Quote of the day

[BM <3]

Friday 14 November

He who doesn't risk never gets to drink champagne

- Russian proverb

[BM <3]

Saturday 15/Sunday 16 November

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.

- Bel Kaufman

[BM <3]

Monday 17 November

Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds.
A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing.

- Clive James

[BM <3]

Tuesday 18 November

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

- Nancy Astor

[BM <3]

Wednesday 19 November

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

- Colin Powell

[Bryson]

Originally Posted by BM <3

Monday 17 November

Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds.
A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing.

- Clive James

I don't get it.

[annihilate_me]

Originally Posted by Bryson

I don't get it.

I don't either.

[Bryson]

Glad I'm not the only one.

[annihilate_me]

Lol.

[BM <3]

What is it you don't get?

[BM <3]

Thursday 20 November

Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[BM <3]

Friday 21 November

It's a sahem, that when we have a good dream, we have to be asleep at the time.

- P.K. Shaw

[BM <3]

Saturday 22/Sunday 23 November

He who laughs, lasts.

- Mary Pettibone Poole

[BM <3]

Monday 24 November

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

- Roy Goodman

[BM <3]

Tuesday 25 November

Keep your mouth shut and you will never bite off more than you can chew.

- W.G.P.

[BM <3]

Wednesday 26 November

If opportunity doesn't knock......build a door.

- Milton Berle

[Bryson]

Originally Posted by BM <3

What is it you don't get?

This one:
Monday 17 November

Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds.
A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing.

- Clive James

Explain that in a way that makes sense and I'll be amazed and you will be glorified.

[BM <3]

Well like in my head I understand it, but not sure if I can explain it.

Well like you kinda have to have common sense in order to have a sense of humour.
And you have to have a sense of humour in order to have common sense. Common sense is good judgement in practical matters and a sense of humour is good judgement in humorous matters. Does that make sense? :S They're kinda the same thing but just at different.. stages?

[BM <3]

Thursday 27 November

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie - True Poems flee -

- Dickinson Emily

[BM <3]

Friday 28 November

I find television very educationg. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

- Groucho Marx