Quote for the Day!

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

~~Carl Jung”

“Disclaimer from Tami Knight, author of Everest, the Ultimate Hump and Canuckette (natch, eh?) in the August, 2001 Climbing:

Disclaimer: If you go climbing you might die. Only total dolts figger on not dying. Someday at least I mean. Okay so yer gonna die ... maybe it's a lingering and humiliating death or maybe yool git squashed like an insect. Maybe youll be shot in the head by a jealous wife. Or maybe youll stick a weiner into a crack and hang on it. Whatever. You choose.”

“"Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to the perpetuation of wealth and power in the individuals and their families selected for the trust."

-- Thomas Jefferson, 1812”

“wasnt he rich with many slaves ??”

“Yup. Said this about slavery:

"Slavery was like holding a wolf by its ears, you didn't like it, but you did not dare let it go."”

“"I've been criticized enough where y'all can't hurt me. You can't write anything that's going to make my day any worse. And you can't all of a sudden tell me I'm smart and great, and make me feel any better.

"Because I didn't believe you when you said I sucked and I'm not going to believe you when you say I'm great. I'm just going to keep on being me."

- Michael Waltrip”

“Self Pity
by DH Lawrence


I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.”

“That is a very good one.”

“A very popular error -- having the courage of one's convictions: Rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack upon one's own convictions.

Nietzsche”

“Good one, ped.”

“George Bernard Shaw:

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.”

“I thought that was the slogan for illegal aliens.”

“No, thats BEAM up a family.”

“Barbara De Angelis:
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.”

“Preface: not referencing chili

My Mother..after the bagger at the check out bagged cold items with cleaning supplies....
"Carlette, its simple, theres a dumbass everywhere you go"”

“Continuing with the story...


Carlette: "#&%!$, get the cleaning supplies out of that #&%!$ing bag"”

“I don't know whats happened tothe woman..she hits 62, retires then starts flippin out!”

“My mother will be 74 this year and she is the worst.


She would complain at Mickey D's that she only got one pickle on a burger instead of three.

But, she raised 6 boys and one died in Vietnam....I guess she earned the right to #&%!$.”

“the best since retirement has been...when I called one day....scratchy cell signal.."mama where in the world are you?" "I'm in the sauna at the gym..click" LMAO”

“LOL. My mother sneaks off to the casino every now and then.

She won a couple hundred bucks one time and complained she would have to pay taxes on it.

I said "Did they 1099 you?"

Mother: "No"

Me: "So......how much tax are you going to pay?"

Mother: "I don't know, wait until I look up my tax bracket"

Me: "Pour me another drink please"”

“Robert Louis Stevenson:

There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”

“"My parents used to beat the #&%!$ out of me. And, looking back on it, I'm glad they did. I'm looking forward to beating the #&%!$ out of my own kids, for no reason whatsoever."
Denis Leary.


"Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus."
Bob Rubin”

“"Awards are like haemorrhoids; sooner or later every #&%!$ gets some."
Frederic Raphael

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day."
Dean Martin.

"Until I was thirteen I thought my name was 'Shutup'."
Joe Namath.

And we were poor too. Why if I wasn't born a boy.... I'd have nothing to play with. (Rodney Dangerfield)”

“"The more you think about things, the weirder they seem. Take this milk. Why do we drink *cow* milk?? Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, "I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze 'em!"?" - Bill Watterson (‘Calvin & Hobbes’)



so sue me...I can't stop....”

“Mark Twain:

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.”

“I like that one chili :)”

“The large print giveth and the small print taketh away...

---Tom Waits”

“so i'll post it again...

"The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn" - David Russell”

“I just burn them all, makes things less complicated.

What hath the small print taken from thee this time Tree?
last edited: 5/31/05 8:40:00 AM”

“Nothing, wiseass. I like the quote. Any problem with that?

And, if you must pin it down, let it suffice to say that it can apply to many of the bullsh_it manipulative business whores in this overpriced world...
last edited: 5/31/05 8:57:52 AM”

“You're a little sensetive today Tree, haven't told Maple how much money you lost yet? ;)”

“If you were kidding, I apologize, Bison. You made it sound like you were interpreting it as if I were whining about something. I've taken enough of that crap on this board to last a lifetime...”

“No, I was kidding! Sorry.”

“Fuggedhaboutit!

Go for quotes instead...

I was listening to a Tom Waits song over the weekend and that one stuck in my head.

How about a little Hunter Thompson?

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro!”

“Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.


Ken Hubbard”

“Hey, jackasses!

Don't #&%!$ up the quotes thread!




Quote by chili36”

“Off: Posted for cotton socks (Graphic, be warned)
http://www.thebackpacker.com/pictures/users/blind_willie_mctell/ulm7j7yw/4eeau6.jpg”

“Albert Einstein:

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

“Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor (1892 - 1964)”

“When going through hell, keep going- My favorite drunk, Winston Churchill.


Maybe I shoulda posted that in the Sacco's Social Lounge thread. : p”

“Well behaved women never make history”

“"A few hours of mountain climbing turn a villain and a saint into two rather equal creature. Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity, and liberty is added eventually by sleep."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Note sure if I agree, but an interesting quote nonetheless.”

“"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life."

John Muir quotes”

“Muir was right.”

“Bragging rights for hiking down a mountain exist only for those who first have climbed up the mountain. ..Nowslimmer
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“John F. Kennedy:

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

“Jimmy Carter:


I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.”

“happy summer-”

“nowslimmer, its bad form to quote yourself on this thread”

“"I've learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it."

--Anonymous quotes”