Random Quotes

[Demetrius]

O Years! and Age! farewell:
   Behold I go
   Where I do know
Infinity to dwell.

And these mine eyes shall see
   All times, how they
   Are lost i' th' sea
Of vast eternity.

Where never moon shall sway
   The stars; but she
   And night shall be
Drown'd in one endless day.

-Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), 'Eternity'

[groomporter]

"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
-Thomas Jefferson

"If a jerk burns a flag, freedom is not at risk and we are not threatened. My colleagues, we are offended; and to change our Constitution because someone offends us is, in itself, unconscionable."
-Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-New York).

[groomporter]

"If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians."
H. P. Lovecraft

[Anna Iram]

       "New Year's Day is every man's birthday."
Charles Lamb quotes (English Critic, Poet and Essayist, 1775-1834)


Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?"
Ogden Nash quotes (American Writer of humorous poetry who won a large following for his audacious verse. 1902-1971)


      "Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution."
ariel Jay Leno quotes (American TV Host and Comedian, b.1950)

[Richard de Graeme]

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.

-Benjamin Franklin-

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

-Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850-

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

-William Blake-

[Rani Zemirah]

To love a person is to learn the song
That is in their heart,
And to sing it to them
When they have forgotten.
~ by Anonymous ~

[Lady_Lily]

So, it's not a quote of wisdom or something someone said a long long time ago...but I was watching the World Poker Tour this afternoon and one of the guy announcers said this:

"This guy just doesn't give anything away. I could tell him I was pregnant with his child and he'd just keep looking like that. *later* before we get any phone calls, I am not pregnant with his child."

[Richard de Graeme]

So, it's not a quote of wisdom or something someone said a long long time ago...but I was watching the World Poker Tour this afternoon and one of the guy announcers said this:

"This guy just doesn't give anything away. I could tell him I was pregnant with his child and he'd just keep looking like that. *later* before we get any phone calls, I am not pregnant with his child."

"Haw...Haw...Haw!"

-Green Monk, 2009-

[Scribe_Wear]

"There's nothing more exhilarating than pointing out the shortcomings of others, is there?"
                                                            ~Randal Graves~

[SirRichardBear]

Couple of my favorites from the Notebook of Lazarus Long by Robert Hienlien

It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.



The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute -- get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.

Political tags -- such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth -- are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.

Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful -- just stupid.)

[Welsh Wench]

"Ye keep tellin' me you'll teach me how to 'andle women, Cap'n. Yet, I'm not convinced I'll survive yer teachings, sir."
~~Josiah Briggs

[Demetrius]

Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. "Stop!" cried the groaning old man at last, "Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree."
It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others...

-Gertrude Stein

[Rani Zemirah]

One word frees us
Of all the weight and pain in life,
That word is Love
~ by Socrates ~

I have learned not to worry about love;
But to honor its coming with all my heart.
~ by Alice Walker ~

The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.
~ by Maulana Jalalu'ddin Rumi ~

[Anna Iram]

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
Lynda Barry


Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
Matt Groening, "Life in Hell"
US cartoonist & satirist (1954 - )


Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Ramsay Clark

[Welsh Wench]

'If I'd killed him when I met him, I'd be out of prison by now.'
~~overheard at a woman's correctional facility

Huzzah!