Quote for the Day!

“The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)”

“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in boadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: WOW . . . . what a ride! ! ! ! !”

“By the way, I do not know who said it. Anyone know?”

“now THAT's what I'm talkin about AJ!”

“Evel Knievel.”

“Quote o' the Day from InformationWeek Daily...


"We should never believe statistics we didn't falsify ourselves."

- Pierre Steffen, a Boeing VP, going for (and getting) a laugh at this week's Global Aviation RFID Forum in Atlanta.”

“"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

-Anatole France”

“Here's one from page 1 of this thread that bears repeating...


"if it is wet and sticky and not yours leave it alone"

an old friend


EBBoots”

““President Rios Montt [is] a man of great personal integrity and commitment who wants to improve the quality of life for all Guatemalans, and [is] getting a "bum rap" on human rights.”

– President Ronald Reagan praising Guatemala's military dictator in 1982; during the 17 months of Rios Montt's "Christian" campaign (1982-83), 400 villages were destroyed, 10,000-20,000 Indians were killed, and over 100,000 were forced to flee to Mexico.”

“God gave man dominion over the animals of the earth to beat, torture, kill and eat as they see fit."
ULTRAPecker
04:52:17 PM
06/12/04


Have you tortured your animals today?”

“A foreign leader could of said the same thing about Abraham Lincoln in 1865.”

“Unfortunately there's quite a few people like that --- and they also extend the same argument to stripmining and mountaintop removal. Their deity gave the earth to them to rape and demolish as they see fit.”

“I ate at McDonald's this morning. I tried hard not to think of the cows and chickens that were slaughtered for my benefit. After all, if I didn't see it, it didn't happen.

8)”

“"Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left
to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be,
we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others." --Alexander Hamilton


"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength. Industry and determination can do
anything that genius and advantage can do and many things that
they cannot." --Theodore Roosevelt”

“Lights on --- Nobody home.”

“'Whoops' Doesn't Work For Wars

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER editorial headline, Sunday, February 1, 2004”

“States should have a right to enact laws and restrictions, particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

--George W. Bush”

“"Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong."
-George Carlin”

“Mapleleaf gets to sleep next to a tree every night...”

“And many miles to go before I sleep
And many miles to go before I sleep

-Robert Frost


In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)”

“"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."
-George Carlin”

“LMAO”

“"Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac?"
-George Carlin”

“"The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions."
-George Carlin”

“The men American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try and tell them the truth.

--H. L. Mencken”

“That certainly holds true for Reagan and Carter.”

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

--Booker T. Washington”

“Chili-man,
Dewd aint that the truth....

some of my recent "obstacles" have truly made me a better person.”

“China has over a billion people....that means that if you're a one-in-a-million guy, there's still a thousand more just like you.....

Norm Mcdonald”

“Bluto:
They took the bar! The whole
f-cking bar!”

“The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

--William Wordsworth”

“"It's easy to be a holy man on top of a mountain."

Larry Darrell
(Bill Murray)
The Razor's Edge (1984)”

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

-- Albert Einstein”

“I really like that one kleetn

BTW - Albert Einstein was born on my birthday. Coincidence....I think not. lol”

“I knew a girl who shared her birthday with Richard Nixon...

It was a CLUE, LOL”

“Gee, I didn't know dhutch was older than Einstein.”

“"If I were stranded on a desert island with one record, one book and one photograph… I'd probably die of exposure."

Dave Foley
The Kids In The Hall”

“~~my father and i are one~~”

“People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you'll know exactly what to do.

Michelle Ventor”

“Flounder:
May I have ten thousand marbles, please?”

“We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobile rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”

“"To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much
nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!"

-- H.L. Mencken”

“The pledge of allegiance does not end with hail Satan
The pledge of allegiance does not end with hail Satan
The pledge of allegiance does not end with hail Satan
The pledge of allegiance does not end with hail Satan
The pledge of allegiance does not end with hail Satan
The pledge of allegiance does not end with hail Satan
The pledge of allegiance does not end with hail Satan
The pledge of allegiance does not end with hail Satan

-- Bart at the Blackboard”

“Anybody else a fan of Law & Order?

I know I'm an s.o.b., I like being an s.o.b., the hours are good and there's no heavy lifting."

"Infidelity is the world's worst hangover."

"I met the muse last night and she looked an awful lot like a bottle of tequila."

“You couldn't please this court if you danced an Irish jig on your fingertips."

"In my experience, 'integrity' is usually an euphemism for 'money.' "

“Life is a Cabernet."

"Some nut-job forgets to wear his aluminum foil hat one morning, all of a sudden voices start telling him to ring doorbells and stab people."

From http://members.tripod.com/MindHarp/loalph.html”

“Good writing -- cool site, thanks.”

“Old Frank Pembleton sure was hell-on-wheels on "Homocide".”

“Oh, I remember this one....

"I get it, she wasn't there. And if she was there, she didn't kill him. And if she did kill him, she didn't mean to. And if she did mean to, it's because she was upset."

LOLOL”

“SCARED GET A DOG!

MATT”

“"I just don't know why they're shooting at us. All we want to do is bring them democracy and white bread...Transplant the American dream... Freedom... Achievement... Hyperacidity... Affluence... Flatulence... Technology... Tension... The inalienable right to an early coronary sitting at your desk while plotting to stab your boss in the back."

--M*A*S*H*, Hawkeye, O.R.”

“Where did all the good writing go? Now we're inundated with all these Reality Show Survival Types whining about how much they miss their Doritos!

It just ain't the same! LOL

The producers don't have to pay writers --- and they don't have to worry about them going on strike.”