OT: But I love this quote!
Danny T
The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public
debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be
tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be
curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work,
instead of living on public assistance.
-- Cicero, 55 BC
You'd think we'd learn!
hank alrich
Bet they wish they could have kept the river form freezing-over, too!
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ha
shut up and play your guitar
Chris Whealy
Chris W
--
The voice of ignorance speaks loud and long,
But the words of the wise are quiet and few.
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Danny T
I think I like your quote better then the first! Is this your own work
or someone else's? I have to give credit where it is do.....
Lucky
> I think I like your quote better then the first! Is this your own work
> or someone else's? I have to give credit where it is do.....
Did you fail middle school English?
Erik de Castro Lopo
There is no evidencec that Ciceri ever said this:
http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45485/
Erik
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"Neither noise nor information is predictable."
-- Ray Kurzweil
Danny T
Probably but I got A's in creative writing when I went to University
which is why people pay me for my thoughts and hire someone like you
to correct my spelling. Need a job?
Danny T
Are you sure? Ask your mom and see if she remembers
Lucky
Then you should know the difference between "then" and "than" and "do"
and "due".
And no.
Danny T
I always love people like you... You make my day - really! You think
you are smart because you spend so much time on what the thinking
world calls details. You're humorous really..... did you know that? So
I am glad people like you are around to do editing and check up on
grammar an so on. I probably wouldn't have published 1/2 of what I
have or even a 1/10 without secretaries like you. Please don't get me
wrong. I truly see the value of your ability to contribute. The thing
is you don't. You don't see what your talent is. Its CLERICAL and
nothing more. As soon as you realize your place you will start to do
much better in life.
Richard Crowley
> > Lucky wrote:
>
>> Then you should know the difference between "then" and "than" and "do"
>> and "due".
>>
>> And no.
>
> I always love people like you... You make my day - really! You think
> you are smart because you spend so much time on what the thinking
> world calls details. You're humorous really..... did you know that? So
> I am glad people like you are around to do editing and check up on
> grammar an so on. I probably wouldn't have published 1/2 of what I
> have or even a 1/10 without secretaries like you. Please don't get me
> wrong. I truly see the value of your ability to contribute. The thing
> is you don't. You don't see what your talent is. Its CLERICAL and
> nothing more. As soon as you realize your place you will start to do
> much better in life.
And how is your role in the world working out as a smart-alec?
Danny T
I still like it.......... Does that bother you?
Chris Whealy
But I dare say someone else said it before me.
Danny T
Pretty well thanks :-)
Hey - he's one of those nit picky guys that tries to find something to
start a war over. I mean lets face it, I liked a quote that the guy
goes for personal attacks? Life's too short to ware long pants! Ya
gatta have fun......
Lucky
> Its CLERICAL and nothing more.
Actually, it's a language that I love.
Maybe it's the Sarah Palin thing. "I might not answer the way you or the
moderator want me to."
Danny T
I've posted a few of my favorite quotes on the matter of spelling.
I've dedicated my life to nose thumbing those that would believe that
the correct spelling of a word came before its meaning or ability to
draw a picture.
Lucky, you may have a talent for the clerical and a love for it the
same but you look past expression and see grammatical misses and
letters out of place, instead of seeing the swirl of the spoken brush.
Time is precious and wasting it on following someone else's traditions
is quite the same as discarding a symphony for the sake of a broke
rule of musical counterpoint.
Not everything I write is meant to be a canvas of inspiration but it
is meant to express something, of which letters and commas will not
get in my way.
Now, my favorite quotes:
Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Twain (1835-1910) Quotes starting with
my favorite of all -
Mark Twain Quotes ... I respect a man who knows how to spell a word
more than one way.
Mark Twain
"I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling
words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes
alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing. I have a
correspondent whose letters are always a refreshment to me, there is
such a breezy unfettered originality about his orthography. He always
spells Kow with a large K. Now that is just as good as to spell it
with a small one. It is better. It gives the imagination a broader
field, a wider scope. It suggests to the mind a grand, vague,
impressive new kind of a cow."
- speech at a spelling match, Hartford, Connecticut, May 12, 1875.
Reported in the Hartford Courant, May 13, 1875
...simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry
it too far.
- The Alphabet and Simplified Spelling speech, December 9, 1907
I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more,
merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I
could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor
and mean distinction and I early learned to disenjoy it. I suppose
that this is because the ability to spell correctly is a talent, not
an acquirement. There is some dignity about an acquirement, because it
is a product of your own labor. It is wages earned, whereas to be able
to do a thing merely by the grace of God and not by your own effort
transfers the distinction to our heavenly home--where possibly it is a
matter of pride and satisfaction but it leaves you naked and bankrupt.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography
I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling
yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men
unconsciously revealed shades of their characters and also added
enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their
spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a
doubtful benevolence to us.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography
...ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary
of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-
five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and
legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smouched from every
unwatched language under the sun, the spelling of each individual word
of the lot locating the source of the theft and preserving the memory
of the revered crime.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography