turquoise blue" --- Hello to you too.

Obviously, (I believe) you are referring to the color of the flower. Since a flower cannot be the author of a quote, I think the expression Cockle Bur probably is different from the flower called Cocklebur. Thanks for including that information though, I wasn't aware that there was such a flower with that particular name.

Here's another quote that I like very much.

"The paradox of course is that you can never have
enough information. But you cannot gather information forever."

(Priscilla Elfry)

My comment --- (Ultimately you must act.)

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

Hi St8arrow,

Like that quote.