RogiLife.Com » Quotes http://rogilife.com Despatches From The South Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:28:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=5483 Casting Reformation To The Winds http://rogilife.com/2010/01/casting-reformation-to-the-winds/ http://rogilife.com/2010/01/casting-reformation-to-the-winds/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:03:02 +0000 Rogi http://rogilife.com/?p=4233 A quote for today, the first of January 2010.

“Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.”

– Mark Twain. 1863.

New Year’s Resolutions? Not for me.

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“Making a fortune is simple. All you need to do is find something worthless and give it value.”

I have no idea who came up with that concept, but he or she was one smart cookie.

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]]> http://rogilife.com/2009/11/quote-of-the-day-29th-november-09/feed/ 0 Blair Wit http://rogilife.com/2009/10/blair-wit/ http://rogilife.com/2009/10/blair-wit/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:54:48 +0000 Rogi http://rogilife.com/?p=4089 I just spotted a witty remark in the comments of an article titled ‘Would Europe back President Blair?’ on the UK Guardian’s comment is free section. It genuinely made me laugh out loud, and I think it needs sharing, so here it is;

Question: Would Europe back President Blair?

Answer: Preferably off a cliff, at the point of a bayonet.

Well said that man/woman.

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]]> http://rogilife.com/2009/10/blair-wit/feed/ 0 Quote Of The Day 14th July 2009 http://rogilife.com/2009/07/quote-of-the-day-14th-july-2009/ http://rogilife.com/2009/07/quote-of-the-day-14th-july-2009/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:08:04 +0000 Rogi http://rogilife.com/?p=3964 “Confusion is always the most honest response.”

- Marty Indik.

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]]> http://rogilife.com/2009/07/quote-of-the-day-14th-july-2009/feed/ 0 Quote Of The Day 1st July 2009 http://rogilife.com/2009/07/quote-of-the-day-1st-july-2009/ http://rogilife.com/2009/07/quote-of-the-day-1st-july-2009/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:45:42 +0000 Rogi http://rogilife.com/?p=3945 Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

- Blaise Pascal

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]]> http://rogilife.com/2009/07/quote-of-the-day-1st-july-2009/feed/ 0 Mischievious Translations http://rogilife.com/2009/06/mischievious-translations/ http://rogilife.com/2009/06/mischievious-translations/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:24:59 +0000 Rogi http://rogilife.com/?p=3841

“Our nuclear deterrent will be a strong defensive means … as well as a merciless offensive means to deal a just retaliatory strike to those who touch the country’s dignity and sovereignty even a bit,” the state-run Minju Joson newspaper said.

You know, no matter how hard I try, I find it extremely difficult to believe that North Korea, whilst threatening a ‘merciless’ nuclear war, would tack on the end of it those two little words ‘…a bit’.

When threatening a nuclear war, you just wouldn’t say that, would you.

I mean, seriously, they really said ‘…a bit’?  Nah, it never happened.

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]]> http://rogilife.com/2009/06/mischievious-translations/feed/ 0 Quote Of The Day – Bigots http://rogilife.com/2009/02/quote-of-the-day-bigots/ http://rogilife.com/2009/02/quote-of-the-day-bigots/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:43:12 +0000 Rogi http://rogilife.com/?p=3281 “The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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—Zobo Kolonie, on the rogisnet mailing list.

A future classic quote, if ever I heard one.

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—Lord Chesterfield.

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]]> http://rogilife.com/2005/01/wiser/feed/ 0 Visible http://rogilife.com/2005/01/visible/ http://rogilife.com/2005/01/visible/#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:06:26 +0000 Rogi http://localhost:8888/wordpress27/?p=102 “Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”

—Robert Bresson.

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