Favorite Quotes

[Turtle]

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage. ~ Herbert Hoover

[Turtle]

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. ~ Dick Cavett

[Michaelangelica]

Be the change you want to see in the world

- Ghandi

[Moontanman]

Grandpa always said "laughter is the best medicine"...... I guess that's the reason so many of our family died of tuberculosis. SNL

[Michaelangelica]

lol

The following is inscribed on the tomb of an Anglican Bishop in Westminster Abby (1100 A.D.) …

 

When I was young and free and my imagination had no limits, I dreamed of changing the world. As I grew older and wiser, I discovered the world would not change, so I shortened my sights somewhat and decided to change only my country.

 

But it, too, seemed immovable.

 

As I grew into my twilight years, in one last desperate attempt, I settled for changing only my family, those closest to me, but alas, they would have none of it.

 

And now, as I lie on my deathbed, I suddenly realize: If I had only changed myself first, then by example I would have changed my family.

 

From their inspiration and encouragement, I would then have been able to better my country, and who knows, I may have even changed the world.

[Turtle]

The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe

[Boerseun]

"I don't know why he acts so dignified. After all, he was shoved through a vagina once..."

- Random TV background noise from some movie that somehow stuck in my head

[Turtle]

How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil's Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon -- and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter. ~ W. C. Fields :D

[Moontanman]

I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: - 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.'

 

- Eleanor Roosevelt

[Turtle]

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. ~ John Updike

[InfiniteNow]

In the Beginning, Man Created God.

[Turtle]

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;

Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,

And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.

All men make faults.

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

[Turtle]

Equalia! Where everyone is equal but we're in charge. ~ Lisa Simpson

[InfiniteNow]

"And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter"

~Thomas Jefferson

Letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams

[Turtle]

Olympian, adj. Relating to a mountain in Thessaly, once inhabited by gods, now a repository of yellowing newspapers, beer bottles and mutilated sardine cans, attesting the presence of the tourist and his appetite.

 

His name the smirking tourist scrawls,

Upon Minerva's temple walls,

Where thundered once Olympian Zeus,

And marks his appetite's abuse. --Averil Joop

~ Ambrose Bierce ~

[Turtle]

America is the joy of complication. ~ Simon Schama

[Boerseun]

"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to use tomato in fruit salad."

- Some wiseguy on the radio this morning