Random Quotes

[KeeperoftheBar]

"Life is tough.  It is tougher if you're stupid."

   ~ John Wayne ~

[Molden]

One that I think applies to someone....

"You over officious JERK!"

                - Marv Levy, soon-to-be Hall of Fame coach of the Buffalo Bills

[Welsh Wench]

'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

[Ambios]

From Fr. John's sermon this morning....original source unknown...

"Wise one's think on all they say; Fools say all that they think..."

[John]

Amen brother.

[Tom]

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

[KeeperoftheBar]

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.

 
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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.

 
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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.
 

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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.

[Rapier Half-Wit]

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Lazarus Long (Robert Heinlein)

(It's my life rule #2)

[Rapier Half-Wit]

Love cannot be taken, it can only be given.

[Rani Zemirah]

    Tell me who admires and loves you,
    And I will tell you who you are.

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve:

[Count Adolfo]

"I believe... that Angelina Jolie thinks about me as much as I think about her"
Bill Engvall

[Grov]

"Great people talk about ideas.
Average people talk about things.
Small people talk about other people."

Anonymous

[Ambios]

"Great people talk about ideas.
Average people talk about things.
Small people talk about other people."

Anonymous

Well quoted, Grov!!   

[bradenmac]

Tell me, and I forget.
Show me, and I remember.
Involve me, and I understand.

Chinese proverb

[Rani Zemirah]

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.~