Quote for the Day!

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going!

-Beverly Sills”

“"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."
- Ambrose Bierce”

“eat salmon, the other pink meat.”

“Beverly Sills... what a set of pipes!”

“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld”

“Love is not something you feel. It's something you do.

--David Wilkerson”

“"What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind."
George Berkeley
1685 - 1753”

“"Ever since those reviews for Showgirls, it's like I was that woman in The Scarlet Letter. Except that instead of having to wear the letter 'A' for adulteress, I was condemned to wear an 'S' for showgirl."

- Elizabeth Berkley”

“Simplicity, clarity, singleness:
These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.

-Richard Halloway”

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

--Helen Keller”

“Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

Hebrews 11:1”

“Programmers often neglect proper consideration of the weak link in the software: the person who will be using it.
- Leonard Lee”

“User, n. The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot."
- Dave Barry”

“"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."

- Rich Cook.”

“OWW! Dammit! That hurt!

- Vincent Van Gogh”

“That Rich Cook quote is a true classic.



"I am NOT a whore!"

-- Elizabeth Berkley in "Showgirls"
(about 8 times)”

“You can be sincere and still be stupid.

- Charles F. Kettering”

“It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
-Seneca”

“"The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat."

-Oscar Wilde”

“Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.

- Friedrich von Schiller”

“A Stupid Person's Guide to Life

Don't throw a brick straight up.

Don't take naps in the road.

If you ever meet the President, don't offer him the surprise gift of a firearm by whipping it suddenly out of your coat pocket.

Walk around toxic waste dumps, not through them.

If you want to pound on the radiator to tell the landlord to turn up the heat, don't do it with your head.

Your body has the correct number of holes in it. Don't make any more.

Don't microwave yourself.

Don't stick body parts into electrical outlets.

Shovels are for digging holes in the ground, not the floor of your house.

When using an acetylene torch, don't feel the flame to see if it's sufficiently hot.

Walking barefoot in the sand is good. Walking barefoot on a cactus is bad.

If you're on a ball field and someone shouts "Heads up!" don't actually raise your head up. Cover it with your arms and duck.

Don't tie yourself to an airplane propeller.

No matter how tempting it is to be one with nature, stay on the outside of all fences at the zoo.

When sticking thumb tacks into bulletin boards, press on the flat end.

Under no circumstances should you ever reproduce.”

“How about:

"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it."

Edward Kennedy”

“I wondered if anyone would get that one...”

“bit-

Charles Kettering was a great man! From Dayton Ohio too!! Here's one of my favorites:

"A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere with progressive things." -Charles F. Kettering

Not only a great author but a great inventor too:

Kettering Inventions
Electric cash register
Electric auto ignition and self-starter for automobiles first appeared on the 1912 Cadillac. Within a few years, Delco produced a complete starting, ignition and lighting system that is credited with the phenomenal rise of the automobile industry.
Spark plug
Freon for refrigerators and air conditioners. Ridgeleigh Terrace, Kettering's residence in Dayton, was the first air conditioned home in America.
Leaded gasoline
Quick drying paint for automobiles
Safety glass
Portable electric generator
Four-wheel brakes
Automatic transmission
Electric railway gate
First synthetic aviation fuel


I got a chance to meet his granddaughter while working as a guard at one of her properties.

Her's is the big black building on the right.

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“Dang htmsmell!”

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)”

“only post 1 quote per day!!!”

“I was/am planning on riding on the hiking trails, but if I new how to tell I bike trail from a hiking trail I would use the bike trail. So how do u tell?"
Ice Tea
04:58:22 PM
11/19/03

"signs"
Roam Around
04:59:04 PM
11/19/03”

“Thank you dayhiker.”

“"History will be kind to us, becase I'm going to write it."

-- Winston Churchill




"Another one bites the dust."

-- New motto of the HMWHC”

“It had to be done. That was truly a classic”

“Those who ask the questions that can't be answered have the best chances.

CMB 2003.


8)”

“The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)”

“"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a single night....







....but set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

- Unknown”

“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.”

“"If you are ready to leave mother and father, sister and brother, wife and child... and never see them again; if you have paid your debts, settled your affairs and are a free man, then you are ready for a walk."

Thoreau (a very close paraphrase, anyway)”

“"All you need to start an asylum is an
empty room and the right kind of people."

"Alexander Bullock"
Eugene Pallette
My Man Godfrey (1936)
Eric Hatch, Morrie Ryskind and
Gregory La Cava (uncredited)”

“When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the roads you're truding seems all uphill, When the funds are low, and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh. When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must, but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns, As everyone of us sometimes learns. And many a failure turns about when he might have won had he stuck it out. Don't give up though the pace seems slow. You may succeed with another blow.

Success is failure turned inside out. The silver tint of the clouds of doubt, And you never can tell how close you are, It may be near when it seems so far. So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit, It's when things seem worse that you must not quit.

-The Crossroads”

“"The death of an American soldier is front page news, while the
death of his attacker is buried deep inside the paper, if reported
at all. But there's another reason why the response to attacks are
rarely reported. The military judiciously applies force, which
means there's often no big explosion to show the viewing public
back home. The enemy blows up civilians, while coalition forces
use precision strikes to remove enemy combatants. But more to the
point, the media are a lazy beast and, it seems, the Pentagon
hasn't been doing a good job feeding it." --Wall Street Journal”

“Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
Lois McMaster Bujold”

“Do you read Bujold?”

“We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear

--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross”

“treebait, No I haven't read anything by her. I will check her out though”

“That quote came from the book "A Civil Campaign." It's towards the end of her "Miles Vorkosigan" series.”

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"It's easy to grin
When your ship comes in
And you've got the stock market beat.
But the man worthwhile,
Is the man who can smile,
When his shorts aren't too tight in the seat."

"Judge Smails"
Ted Knight
Caddyshack (1980)
Brian Doyle-Murray, Harold Ramis
and Doug Kenney”

“Kid's books that didn't make it.

1. You're Different -- And That's Bad
2. The Boy Who Died from Eating All His Vegetables
3. Robert: Dad's New Wife
4. Fun Four-Letter Words to Know and Share
5. The Kids' Guide to Hitchhiking
6. Kathy Was So Bad That her Mom Stopped Loving Her
7. Curious George and the High-Voltage Fence
8. All Cats Go to Hell
9. The Little Sissy That Snitched
10. Why Can't Mr. Fork and Mrs. Electrical Outlet be Friends?
11. That's It, I'm Putting You Up for Adoption.
12. 101 Things You Can Do at the Bottom of the Pool
13. The Magic World Inside the Abandoned Refrigerator
14. Controlling the Playground: Respect Through Fear
15. The Pop-Up Book of Human Anatomy
16. Strangers Have the Best Candy
17. You Were an Accident
18. Things Rich Kids Have, But You Never Will
19. Daddy Drinks Because You Cry
20. Your Nightmares Are Real
21. You've Got Hepatitis B, Charlie Brown”

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Lion and the Mouse”

“The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980)”

“"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."

-Benjamin Disraeli”

“Hey you can subsitute the word "friction" for "action" in that last quote and it still has meaning!”