Famous Person Quote of the Day (1)

[pigoo3]

At the funeral, I misquoted Mark Twain (unknowingly): I said, "when I was 18, I thought dad was out of touch with reality, but when I reached the age of 22, I realised how much he had matured in these 4 years."

Hey Ian. From what I'm reading...seems you got the Mark Twain quotation mostly correct...mostly just some differences in the ages mentioned.

Maybe your version of the quote is a more updated version.

In Mark Twain's day...youngsters needed (or were required) to grow up more quickly (compared to more modern times)...thus Mark Twains 14 & 21 years old turned into your more modern-age quote of 18 & 22 years old. And if we modified the Mark Twain quote to be an even more modern (current day version)...maybe the original 14 & 21 years old would need to be something more like 25 & 30??...or more!

- Nick

 

[toMACsh]

I was referring to the well known fact, as late teenagers, we think we know it all. In my case, because of WW2, I was born when my father was 36, so, naturally, when I started University at 18, my dad was 54/55 years old. He died at the age of 87.

Incredible! Those statistics apply to me as well!

 

[DianeVan]

Seems like a common theme for many, including Abe Lincoln - a favorite (of many) Mark Twain quip for me is quoted below:


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I’ve heard it with “fool”. You can fool some of the people . . .


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[IWT]

Purely out of interest, this quotation was used in the Jack Lemmon/Walter Matthau film "The Fortune Cookie" which I remember well.

See here under "Did You Know" > "Quotes": The Fortune Cookie (1966) - IMDb

Ian

 

[harryb2448]

Samuel Clement aka Mark Twain visited my home town of Newcastle NSW Australia in the 1890's and said 'An uninteresting town with a hospital at one end of the main street and a cemetery at the other'!

He escaped by train back to Sydney before the lynch mob arrived alas.

 

[pm-r]

He escaped by train back to Sydney before the lynch mob arrived alas.

LOL!!!


- Patrick
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[RadDave]

Samuel Clement aka Mark Twain visited my home town of Newcastle NSW Australia in the 1890's and said 'An uninteresting town with a hospital at one end of the main street and a cemetery at the other'!

He escaped by train back to Sydney before the lynch mob arrived alas.

Hi Harry - from the first pic below, looks like Newcastle has 'grown up' since Twain's visit - Just curious since your 'home' (now) is listed as Nambucca Heads - had to check the map app - you're about 3 1/2 hrs by car north of the city - must be lovely there!

Back about 1990, we had a Gastroenterology fellow named E.G. Hewson (known as 'Ted') from Australia - we wrote a few papers together on esophageal motility - he returned to Newcastle to practice (not sure if he went into academics or private practice?). Dave
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[pm-r]

from the first pic below, looks like Newcastle has 'grown up' since Twain's visit

And more than one hospital at one end as well... at least according to google maps... ;-)

It certainly looks a lot nicer than his description as well.


- Patrick
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[harryb2448]

No ~ no hospitals in the CBD at all.

On extreme right of the pic Dave is Fort Scratchley Jpaanese submarines shelled the steel works 31 May 1942 and the fort's guns engaged them.

 

[nickyr]

not a quote as such, but the inscription on Spike Milligan's (a British - well, Irish actually - comedian and national institution) headstone reads:

"I told you I was ill"

 

[pm-r]

not a quote as such, but the inscription on Spike Milligan's (a British - well, Irish actually - comedian and national institution) headstone reads:

"I told you I was ill"

+1!!!


- Patrick
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[pm-r]

Duplicate post — sorry. Just ignore.

Also can't upload an image. Something odd happening with the server...???


- Patrick
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[Randy B. Singer]

Quotations from Ambrose Bierce 1842—1914).
Ambrose Bierce Quotes (Author of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge)


“Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.”


“The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.”


“Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.”


“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”


“Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.”

 

[chscag]

I especially like that last quote. It reminds me of all the political noise we are currently being subjected to here in the US. Unfortunately, it's going to get even worse as we draw near to November 2020.

 

[pigoo3]

Quotations from Ambrose Bierce 1842—1914).
Ambrose Bierce Quotes (Author of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge)

“Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.”

A couple "side-thought's" to this. Ambrose Bierce passed away in 1914 (105 years ago)...and he was commenting on how lottery's were a "Tax on people who were bad at math."

* Just goes to show that all of the various lottery's run by various governments around the world that lottery's are nothing new (not a new/newish phenomenon).
* We would think that in the last (at least) 105 years...that the average person's math skills would have improved (due to the overall better/more available education around the world). But lots & lots of "educated" folks still play the lottery regularly...and they all think/hope they will be "the one" to win!

- Nick

 

[sllewk]

I cannot remember whose quote this is but by gum it is very true:

Sometime when you are feeling important, sometime when your ego is in bloom
sometime when you feel that you are the most important man in the room
sometime when you feel that your going would leave as unfillable hole
just follow these simple instructions and see how the humble your sole.

Take a bucket and fill it with water and put your hands in it up to your wrists
take them out and the hole that remains is a measure of how much you will be missed
you may splash all you like as you enter, you may store up the water galore
but stop and you will find in a minute that it looks just the same as before.

The moral of this is quite simple, just do the best that you can
be proud of yourself but remember, the is no indispensable man!

 

[toMACsh]

I cannot remember whose quote this is but by gum it is very true:

There Is No Indispensable Man
by Saxon N. White Kessinger, Copyright 1959

 

[sllewk]

I cannot remember whose quote this is but by gum it is very true:

Sometime when you are feeling important, sometime when youre ego is in bloom
sometime when you feel that you are the most important man in the room
sometime when you fell that your going would leave as unfillable hole
just follow these simple instructions and see how the humble your sole.

Very best regards from Keith in Derby England.

Take a bucket and fill it with water and put your hands in it up to your wrists
take them out and the hole that remains is a measure of how much you will be missed
you may splash all you like as you enter, you may store up the water galore
but stop and you will find in a minute that it looks just the same as before.

The moral of this is quite simple, just do the best that you can
be proud of yourself bur remember, the is no indispensable man!

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Sorry, I seem to have "Lost the plot" completely there!

Very best regards from Keith in Derby England.

 

[sllewk]

Hi toMACsh, Thank you for that information, my brain does not seem to work as well as it used to. The elevator does not go up to the top floor very often these days!

Very best regards from Keith in Derby England,

 

[Sawday]

"I may be drunk, but in the morning I shall be sober and you will still be ugly". - Winston Churchill