“Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.” |
THE ECDYSIAST’S COUNTERQUOTE: “If a thing is worth doing, it’s worth doing slowly — very slowly.” |
CHESTERTON’S COUNTERQUOTE: “If a thing is worth doing it is worth doing badly.” |
WALLY’S WISDOM: “My philosophy is that anything worth doing is too hard.” |
MAYBE MICK’S MOTTO?: “Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.” |
THE SUCKY BEGINNINGS PRINCIPLE: “Anything worth doing is going to suck at the beginning. Anything worth doing is meant to require pain and sacrifice. Herein lies the problem facing America, which originally was built on the moral of impulse control. What once used to be a country filled with people sacrificing momentary pleasure for a better future, the overpowering message of today is live for the moment.” * * * * * * * * * * Comments? Corrections? Questions? Email me or post them on my Famous Quotations Facebook page. Related reading, viewing and listening… |
October 1, 2019
“Whatever is worth doing...”
September 17, 2019
War as politics, politics as war – and various other things “continued by other means”...
THE MISTRANSLATED MAXIM: “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” |
A MODERN POLITICAL VARIATION: “American politics is now the continuation of ‘war by other means.’...Government shutdowns, threatened debt default, racism, homophobia and Islamophobia can seem like discrete political struggles for democracy, good governance, and equal rights. Progressives and moderates make a huge mistake when they do not see the connections extremists make among them. It is crucial to see that to the extreme right-wing that is hijacking our political process right now, these are not discrete issues but part of a cosmic war on Satan played out in our American political life.” |
AN ARMS SUPPLIER’S VERSION: “War is the improvement of investment climates by other means.” |
A TECH VISIONARY’S VERSION: “Technology is the continuation of evolution by other means, and is itself an evolutionary process.” |
LEGAL VARIATION #1: “Law in a good society is first and foremost the continuation of morality by other means.” |
LEGAL VARIATION #2: “Litigation...the continuation of business by other means.” Frederick L. Whitmer Professional litigator and author In his book Litigation Is War (2007) |
THE STOOGES MEET THE EVIL DEAD VERSION: “Mr. Raimi [movie director Sam Raimi]...has cited the Three Stooges as his comic inspiration, and indeed, Evil Dead II is a sort of continuation of Stoogism by other means. Here, an eyeball isn’t just poked, but poked out and sent flying across the room, to be swallowed by an innocent bystander. Of such things, Moe Howard could only dream.” |
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September 7, 2019
Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable…
“Th’ newspaper does ivrything f’r us...comforts th’ afflicted, afflicts th’ comfortable.” |
“Mr. Brady, it is the duty of a newspaper to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” |
“The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” |
“It’s a folk singer’s job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people.” |
“The business of the ministry is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” |
“No woman has ever so comforted the distressed – or distressed the comfortable.” |
“In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.” |
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August 9, 2019
“Carpe diem.” (This one’s for you, Robin…)
THE PLUCKY LATIN QUOTE: “Carpe diem.” [Traditionally translated as “Seize the day.”] |
RIP, ROBIN. YOU WERE INDEED EXTRAORDINARY… “Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.” |
STEVE ZAHN’S VERSION: “Carpe poon, man.” |
ERMA BOMBECK’S VERSION: “Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.” |
SKYLER’S VERSION: Question on a school test: “Define carpe diem.” |
TEDDY ROOSEVELT’S VERSION: “Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.” |
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July 16, 2019
“The past is a foreign country...”
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” |
“To young progressives, Biden is a voice of the past. The English novelist L.P. Hartley once wrote, ‘The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.’ Like bipartisanship and compromise. And collaboration with outright racists. To older Democrats, however, the past is when things used to work — before Trump came along to cause chaos and disruption. They’re counting on Biden to restore that past.” |
“The past may be a foreign country where they do things differently as the L. P. Hartley line has it, but it is one to which many would readily immigrate given the opportunity.” |
“It’s easy to get washed along in nostalgia, to end up overshadowed by the past, because the past is a perfect country, a place we’ve made better in our heads through selective amnesia.” |
“If the past is a foreign country, it is a shockingly violent one. It is easy to forget how dangerous life used to be, how deeply brutality was once woven into the fabric of daily existence. Cultural memory pacifies the past, leaving us with pale souvenirs whose bloody origins have been bleached away. A woman donning a cross seldom reflects that this instrument of torture was a common punishment in the ancient world; nor does a person who speaks of a whipping boy ponder the old practice of flogging an innocent child in place of a misbehaving prince. We are surrounded by signs of the depravity of our ancestors’ way of life, but we are barely aware of them. Just as travel broadens the mind, a literal-minded tour of our cultural heritage can awaken us to how differently they did things in the past.” |
“All of life is a foreign country.” |
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