Quote of the day
It started out as a way to save funny or interesting taglines I saw on bbs messages. I never used taglines much, but I continued to keep a collection as I browsed usenet and got email. I've since added longer quotes that I think are worth keeping around.
I will try to post one every weekday.
'Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.'
- Ogden Nash
It started out as a way to save funny or interesting taglines I saw on bbs messages. I never used taglines much, but I continued to keep a collection as I browsed usenet and got email. I've since added longer quotes that I think are worth keeping around.
I will try to post one every weekday.
Me too! 'cept the post/weekday thang. I could contribute however. What's your pleasure?
As in 100k of collected wisdom? Pacing and restraint are not my long suits. Oh, and expect a special guest appearance of Lazarus Long, more than once! :)
The more, the merrier.
You'll come to regret those words, heh, heh, heh!
"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount … The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." - Omar Bradley
"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong --
but that's the way to bet." - Damon Runyon
The only request that I have is to emphasize quality over quantity. I think there's a timelessness to a good quote. There's already other places on the board for humor on current events.
I also am a Heinlein fan and I have several of the notebook quotes highlighted in my copy of TEFL. I just never put them in the file because I have them in the book.
`Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
`That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
`I don't much care where--' said Alice.
`Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
`--so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.
`Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, `if you only walk long enough.'
- Lewis Carroll "Alice in Wonderland"
It's a trick. Get an axe.~Ash, Army of Darkness
Book of Matthew 6:5-8 KJV:
And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
Supernatural or not, Jesus had some good things to say.
marichiko's quote reminded me of this one:
The Things That Will Destroy Us Are:
Politics Without Principle;
Pleasure Without Conscience;
Wealth Without Work;
Knowledge Without Character;
Business Without Morality;
Science Without Humanity;
And Worship Without Sacrifice. -- Mahatma Gandhi - (1869-1948)
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Hearing that President Bush
called together former Secreataries of State and Defense, including Colin Powell whose advice he ignored by invading Iraq, I thought of this scene from Alice in Wonderland. Now since the book was disguised political satire, it might be that it was referring to a similar situation in British history.
`Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. `Come, it's pleased so far,' thought Alice, and she went on. `Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
`That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
`I don't much care where--' said Alice.
`Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
`--so long as I get somewhere,' Alice added as an explanation.
`Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, `if you only walk long enough.'
There are other aphorisms about the need for setting a goal, but none that say it quite as well.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are both great books and full of useful tidbits like this. I find that most programmers have read them - they seem to strike some chord.
Larry Wall (the author of the computer language Perl) in an interview once quoted Humpty Dumpty from Through the Looking Glass - `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.' It was both humerous and a wonderful use of the quote to describe a part of the Perl language. However, the text of the interview indicated that the interviewer didn't get it.
I wrote Larry to ask about the interview and actually got a reply. He also is a big fan of the books. He told me that it is no accident that his son is named Charles.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately
explained by stupidity" - Hanlon's Razor
"The humble improve."
-Winton Marsalis,
printed on a starbucks cup
"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." --Winston Churchill :D
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. -- Phillips Brooks, bishop and orator (1835-1893)
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. -- John F. Kennedy
This is one of my favorite quotes - mainly because I've lived through a few situations in the last few years that proved it to be true:
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
-- George Washington
A reporter interviewing A.J. Muste, who during the Vietnam War stood in front of the White House night after night with a candle, one rainy night asked,"Mr. Muste, do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night with a candle?" Muste replied, "Oh, I don't do it to change the country, I do it so the country won't change me."
Sorry for the delay. I've been having muscle spasms in my neck. Way up there on the pain index. So I've been loopy on a couple of medicines.
In any case, here it is:
"If you won't be better tomorrow than you are today,
what need have you for tomorrow?"
R' Nahman of Bratslav
We laugh at honor but are shocked to find traitors in our midst. -- C.S. Lewis
Sad and true, like so many of these bits of wisdom.
"There are only two things I can't stand in this world; People who are intolerant of other people's cultures; and the Dutch."
Nigel Powers - in Goldmember
Sorry for the delay. I've been having muscle spasms in my neck. Way up there on the pain index. So I've been loopy on a couple of medicines.
In any case, here it is:
"If you won't be better tomorrow than you are today,
what need have you for tomorrow?"
R' Nahman of Bratslav
I like the first one better - the one about the spasms.
December 9, 2005(CNN) While interviewing an anonymous US Special Forces soldier, a Reuters News agent asked the soldier what he felt when sniping members of Al Quaeda in Afghanistan.
The soldier shrugged and replied, "Recoil." :cool:
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
-- H L Mencken
dar512, that is:
The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. -Thomas Huxley, biologist and writer (1825-1895)
"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." -- Muhammed Ali ;)
One to live by --
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Wow, great quotes, particularly the R' Nahman one (and the Nigel Powers one :))
One of my favourites:
"Live forever or die trying" - Yosserian, Catch 22
Plus the quote in my signature:
"What wrong can there be in telling a downright good lie for a good cause and the advancement of the Christian Church?" --Martin Luther :eyebrow:
Idle youth
Enslaved by everything,
By being too sensitive
I have wasted my life.
Ah! Let the time come
When hearts are enamoured!
--Arthur Rimbaud
"Ah! You have made a common mistake here...what you have there is a beet
and you have confused it with food. Food is something like a ham sandwich
or a bowl of chile."
- Paul Hinrichs
I just ran across this one yesterday while reading "The Pragmatic Programmer":
The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak.
-- J. B. Bossuet, Politics fomr Holy Writ, 1709
"By diligent effort I seemed to be prolonging my adolescence into total
absurdity." -- John D. MacDonald - The Empty Copper Sea
"If you have snakes, cover them with a blanket."
- Telugu proverb
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds. -- Samuel Butler
Hope you dont mind me joining in
My first ever post on this board
" We would worry far less what others think of us if we realised how rarely they do "
Good one Mirabelle, I like it, welcome to the Cellar!
Yes, yes, mirabelle. I'll lay that one on my mother. :D
wrt My bad.
We're making progress. The words below are my new mantra.
A teacher who is attempting to teach, without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on a cold iron. -Horace Mann, educational reformer (1796-1859)
"I was never actually the Devil's Advocate,
but I did do some consulting work for a minor demon."
-- Wolf
A teacher who is attempting to teach, without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on a cold iron. -Horace Mann, educational reformer (1796-1859)
"The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers, like stones, at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions." -Paul Tillich
"The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers, like stones, at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions." -Paul Tillich
Thank you, Sir! May I have another, Sir!? [/Stripes]
OT
edit: closed the link loop.
"What Me Worry" Alfred E. Newman"
Man will never be free until teh last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. -- Diderot
"fuck you, you fucking fuck" - anon
[QUOTE=BigV]Thank you, Sir! May I have another, Sir!? [/Stripes]
Hmmm, I thought that was from Animal House.
:whip:
I dunno, man, I was really drunk at the time, heheheh, um, yeah.
I'm pretty sure it was Animal House too ... Kevin Bacon, right?
"I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud."
- C. G. Jung (Addition to a lecture given to the Society for Psychical Research in 1919) -
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that it must be changed every six months. -- Oscar Wilde
I'm pretty sure it was Animal House too ... Kevin Bacon, right?
Right
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts.
Einstein
"Sex is like bridge, if you don't have a good partner,
you better have a good hand" ~Mae West
"Later in this talk, I intend to define the universe and give three examples."
-- Larry Wall (creator of Perl)
"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness." ~Bertrand Russell
I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.
-Robert Bakker, a paleontologist
I just did my taxes for the first time...
We must keep in mind what has been said, that we must trust to this natural light only so long as nothing contrary to it is revealed by God himself...Above all we should impress on our memory as an infallible rule that what God has revealed to us is incomparably more certain than anything else; and that we ought to submit to the Divine authority rather than to our own judgement even though the light of reason may seem to us to suggest, with the utmost clearness and evidence, something opposite. ~ Descartes
"This calls for a subtle combination of mathematics and explosives."
Unknown
"Synchronicity is God's Handwriting"
"Leave the gun, bring the cannoli"
~The GodFather
"England and America are two countries separated by the same language" - George Bernard Shaw
"England and America are two countries separated by the Atlantic Ocean" - Eddie Izzard
In Europe, they think 200 miles is a long way, in America, they 200 years is a long time.
One of those "Life in These United States" stories in Reader's Digest:
A group is taking a tour of a ghost town in the Western US. The tour guide exclaims that the town "is over 100 years old". A Greek in back pipes up, "Wow. Wait 'till I tell them about this back at the Parthenon."
Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals
through his wallet. -Robin Williams
Some geek humor:
Save the whales. Feed the children. Free the mallocs.
-- unknown
a way to sum up arts degree students in australia.
"land rights for gay whales"
Confucious say "he who go to bed with itchy ass wake up with stinky fingers" :lol:
"The girl of your dreams has gotta be in SOME bar"
Homer Simpson.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough
people to make it worth the effort.
--Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
-Frank A. Clark, writer (1911- )
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb ...and I also know that I'm not blonde.
-Dolly Parton-
"There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no
party of principle."
"The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe
the people with their own money."
-Alexis de Tocqueville
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. -- Benjamin Franklin
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. -Theodore Rubin, psychiatrist and writer (1923- )
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted. (Groucho)
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. -Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author (1743-1826)
Barry Lopez:
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
"There's always a rainbow [COLOR="Gray"]:::bomp! bomp! bomp!::: [/COLOR]at the end of every rain..." o(+>
"I don't want the cheese. I just want to get out of the trap."
Have I posted this one already?
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
There is none so blind as they that won't see.--Jonathan Swift
Today's quote is dedicated to our very own Urbane Guerrilla, from whose
froth'd lips dripped this gem:
What you mental maladroits have great trouble understanding is there is no rights-trampling going on.
This is a bit longish, but poignant, I think:
What did I want?
I wanted a Roc's egg. I wanted a harem loaded with lovely odalisques less than the dust beneath my chariot wheels, the rust that never stained my sword. I wanted raw red gold in nuggets the size of your fist and feed that lousy claim jumper to the huskies! I wanted to get up feeling brisk and go out and break some lances, then pick a likely wench for my droit du seigneur -- I wanted to stand up to the Baron and dare him to touch my wench! I wanted to hear the purple water chuckling against the skin of the Nancy Lee in the cool of the morning watch and not another sound, nor any movement save the slow tilting of the wings of the albatross that had been pacing us the last thousand miles.
I wanted the hurtling moons of Barsoom. I wanted Storisende and Poictesme, and Holmes shaking me awake to tell me, "The game's afoot!" I wanted to float down the Mississippi on a raft and elude a mob in the company of the Duke of Bilgewater and the Lost Dauphin.
I wanted Prester John, and Excalibur held by a moon-white arm out of a silent lake. I wanted to sail Ulysses and with Tros of Samothrace and eat the Lotus in a land where it always seems afternoon. I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be -- instead of the tawdry, lousy, fouled-up mess it is.
Robert A. Heinlein Glory Road
"There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there are a lot of stupid answers."
"No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help another"
"I drank what!?" Socrates
There's no money above the fifth fret.
-- Mick Donner
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Sir Winston Churchill
"Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say,
"In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood -
"In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me." Elwood P. Dowd, from
Harvey.
Why thank you, Elwood (actually
Mary Chase), I've enjoyed quoting you so much that you've replaced Zappa in my signature:
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The only gift is a portion of thyself.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
I find this true. And yet ...
...and yet the story of The Giving Tree leaves me conflicted. I am uneasy reading the story, casting myself in the role of the tree. Am I codependent? An enabler? A crippler? Or merely leaning back from the abyss, frightened by my own mortality?
THE GIVING TREE
Once there was a giving tree who loved a little boy.
And everyday the boy would come to play
Swinging from the branches, sleeping in the shade
Laughing all the summer’s hours away.
And so they love,
Oh, the tree was happy.
Oh, the tree was glad.
But soon the boy grew older and one day he came and said,
"Can you give me some money, tree, to buy something I’ve found?"
"I have no money," said the tree, "Just apples, twigs and leaves."
"But you can take my apples, boy, and sell them in the town."
And so he did and
Oh, the tree was happy.
Oh, the tree was glad.
But soon again the boy came back and he said to the tree,
"I’m now a man and I must have a house that’s all my home."
"I can’t give you a house" he said, "The forest is my house."
"But you may cut my branches off and build yourself a home"
And so he did.
Oh, the tree was happy.
Oh, the tree was glad.
And time went by and the boy came back with sadness in his eyes.
"My life has turned so cold," he says, "and I need sunny days."
"I’ve nothing but my trunk," he says, "But you can cut it down
And build yourself a boat and sail away."
And so he did and
Oh, the tree was happy.
Oh, the tree was glad.
And after years the boy came back, both of them were old.
"I really cannot help you if you ask for another gift."
"I’m nothing but an old stump now. I’m sorry but I’ve nothing more to give"
"I do not need very much now, just a quiet place to rest,"
The boy, he whispered, with a weary smile.
"Well", said the tree, "An old stump is still good for that."
"Come, boy", he said, "Sit down, sit down and rest a while."
And so he did and
Oh, the trees was happy.
Oh, the tree was glad.
-- Shel Silverstein from Bobby Bare's "Singing in the Kitchen", 1974
Shel writes much like a lot of Southern writers; Williams, Faulkner & Twain (at least I see Sam that way)... lots of moral ambiguity.
"I don't want any of your statistics.
I took your whole batch and lit my pipe with it. I hate your kind of people.
You are always ciphering out how much a man's health is injured, and how much his intellect is impaired, and how many pitiful dollars and cents he wastes in the course of ninety-two years' indulgence in the fatal practice of smoking; and in the equally fatal practice of drinking coffee; and in playing billiards occasionally; and in taking a glass of wine at dinner, etc., etc., etc. . . .
You never see but one side of the question. You are blind to the fact that most old men in America smoke and drink coffee, although, according to your theory, they ought to have died young; and that hearty old Englishmen drink wine and survive it, and portly old Dutchmen both drink and smoke freely, and yet grow older and fatter all the time.
And you never try to find out how much solid comfort, relaxation and enjoyment a man derives from smoking in the course of a lifetime, (and which is worth ten times the money he would save by letting it alone,) nor the appalling aggregate of happiness lost in a lifetime by your kind of people from NOT smoking."
Mark Twain San Francisco, 1865
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. -Robert Frost
"Libraries are where scholarship begins. All the books in the world won't help you if they are just piled up in a heap." paraphrased from David Eddings "Mallorean" series.
Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else.
You are the one who gets burned.
Gotama Buddha
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
I find this true. And yet ...
...and yet the story of The Giving Tree leaves me conflicted. I am uneasy reading the story, casting myself in the role of the tree. Am I codependent? An enabler? A crippler? Or merely leaning back from the abyss, frightened by my own mortality?
Dogs and people are pack animals, not to be confused with herd animals, and thrive on the give and take of the pack.
The tree gave and received and it made him happy. We may think the tree got the short end of the bargain, but as long as the tree was satisfied, who are we to judge.
looks to me like a parent, child, relationship. The parent constantly giving to the child and receiving pleasure and satisfaction from doing so. Who am I to judge?;)
"Be kind, for everyone you know is fighting a great/hard battle."
-- Philo of Alexandria
Posted on behalf of grant.
"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it."
-- Edgar Allan Poe
posted on my own behalf! perhaps now I bewhole.
The Eagle suffers little birds to sing.
Titus Andronicus, A4, s4
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
Unknown.
I'm Dan Quayle. Who are you?
Woman: I'm your Secret Service agent.
Be sociable with them that will be sociable, and be formidable with them that will not. -- Thomas Hobbes
I am your constant companion.
I am your greatest helper or your heaviest burden.
I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.
I am completely at your command.
Half the things you do, you might just as well turn over to me,
And I will be able to do them quickly and correctly.
I am easily managed; you must merely be firm with me.
Show me exactly how you want something done,
And after a few lessons I will do it automatically.
I am the servant of all great men.
And, alas, of all failures as well.
Those who are great, I have made great.
Those who are failures, I have made failures.
I am not a machine, though I work with all the precision of a machine.
Plus, the intelligence of a man.
You may run me for profit, or run me for ruin;
It makes no difference to me.
Take me, train me, be firm with me
And I will put the world at your feet.
Be easy with me, and I will destroy you.
Who am I?
I am [size=4]HABIT![/size]
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. -- Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)
"Imaginiation is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? -- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from that of their social environment. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, philosopher (BCE 3-65 CE)
"When a diplomat says 'yes' he means 'maybe'; when he says 'maybe' he means 'no'; if he says 'no' he's no diplomat!
"When a lady says 'no' she means 'maybe'; when she says 'maybe' she means 'yes'; if she says 'yes' ..." -- Mr Buggie, Senior.
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. Ahem
Unknown, Hanlon's Razor
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. Ahem
Unknown, Hanlon's Razor
Will this help?
cf:
You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity. -- Robert Heinlein
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. -- Robert Heinlein
I love this thread.
Well, if I haven't been smacked upside the head by the wet socks filled with sand and tied with a rubber band of the gods of coincidence!
Now who is in my brain? Get out. Get out, I tell you! :rotflol:
"To each his own." -I don't remember.
"Let not the pot call the kettle boring."
--R.P. Hoffenstotterstein
The path of my life is strewn with cowpats from the devil's own satanic herd.
Edmund Blackadder
"An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them."
Stephen Fry
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity. -- Eleanor Roosevelt, diplomat and writer (1884-1962)
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country."
- President Theodore Roosevelt, 1908
"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." -- Robert A Heinlein
I am in love with my wife.
Kelvin R. Throop, "If you haven't tested it, it doesn't work."
Sometimes I'm like a bull in a China Shop.
Sometimes I'm like a bull eying you across a meadow.
Sometimes I'm like a bull charging you across a bright arena.
Sometimes I'm like a bull chasing you down the streets of Pamplona.
In any event, it's all a bunch of bull.
[COLOR="Gray"]Topsy-turvy world.— We criticize a thinker more sharply when he proposes a tenet that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonable to do this when we find his tenet agreeable.
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A person of character.— It is much more common for a person to appear to have character because he always acts in accord with his temperament, rather than because he always acts in accord with his principles.
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And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822
"I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it."
--Terry Pratchett
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822
From the Avengers #57 (1968) ...the head belongs to
Ultron:
From the Avengers #57 (1968) ...the head belongs to Ultron:
They didn't credit Shelley? That's pretty rude.
They didn't credit Shelley? That's pretty rude.
Hard to say, without a scan of the credits from this issue.
"They must find it difficult...Those who have
taken authority as the truth,rather than truth as
the authority."
-Gerald Massey
Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
--Keats
"I'm not sure."
-- Werner Heisenberg
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
Samuel Foote
English actor & dramatist (1720 - 1777)
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Frank Leahy
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
Samuel Foote
English actor & dramatist (1720 - 1777)
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Frank Leahy
I liked those! They deserved to be posted twice!
I'm silly for quotes and lyrics. :)
To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there. -- Thiruvalluvar, poet (c. 1st century BCE or 6th century CE)
Contention is better than loneliness. -- Unknown
To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves. -- Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
I wish to do this better.
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference." --Reinhold Niebuhr, The Serenity Prayer
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made
a lot of people very angry and has been widely
regarded as being a bad move......Douglas Adams
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. -- Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)
This is why I love you all, for your faithful hands and your kind breath.
Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. -- George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand.
sometimes you are the bug, and sometimes you are the windshield
sometimes you are the bug, and sometimes you are the windshield
what's the difference?
"Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward?
That's the trouble with time travel, you never can tell."
-- Doctor Who
what's the difference?
If you're the windshield, you can just rinse it all off? I don't know, I'm puzzled too...
"Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine."
--Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
"It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty."
--Ilka Chase (1900-1978)
"There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as The Dark Ages."
--Ruth Hurmence Green (1915-1981)
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. -- Alexis de Tocqueville, statesman and historian (1805-1859)
If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?
The life so short, the craft so long to learn. -- Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine
Oo, oo, lemme try:
"Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life."
- Herbert Henry Asquith
"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress... but I repeat myself."
--Mark Twain
“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.”
--Jack Handey
"A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body." - Unknown
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices." - William James
You don't love someone because they are beautiful,
but they are beautiful because you love them.
(Unknown)
Exactly! Or:
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
--Miss Piggy
:)
Or:
"Society places to much emphasis on image." -- Me
"The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight;
but they, while their companions slept
were toiling upward in the night."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Of course, this is only topped by
"Oh man, I shot Marvin in the face!"
-John Travolta, Pulp Fiction
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.
Henry Ford
"The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight;
but they, while their companions slept
were toiling upward in the night."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Saved to my quotes file. Thanks ET.
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. *Og Mandino
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. *Galileo
"There is a difference between being nice and being good. We will never require you to be nice. Be good."
--from the AntiCrafter forum rules
"Life is a sexually transmitted disease." - RD Laing
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Chinese Proverb
There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith
this is a quote of the day only because it's a quote, and I said it today:
I'M WORKING HERE, YOU SOGGY TWAT!
-me via PM to an impatient pm'er.
That's way better than that Hallmark crap that's been posted.
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All else is invented nonsense. (Paraphrased from RAH)
this is a quote of the day only because it's a quote, and I said it today: I'M WORKING HERE, YOU SOGGY TWAT!
-me via PM to an impatient pm'er.
LJ posted that to me. I thought it was a love letter. :D
"The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love." Joe E. Lewis
"'The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of course it is possible there was noone on the other line. Once she said "God Bless you" I said, "I didn't sneeze" She looked deep into my eyes and said, "You will, eventually." And damn it if she wasn't right. Two days later I sneezed.'" - Ellen DeGeneres
"The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'." - Larry Hardiman
"Lookit here son, I say son, did ya see that hawk after those hens? He scared 'em! That Rhode Island Red turned white. Then blue. Rhode Island. Red, white, and blue. That's a joke, son. A flag waver. You're built too low. The fast ones go over your head. Ya got a hole in your glove. I keep pitchin' 'em and you keep missin' 'em. Ya gotta keep your eye on the ball. Eye. Ball. I almost had a gag, son. Joke, that is."
- Foghorn Leghorn
"The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'." - Larry Hardiman
Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself. MANKIND. Basically, it's made up of two separate words "mank" and "ind." What do these words mean? It's a mystery and that's why so is mankind.
Jack Handey
"Lookit here son, I say son, did ya see that hawk after those hens? He scared 'em! That Rhode Island Red turned white. Then blue. Rhode Island. Red, white, and blue. That's a joke, son. A flag waver. You're built too low. The fast ones go over your head. Ya got a hole in your glove. I keep pitchin' 'em and you keep missin' 'em. Ya gotta keep your eye on the ball. Eye. Ball. I almost had a gag, son. Joke, that is."
- Foghorn Leghorn
Boys got a mind like a steel trap. Rusty, that is.
Foghorn Leghorn (doncha love him?)
"Frozen is Heaven; And Frozen is Hell; And I am dying in this living human shell" - Martin Eric Ain; Celtic Frost - A Dying God Coming Into Human Flesh
"'Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"/ Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." '" - Charles M. Schulz
"A lie that is all a lie, may be met and fought outright; But a lie that is partly the truth, is a harder matter to fight." Tennyson
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]"As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might." M[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]arian Anderson[/SIZE][/FONT]
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." Thomas Jefferson
It's hard to soar like an Eagle when you're surrounded by Turkeys. - unknown
"I'll moider da bum." Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
[FONT=Times New Roman]"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty." [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] Sacha Guitry [/FONT]
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
Men are like parking spots, the good ones are taken and the free ones are handicapped.
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
"The greatest monarch on the proudest throne, is obliged to sit upon his own rear end." Benjamin Franklin
I'll never be a millionaire but I just know I'd be darling at it - Dorothy Parker
"What sinners dread most is not death, but the revealed presence of God." Dr. H.B. Swete
To hurry pain is to leave a classroom still in session. To prolong pain is to remain seated in a vacated classroom and miss the next lesson. -- Yahia Lababidi, writer (b. 1973)
Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and supporting your government when it deserves it. -- Mark Twain
"A day spent wasted is not a wasted day" - - Sheldonrs
My favorite today!!!
“The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’” SIGMUND FREUD
I just read that, last night, in an
Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. ~Stewart Alsop
"Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy." -- Henry Kissinger
Or Ann Landers. Who may have used it back in the seventies without attribution.
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress. -- Mark Twain
BE KINDER THAN NECESSARY, For Everyone You Meet Is Fighting Some Kind Of Battle.
SEE EVERYTHING OVERLOOK A LOT
IMPROVE A LITTLE EVERY DAY
Love is so embarassing…
I'm running out of places to hide it-
Jenny Owen Youngs
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. -- Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
*thanks Cookie Jar!
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. -- Patrick Henry
* Cookie Jar is on a roll today!
I sat belonely down a tree,
humbled fat and small.
A little lady sing to me
I couldn’t see at all. -John Lennon
"There is an art . . . to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
— Douglas Adams, 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'
"Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman's apparel is clearly asking to be mangled."
— Bill Bryson, first page of chapter one, 'Mother Tongue: The English Language,' 1990.
Democrats piss me off. -Eric Cartman
"People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news."
--A. J. Liebling
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. -- Robert A. Heinlein
"It's not the fall that'll kill you, it's that sudden stop"
-Unknown, repeated by Dad while flying the airplane.
"When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right." - Albert Guinon
The price of the democratic way of life is a growing appreciation of people's differences, not merely as tolerable, but as the essence of a rich and rewarding human experience.
Jerome Nathanson
Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.
There may be some things a hot bath can't cure but I don't know many of them. - Sylvia Plath, the Bell Jar.
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. -- Pete Seeger
It's ok that she left, what am I gonna do, get bitter? You know what, you can't get bitter man, just because someone tells you they love you, then they leave. You gotta think that it's a reason that it happened, you gotta look on the bright side, you gotta move on, right? Right? On the bright side I'm glad she left, 'cause you know what? It helped my career, 'cause I'm driven now. I'm driven by a fantasy that one day this girl who I loved more than anything in the world, and she said she loved me then left, one day she's gonna be living someday in a trailer park somewhere in Alabama living with this ex-welder, 600 lbs., fur all over his back, drinks warm beer, farts, belches, beats the kids, watches the Dukes of Hazzard every fucking night... And has to have it explained to him... She's gonna have 9 naked little kids with rickets that bring home dead animals from the side of the road for them to eat at night, burs in their hair, mud on their face, rats layin' babies in their ears at night... And one night, that welder's gonna be making love to her and he's gonna be on top and suddenly his heart's gonna explode and she's gonna be trapped under 600 lbs. of flaccid fish belly cellulite shifting like the tides of the ocean as blood, phlegm and bile pour out of his mouth and nose into her face... And just before she drowns in that tepid puddle of afterbirth, she's gonna turn to the Tonight Show... And I'm gonna be on it.
~Bill Hicks
Wow - I read bitter and thought you were spying on ME!!! lol
"I'm not done in the bitter barn. I'm going to play in the hay for awhile."
--Girl I used to work with.
:)
The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff. -- Britney Spears
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
E.E. Cummings
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]“As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.” [/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Marian Anderson[/SIZE][/FONT]
There's no money above the fifth fret.
-- Mick Donner
Wow, I've been quoted.......
:eek:
"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
....Albert Einstein
"I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it." - Garrison Keillor
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick
“Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.”
In honor of our graduation ceremony tonight:
"Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage."
-Joseph Addison
on the education theme, I just read this in the school directory a few minutes ago and thought how true....
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Roger Lewin, scientist
:)
Then there is this quote from Milton Berle:
This is how it is today: The teachers are afraid of the principals. The principals are afraid of the superintendents. The superintendents are afraid of the board of education. The board is afraid of the parents. The parents are afraid of the children. The children are afraid of nothing!
Wow, I've been quoted.......
:eek:
Welcome to the Cellar, Mick Donner... uh, Flybass5, I mean Woodbutcher. :D
Paul Sr: "Is there anything we need from upstairs?"
Mikey: "Yeah get me some vice grips, and a taco."
Paul Sr: "Don't push it Mikey, you're on thin ice already."
Mikey: "How 'bout a burrito? I'm hungry."
Welcome to the Cellar, Mick Donner... uh, Flybass5, I mean Woodbutcher. :D
Thanks, imagine my surprise when someone sent me this link.
:o
Uh, what link WB?
this oneA liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
--Aesop
Wow, I've been quoted.......
:eek:
That you Mick? Welcome to the Cellar.
I got that off your tagline on the Dean site, back when I still had my Pace.
"Save the planet. Kill a moron."
-Me
"Going to our school is an education in itself, which is not to be confused with actually getting an education."
--Sally Brown, in Peanuts
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
Whitney Young (1921 - 1971)
good one.
how often do we look askance
at our former selves?
There is nothing sadder than the feeling
that you used to be better.
I see it in sad men's eyes sometimes.
It makes me want to shake them.
And to cry out, "know yourself!"
That you Mick? Welcome to the Cellar.
I got that off your tagline on the Dean site, back when I still had my Pace.
Yeah, it's me.
Thanks for the byline.
I was blown away when someone sent me this link.
LJ that's wonderful, who is it by?
Well, except that there was a Big Brother quote the other year by a ghetto princess (white) saying to a spoiled princess, "You betta know yourself girlfriend!" and the only thing missing was her sucking her teeth. It has stuck in my head.
Welcome, Woodbutcher!
There is no institution of God or Man that cannot be improved by laughing at it twice a week.
--me
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. -- Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. -- Jean Paul Richter
At their core, men fear that women will laugh at them, while women fear that men will kill them. -Gavin DeBecker
Jesus wept. The Bible, John 11:35.
Well, I'll be dipped in shit!
-Barry Arnold at my desk today. I Lolled
"Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.” Redd Foxx
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French author & moralist (1613 - 1680)
Lower your voice and strengthen your argument. -- Lebanese proverb
"It's just not sex without something in your ass" - Me
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that SCHWINGGGG!
(Sheldon and I in collaboration. I think I heard it from Sharon Stone first, though.)
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that SCHWINGGGG!
(Sheldon and I in collaboration. I think I heard it from Sharon Stone first, though.)
And what were you and Sharon doing at the time? ;)
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1882-1945)
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. -- Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)
An error is not a mistake until you refuse to correct it. -- Unknown
If it's blue then sometimes it has a tail for balance. --unknown
If it's blue then sometimes it has a tail for balance. --unknown
Excuse me, miss, your slip is showing.Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think. -- Doug Horton
Love involves a peculiar, unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. -- Diane Arbus, photographer (1923-1971)
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day. -- M. Grundler
Not a quote, exactly, but pertinent nonetheless:
Whenever I have to tell my daughter I'm too busy to play, she runs to her room and whips out her drawing paper and crayons. A few minutes later she has a gift ready for me. It reads:
Gift Certifikit
No Work. A whole day of play with me.
If I begin redeeming my gift certificates, I wouldn't need to work for the next week and a half. But that shows the best gifts often don't cost a thing, except time.
[SIZE="3"]We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there -- lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more. -- Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)[/SIZE]
I like this one bigger. :)
From Doctor Who, discussing immortality:
Death is the price we pay for progress.
My favorite Dr. Who quote:
"Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward? That's the trouble with time
travel, you never can tell." -- Doctor Who
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt”
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
There is no light without the sun and since light comes from the sun, it can be returned to it. Darkness can be returned to the wanning moon, clearness to open doors and windows, obstruction to walls and houses, confused externals to unconsciousness and clear perception to the awakened state. Nothing in the world goes beyond these conditions. But when the essence of your Perception confronts these states, where can it be returned to?
-Buddha
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory.
You couldn't park anywhere near the place. -Steven Wright
“The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.” - Lily Tomlin
"Men have attained happiness by realizing that it does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles."
Arnold Bennett
Italics mine
Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon
perching on this silver minute of evening.
ee cummings
From a post on customerssuck.com:
"Sweetie- remember, you never want to be a bitch by accident."
That reminds me of this one:
Vera Donovan: Sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto.
from Dolores Claiborne
There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
--Larry Wall (author of Perl)
War would end if the dead could return. -- Stanley Baldwin, statesman
(1867-1947)
Can't do the right thing while you're doing wrong.
It takes a long time to grow young - Pablo Picasso
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. - Lucille Ball
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune. English Proverb
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. - Jack Benny
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up...a lot of people don't have the courage to do it. - Helen Hayes )
Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs. – Anonymous
Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come. - Lucy Larcom
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. - Jack Benny
I wish it were that easy. Maybe when you are past 50 or 60 it is, but during the transitional phase, it friggin sucks.
[FONT=Georgia]Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. ~Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland[/FONT]
"You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles."
-- Miracle Max
"This is the sort of pedantic nonsense up with which I will not put."
--Winston Churchill, attributed
You can mull it over with the help of what's
here.I prefer this story on the same topic:
On his first day at Harvard a young man from Arkansas approached a couple of seniors.
'Hey, y'all, where's the library at?'
One replied haughtily, 'At Harvard, we prefer not to end a sentence with a preposition.'
The young man thought for a moment, and said, 'Alright. Where's the library at, asshole?'
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
W. C. Fields
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. -- Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
Referring to the current financial situation:
This is worse than a divorce -- I've lost half my net worth but still have my wife.
-
Gary-Bear“Hell is full of musical amateurs” – George Bernard Shaw
Chet Baker, on meeting Jazz pianist Romano Mussolini: "Sorry about your dad."
I find it all too easy to become caught up in my own world, centered on my needs and desires and those of the people who are close to me. So I take time for meditative reflection and remember that we are all significant yet individual components of this great universe.
Not everybody is ready to be friends, but how can you tell? I think we should sell Friend Touchers. These are a special perfect yellow stick, and everybody knows what it means. If you smile when someone lightly touches your arm with it, you're ready!
AchewoodStolen from the cookie jar:
Will you trade your funk for what's behind door number three?
--Parliament
I need the funk, gotta have that funk.
Tear the roof off the sucker, Cic!
by Tom Bevan
"I need a bailout." - My nine-year old son explaining to me this morning that his lunch money account at school was overdrawn.
How quickly they learn.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill
To hurry pain is to leave a classroom still in session. To prolong pain is to remain seated in a vacated classroom and miss the next lesson. -- Yahia Lababidi, writer (b. 1973)
As I mentioned before I keep a file of favorite quotes. These days it's a Note in Outlook. Over the years that I've been here I've included a few from dwellars. I think this is all of them:
You know, when "later" gets here I'm going to be real busy.
-- xoxoxoBruce - The Cellar
Trust is a one-time-only offer.
-- Wolf - The Cellar
I was never actually the Devil's Advocate, but I did do some consulting work for a minor demon.
-- Wolf - The Cellar
Anything which *can* be done with a power tool *should* be done with a power tool. It is a moral imperative.
-- Elspode - The Cellar
You can't talk your way out of a situation you behaved yourself into.
My wife found this as a book-on-tape (literally, cassette tape) at the thrift store and I'm listening to it on my god-awfully long commute.
when one door of happiness closes, another one opens, but often we look so long at the closed door, that we don't see the one which has opened
"My lips are chapped with rage." I just said that.
What you cannot enforce, do not command. -- Sophocles, dramatist (495?-406 BCE)
Just because the keg is full, doesn't mean the beer is bad.
--friend of a friend, in response to "She's been single for a year now. That has to mean something."
"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."
And, when asked to use the word "horticulture" in a sentence, Dorothy Parker said, "You can bring a horticulture but you can't make her think."
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
Jascha Heifetz (1901 - 1987)
What you cannot enforce, do not command. -- Sophocles, dramatist (495?-406 BCE)
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This is what I think of your rules.
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
Thanks to Sheldonrs.
Risk more than others think is safe.
Care more than others think is wise.
Dream more than others think is practical.
Expect more than others think is possible.
--Cadet Maxim, USMA, West Point, NY
"The fastest way to a man's heart ... is to tear a hole in his ribcage."
"Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment." – Horace
‘You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.’
— Benazir Bhutto
"ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER! DO-YOU-SPEAK-IT?" - Jules
"I'm prepared to scour the the Earth for that motherfucker. If Butch goes to Indochina, I want a nigger waiting in a bowl of rice ready to pop a cap in his ass." - Marsellus
(Sorry for the profanity and occasional "racial" slur. If it makes you feel any better about yourselves, or the above quote, the person saying it, too, was black, so he was not using it in a "racially" derogative manner.)
Any guesses as to what movie I was just watching? ;)
One of the movies I have memorized from beginning to end.
Watch it though, I was accused of being a racist because I quoted (EGAD) Gone With the Wind.
:headshake
Ya gettin' this, rog?
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job: it's a depression when you lose yours.
-- Harry S. Truman
You're not a real man unless you change at least six variables at once.
But you see in dealing with me, the relatives didn't know that they were dealing with a staunch character and I tell you if there's anything worse than dealing with a staunch woman... S-T-A-U-N-C-H. There's nothing worse, I'm telling you. They don't weaken, no matter what.
"Summer romances begin for all kinds of reasons, but when all is said and done, they have one thing in common. They're shooting stars, a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, fleeting glimpse of eternity, and in a flash they're gone." - Noah.
"I am no one special. Just a common man with common thoughts. I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but in one respect I've succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived. I've loved another with all my heart and soul and for me that has always been enough." - Duke (Noah.)
"Snails are a delicacy? Compared to what? Barnacles?" - Jim Gaffigan
"I love you too."
My son
:)
Was watching "The Tudors," and remembered a quote I'd heard... somewhere.
"If a lion knew his strength, it were hard for any man to hold him." - Sir Thomas More of Henry VIII
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.-Oscar Wilde
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.- Pearl S. Buck
Before you can do anything, your going to have to check the Constitution first.
Hook me up somebody, please. I really NEED a good one right about now.
Here's one I like:
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)
Not about to make this one my sig, but in view of recent developments politically, both in the House and the Cellar:
"They're all so stupid!" -- Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
Ok I found some I like
1. "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries" -A.A. Milne
2. "My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle" -Henny Youngman
3. "I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises" -Buzz Aldrin
4. "I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on" -Oscar Levant
5. "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use" -Soren Kierkegaard
6. "Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you" -Spanish proverb
7. "My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income" -Errol Flynn
8. "When you become senile, you wont know it" -Bill Cosby
9. "I am kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy" -J.D. Salinger
10. "Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint" -Mark Twain
11. "It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like" -Jackie Mason
12. "If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane" -Jimmy Buffet
13. "We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by" -Will Rogers
13. "We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by" -Will Rogers
Hah! I like that one. One of the things that pisses me off in online roleplay games, particularly the medieval fantasy type ones, is that everybody always wants to be some kickass powerful wizard. Whole uberguilds of kickass powerful wizards and warlocks. Where's the mystery and power if everyone's doing it?
I played almost a year in UO just being the one that sits on the curb clapping. It's an interesting perspective from down there.
Dr. Turner claimed that smoking marijuana leads to AIDS (the sequence: Pot leads to harder drugs, which lead to sharing needles, which leads to AIDS). Peter Besinger, former head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, claimed that marijuana was harmful because it "contained dioxin." The dioxin, of course, came from government spraying. Such statements are reminiscent of the 1920s, when the public was told that cocaine made blacks impervious to bullets.
- Abbie Hoffman
You're smarter than you look, or sound, or our best testing indicates."
- The Simpsons: Mr. Burns (Homer's boss) in Homer's Odyssey
"There will be cake if you finish"-An old trick to prod you along
"The cake is a lie"-scrawled on a wall
"The rumors about my death have been greatly exaggerated." -Mark Twain
"If you want to change the world look at yourself and make a change." -Man in the mirror
"A hero is only braver than the ordinary man for 10 seconds."
"Right and wrong have cultural perspective" - Lawrence Newton
"I love you too."
My son
My daughter says "I love you too daddy" before I even say "I love you". She must be psychic. :)
"You can't make a Hamlet without breaking a few legs."
"It is better to have LOVED and LOST than to stay married to a PSYCHO forever!" That is my favorite quote!
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order and lends to all that is good and just and beautiful." ~ Plato
Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of a hat! - Bullwinkle
Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of a hat! - Bullwinkle
Agaiiiiin? That trick never works!
Okay, watch me pull a hare out of my ass!
[Lion]
Oops, wrong ass!
And now, on with our show!
Ten Cowboy Truths
1. Don't squat with your spurs on.
2. Don't interfere with something that ain't botherin' you.
3. The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with watches you shave his face in the mirror every morning.
4. Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.
5. If you're thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.
6. If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there with ya.
7. When you give a person a lesson in personal meanness to critters or to people don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.
8. When you're throwin' your weight around, be ready to have it thrown around by somebody else.
9. Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in.
10. Never miss a good chance to shut up.
Life is tough, but it is tougher if you're stupid.
Famous last words of a Red Neck: Hey bubba, watch this.
Ignorance is the root of adventure. M. Jenkins
“Let me give you an answer that will not be especially satisfying. It will be kind of like a light beer. I mean it will not be especially satisfying.” General Tommy Franks when asked about the French role in Iraq. Cigar Aficionado, Dec 2003
"Life is tough... tougher if you’re stupid." "Just think, right now, all over the world there are people exercising bad judgment. Somebody, right this minute, is probably making the mistake of his life...
...Life is tough, but it is tougher if you're stupid.
..."Life is tough... tougher if you’re stupid." ...
You must REALLY like that one. Is life tougher for you?:D
"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son."
--Dean Wormer
(I'm not saying anyone is fat or stupid, mind you. You might be drunk, though.)
I want to quote my own laugh, but I don't know how... :neutral:
you gotta stop smoking that stuff, john...
Fuck you and the broom you rode in on.
To someone in particular who is NOT a dwellar.
Sorry - I'm insanely pissed off at this useless piece of shit woman and I am having such evil malicious thoughts about her that I needed to vent. Otherwise, I may have followed through on one of my emotionally-charged extremely negative counterproductive plans.
Edit to add: DO NOT Fuck with my kid.
That is all Have a Blessed Day.
ok gimme something nice - this thread should be uplifting. Kind of like uplifting her to anther plane of existence.
Otherwise, I may have followed through on one of my emotionally-charged extremely negative counterproductive plans.
Really glad you didn't :P
Go watch the comedy sketches I posted for monnie. They're uplifting :)
"I've felt better, but it cost more". [self], in response to "How are you doing today?"
ok gimme something nice - this thread should be uplifting. Kind of like uplifting her to anther plane of existence.
I believe and maintaining and cherish the reality that,all my friendships are unique. ~By S.S. my most treasured friend
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
-Jim Morrison
True wealth can not be found in your bank account. It can only be found in those you call friend. Those with whom you share your deepest feelings. And those who accept you for who you really are. -Mary Vandergrift
You don't have to die and go to heaven, or hang around to be born again.
Just tune in to what this place has got to offer 'cause we may never be here again.
Van Hagar is right, Flint.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Albert Einstein.
I think the old boy might have been on to something there.
Carruthers
The toughest of times show us how much we have more so than what we've lost, if we allow ourselves to see.
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live." - Mark Twain.
"It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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