Quote for the Day!

“"The dirty little secret about anarchy is that it takes LOTS of planning."

Luke Burbank
NPR correspondent
(about an hour ago)”

“"Pain passes, but beauty remains."

-- Pierre August Renoir”

“"But if the cause be not good, the King himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in a battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all, "We died at such a place," some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die well in a battle; for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?"”

“No more mipsellings I vow!”

“that St. Crispen's Day speech was from Henry V wasnt it?? you know which one im talking about?”

“{adult swim}

"You just bought a necklace with an enormous "D" for a chick in a coma with no neck."

-- Brak's Dad”

“"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

Marcus Aurelius”

“what a great quote Tilt!”

“The hiker lives her life vicariously for she secretly yearns to have lived before in a simpler time. A time when her love for the land, water, fish & wildlife would be more than just part of her life. It would be her state of mind.

Live each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit puts the goal in mind. Many beautiful scenes can be observed from each new vantage point. Climb steadily, slowly, enjoy each passing moment; & the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax to the journey.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life & see if I could not learn what it had to teach, & not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

All that glitters is not gold. All who wander are not lost.

Once in a while you find a place on earth that becomes your very own. A place undefined. Waiting for you to bring your color, your self. A place untouched, unspoiled, undeveloped. Raw, honest, and haunting. No one, nothing is telling you how to feel or who to be. Let the mountains have you for a day...”

“Jeanne is a B I T C H !!!”

“Hey, be nice, Tango. I've got a date with Jeanne!”

“Yeah me too! And NOT by choice!”

“Good luck, Tango.
You, too, Roam Around, and all the other Florida folks.”

“Have fun on your date!”

“LOL.”

“Yep - Ol' Marcus was a pistol. wasn't he? {grin}



Making up for lost time here...

“Four things should never flatter us: the familiarity of princes, the caresses of women, the smiles of our enemies, nor a warm day in winter, for these things are not of long duration.”

from The Farmer’s Almanac of 1793




“The most excellent moral in the whole alcoran is, show mercy, do good to all and dispute not with the ignorant.”

from Dobson's Encyclopedia
(and the copybook of Mary Steele – rural Kentucky, 1800)




Drop, drop—in our sleep, upon the heart
sorrow falls, memory’s pain,
and to us, though against our very will,
even in our own despite,
comes wisdom
by the awful grace of God.


Aeschylus (525–456 B.C. )
Three Greek Plays
Edith Hamilton, trans., (1937)
”

“Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)”

“Never heard of him, but sure sounds right to me.”

“"Farting is such sweet sorrow." --Edward Abbey”

“Yeah!”

“"Here in this Eden of clowns, with the highest rewards of clowning theoretically open to every poor boy - here in the very citadel of democracy we found and cherish a clown dynasty!"
- H.L. Mencken”

“'It's not rocket surgery.'

Don Cherry, Official Governor General of all Canadian @$$holes.”

“"If we're in danger from Cat Stevens, then we're screwed!"

- Sal Rushdie”

“Dorothy Thompson:

"Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow."”

“
"I'll teach your grandmother to suck eggs!!"

"Rufus Hannassey"
(Burl Ives)
The Big Country (1958)
”

“"Limpy's right.”
Ruby
5:59:11 PM
11/05/04”

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

--Rachel Carson”

“I know this is an oldy, but a good one:

"Those who wander are not always lost."

I should have this plastered on my back because in WA state grocery stores, if you just casually look around, a store worker will unltimately ask you if you are looking for something and need help :)”

“Seriously, I hate when people ask me if they can help me find something in a store. I was in a store once, and got asked three times in 60 seconds. I walked right out of the place. It bugs the everloving #&%!$ out of me.”

“It's infinitely worse if you need help and can't find it though.”

“wow there are actually stores that are overstaffed and you can have help finding things in a timely fashion? and what are you complaining about?”

“Shopping is a painful enough experience without having to put up with the saleschimps.”

“Salechimp in a grocery store? Hell, in Arkansas, if you can't find it, they just don't have it.”

“Seriously, I hate when people ask me if they can help me find something in a store. I was in a store once, and got asked three times in 60 seconds. I walked right out of the place. It bugs the everloving #&%!$ out of me.”
bitpusher
9:52:19 PM
11/08/04

Response to female workers - I'm looking for condoms, extra large and extra strong.

male workers - vagisil. Where's the damn vagisil????????”

“"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents,
more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and
glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright
moron."

-H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)”

“"Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads."

-- Marianne Moore”

“To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty,
to find the best in others, to give one's self...
this is to have succeeded.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson”

“Nobuddy ever fergits where he buried a hatchet." --Kin Hubbard Abe Martin's Broadcast”

“'What do you think of Western Civilisation?'

'I think it's a good idea.'

Gandhi”

“"If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair."

- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) British lexiographer”

“"They're playing ping-pong with us and, we're losing!"

- Jimmy Durante”

“"When they study our civilization two thousand years from now, there will only be three things that Americans will be known for: the Constitution, baseball, and jazz music."

- Gerald Early”

“And Bill Clinton.”

“Ha!”

“"You're not a real Newfoundlander 'til you've eaten a piece of seal-flipper pie.'

"Wavey Prowse"
Julianne Moore
The Shipping News (2001)”

“You're not a real Newfoundlander unless you're a Newfoundlander - it's not a club you can join.

Great folks and only they can pronounce 'Newfoundland' right - and you can't fake it.”

“Another Rumsfeld quote, in the LA Times of Dec 10, 2004.

Responding to the charge that soldiers have to rummage through garbage dumps to find armor for their Humvees, Rumsfeld said, " I don't know what the facts are [edit from PJ2 - no kidding] but somebody's certainly going to sit down with him [ Wilson, the soldier who asked the question at the controversial news conference] and find out what he knows that they might not know, and make sure he knows what they know that he may not know, and that's a good thing."”

“If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

--Bob Hope”

“"When China wakes, it will shake the world."

- Napoleon Bonaparte”

“The enemy of my enemy is ambiguous."

- Me”