Favorite Quotes

[Turtle]

Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises. ~ Ambrose Bierce

[Turtle]

CLAIRVOYANT, n.

A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron, namely, that he is a blockhead. ~ Ambrose Bierce

[Boerseun]

"The priests of the different religious sects . . . dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight, and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subdivision of the duperies on which they live."

 

- THOMAS JEFFERSON

[pamela]

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. " A.E.

 

 

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination" A.E.

[Turtle]

It is a great thing to be know exactly what to do in an emergency. When in doubt whether to attack or retreat I never hesitate a moment -- I toss us a copper. ~ General Gordon Granger

[InfiniteNow]

An unjust law is no law at all.

 

~St Augustine

[Turtle]

Seeking the ideal has a long history; it produces many saints but few paradigm changes. ~ Dave Snowden

[Turtle]

to deny morality is to affirm morality. ~ Beatrix Terranna Goodwon

[Thunderbird]

True religion is not a dogmatic, nor does it emerge from a group consensus, its a personal experience. One should seek to find our own unique nature, since this entails self reflection it should be understood as such. Once we know who we really are, ...we can then live the life we were meant to live.

 

C.E. Humphrey

[Thunderbird]

"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself" - Peter O’Toole

[Thunderbird]

One true measure of ones life is in the ratio between what we have decided , and what we have allowed others to decide for us. C. E. Humphrey

[Turtle]

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. ~Pablo Picasso

[Moontanman]

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. ~Pablo Picasso

 

You don't? Maybe that why I get such odd looks when I pull out the tape measure!

 

Shes got legs, she knows how to use them.

She never begs, she knows how to choose them.

Shes holdin leg wonderin how to feel them.

Would you get behind them if you could only find them? :hyper:

[Turtle]

The first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat.

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

 

:hyper:

[Turtle]

A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ~Oscar Wilde

[freeztar]

Its all fun and games, till somebody loses an eye. Then the game becomes "find the eye". - Stephen Colbert, DFA

[Turtle]

He that is strucken blind cannot forget

The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. ~ Bard of Avon