Quote for the Day!

“"A liberal is someone who won't take his own side in an argument."
Robert Frost”

“Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money.

thomas wolfe”

“Nature is hitting back. Not with the old weapons--floods. plagues. holocausts. We can neutralize them. She's fighting back strange instruments called neuroses. She's deliberately inflicting mankind with the jitters....She's taking the world away from the intellectuals and giving it back to the apes.

Robert Sherwood (The Petrified Forest)”

“Hmmm Spirit... that doesn't sound like something Thomas Wolfe would say. Methinks its a misattribution, mebbe he quoted it? Or mebbe I got Wolfe all wrong.”

“it could be wrong...i got it from someone else who knows”

“I went to the woods to live deliberately, to seek only the essential facts of life and see what the woods could teach me, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoroeu ”

“OK... I looked it up on Google (I cut and pasted your quote and hit "search") and found it attributed to the Cree Indians. More specifically:

"Cree Indian proverb" x 3
"A native American" X 1
"Cree prophecy" X 1
"Cree Indian Saying" X 1”

“While I was looking I found:

"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth." ~Henry David Thoreau”

“"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." ~Bill Vaughn, quoted in Jon Winokur, The Portable Curmudgeon, 1987”

“...more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.

William C. Fields”

“Yea, that's how I meant to spell it........”

“With all of our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then fifty states but the United States.

---Richard Milhous Nixon”

“And from our very own ranks (and I do mean rank) the most meaningful, and deeply thoughfull quote of all:

If BacPac throws a gratuitous narrow minded slut your way, it's a clear sign that you are doing something right

Pedxing 10/07/02”

“***preface***

the author was speaking of the stench of warfare...

"Oh,that stink-it ought to be bottled and sold to every president,prime minister,king,dictator,and general for use when he gets an idea in his head to go to war. Its a fusion of odors for which the recipe would be the following ingredients: five pounds of rotten ground beef, a pile of garbage that's ripened in a heat wave,the crotch of a pair of gym shorts that havent been changed in a week,the inside of a gym locker in which sweaty socks have hung for a season,then equal parts of dog #&%!$,ammonia,marsh muck, and untreated sewage,with a dash of road-kill skunk."”

“oops, that would be from Philip Caputto”

“"Water? I never touch the stuff. Fish #&%!$ in it, you know."
W.C. Fields, on his drinking habits.”

“Big Wave Dave sounds like kleetn

Hey Dave, we already have one of you!”

“he he he

I'm only kidding man Ü”

“Bad Medicine. Isn't that an oxymoron?


-Biz”

“If you sinch up your boots and still manage to trip over your laces, fall off a cliff and die, man, it just wasn't your day.

-Biz (ok, ok - Adapted from Jack Handy)”

“Earthworms. Is this to distinguish them from space worms?

-Biz”

“Dogs are cool.

-Every dog owner

Cats are better.

-Cat people (yuck!)”

“hey watch it! i'm one of those "cat people" now”

“Like I just said, you think you're batter.

WHippy whippy, whipping up a cake”

“"This time Milo had gone to far. Bombing his own men and planes was more than even the most phlegmatic observer could stomach, and it looked like the end for him...Milo was all washed up until he opened his books to the public and disclosed the tremendous profit he had made."

Catch-22
by Joseph Heller”

“dont sweat the petty things, and dont pet the sweaty things

--george carlin”

“don't you when DO pet the sweaty things?”

“Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface. He, however, who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest,must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice. -Washington Irving”

“"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)

"Plato was a bore."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy."
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

"Hemingway was a jerk."
- Harold Robbins”

“I prefer Tolstoy.”

“I prefer a boysenberry more than any ordinary jam

Paul Simon”

“"I had hoped that we could get to the point where we could pass a resolution this week on Iraq. But we really developed some physical problems, if nothing else. . . . So we have decided that the most important thing is not to move so quickly but to make sure that we have had all the right questions asked and answered and that we have available to us the latest information about what is . . . happening with our allies in the world.

The Senate is known for its deliberate actions. And the longer I stay in the Senate, the more I have learned to appreciate it. It does help to give us time to think about the potential problems and the risks and the ramifications and to, frankly, press the administration."

--Trent Lott, then-Senate Majority Leader, February 12, 1998”

“In the desert I saw a creature, naked bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hand
And ate of it. I said, "Is it good friend?"
"It is bitter--bitter," he answered; "But I like it
Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart."

Stephen Crane, The Heart”

“"Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there."
- Gary Snyder”

“Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope."
-- Robert F. Kennedy”

“Honey, git it while you can.

J. Joplin”

“Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Harry S. Truman”

“Work sucks go backpacking.

8)”

“Gary Snyder wrote me a letter once.

It was only about four sentences but it was still a letter.

I needed his permission to reprint a quote for a book I was helping to develop.”

“We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rat's feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar.

T.S. Eliot--The Hollow Man”

“gery snyder lives around here...im a big fan of him and have seen him talk at the college often”

“Not all who wander are lost.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien ~”

“"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact
that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful
that the garment with which it is clothed?"
- Michelangelo”

“"Nostradamus is full of crap!"

"Cade Foster"
Sebastian Spence
First Wave”

“When work sucks tell your boss to fuc$ off and go backpacking!

8)”

“Keep to yourself that which will not benefit the world by its receipt.”

“He who runs against time has an advesary that knows no casualties.”

“"Fascism is a dictatorship from the extreme Right, or to put it a little more closely into our local idiom, a government which is run by a small group of large industrialists and financial lords … I am going to ask latitude to insist that we might have Fascism even though we maintained the pretense of democratic machinery. The mere presence of a Supreme Court, a House of Representatives, a Senate and a President would not be sufficient protection against the utter centralization of power in the hands of a few men who might hold no office at all."

- Syndicated columnist Heywood Broun, 1936”

“3 more days and I will be backpacking and I will feel good about life again!

Work sucks!!!!

8)”

“"At my moment of death I would take time to consider the fact that I'm going to be found half mangled and eaten w/ my freakin' panties around my ankles."
newgirl 11/7/02


Oh, you do have a way with imagery!!!”