Quote for the Day!

“"Oysters are like fortune cookies.... fortune cookies filled with snot."


Mike Rowe
"Dirty Jobs"
Discovery Channel”

“It's not snot that causes the girls to smile when they swallow them.”

“I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.”

“The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting. - Amanda Cross”

“There is only one rule:The guy who trains the hardest,the most,wins.Period. Because you wont die. Even though you feel like you'll die,you dont actually die.Like when you're training,you can always do one more.Always,as tired as you might think you are,you can always,always do one more.

Floyd Landis”

“Sounds like a whole bunch of fun!”

“hey birch, theres another one from the same outside article that i liked, something along the lines of there is no such thing as over-training. you were just under-trained for that level of training”

“CB, my fav from the article was when landis passed the peloton after a 10min chase and hollered "hey mutherphuckers, want more of this".”

“huh. i thought i read all of that article, but i dont remember that”

“He's probably making it up.”

“"Of course we weren't lost. We were merely where we shouldn't have been, without knowing where that was."

T. Morris Longstreth. 1917”

“Have they found him yet?”

“and so matt's-grow-up-thread walked out of our lives forver...”

“I'm so ashamed!”

“i got last post! What'd i win?”

“Giddy Up Oom Poppa Omm Poppa Mow Mow”

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Leonardo da Vinci”

“Interesting quote based on when it was said


Animals suffer and their screams fill the air. Forests are being destroyed. Mountains are ripped open for the metals streaming in their veins. And man cherishes and celebrates those who do the greatest of damage to nature and humanity.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1500)”

“so true ... so true”

“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

--Aldous Huxley”

“"The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones. And the Age of Fossil Fuels won't end because we run out of fossil fuels."

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10688399/al_gore_30/print
last edited: 7/01/06 12:24:20 PM”

“Mouse Story ...
A mouse looked through the
Crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package.

"What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered -
He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.

Retreating to the farmyard,
The mouse proclaimed the
Warning.

"There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap
In the house!"

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and
Said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you
But it is of no consequence to me.
I cannot be bothered by it."

The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a
Mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The pig sympathized, but said,
"I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse,
But there is nothing I can do about it but pray.
Be assured you are in my prayers."

The mouse turned to the cow and said, "There is a
Mousetrap in the house!
There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse.
I'm sorry for you,
But it's no skin off my nose."

So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected,
To face the farmer's mousetrap-- alone.

That very night a sound was heard throughout the house --
Like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.

The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the
Darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake
Whose tail the trap had caught.

The snake bit the farmer's wife.
The farmer rushed her
To the hospital and she returned home with a fever.
Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup,
So the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's
Main ingredient.

But his wife's sickness continued,
So friends and neighbors came
To sit with her around the clock.
To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.

The farmer's wife did not get well; she died.
So many people came
For her funeral, the farmer
Had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.

The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.

So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't concern you,
Remember --
When one of us is threatened,
We are all at risk.

We are all involved in this journey called life.
We must keep an eye out
For one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.

SEND THIS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER HELPED YOU OUT
AND LET THEM KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THEY ARE.

REMEMBER:
EACH OF US IS A VITAL
THREAD IN ANOTHER PERSON'S TAPESTRY;
OUR LIVES ARE WOVEN TOGETHER FOR A REASON.

One of the best things to hold onto in this world is a friend.”

“That's the longest quote I've ever seen in my life. It's going to be hell to memorize. Thanks a hell of a lot.”

“An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck. One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.

For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do.

After 2 years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream. "I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house." The old woman smiled, "Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side?" "That's because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them." "For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house."

Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You've just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.

So, to all of my crackpot friends, have a great day and remember to smell the flowers on your side of the path!”

“The Farmer's Donkey
One day a farmer's donkey fell into an abandoned well. The

animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out

what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was too old and the

well needed to be covered up anyway; so it just wasn't worth it to

him to try to retrieve the donkey.
He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They each

grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. Realizing

what was happening, the donkey at first cried and wailed horribly.
Then, a few shovel-fulls later, he quieted down completely. The

farmer peered down into the well, and was astounded by what he

saw. With every shovel-full of dirt that hit his back, the donkey

would shake it off and take a step up on the new layer of dirt.
As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the

animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, the

donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off, to

the shock and astonishment of everyone.
The Moral: Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The

trick to getting out of the well is to stop wailing, and not let the

dirt bury you, but to shake it off and take a step up. Each one of

our troubles is a stepping-stone. We can get out of the deepest

wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a

step up.”

“Somebody got a new book........”

“Being bodies that learn language
thereby becoming wordlings
humans are
the symbol-making, symbol-using, symbol-misusing animal
inventor of the negative
separated from our natural condition
by instruments of our own making
goaded by the spirit of hierarchy
acquiring foreknowledge of death
and rotten with perfection”

“Bummer. Maybe it's a good thing that all those women called me a pig.”

“At least they didn't call you a piglet, right?”

“One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.

He said, "My son, the battle is between two "wolves" inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.

The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather:

"Which wolf wins?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."”

“Benjamin Franklin:

They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security”

“Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

~~Russell Baker”

“"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."

- Epicurus (341 - 270 BC) Greek philosopher.”

“"We are the only species that follows unstable pack leaders." Cesar Milan”

“How about Lemmings (or aren't they real)?”

“Compassion is the basis of all morality.

~~Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)”

“We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.

~~Matthew Arnold”

“Yibbedy yibbedy and thank your mother for the rabbits.
~~Rex Hunt”

“Do Lemmings have pack leaders?”

“Mohandas K. Gandhi:

If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.”

“Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.

~Author Unknown”

“Mother Teresa:

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.”

“We reach true equality when we all pursue excellence.”

“That mother Theresa quote is priceless.”

“a personal fav...

get oughtta the problem and into the solution and the problem will go away.”

“Marcel Proust:

The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”

“Leadership Is the ability to get other people to get the best out of
themselves, and it’s manifested not by getting them to follow you,
but to join you.”

Marv Levy (former Buffalo Bills coach)”

“George Bernard Shaw:

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.”

“Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

~~Dean Acheson”

“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Kahlil Gibran”