Category Archives: quotes

Queer Quote – Matthew Parris

June 13, 2021 – 7:11 am

“It must have been one in the morning. Clapham Common was still, quiet, cold and very dark. But against the lights of the houses, I could see the silhouettes, some moving, some motionless. I could see the glow of a cigarette in someone’s hand, under the trees.” Matthew Parris – British Member of Parliament

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Quote of the Day

December 18, 2020 – 9:50 am

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. ~Doug Larson I threw snowballs during each snowstorm in New York this year. My age is only a date. In my head I’m 15.

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Honest To Goodness Patriot

November 22, 2020 – 9:24 am

“I didn’t vote for him but he’s my president, and I hope he does a good job.” John Wayne – On John F. Kennedy’s election Disgruntled GOP voters should learn from that as well as Democrats. We are one. e pluribus unum. Latin for ‘out of many one’. ps Donald Trump has never been my […]

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Dominoes With A Chicken

November 9, 2020 – 2:21 am

“How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?” ― Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

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Do Be Do Be Do

May 28, 2020 – 7:47 pm

“To be is to do”-Socrates “To do is to be”-Sartre “Do Be Do Be Do”-Sinatra “Yaba Daba Doo!”-Fred Flintstone

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