"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it,
move with it, and join the dance." ~Alan Watts
(seemed appropriate on this day under the circumstances)
"I'm here to chew bubblegum and kick weed puller.....and I'm ALL out of bubblegum."
-Rowdy Roddy Piper, They Live
This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.
Sigmund Freud (about the Irish)
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning. ~ Albert Einstein
The first place to look for anything is the last place you expect to find it!
Cows and actors both appreciate a warm hand!
~Those are my favorites
The budget should be balanced. Public spending should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.
Marcus Tulius Cicero, 45BC
Once you have flown you will ever walk the earth with your eyes turned
skyward, for there you have been, and there you long to return.
- Leonardo da Vinci -
"Tell me what you need and I'll tell you why you don't need it."
~ My Step-dad
*chuckle*
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. - Bertrand Russell
Quote from: DB on May 08, 2008, 01:12:04 AM
"I'm here to chew bubblegum and kick weed puller.....and I'm ALL out of bubblegum."
-Rowdy Roddy Piper, They Live
Dang....And, I thought that was a Derek Boogaard original....
I know....Outside of Muffin and maybe Bacardi, no one knows who the boogie man is!...LoL
Yesterday's accomplishments are today's foundations for tomorrow's successes.
"Be good & you will soon be lonesome"
~Mark Twain
When I'm good, I'm good. When I'm bad, I'm very good. -- Mae West
"I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt."
~Groucho Marx
"Embrace those who love you and rid yourself of those who will only bring you down." - Unknown
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
Leo Tolstoy
"You are never too old to learn, and never too young to teach."
Marion Zimmer Bradley
You can lead a dog to water, but you can't stop him peeing in it - Bucky Katt
"However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him."
Nicholas Boileau
Yer killin' me, Smalls!
`Hamilton "Ham" Porter, The Sandlot
You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper. - Robert Alton Harris
God is good all the time and all the time God is good.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never accept no from someone who does not have the authority to say yes.
Well-behaved women seldom make history. ~unknown~
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams
"don't follow leaders, watch the parking meters"
~Dylan
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. - Saint Augustine
]''If you have a hunchback, throw a little glitter on it honey, and go dancing!'' - unknown
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. - Friedrich Nietzsche
'Did I say that out loud?'
~~Scotsman, said frequently at Rendezvous ;)
"It was a monsoon... a monsoon... it RAINED!" ~ Anonymous
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. - Albert Einstein
Its better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not - Andre Gide
As an actress I belief my soul is for RENT not Sale. I believe this because my art is my soul - Anna Deavere Smith
Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
George S. Patton
Hermits have no peer pressure. - Steven Wright
"Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too (if they have a gun)." -Eddie Izzard
"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy." -JD Salinger
"Don't let education get in the way of your thinking."
Ben Cartwright
"Can't just leave 'em there, dogs'll pi$$ on 'em."
Philo Beddoe
"It's not just rock-scissors-paper. It's rock-scissors-paper-grenade-axe-candlestick in the study."
-Trey Smith of EA Canada in NP Magazine
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Moshe Dayan
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. - Ulysses S. Grant
When good nagotiates with evil, the pervert wins.
~Lynne
"O innocent victims of Cupid,
Remember this terse little verse:
To let a fool kiss you is stupid,
To let a kiss fool you is worse."
E. Y. Harburg
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. - Voltaire
Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. - Eugene Ionesco
You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea. - Medgar Evers
"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." - Hippolyte Taine
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. - The Dread Pirate Roberts
What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. ~Gertrude Jekyll
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. - Mel Brooks
I love when someone is consistent in their treatment and understanding of others. Bob Costas heads the list of people I would like to meet. He was quoted once about one thing he said about Kirby Puckett, and subsequently said the same of Mike Tyson several years ago.
"Tell me: When a dark side is revealed in a man, does that render all the good that man did as untrue?".
The payoff? When asked by Peter King, who was writing a commencement address, what advice he would give to the graduating class - he said:
"Things are very seldom black and white. Don't demonize. Try to understand."
"When we're kids, we dream wildly. As we grow up - we dream realistically. We shouldn't. I got where I am today being a ridiculous dreamer."
- Mike Tomlin, 35-year old Head Coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. - John Barrymore
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him... The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself... All progress depends on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw
Quote from: anne of oaktower on May 21, 2008, 04:25:40 PM
Well-behaved women seldom make history. ~unknown~
"Well-behaved women rarely make history"
~Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Tis a quote on one of my profiles!
"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety." ~ Benjamin Franklin
I had this one on my calendar the other day:
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
~Dame Edith Sitwell
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. ~John Lubbock
Happy Solstice everyone.
"In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of the marvels of convergent technology, the thing you type on and the window you stare out of are now the same thing."
~ Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
God is good all the time and all the time God is good
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once. - Isaac Asimov
"There are people in this world who do not love their fellow man
-and I hate people like that!"
-Tom Lehrer
All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same. - Jesse Ventura
I am not so confused as to desire
Other honors than the useful, pleasant ones.
-Creon, Oedipus the Tyrant
Those who reject their demons badger us to death with their angels.
-Henri Michaux
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. - C. S. Lewis
For those who don't understand me, fear me
For those who do understand me, fear yourselves
-unknown
"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adversity is like a flame, it melts the weak but tempers the strong.
-Unknown
"Hero: person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it."
~ Mark Twain
She sleeps above the covers.... four feet above the covers...
~Dr. Peter Venkman
'What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble-minded goats and your faithful dog...?
The question is: Can you write?'
~~Ernest Hemingway
;D
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
~ Robert F. Kennedy
"We write frankly and fearlessly, but then we 'modify' before we print."
~ Samuel L. Clemens
;)
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. - Henry David Thoreau
"The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands."
~Mark Twain
*from King of the Hill:
Dale: Knock! Knock!
Bill: Who's there?
Dale: Sweet Revenge!!!
I see your King of the Hill and raise you a Simpson's:
Here's to alcohol, the cause of—and solution to—all life's problems. - Homer Simpson
"If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times."
~ Mark Twain
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. - T.S. Eliot
When you talk all the time, you are bound to eventually say everything.
-Carla to Cliff on Cheers 2/26/03
For the record, we never broke up. We just took a fourteen year vacation.
~~Glenn Frey, Eagles, 1994
Minimum wage is you boss' way of saying "I'd pay you less if I could!"
To lie is not only to say what isn't true. It is also and above all, to say more than is true, and, as far as the human heart is concerned, to express more than one feels. This is what we all do, everyday, to simplify life.
-Albert Camus
That which does not kill me only postpones the inevitable.
- dispair.com
;D
I don't mind dying, the trouble is you feel so bloody stiff the next day. - George Axlerod
"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him."
.............................................. Booker T. Washington
Some contemptuous scoundrel has stolen the cork out of my lunch!
W.C. Fields
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher and that is a good thing for any man. - Socrates
I drank what? - Attributed to Socrates (Thank you Real Genius)
When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas. - Emo Philips
this one if from a friend who's fiance well tomorrow they will be husband and wife but this is something he wrote on another friends page and i loved it. He's from Africa that's what makes it funny he's not really a serious person.
ANGER!!!! It frowns at you...be very afraid...it's from AFRICA
Never teach a pig to sing- it wastes your time and annoys the pig. -Anon.
The singing pig quote is Robert Heinlein, another good Heinlein quote is:
"But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil."
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Boredom is rage spread thin.
~~Paul Tillich
Quote from: tletourneau on August 30, 2008, 07:10:30 PM
The singing pig quote is Robert Heinlein, another good Heinlein quote is:
"But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil."
OOh, thanks!
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
-Martin Luther King, Jr..
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
~ Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Like a dull actor now
I have forgot my part and I am out,
Even to a full disgrace
W.S. -Coriolanus, V:3
~The problem with most people is that they suffer from delusions of adequacy~
A friend
"Bless her heart, she can't help being ugly, but she could've stayed home."
--author unknown
"The moon has set, and the Pleiades: it is midnight and time passes, and I sleep alone."
Sappho
I hear apes howl sadly
In dark mountains.
The blue river
Flows swiftly through night.
-Meng Hau-Ran (Tang Dynasty, 730s)
"I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."
-Thomas Jefferson
"I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog too".
~Wicked Witch
"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child and I thought as a child. When I became a man....Geez, I really missed my toys!"
(Ok...so I paraphrazed a bit) ::)
Quote from: maelstrom0370 on September 30, 2008, 09:33:57 AM
"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child and I thought as a child. When I became a man....Geez, I really missed my toys!"
(Ok...so I paraphrazed a bit) ::)
You make me laugh almost every day... thanks! :D
Quote from: Rani Zemirah on September 30, 2008, 10:35:34 AM
Quote from: maelstrom0370 on September 30, 2008, 09:33:57 AM
"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child and I thought as a child. When I became a man....Geez, I really missed my toys!"
(Ok...so I paraphrazed a bit) ::)
You make me laugh almost every day... thanks! :D
Awww...gosh! ::digging his toe in the dirt::...thanks! :-[ ::) ;)
"Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid."
~~ Samuel L. Clemens
~Sitting there at that moment, I thought of Shakespeare again.
He said, "Hey, life is pretty stupid. Lots of hubbub to keep you busy, but really not amounting to much."
Of course I'm paraphrasing.~
Harris K. Telemacher
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I think that the chances of finding out what's actually going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say, 'Hang the sense of it,' and keep yourself busy. I'd much rather be happy than right any day."
~~ Douglas Adams
Quote from: Mad Jack Wolfe on September 30, 2008, 02:28:03 PM
"Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I think that the chances of finding out what's actually going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say, 'Hang the sense of it,' and keep yourself busy. I'd much rather be happy than right any day."
~~ Douglas Adams
I once met Douglas Adams at a book signing in Boulder CO, where I gave him a pin that said
"I'm sure you're considered very good looking on your home planet"
He didn't seem very amused. Funny, I really thought he'd like it...
"We all have our faults. Mine happens to be in California"
~Lex Luther
An oldy, but a goody....
~God is dead.~
-Nietzsche
~Nietzsche is dead.~
-God
All art is propaganda... on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.
-George Orwell
You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.
-Super Chicken
"KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!"
~Unknown
~I smell ugly!~
Edgar Frog
I've learned the hard way that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
~ Gilda Radner (1946–1989)
"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
~~ Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"we are now within un-, sub- or supernatural forces."
Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
We have met the enemy, and he is Us.
~Pogo
On the opening of the Stock Exchange today...
"Hold on to your butts!"
~Samuel L. Jackson, Jurrasic Park
I keep hitting "escape" on my computer, but I'm still here.
~ ?
(((Oh, and Mad Jack, I don't believe Samuel L. Jackson was in Jurassic Park)))
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/) ;D
What's another word for thesaurus? -Steven Wright.
"I'm sorry, Bruce. These boys get that syrup in 'em and they get all antsy in their pantsy" -Capt. O'Hagan, Super Troopers
I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily- how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Revenge is sweet but paybacks are deadly.
~~Anonymous
Quote from: Mad Jack Wolfe on October 10, 2008, 09:04:00 AM
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/) ;D
I stand corrected.. but then I don't really count 2 lines as "being in" the movie.. LOL..
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
Author: Martin Luther King Jr.
"Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a piece of blank paper until your forehead bleeds."
~ Douglas Adams
~Friends help you move. True friends help you move the body!~
There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.
~~Raymond Chandler, Red Wind
"To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread
out before you,and hold intimate converse with men
of unseen generations --
such is a pleasure beyond compare."
-- Kenko Yoshida (1283-1352)
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Pierre Auguste Renoir
You are Braver than you Believe,
Stronger than you Seem,
and
Smarter than you Think.
- Unknown
Quote from: Molden on October 19, 2008, 07:43:41 AM
You are Braver than you Believe,
Stronger than you Seem,
and
Smarter than you Think.
- Unknown
Those very words appear in a children's book I used to read to my kids..."Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search For Christopher Robin." That is what Christopher tells him when he is trying to prepare Pooh for the fact that he'll be gone for awhile. (In typical Pooh fashion, it turns out to be a great adventure, but Christopher was really only going to school.)
I've repeated that quote to my children many times to reassure them that they really can make it through a difficult time. It's one of my all-time favorites :)
~Some days you're the boxer, some days you're the bag~
Thank you for that bit of insight into your personality. :D
annanonamous
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
-Langston Hughes "Lenox Avenue Mural."
God does not throw dice.
-Albert Einstein
The larger view always and through all shams, all wickedness, discovers the Truth that will, in the end, prevail, and all things, surely, inevitably, resistlessly work together for good.
-Frank Norris, in The Octopus
We are the music-makers
And we are the dreamers of dreams
Wandering by lone sea-breakers
And sitting by desolate streams
World-losers and world-forsakers
On whom the pale moon gleams
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems
~~Arthur O'Shaughnessy
When it comes to political discourse, the clearest sign of incivility occurs when people declare that their cause is so true, their beliefs so righteous, their passion so pure and strong... that people who differ must be silenced.
~Stuart Schneiderman
http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2008/12/queuing-up.html
There are only four questions of value in life. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made of? What is worth living for? What is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
From the movie Don Juan DeMarco
Persistance
Nothing in the world can take the place of PERSISTENCE
Talent will not...nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with Talent
Genius will not....unrewarded genius is almost a proverb
Education alone will not.....the world is full of educated failures.
PERSISTENCE and DETERMINATION alone are OMNIPOTENT
~Calvin Coolidge
My mother gave birth to twins: myself and fear.
-Thomas Hobbes
I'm tired of being patient...
-The Knack
Thinking on convictions this fine morn....
"Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions which move with him like flies on a summer day"
Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)
Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually rubbing even the most altruistic nose in a steaming pile of "F**k that"."
glyphic30 Anthony Beal quotes (Horror book writer American Author, Poet and Editor, b.1974
"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."
Samuel Butler quotes (English novelist, essayist and critic, 1835-1902)
Seduce my mind and you can have my body,
Find my soul and I'm yours forever.
~ by Anonymous ~
Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
-Ambrose Bierce (American Author, a favorite of H. P. Lovecraft)
Oogum oogum boogum boogum
boogum now baby you're castin' your spell on me
~~Brenton Wood
*OK so it is not exactly a quote. I just felt like typing it!* ;D
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
Kurt Vonnegut
US novelist (1922 - 2007)
"Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance."
~ Benjamin Franklin
Games are a gauge by which we measure life.
Maurice Carlisle Watson (Unknown philosopher and member of the Gardner Lane Boys)
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
Aristotle
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Lord Byron
"Hyperbole is the best thing ever!"
"Fibonacci: It's as easy as 1,1,2,3"
"There's no right way to eat a Rhesus"
"Simple as 3.141592"
"Pavlov: The name that rings a bell"
~All of the above are courtesy of Mental_Floss (http://www.mentalfloss.com/magazine/). Quite possibly the awesomest magazine in the history of awesome magazines
Quote from: maelstrom0370 on December 11, 2008, 11:08:19 PM
"Hyperbole is the best thing ever!"
"Fibonacci: It's as easy as 1,1,2,3"
"There's no right way to eat a Rhesus"
"Simple as 3.141592"
"Pavlov: The name that rings a bell"
~All of the above are courtesy of Mental_Floss (http://www.mentalfloss.com/magazine/). Quite possibly the awesomest magazine in the history of awesome magazines
Aaaaahahahahahahaha!!!!!! Nerd humor is soooo much funnier if you're actually nerdy enough to get it!!!
Of course, being nerdy enough to admit you get it can be pretty funny, also, I guess... ::) :P ;D
How happy is the blameless vestals lot,
The world forgetting,
by the world forgot;
Eternal sunshine
of the spotless mind...
-Alexander Pope (Eloisa to Abelard 1717)
And think not you can
Direct the course of love,
For love,
If it finds you worthy,
Directs your course.
~ by Gibran Kahlil Gibran ~
"Sonny, true love is the greatest thing in the world, except for a nice MLT- mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich. Where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe... they're so perky. I love that."
~~ Miracle Max (Billy Crystal), The Princess Bride
Quote from: Mad Jack Wolfe on December 12, 2008, 06:39:02 PM
"Sonny, true love is the greatest thing in the world, except for a nice MLT- mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich. Where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe... they're so perky. I love that."
~~ Miracle Max (Billy Crystal), The Princess Bride
Niiiice!!! That is great, Jack! One of the best quote movies out there! ROFL
The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss.
~ by Unknown ~
Once in awhile,
Right in the middle of an ordinary life,
Love gives us a fairy tale.
~ by Anonymous ~
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
Lord Byron
Sean: Mom! Mom! Mom!
Sean's Mom: Sean! Sean! Sean! Do you see how annoying that is?!
-From Get Smart, the movie.
Give me the world and I'll give you heaven. ;)
"My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down -- but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round."
Willie Nelson quote
Love is like a friendship caught on fire.
In the beginning a flame, very pretty,
Often hot and fierce,
But still only light and flickering.
As love grows older,
Our hearts mature
And our love becomes as coals,
Deep-burning and unquenchable.
~ by Bruce Lee ~
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who errs, and comes up short again and again...(but) who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievement, and who at the worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt
There are huge chunks of time... at night... where I'm just asleep. For hours. It's ridiculous.
-Christopher Walken (as Mr. Leonard in Census Taker skit SNL)
"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great
ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire."
~Francois de La Rouchefoucauld~
A day without fusion is like a day without sunshine. :p
Give a monkey a typewriter and sooner or later he'll write Shakespeare
You can fool most a tha people all a tha time
And some of the people two time,
But fooling sometimes...well uh...ya know what I mean.
George W Bush
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'
"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).
"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
"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)
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-
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 ~
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."
Quote from: Lady_Lily on January 04, 2009, 02:51:57 PM
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-
"There's nothing more exhilarating than pointing out the shortcomings of others, is there?"
~Randal Graves~
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.)
"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
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
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 ~
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
'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! ;)
Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Benjamin Franklin
Oh how thou hath subjected me to an act of veracity... 'tis painful, painful.
-Boffer Bings
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
~Anais Nin~
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He is not a lover who does not love forever.
~Euripides~
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Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all of life's hazards, save one -- neglect.
~James D. Bryden~
Love- it's what you eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner- it is, burp, delicious...
-Boffer Bings
If music be the food of love, play on...
-Shakespeare
Quote from: Scribe_Wear on January 04, 2009, 04:22:19 PM
"There's nothing more exhilarating than pointing out the shortcomings of others, is there?"
~Randal Graves~
Good one S_W!
"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." - Douglas Adams
Missed one Jack
To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.
~Goethe~
"Without change, there would be no butterflies!"
When it comes to happiness, we have two options:
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or we can rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
*cross-posted in Happiness Is thread*
Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived.
~George Santayana~
"The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold." ~ Michel de Montaigne.
Can't remember the movie but love the quote
Don't kid yourself these are the good old days.
"The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle, complimentary way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had had for dinner the night before."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh~
O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space- were it not that I have bad dreams.
-Hamlet,,, Shakespeare
If you hear a different drummer -- dreamer, take a chance . . . The road you choose to travel means the difference in the dance.
~D. Morgan~
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
~Ben Franklin
"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
~ Mark Twain
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
-George Sand
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me
~~Edgar Allen Poe, Annabelle Lee
Dorothy Parker, on being challenged to rhyme horticulture, came up with:
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink,
You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.
Quote from: Mad Jack Wolfe on January 23, 2009, 06:22:53 PM
"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
~ Mark Twain
"Amen, Brother!"
Green Monk (and many others) 2009
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly ... very slowly."
~Gypsy Rose Lee~
"I believe deeply that we must find, all of us together, a new spirituality."
-Dalai Lama
The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
~Samuel Butler~
'But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor.
She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.'
~~William Collins
"Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam."
(English translation: I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.)
Quote from: Peddlin on January 26, 2009, 09:18:28 AM
"Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam."
(English translation: I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.)
OMG!!! That is the funniest thing I've read in days!!! ROFLMFAO!!!
Quote from: Welsh Wench on January 25, 2009, 05:26:05 PM
'But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor.
She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.'
~~William Collins
...and this is a beautiful image. Reminds me of a delicate winter dawn. I wonder if it's from a novel.
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
I am a bird in God's garden and I do not belong to this dusty road.
Richard Thompson
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. - Robin Williams
Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.
~Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, 1889~
No matter where you go, there you are.
~~Buckaroo Banzai
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
~~ Groucho Marx
"Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory."
-Leonardo da Vinci
If fruit was the first temptation, pork was probably the second.
National Pork Producers Council, print advertisement in THE NEW YORKER, May 27, 1996.
...and my own thoughts on fruits of the mind verses a nice pork butt. ;)
Quote from: Mad Jack Wolfe on January 26, 2009, 06:50:07 PM
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
~~ Groucho Marx
As is the secret to a long political career, eh. ;)
"Many have died for what they believe. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe." - the only good part from the book "Eragon" (no offense meant to those that like it ;p).
"Running away dun solve nuthin', cause where ever you go. You bring yourself right along wiff it too"
~Overheard in my travels
What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
~Havelock Ellis~
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
~Confucius~
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.
-Havelock Ellis
I like corny. I am looking for corny in my life.
~Kate Winslet The Holiday
'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties
than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private
banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by
deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the
banks will deprive the people of all property until their children
wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.'
Thomas Jefferson - 1802
Seduce my mind and you can have my body,
Find my soul and I'm yours forever.
~ by Anonymous ~
The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and that is what needs to be nourished with work, play, friendship, family;
these are the things that matter and this is what we have forgotten -
the simplest things.
- Robin Williams
Man created god in his own image
Robert Heinlein
"If my gerbil gets loose in the car it's a distraction, but that doesn't mean I still can't use my cell phone... I mean, it's not like my gerbil to get loose and kill something..."
-overheard conversation
"It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head. " - Queen Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603)
Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices.
~Shana Alexander~
"We created God in our own image."
- George Carlin
God is a concept, by which, we measure our pain.
-John Lennon-
When our time has come
We will be as one
God bless our love
God bless our love
-John Lennon
"I always have one more dream that has yet to come true. I am always looking forward to something"
~Sophia Loren
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow"
~Mary Anne Radmacher
"I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite"
~Bette Midler
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.
~Unknown
The most important things you want to say are often the hardest, as words deminish them.
Unknown
- Was in a bathroom stall in my dorm when I was in college.-
being the books worm i am.
"Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him."
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick
"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run." -- Sydney J. Harris
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming – "WOW – What a Ride!"
~Anonymous~
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." -- Oscar Wilde
'It takes more than going down to your local video store and renting Easy Rider to become a rebel.'
~~Dennis Hopper, Flashback
Accept that some days you'er the pigeon, and some days you'er the statue.
- Roger C. Anderson-
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. - Henny Youngman
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
~Anonymous~
I will accept the rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do
R.H.
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy:
I were but little happy if I could not say how much.
Much Ado About Nothing
-WM Shakespeare
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
~Mother Teresa~
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
-Ambrose Bierce
Nice quote, Demetrius... I'm taking that one for my file!
(yes, I am dork enough to keep a file of Great Quotes... ::) )
Yours goes in, also, Luci... that's both true, and sweet! :D
To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
~Robert Orben
WORD FOR THE DAY -
Program (pro'-gram) (n) A spell cast over a computer, allowing it to turn one's input into error messages
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
-- Bertrand Russell
Quote from: Mad Jack Wolfe on February 19, 2009, 08:13:42 AM
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
-- Bertrand Russell
Aye, and the history is written by those who are left. >:(
(http://www.thepeacecompany.com/store/images/cards_warisnothealthy_detail.jpg)
That's a quote. An illustrated one.
And it's one of the most powerful ever written!!!
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
~Mark Twain~
"With the first freedom restricted, the first thought censured, the first voice silenced, we are all damaged."
~~ Anonymous
...any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.
-Oscar Wilde
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
"Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours."
~Swedish Proverb~
So, naturalists observe, a flea
Hath smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite 'em;
And so proceed ad infinitum.
-Jonathan Swift
"Give a man a fish and he'll stink up the whole town for a week. Give him a fishing pole, though....see where I'm going with this? Give him a fishing pole and he'll poke yer eye out!"
~Fable II
"The more I learn, the more I realize I do not know." - Albert Einstein
"I can not 'make my mark' for all time — those concepts are mutually exclusive. 'Lasting effect' is a self-contradictory term. Meaning does not exist in the future and neither do I. Nothing will have meaning 'ultimately.' Nothing will even mean tomorrow what it did today. Meaning changes with the context. My meaningfulness is here. It is enough that I am of value to someone today. It is enough that I make a difference now."
~Hugh Prather~
if you want me to fall for you, you've got to give me something worth tripping over
Is it weird in here, or is it just me?
~Stephen Wright~
[My] cleavage is a distraction to me. It screws up every outfit I wear.
~Jessica Simpson
"Body Piercing Saved My Life
He Was Pierced For Our Sins"
~As seen on a church marquee
I'm not a religious man by any means, but I think Jesus viewed the crucifixtion as more than just body piercing
"Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead."
~ John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), British economist. A Tract on Monetary Reform, ch. 3 (1923)
"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying...'I will try again tomorrow.'."
- Mary Ann Radmacher
One of the funniest signs I ever saw, outside a health food store:
"The kingdom of God is at hand - Closed Thursdays"
"The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one of those that look as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more staircases than stories and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full- sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."
~Terry Pratchett~
If you're going through hell, keep going.
-Winston Churchill
"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
-Ovid
"Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves."
~Henry Miller~
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
-Rudyard Kipling
I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.
~~moderator's forum, Pyracy Pub
"I'm kind of in between a goody-goody and a rebel. I'm not bad, but I'm not good either. I'm a little crazy"
~Michelle Wie
;D ;D ;D
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened!
I'm somewhere between lost and found, more lost than found
We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.
~Jeanette Winterson~
BE BOLD, CHANGE IN PUBLIC! :o
~Dinobabe~
;D
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
-Audre Lorde
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master.
~George Washington~
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us. - P. J. O'Rourke
Quote from: Molden on December 18, 2008, 02:58:12 PM
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who errs, and comes up short again and again...(but) who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievement, and who at the worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt
This is my favorite quote of them all. I did a search to see if it had already been posted, and I see that it has. Thanks.
Best friends are like stars, you may not see them but you know for sure they are there.
~Anonymous~
There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
~Billy Joel~
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
-Ronald Reagan, Remarks to the White House Conference on Small Business, Aug. 15, 1986
"The ten most dangerous words in the English language are 'Hi, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.' "
-Ronald Reagan, Remarks to Future Farmers of America, July 28, 1988
Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.
~Sophia Loren~
(yes, there is a pattern developing here... it's Spring, after all!) :D
There were certain men who wished to sail on dry land, and they set their sails in the wind, and sailed away over great fields. Then they sailed over a high mountain, and there they were miserably drowned. A crab was chasing a hare which was running away at full speed, and high up on the roof lay a cow which had climbed up there. In that country the flies are as big as the goats are here. Open the window, that the lies may fly out.
-Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales
They're all crazy. They're all crazy except you and me. Sometimes I have my doubts about you.
If you refuse, you die; she dies; everybody dies!
~Ard, from the movie Heavy Metal~
(my all-time fav movie quote!!!)
...any food, any feeding, feeding, drink, or, clothing? Come dame or maid, be not afraid...Poor tom will injure nothing...
Tom O'Bedlam
"Come, sealing night,
Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day;
And with thy bloody and invisible hand
Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond
Which keeps me pale! Light thickens; and the crow
Makes wing to the rooky wood:
Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;
While night's black agents to their preys do rouse."
-Macbeth, Act 3, scene 2
"It's useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while wolves remain of a different opinion."
William Ralph Inge, 1860-1954
Do not cherish the unworthy desire that the changeable might become the unchanging.
~Guatama Buddha (563-483 BC)~
Inspiration is another kind of Love. It is life reaching out to you and inviting you to dance.-flavia
I wish I could say something classy and inspirational, but that just wouldn't be our style.
Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory... lasts forever. - Shane Falco
Sanjûrô Tsubaki: You tired of being stupid yet?
From a book I read in the '80's (I believe) entitled 'Things People will never Say':
"It's like the 20 second elephant with heated valves in Space...BARK...Hand me that Piano!"
The naked earth is warm with Spring,
And with green grass and bursting trees
Leans to the sun's kiss glorying,
And quivers in the sunny breeze.
~Julian Grenfell~
Night does not fall at sea. It rises, rather, toward the still pale sky, from the depths of waters an already drowned sun gradually darkens with its thick ashes. For a brief moment, Venus shines alone above the black waves. In the twinkling of an eye, stars swarm in the liquid night.
-Albert Camus
The secret of physical and mental health is not in crying for the past, worry for the future or look for solutions for the upcoming problems, but to live healthy and fully now.
~ Buddha ~
But seduction isn't making someone do what they don't want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.
~Waiter Rant~
"yeah, I saw a yard gnome once, it didn't scare me" - Space Ghost
"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others." -Ayn Rand
"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long." — Thomas Sowell
"How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling."
~Claud Debussy~
"What science finds to be nonexistent, we must accept as nonexistent, but what science merely does not find is a completely different matter. ...It is quite clear that there are many, many, mysterious things."
Dalai Lama
The primary matter of all things is the "great mystery" ... Like children are born to the mother, from the "great mystery" issues all things, with or without feelings, as well as the other things, all in the same manner. The "Great mystery" is the only mother of all mortal things.
~Paracelsus (1490-1541), Swiss spiritual alchemist~
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. - Omar N. Bradley
" Do not be concerned about others not appreciating you. Be concerned about you appreciating others."
~ Confucius ~
The American people are wise enough to run their own affairs. The do not need Fuehrers, Strong Men, Technocrats, Commissars, Silver Shirts, Theocrats, or any other sort of dictator. Robert Heinlein
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
-Robert A. Heinlein
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
-Gore Vidal
Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina.
~~Decimus Junius Juvenal
Injustice in the end produces independence.
-Voltaire
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord-and it makes you miss him.
~Old Irish Saying
Glac bog an saol agus glacfaidh an saol bog tú
Take the world nice and easy, and the world will take you the same.
~ Irish Proverb
From the 1973 "The Three Musketeers":
Porthos: May one ask -- delicately -- the cause in which we're expected to die?
Aramis: When you go on a campaign, does the King give his reasons? He says, "Porthos, fight!" and you fight.
Porthos: Oh, I do, I do!
Aramis: Then let's go and be killed where we're told to! Is life worth so many questions?
"The honour the Sleat Carpenter obtained...is still preserved for his descendants."
Highland Poet, Duncan Ban MacIntyre
You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.
~Walter Lippmann~
The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter.
~Zero Mostel~
Interum feror cupidine partium magnarum eurpoe vincendarum
sometimes i have the urge to conquer large parts of europe
"A little revolution every now and again is a good thing"
Thomas Jefferson
"No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words "no" and "not" employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights." — Edmund A. Opitz
Is that a loaded gun you have there? Or are you just happy to see me?".....Mae West
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho
I may be a schizophrenic but at least I've got each other.
~Townes Van Zandt~
"An eye for an eye, it was all that filled their minds,
and another eye for another eye, till everyone is blind"
Tommy Sands, from "There were Roses"
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Desiderius Erasmus, Adagia (III, IV, 96), Dutch author, philosopher, & scholar (1466 - 1536)
"Unmarried, I have no master; Childless, I am mother to my people"
Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth Regina in "The Golden Age"
Your voice makes me tremble inside
And your smile is an invitation
For my imagination to go wild.
~Anonymous~
History is writ for profit and gain exalting the victor (Truth be damned).
The moment is the only Truth.
-Anonymous-
The people who come out on top write the official versions found in history books, history that is no more honest than is autobiography.
Friday Jones in Friday by Robert Heinlein
"How many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died..."
Bob Dylan
In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
~ Orson Welles as 'Harry Lime', The Third Man
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
-Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 11, 1947
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea"
Robert A Heinlein
Our love could change the orbit of the earth. So, if a meteor ever comes hurtling towards earth with the guarantee of destruction, top scientists may call on us to, well, you know, do it like crazy for the sake of humankind.
~Author Unknown
"It is mortifying in the extreme to find how instantly the credit edifice which we have built up for generations could tumble to pieces in a night."
-- Gaspard Farrer, partner, Barings Brothers, August 1914, on the day England declared war on Germany
'Holy shnikeys! Does this mean no more schnitzengruben?'
~~I don't know who said it but SOMEONE must have on the day England declared war on Germany, August 1914
"I'll have a hamburger, which I will gladly pay you for on Tuesday."
~~Wimpy, from Popeye the sailor man *about 35 years of Tuesdays after England declared war on Germany*
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened!"
'If it is Tuesday, this must be Belgium.'
~~Confused infantryman when England declared war on Germany, August 1918
*guess they didn't ask for directions then either*
"No, Mr. Bond...(laughing)...I expect you to die"
Goldfinger
"I think so, Brain, but how are we going to get the pantyhose on the chicken?"
Pinky
"The word 'Belgium' is considered to be the rudest word in the universe, and is completely banned in all parts of the Galaxy, except in one part, where they don't know what it means."
~~ Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"...some may think only to marry, others to tease and tarry; mine is the very best pary, Cupid he rules us all...."
"...Death will come soon to hush us along..."
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
- William Ernest Henley 1849-1903
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
Andre Gide
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
"Oh hell no. Oh HELL no! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
~Lord Dragonspyre
Sanjuro: I'm not dying yet. I have to kill quite a few men first.
'Two famous people came out of Albania. Mother Teresa and John Belushi. And Mother Theresa can't sing Louie Louie.'
~~John Belushi
"War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military."
~~Georges Clemenceau
"Draft beer, not people."
~~ Unknown
Quote from: Count Adolfo on April 03, 2009, 01:17:07 PM
"Oh hell no. Oh HELL no! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
~Lord Dragonspyre
(http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii25/LordDragonspyre/Smilies/smiley453.gif)
;D
"And how much if you don't play?"
"Thata you couldn afford!"
Groucho and Chico Marx
"Ya can't fix stupid"
~Ron White
"Yesterday I shot a duck in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know"
Groucho
Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk....
Woo...Woo...Woo...Woo...
*Bonk*
Curly Howard
"Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her.
So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shiner bock."
Amen Sister!!!
*Me*
Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound."
- L. Neil Smith
Right there, Mr. Fung... right there!
Barry Scheck
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
~Jawaharial Nehru (1889-1964)~
"And so the Light became alive, and manna became man; eternity stepped into time so we could understand..."
Michael Card
'Wow, that is the first time I have seen emotional baggage with wheels and a pop-up handle!'
~~Anonymous
Awake, thou wintry earth -
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness! ~Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"
"After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd." — Alexis de Tocqueville
Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
-Ambrose Bierce
"Render unto Caesar, those things which are Caesar's..."
Christ
(yes...I have a tax theme going in my posts this afternoon)
Bah, Humbug!
Ebenezer Scrooge
The human heart, at whatever age,
opens to the heart that opens in return.
~Maria Edgeworth~
Well there's only one girl that I will ever love
and that was so many years ago
and though I know I'll never get her out of my heart
she never loved me back... ooh, I know...
Meatloaf
Quote from: Count Adolfo on April 13, 2009, 09:35:06 PM
Well there's only one girl that I will ever love
and that was so many years ago
and though I know I'll never get her out of my heart
she never loved me back... ooh, I know...
Meatloaf
'Meatloaf, smeatloaf, double-beatloaf. I hate meatloaf!'
~~
Christmas StorySorry, Count, but I had to...
"When you see the Southern Cross for the first time, you'll understand now why you came this way..."
CSN&Y
"I stick my neck out for nobody"
Rick Blaine, Casablanca
the definition of an idyllic life:
waking up to the dawn of a beautiful day and the smile of a beautiful woman
~Count Adolfo
When they ask me what I liked best, I'll say it was you.
~Quote from the movie City of Angels~
"Whining is angry forced through a small hole..." -Oskar Hasselhoff
"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff."
~~ The Tenth Doctor, Doctor Who
I've had good days and bad days, and goin' half mad days.....
Jimmy Buffet
"He came home to Dayton, and was questioned by his friends, but he smiled and just said nothing, and he never sang again...."
"Mr. Tanner" by Harry Chapin
"Because I know I'm going nowhere, and anywhere is a better place to be..."
-A Better Place To Be, Harry Chapin
"Would you mind not farting whilst I'm trying to save the planet?"
~~ The Ninth Doctor, Doctor Who
"This plague of thought brings the endless sleep
The warm embrace of longing to be unseen"
-Smoke, PTI
"Let there be light..."
Bomb #20 - Darkstar
and, of course,
The First Book of Moses, Genesis
"People will call this a tragedy. This isn't a tragedy, it's cold-blooded murder. The real tragedy is he was able to turn his gun on himself before we got there."
-A Washington State Police Officer interviewed about the shooting death of 4 children, aged 7-16, by their father, who then shot himself.
**This may be a little dark, but I have to applaud the guy for saying something, on National News, most of us would be thinking if we were him. If people find it too offensive, I'll remove it.
When the mode of the music changes,
the walls of the city shake.
-Plato
His huff arrived and he departed in it.
~Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943)~
No man of woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
-Homer
...no. not Simpson...
"I 'gin to be aweary of the sun,
And wish the estate o' the world were now undone."
-Macbeth, Act V. Sc.V
Oooo! They have the internet on computers now!
-Homer
...yes, Simpson
Time is money. Money is funny. I am funny, therefore, I am Time.
-Joker
It is the mark of an educated mind
that it can entertain a thought
without accepting it.
-Aristotle
"Do you 'ave a laezance for the minnkhey?"
Inspector Clouseau
You see, sir, rich people and theorists - who are usually rich people - think of poverty in the negative, as the lack of riches - as disease might be called the lack of health. But it isn't, sir. Poverty is not the lack of anything, but a positive plague, virulent in itself, contagious as cholera, with filth, criminality, vice and despair as only a few of its symptoms. It is to be stayed away from, even for purposes of study. It is to be shunned.
"Where you came from is gone,
where you thought you were goin' weren't never there,
and where you are ain't no good 'less you can get away from it!"
~Random movie quote, I think it's by Brad Dourif~
Quote from: MaelStrom on April 25, 2009, 03:27:59 PM
"Where you came from is gone,
where you thought you were goin' weren't never there,
and where you are ain't no good 'less you can get away from it!"
~Random movie quote, I think it's by Brad Dourif~
Where you came from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it.Hazel Motes in
Wise Blood, by Flannery O'Connor
Audaces fortuna iuvat. (Fortune favors the bold)
~Virgil~
We can do anything now that scientists have invented magic.
-Marge Simpson
"All are punished!"
Prince of Verona, Romeo & Juliet
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." -George Washington
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks."
-Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 1785. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, (Memorial Edition) Lipscomb and Bergh, editors.
Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian.
-Penelope Cruz
"I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain."
~Eden Ahbez~
"Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain."
~Unknown~
I danced in the rain last night, and it was every bit as beautiful as it's always been...
There is nothing like having a rock in your shoe to make you appreciate the times when you don't.
~Heavy Hammer~
'From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.'
~~Raymond Chandler
"I chased a woman for almost two years only to find her tastes were exactly like mine-she was crazy about girls.."
-Groucho Marx
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,
Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
-Rudyard Kipling
No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone. As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.
~Orison Swett Marden~
Nice one, me...
-Einstein
'I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in
the process.'
~~Vincent Van Gogh
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. Heinlein
"The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two."
— Dashiell Hammett (The Thin Man)
~The plural of opinion is not fact~
"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."
Groucho Marx
Quod natura non sunt turpia - What is natural cannot be bad
The chief weapon of the sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.
-Kurt Vonnegut
"What's life? Life's easy. A quirk of matter. Nature's way of keeping meat fresh." - The 9th Doctor
We have fought such a fight for a day and a night
As may never be fought again!
We have won great glory, my men!
And a day less or more
At sea or ashore,
We die—does it matter when?
—Tennyson.
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to
thank her.
--W.C. Fields
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
--Henny Youngman
Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than
alcohol has taken out of me.
--Winston Churchill
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of
mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine
invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
--Dave Barry
All right, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me - so
let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer.
--Homer Simpson
'Ninety percent of people don't want to hear about your problems, and
the other ten percent are glad it's you.'
~~Anonymous
Of the six billion people on earth, nearly twelve billion have split personalities...
-Hans Upinaire
What ripples are you making? Possitive ones impact lives and change the world for the better.-me
Larger than the horizon, smaller than a pea.
- Phineas Swano -
'Sometimes you have to go through a brier patch to get to a picnic.'
~~Lewis Grizzard, in defense of men with beards
"If you settle in the South and bear children, don't think we will accept them as Southerners. After all, if a cat had kittens in the oven, we wouldn't call them biscuits!"
also Lewis Grizzard
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Groucho Marx
Dunno if this should go here or "Funny Pictures..." BUUUUUT.....
(http://content1.clipmarks.com/image_cache/skwirlinator/512/21C67BAB-9D08-42B5-9D18-F42ECB515A9F.jpg)
"He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times."
~Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz~
"Democracy is messy" ~ Donald Rumsfeld
"When it gets hot people try to kill each other. We've got more of everything bad since the wave started. It's that crisis atmosphere, you know? People dress different, feel different, they sweat more - wake up cranky and never recover.
Everything's just a little askew. Pretty soon people think the old rules are not in effect. They start to break them. Figure nobody'll care, cause it's emergency time... time out."
~~Oscar Grace, Body Heat
And here I have a heat index today of 110
This one was too good to pass up--
'I don't care if you post when you are drunk--but for God's sake use a spellchecker!'
~~Joe Fabetes
• "When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.'" -- Jerry Lewis
Happy Fathers Day to all yoiu crazy Ren Daddies out there. :)
Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
-Dennis, Monte Python- HG
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. - Sydney J. Harris
"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."
~ H.L. Mencken
Let evil swiftly befall those who have wrongly condemned us - God will avenge us.
~Jacques de Molay 18 March 1314
Have you ever considered a world with no hypothetical situations?
I saw this on Greg and Dharma recently where Dharma was talking to her Native American guide... he says -
So you are having a conversation with the Great Spirit...
the maker of all things...
and you're doing all the talking...?
:) Now *that* is a good thought for the day. :)
'Got tickets for Steely Dan. Let's face it, Mom--Becker and Fagan aren't getting any younger.'
~~my son, on buying his concert tickets
"While shooting elephants in Africa, I found the tusks very difficult to remove. But, in Alabama, the Tuscaloosa." Groucho Marx. (I'm in Birmingham on business all week.)
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
~Carl Jung
I'm talking about death- and you've never experienced
that. And you cannot act it. You die a thousand casual
deaths- with none of that intensity which squeezes
out life... and no blood runs cold anywhere. Because
even as you die you know that you will come back
in a different hat. But no one gets up after death- there is
no applause- there is only silence and some second-hand
clothes, and that's- death-
If we have a destiny, then so had he- and if this is ours,
then that was his- and if there are no explanations for us,
then let there be none for him-
-Guildenstern, in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard
Today I came across two quotes my Mom had written down while I was going through some stuff she had set aside:
"Why should we try to move mountains with our own strength alone when faith, 'even as a grain of mustard seed', can help us achieve what seemed impossible?"
The next is one that she had said to us kids - in many different ways, both as we grew up - and many times after we reached adulthood:
"Make the most of yourself...for that is all there is to you.
You are always yourself, never someone else. You are always faced with yourself, there is no escape, no hiding, no evasion of that self you will forever be with. You either put yourself all together and make the most of what you have, or slide along disregarding what you could become.
I and I alone am responsible for what I am and what I shall do. I shall not blame you for my weaknesses or failures. The challenge to make my life a successful, meaningful experience is not yours, it is mine. That is the lifesaving attitude I must kindle right now!!!"
In real love you want the other person's good.
In romantic love you want the other person.
~Margaret Anderson~
Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.
~~William Thomas
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, The individual mind and spirit of a [person]. Nothing was ever created by two [people]. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a [person].
-John Steinbeck
People have power over you only if they have something you think you need. The more you experience inner peace, the less you need and the more power you retain.
~Dr. Dean Ornish
"Life is tough. It is tougher if you're stupid."
~ John Wayne ~
One that I think applies to someone....
"You over officious JERK!"
- Marv Levy, soon-to-be Hall of Fame coach of the Buffalo Bills
'Nice war we had. Of course, every war has its cute things. World War II had nice songs. The War of the Roses had nice flowers. We've got booms, they had blooms. Actually, every war had its 'ooms. You've got doom, gloom, everybody ends in a tomb, the planes go zoom, and they bomb your room.'
~~Benjamin Franklin Pierce, MD
From Fr. John's sermon this morning....original source unknown...
"Wise one's think on all they say; Fools say all that they think..."
Amen brother.
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. - Robert X. Cringely
In England, at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked
by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an
example of empire building by George Bush.
He answered by saying, 'Over the years, the United States has sent
many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for
freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever
asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.'
You could have heard a pin drop.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There was a conference in France where a number of international
engineers were taking part, including French and American. During
a break, one of the French engineers came back into the room
saying 'Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done?
He's sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami
victims. What does he intend to do, bomb them?'
A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: 'Our carriers have
three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they
are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power
to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to
feed 3,000 people three meals a day; they can produce
several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each
day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in trans-
porting victims and injured to and from their flight deck.
We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?'
You could have heard a pin drop.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a Naval conference that included
Admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian, Australian and French Navies.
At a cocktail reception,he found himself standing with a large group
of officers that included personnel from most of those countries.
Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks,
but a French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans
learn many languages, Americans learn only English. He then asked,
'Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences,
rather than speaking French?'
Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied 'Maybe it's
because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans
arranged it so you wouldn't have to speak German.'
You could have heard a pin drop.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane.
At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport
in his carry on.
'You have been to France before, monsieur?'
the customs officer asked sarcastically.
Mr Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously.
'Then you should know enough to have your passport ready.'
The American said, ''The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it.'
'Impossible. Americans always have to show your
passports on arrival in France !'
The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he
quietly explained.
''Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944 to
help liberate this country, I couldn't find a single
Frenchman to show a passport to!!'
You could have heard a pin drop.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Lazarus Long (Robert Heinlein)
(It's my life rule #2)
Love cannot be taken, it can only be given.
Tell me who admires and loves you,
And I will tell you who you are.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve:
"I believe... that Angelina Jolie thinks about me as much as I think about her"
Bill Engvall
"Great people talk about ideas.
Average people talk about things.
Small people talk about other people."
Anonymous
Quote from: Grov on September 23, 2009, 04:17:57 PM
"Great people talk about ideas.
Average people talk about things.
Small people talk about other people."
Anonymous
Well quoted, Grov!! :)
Tell me, and I forget.
Show me, and I remember.
Involve me, and I understand.
Chinese proverb
Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.
~William Sloane Coffin, Jr.~
ain't no doubt about it we were doubly blessed
'cause we were barely seventeen and we were barely dressed!
Meatloaf
Five enemies of peace inhabit us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
-- Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374)
*Once again...just my own thoughts of what so often stands in my way.*
"I am no one to be trifled with"
Westley - The Princess Bride
http://fans.princessbridegame.com/_Westley-Says-I-Am-No-One-To-Be-Trifled-With/audio/148122/28310.html (http://fans.princessbridegame.com/_Westley-Says-I-Am-No-One-To-Be-Trifled-With/audio/148122/28310.html)
(oh, and me, a few times... lol)
ok couldn't pass this one up
"Surrender!"
" you wish to surrender to me very well i accept" - conversation between the prince(whos name has leaked out of my brain) and Westley in the princess bride
"this is the anniversaries list for the first 100yrs of marriage after that your on your own"- yours truely
"Humperdinck Humperdinck Humperdinck!"
~ Valerie, screaming at Miracle Max in Princess Bride, giving Lady Christina de Pond the name of the aforementioned Prince
If and when I want your opinion or advice, I will read them in your exposed entrails.
'Just when you think you are above everyone else, don't look up.
Because there is a pigeon ready to take a dump on you.'
~~Joe Fabetes
People have power over you only if they have something you think you need. The more you experience inner peace, the less you need and the more power you retain.
~Dr. Dean Ornish
Inner Peace. Something well worth striving for. :)
With ignorance and arrogance, success is assured.
Mark Twain
There are worse things than looking stupid. Sleeping through life is one of them.
Larua Preble
"something something something something... DARK SIDE"
~ me?
;D
But as I went more and more about the country I learned that I had spoken with assurance on a subject I knew little about. I forgot that I owed my success partly to the advantages of my birth and environment... Now, however, I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone.
-Helen Keller
Never wrestle a pig in the mud. You both get dirty and the pig enjoys it.
~~Unknown
:-X
"I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form"
~ Winston Churchill
The Delphic oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.
~Socrates
All that is necessary for good to triumph is for evil people to do nothing.
-anon
Feelings of Superiority and Inferiority are the same...
they BOTH come from fear.
- Anon
Quote from: Welsh Wench on October 07, 2009, 12:53:18 PM
Never wrestle a pig in the mud. You both get dirty and the pig enjoys it.
~~Unknown
:-X
Hmmmm...... ;D
'I'm a great housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.'
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.
~Isaac Asimov
There are huge chunks of time at night where I'm just asleep. For hours. It's ridiculous.
-Christopher Walken on SNL
"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve" - Erich Fromm
"My way is simple: Ritualistic worship, psionic enslavement, blood sacrifice, and treating all who oppose you with brutal savagery. Simplicity - that's the key to success!"
Quote from: Seamus Ex Machina on October 08, 2009, 07:04:49 PM
Quote from: Welsh Wench on October 07, 2009, 12:53:18 PM
Never wrestle a pig in the mud. You both get dirty and the pig enjoys it.
~~Unknown
:-X
Hmmmm...... ;D
She said a pig, not a sheep, Seamus...
or a kilt boy
though... it would work just as well with a kiltboy, doesn't it?
OK... a random quote?
"I'm sorry I'm not better looking"
Adam Sandler... to Drew Barrymore in 50 First Dates
The only difference between a flower and a weed is...... Judgment
~Anonymous
"Smoking cigars is like falling in love. First, you are attracted by its shape; you stay for its flavor, and you must always remember never, never to let the flame go out!"
Winston Churchill
Substantialiscious \sub-'stan(t)-shu-'li-shus\
(noun) The weight of something when you weigh it with your tongue.
From the inside of a "SNICKERS" candy bar wrapper...
Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her.
So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of s***.
~~Unknown
Oh, Welsh Wench, how true how true!
When the people fear their government there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. Thomas Jefferson
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
~Ayn Rand
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
-Vince Lombardi
Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But, it ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!
~movie quote: "Rocky Balboa"
'If I had that kind of power over time and space, don't you think I would have commanded the ground to swallow you up by now?'
~~ Anonymous*
*OK Joe Fabetes, you are SO outed now!
"If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!"
~James Connolly
"With God as my witness, ...
I thought turkeys could fly."
- Gordon Jump as Arthur Carleson after the Epic Failure of All Time Radio Holiday Promotion on WKRP in Cincinnati
"Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another."
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
"uh oh... fart"
Dustin Hoffman as Raymond
Rain Man
(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e65/welshwench/ecgod2.jpg)
~~spraypainted by an admirer on the Islington Underground, Autumn 1967
Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery, but Today is a gift. That's why it's called The Present.
~Ubway, from Kung-Fu Panda.
Here's an Irish toast, which I guess qualifies as a quote, cuz I got it from my Grandma. :)
Here's to you, and here's to me,
and here's to all we hope to be.
And if by chance, we disagree,
The h*** with you, and here's to Me!
"Snow?! I do not believe in such a thing as snow in Florida."
Anna and the Artic Blast from Canada
*and with a nod to Anna and the King*
May your future never be wanting
And may you never be wanting in your future
Movie quote.....but I can't remember the dang movie now SHEESH!!! I only saw it last night.....
"Here's tae us
Wha's like us
Damn few,
And they're a' deid
Mair's the pity!"
R. Burns
"It's the friends that you can call up at 4 am that matter." -Marlene Dietrich
"We here at the FBI don't have a sense of humour we're aware of"
Tommy Lee Jones
as Agent K
masquerading as Special Agent Mannheim
Men in Black
'I've known Nordstrom players, I've known Target players. But you, darlin', are strictly Dollar Store.'
~~A Wenchie original
"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained." - C. S. Lewis
'Dump the toxic people on their arses. Let them get their own wheelie backpacks for their emotional baggage. Believe me, babe, they aren't worth the time and effort to fix their handles.'
~~Joe Fabetes, pontificating on Toxic People 101
"Some people enjoy group hugs simply because they can stab a large number of people in the back at one go."
~ B. Fedorka
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny ... it is the light that guides your way.
-Heraclitus
Whatever way you put it, I am here only because my world is here. When I took my first breath, my world was born with me. When I die, my world dies with me. In other words, I wasn't born into a world that was already here before me, nor do I leave anything behind to live on after me. People live thinking of themselves as members of a group or society. However, this isn't really true. Actually, I bring my own world into exisitence, live it out, and take it with me when I die... - Kosho Uchiyama
'A conscience is what hurts when all of your other parts feel so good.'
~~my cousin Karen
And what cats have to tell
on each return from hell
is this: that dying is what the living do,
that dying is what the loving do,
and that dead dogs are those who do not know
that dying is what, to live, each has to do-Last stanza from a poem called Curiosity
"In no event will there be money in it; but there may always be honor and quietness of mind and worthy occupation-which are far better guarantees of happiness,"
Alfred T. Mahan
I had this printed on the backs of my retirement programs.
always remember that you're unique, just like everyone else.
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
-H.P. Lovecraft
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
- Garrison Keilor
'I consider my nude finished when I feel like smacking her bottom.'
~~Pierre Auguste Renoir, Impressionist painter (1841-1919)
"Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading." --Thomas Jefferson
People shoot coyotes all the time, snakes all the time," Mange said. "We don't write reports
You ain't gonna miss your water until your well runs dry.
Bob Marley
'Why is it considered seductive for women to wear beautiful clothes? Wouldn't it make more sense to wear something so ugly that a guy couldn't wait to take it off you?'
~~Flash Rosenberg
"Is that a loaded gun you have there? Or are you just happy to see me?"~~~~Mae West
"There are only 10 kinds of people in the world that understand binary: those who do, and those who don't" -- unknown
How beautiful is the day that is touched by Love
~Unknown
If music be the food of love, play on.
~William Shakespeare
All men are not created equal
Some are Liars
Some are fools
Anon Graffiti seen in Pittsburgh 30 years ago still stays with me.
(http://blogs.msg.com/themonitor/images/2008/02/27/claptongod_2.jpg)
Ya gotta love Slowhand....and never mind that dog. His opinion means nothing and I bet he is dead by now.
"It illustrates the American idea that governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established."
Jefferson Davis quote
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
(amen)
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
-Upton Sinclair
"Janie, I hope God may kill me if I'm lyin'. Nobody else on earth can hold a candle to you, baby. You got the keys to the kingdom."
-- Tea Cake
Their Eyes Were Watching God -- Zora Neal Hurston
"You know its summer in Texas when hot water comes out of both taps."
- Unknown
Four things you can't recover:
The stone....after the throw.
The word....after it's said.
The occasion...after it's missed.
The time....after it's gone.
~unknown
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
- by Robert J. Hanlon
"Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it."
- Zig Ziglar
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
- Dr. Seuss
I also found this one interesting - with regard to hesitation in following up on our inspirations/great ideas:
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
- Wayne Gretzky
This is my favorite: "Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music."
This is my second favorite and I saw it but I dont know where it is from....
"The more he talked about his honor, the faster we counted our spoons".
Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
~Turkish Proverbs
The worst cliques are those which consist of one man. --George Bernard Shaw
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
- Pablo Picasso
"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."
- Willie Nelson
Quote from: Molden on July 27, 2010, 01:15:19 PM
"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."
- Willie Nelson
Oh, bless you!!
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
To knock on a woman's door one must use ones feet to leave ones hands free to bring gifts- Brighella Commedia Dell'arte
I heard this one from a friend of mine, it made me shake my head but I guess its true!
"More useless than throwing a jam sandwich to a drowning rabbit".
'Wow, her feng shui must be really off.....bless her heart.'
~~my sister Diane
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand."
- Woodrow Wilson
'If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our 'friends' chloroform when we tear them to pieces.'
~~George Bernard Shaw
Quote from: Welsh Wench on August 08, 2010, 04:09:06 PM
'If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our 'friends' chloroform when we tear them to pieces.'
~~George Bernard Shaw
Haven't searched to find the veracity of the quote, but I can tell you from first hand experience that the sentiment is completely accurate. My soon to be ex-wife is British.
It's from a four-act play by Shaw entitled, You Never Can Tell written in 1897.
Quote from: Rapier Half-Wit on August 08, 2010, 04:19:34 PM
Quote from: Welsh Wench on August 08, 2010, 04:09:06 PM
'If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our 'friends' chloroform when we tear them to pieces.'
~~George Bernard Shaw
Haven't searched to find the veracity of the quote, but I can tell you from first hand experience that the sentiment is completely accurate. My soon to be ex-wife is British.
Whew! Glad my British in-law family isn't like that. They like me. They really like me! ;D
?'Political Correctness' is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up (poop) by the clean end. "
Dennis Miller
"I'm not saying some people don't respond positively to being called a know-nothing dillweed. I'm not going to shout back at you, but rest assured your point doesn't get better the louder and angrier you get."
-Sportswriter Peter King
'I like laughing so hard no noise comes out; so you just sit there clapping like a retarded seal.'
~~*name witheld to protect the guilty innocent*
But we call her Mini-me.
"There is only one map to the journey of life, and it lives within your heart."
- Willie Nelson
The Tao of Willie
While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about.
~Angela Schwindt
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
~Walt Streightiff
I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
~Stephen Wright
It may be that we have all lived before and died, and this is Hell.
- A. L. Prusick
Do not be afraid to try new things...
The Ark was built by amateurs,
The Titanic was built by professionals
<unknown, shamelessly stolen from an item in a catalogue>
Notwithstanding recent news reports of the reason for Titanic sinking, I just love that statement as something that makes you go, "Hmm...."
Yeah...wasn't that some crazy news..he just got confused on which way to steer....
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.
And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go."
Dr. Seuss
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck
Those are great quotes Anna! I will be borrowing them shortly! :)
"I've learned that there are 3 things you shouldn't talk to people about - religion, politics, and The Great Pumpkin."
- Linus
To me, writing on your own is sort of a monkish thing. But co-writing is a lot like therapy. You talk through what goes on down in the soul. Maybe not necessarily yours, but at some times it's yours.
~~Radney Foster
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
-T.S Eliot
"There are more old drunkards than old doctors."
-- Ben Franklin
Hope I get this right...
"Fog is just a cloud that has lost its will to fly"
-Bill Bryson
(I like that, Merlin... it's a little sad, but still whimsical...)
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."
~Kahlil Gibran quotes
Guess I'm in a less introspective mood this evening...Saw this in passing on her new show and I thought, good for her! She took quite alot of abuse when she ran for office.
"Don't retreat, just reload."
Sarah Palin
'Pizza is a lot like sex. When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good.'
~~Anonymous
"Why don't you come up and see me? How about Wednesday! That's ametuer night."~~~~Mae West
" We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." - Winston Churchill
Quote from: NoBill Lurker on December 04, 2010, 12:27:22 PM
" We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." - Winston Churchill
Amen to that.
"Shut up Howard."
- Dandy Don Meredith to Howard Cosell, causing Howard Cosell to remove his headset and leave the broadcast booth. The entire Monday Night Football TV audience stood and applauded.
Rest In Peace Don
"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day."
-George Carlin
Over the years I got to be quite a connoisseur of soap. Though my personal preference was for Lux, I found that Palmolive had a nice, piquant after-dinner flavor - heavy, but with a touch of mellow smoothness. Lifebuoy, on the other hand... YUCK!
Only one thing in the world could've dragged me away from the soft glow of electric sex gleaming in the window.
Oooh fuuudge! Only I didn't say "Fudge." I said THE word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the "F-dash-dash-dash" word!
~Ralphie, A Christmas Story
Awesome Christmas movie!!! :D
'She was born in the year of our Lord only knows. The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.'
~~Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henry II of France.
HA! Think about it!
Good golly - this one is a true story.
A co-worker just got flowers from her in-the-doghouse husband. The card read, and I am not joking
"I am so sorry. Sorry is a one syllable word for a new beginning"
"You will dream too long and too deep and one day be greatly hurt by your awakening"
"Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot."
~Groucho Marx
'If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it - I might be writing in my dreams.'
~~Terri Guillemets
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
-Oscar Wilde.
I have decided he was probably the smartest man ever.
An armed society is a polite society.
Robert A Heinlein
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
- Moses Hadas
My wife, Mary, and I have been married for 47 years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce . . . murder, yes, but divorce, NEVER. Jack Benny.
(disclaimer warning non christians may not want to skip this one)
When we fear nothing but God thats when we discover the freedom to pursue great adventure
Seen at lunch today in a lovely seafood dive near the beach...
Deerfield Beach is too small for a town drunk, so we all take turns.
Quote from: Lady Kett on February 11, 2011, 04:29:32 PM
Seen at lunch today in a lovely seafood dive near the beach...
Deerfield Beach is too small for a town drunk, so we all take turns.
WIN!!! :D
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
- Clarence Darrow
Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past- Christopher McCandless
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
~Rose Franken
What's love but a second hand emotion?
~~Tina Turner ;)
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
~1 Corinthians 13:4
'I would find it a bit easier to cope with some of the cretins we get in here, my little nest of vipers, if I got just a smidgen of co-operation from you.'
~~Basil Fawlty
If you aren't over your head, how do you know how tall you are? - T.S. Eliot.
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde
"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life. "
Terry Pratchett, Discworld
"There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."
- Madeleine Albright
Quote from: Once Debauched on April 08, 2011, 09:40:44 AM
"There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."
- Madeleine Albright
This is great! I know at least one or two women who should read this every day!!!
Quote from: Rani Zemirah on April 08, 2011, 09:52:45 AM
Quote from: Once Debauched on April 08, 2011, 09:40:44 AM
"There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."
- Madeleine Albright
This is great! I know at least one or two women who should read this every day!!!
I know a few like that, only I'd prefer to staple a post-it note to their forehead. *snarky giggle*
"Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorn'd."
Zara The Mourning Bride
William Congreve, 1697
'Shut up or I'll command the ground to swallow you up!'
~~said by my friend Jim when we were teenagers.
Some endearing things you never forget. ;D
People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.
~~Edith Wharton
Lord Byron got it right when he said, "Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.'"
Quote from: Welsh Wench on April 09, 2011, 07:37:38 PM
'Shut up or I'll command the ground to swallow you up!'
~~said by my friend Jim when we were teenagers.
Some endearing things you never forget. ;D
I'm going to have to use this one!!!! ;D
You do have a choice. It's all in the priorities you set.
The problem we face today are there because the people who have or are working for a living are out numbered by those who can vote but do not work for a living.
You can be pretty sure your God is a god of your own invention when it turns out He hates all the same people you do.
~Anne Lamott
I needed to make sense of them. Books didn't make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books, and it was books that showed me there is light at the end of the tunnel."
— Jackson Pearce
Cuts, scars, bruises, lies and fake laughs.
Fake smiles, constant cries and a horrifying past.
Promises broken, lost loves..
And the 'trust me' that didnt last.
~~Unknown
"Sometimes, the things that may or may not be true are the things that a man needs to believe in the most: that people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power, mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love, true love, never dies. You remember that, boy. Doesn't matter if they are true or not. A man should believe in those things because those are the things worth believing in".
~ Hub~
"Secondhand Lions"
Man in White Suit: I'll kill you if you make that noise once the movie starts! Understand? And... I also don't like watch alarms going off.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to dance in the rain!
....and learning to be okay with weird noises. :D
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
—A. A. Milne
If your try fails, what does that matter? . . . the thing is to get sport out of trying. Sir Francis Chichester, British sailor
The play's the thing
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
"Madness!!...Madness!!....Madness!!!" Last three lines in the movie, Bridge on the River Kwai.
Don't be afraid to try something new!
After all, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
(I have that on a plaque in my office at work! It was a gift from my staff. LOVE THEM!)
No Son the sun is light
What you seek is Fire to light that cuban
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." Albert Einstein
A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.
- Mark Twain's speeches, 1923
"My father was from Aberdeen, and a more generous man you couldn't wish to meet. I have a gold watch that belonged to him. He sold it to me on his deathbed. I wrote him a cheque for it, post dated of course.
~ Chic Murray
The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates. - Tacitus
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. — Thomas Sowell
God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses. - Robert Browning
A chocolate you did not want to eat does not count as chocolate.
- Terry Pratchett
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain.
''Life's TOUGH .... it's even tougher if you're stupid.'' - John Wayne
Quote from: DonaCatalina on August 07, 2012, 10:12:54 AM
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain.
There are a few exceptions...
Whatever we put out, it's coming back to us. The Universe keeps a perfect set of books.
~~Marianne Williamson
Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.
-John Wayne
GOOD, FAST, & ChEAP
you can not have all three!!!
George S. Patton
"Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."
Ronald Reagan
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"You don't know me, son, so let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you'll be awake. You'll be facing me, and you'll be armed."
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority, still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
-John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
~ Thomas Edison
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
~ Warren Buffett
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats." ~H. L. Mencken
Happy "International Talk Like Robert Newton (http://bit.ly/1erWkjl) Day." Yarr.
"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."
William Blake
'Bite me, alien boy!"
~~Lauren Cooper
*must be said in a right and proper Cockney accent*