Favorite Quotes

[Pyrotex]

"Growing old is not for sissies."

 

--- M. B. Stacy

[Buffy]

Don't be humble, you're not that great.

--Golda Meir

 

...or mumble, either,

Buffy

[Turtle]

My mind is a sponge and I'm not afraid to wring it.

- Roger Thelonious George -

[Michaelangelica]

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to

understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language

devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

-- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)

torloch: ...pratchett...

[Turtle]

I remember that, when I was a boxing boy, it was allowed, even after an adversary said he had enough, to give him a rising blow. - Ben Franklin

[Boerseun]

"Death solves all problems: No man, no problem"

- Joseph Stalin

[Pyrotex]

"The secret to inner peace and ultimate uh harmony are the the alteration of conscious, a higher consciousness, where the love, that is, love can be inner manifested in harmony, and uh the thorns of reality can give the little yellow flowers of peach uh peace that grow legs of understanding and crawl... Get OFF me!"

 

--Timothy Leary

[Boerseun]

"If you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite about it."

- Winston Churchill

[Turtle]

When someone strikes you as humorous, spear know thyme two chortle then .

-- Roger Thelonious George --

[InfiniteNow]

I detest all systems that depreciate human nature. If it be a delusion that there is something in the constitution of man that is venerable and worthy of its author, let me live and die in that delusion, rather than have my eyes opened to see my species in humiliating and disgusting light. Every good man feels his indignation rise against those who disparage his kindred or his country; why should it not rise against those who disparage his kind?

 

- Thomas Reid : Letter of 1775 in Philosophical Works, with Notes and Supplementary Dissertations by Sir Williams Hamilton

[InfiniteNow]

"Always remember, others may hate you- but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself."

 

- Richard Nixon

[IDMclean]

:eek: :)

 

I didn't know that nixon said intellegent things. :smart:

[infamous]

:eek: :)

 

I didn't know that nixon said intellegent things. :smart:

We might all be capable of saying something intelligent a least once in a lifetime...................Infy

[hallenrm]

Time has nodivisions to mark its passage,

there is never a thunderstrom or blare of trumpts

to announce the begining of a new month or year.

Even when a new century begins

it is only we mortals who ring bells and fires of pistols.

 

Thomas Mann

[hallenrm]

Old things are passed away;

behold all things have become new.

 

:eek: :) :smart:

[Boerseun]

We might all be capable of saying something intelligent a least once in a lifetime...................Infy

I did, once. It was on a Wednesday.

[infamous]

I did, once. It was on a Wednesday.

Wednesday does seem to be a popular day for intelligent sayings.

 

Like:

It's hump day.

Two days till pay-day.

 

 

And my favorite:

Why does the week-end go so fast and Wednesday go so slow?

 

....................Infy