Daily Quotation

Figure out who you are and then do it on purpose.
--Dolly Parton

 

"in a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act"

 

Who said this? I like it. *goes to google*

edit: Ahh, good ol' George Orwell

 

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."

- Stephen King

 

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Duirt me leat go raibh me breoite",

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Milligan gets last laugh on grave






Spike Milligan decided on his epitaph before he died in 2002

Comedy legend Spike Milligan has finally got the last laugh, more than two years after his death.
It follows an agreement with the local diocese over the wording on the headstone of his grave at St Thomas's Church in Winchelsea, East Sussex.
Relatives of the former Goon have now decided that it can bear the star's epitaph: "I told you I was ill."
However, the inscription had to be written in Gaelic in order for it to be approved by the Chichester Diocese.
Milligan, who was an Irish passport holder, was buried close to his home in Udimore after he died, aged 83, from liver failure in February 2002.
But fans visiting his grave found it was only marked by some plants and a small statue because his family had been unable to agree on the headstone.





We're very pleased it's been resolved and with such a classic Spike line

Bill Horsman, of the Goon Show Preservation Society

It now bears the words "Duirt me leat go raibh me breoite", or "I told you I was ill", and the English words "Love, light, peace". Bill Horsman, chairman of the Goon Show Preservation Society, said: "News of the headstone going up on Spike's grave is marvellous.
"We had been very concerned for some time about the situation.
"It was very sad that the grave was in such a state, but it was down to very sensitive family problems and we simply could not get involved.
"We're very pleased it's been resolved and with such a classic Spike line.
"We all fell about laughing when we heard it."

 

"To say He (God) hath spoken to him in a dream is no more than to say that he dreamed God spake to him" (Thomas Hobbes)

Like a lot of what Hobbes has to say, its at once almost childishly simple and also (to me) incredibly profound.

 

"In politics stupidity is not a handicap."
Napoleon Bonaparte

 

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

-Kurt Vonnegut

 

It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from here.

Some "pessimist/realist"

 

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."

- Warren Buffet

 

I used to believe in forever, but forever was too good to be true.
--Winnie the Pooh

 

"I am faster than 80% of all snakes."
Dwight K. Schrute

 

"There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies with learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Pick a nice day, and try it."

-Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

 

golf is like an 18 year old with big boobs. you know it's wrong but you can't keep away from her. ~val doonican