Peter's Place

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~ Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, was a Founding Father of America)

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die. ~Juliette Lewis #quote #qotd #mentalhealth

"If I would have had more time, I would have written a shorter letter." ~T.S. Eliot #qotd #quote #quotestoponder #quotables Is this an oxymoronic or paradoxical statement, and what do you think of its meaning? I hope you enjoy my photography! :) #picsbyPCF

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, intellectual geeks do it best! ;) Take your hand off of me, you unctuous platitudinizing eunuch.  ~Martin Ellingham, MD  #quote #DocMartin #QOTD #realinsults #wordporn https://imgflip.com/i/xle08

Estelle Getty, playing Sophia Petrillo on The Golden Girls Boy, ya forget something new every day, don't ya? ~Sophia Petrillo

Found this awesome video clip from one of my favourite famous women who do not work in the field of entertainment, Suze Orman: Here is a partial transcript of quotes that I thought should be transcribed for all to see: Back [in the 1980s], there were ethics. There were ethics with money, believe it or not. You couldn't buy a house unless you had 20% down. They didn't give you credit cards unless you had the money to get out of credit card debt. They didn't give you a financial rope so that you could hang yourself. Today's economy is based on the ignorance of the people everywhere in the hopes that you're going to make some serious financial mistake that makes these people over here be able to meet their earnings reports for the stock markets and the this and the that. Way back when, money made sense. You could go to the university and pay $100 a semester to attend. Now we have kids graduating college with more student loan debt than they have any idea ...

**le sigh** They just don't make'm like this anymore ... At this moment we are passing through a period of great unrest—social, political, and industrial unrest. It is of the utmost importance for our future that this should prove to be not the unrest of mere rebelliousness against life, of mere dissatisfaction with the inevitable inequality of conditions, but the unrest of a resolute and eager ambition to secure the betterment of the individual and the nation. So far as this movement of agitation throughout the country takes the form of a fierce discontent with evil, of a determination to punish the authors of evil, whether in industry or politics, the feeling is to be heartily welcomed as a sign of healthy life. If, on the other hand, it turns into a mere crusade of appetite against appetite, of a contest between the brutal greed of the “have nots” and the brutal greed of the “haves,” then it has no significance for good, but only for evil. If it seeks to establish a ...

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. ~ John Calvin Coolidge, Jr., (4 July 1872 – 5 January 1933) President of the United States of America I spend today, Christmas 2009, with my father down in the State of Georgia. He lives near Atlanta. It's quite strange down here; almost nobody decorates (I'd be surprised if but one out of every 25 homes were decorated) and it doesn't feel at all like Christmas. A bit more so in my father's home as I practically forced him to get a Christmas tree. Of course, I had to decorate it. We split the cost for the ornaments & lights, though, and he did pay for the tree. I paid for the stand. It was a fair trade. :) Anyway, I'm just doing a lot of thinking, which I'll reserve for another post. In celebrating your holidays, whatever your tradition, religious persuasion and what not, I do ask that you please take so...

“Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.” ~ Phil Donahue (1935-) Emmy Award winning American media personality and writer “Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live” ~ Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) English sportsman and writer “The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over” ~ Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) Pulitzer & Nobel Prize winning author “No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.” ~ Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) Italian Poet, Critic, Novelist and Translator “To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.” ~ Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scientist and Physician Today (10 September 2009) is World Suicide Pre...

“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.” “If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” “Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” ~ John D. Rockefeller, 1839-1937 (American Industrialist and Philanthropist, founder of the Standard Oil Company) (QOTD=Quote Of The Day)

"A smile is the shortest distance between two people." ~ Victor Borge 1909-2000 (Danish-born U.S. comedic Musician)

I can't believe no one has said this before, so I'll say it now: "Friends agree to disagree. Enemies just disagree." ~Peter C. Frank (197x-present) Disabled New York LGBT Political Activist

I came across some really great, inspirational, soulful, and wise quotes from the great American writer, lecturer, and creative self-promoter: "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." "If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done." "If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive." "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." "Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed." "People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. " " Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. " "The successful man will profit from his mistakes an...

“When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.” ~~ Bayard Rustin , Black Civil Rights activist who happens to be gay.

"Not everyone is equal, but everyone has to have equal rights." ~~ Carolien Gehrels , Deputy Mayor of Amsterdam, Netherlands QOTD = Quote of the Day

So I just coined another new word, for use on # Twitter . Y'know, Twitter is really inspiring me to do so much, coin new words, start a #LGBTQ civil rights movement , get out and play with the Tweeples ... If you're not on Twitter, you should be. Lance Ulanoff even agrees that you should be. So my new word: Twilog . I'm using it to describe a Twitter Log, or the log of tweets that a particular user makes. Yes, we can say that this is in their "tweets" but that doesn't really explain that there's actually a log of one's tweets being kept. Thus, Twilog.Or, if you'd rather, think of it as a portmanteau of Twitter blog (of course, "blog" itself being a portmanteau, so perhaps this is a portmandeux?). You can find my twilog on Twitter .

Keep it simple. The more you say, the less people remember. (on a fortune cookie I just ate) This sage advice is ignored most often, I believe, by our politicians .

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. ~ Dale Carnegie (1888-1954), American author and lecturer

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. ~Anonymous

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy." ~ Sir Ernest John Pickstone Benn , 2nd Baronet (1875-1954), British publicist