OT: Quotes

[imtired]

If you are flammable and have legs you are never blocking a fire exit.
-Mitch Hedberg

[rested gal]

"Ooh-ahh-eee-aah-ooh-aah."
--Cat Stevens, Peace Train.

You got me hummin', Jeff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sjSHazjrWg

[Emma47]

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail,
no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women
don't have what it takes." ~Clare Boothe Luce

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
—W.B. Yeats

plus ca change, plus c'est le meme chose

UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.—The Lorax (1971) -Dr. Seuss

[M.D.Hosehead]

EXFLATA IN SAUNAM NON TOLERANTUR SUNT.

(Romans didn't use lower case.)

[Hospiceangel]

M.D.,
My Roman is not good. Translation please......
Shar:)
Opps! My italian...

[jnk]

M.D.,
My Roman is not good. Translation please......
Shar:)
Opps! My italian...

Latin is Greek to me, too.

[DoriC]

My favorite--Mothering is a necessity but Grandmothering is a luxury!

My husband's favorite--When you come to a fork in the road, take it! "Yogi Berra".

Great thread, wonderful quotes!

[Goofproof]

"DoriC"]My favorite--Mothering is a necessity but Grandmothering is a luxury!

My husband's favorite--When you come to a fork in the road, take it! "Yogi Berra".

Great thread, wonderful quotes!

Another Great Yogi Quote: "When you come to a fork in the road, put it in the Pick-nic basket, and eat Lunch"! "Yogi Bear". Jim

[M.D.Hosehead]

EXFLATA IN SAUNAM NON TOLERANTUR SUNT

My Roman is not good. Translation please......
Shar:)

Latin is Greek to me, too.

"No farting in the sauna" (Farts are not tolerated in the sauna.)



Thanks for asking.

[FoxNewsFan]

"When you cut your own wood, it warms you twice" Attributed to various people from Thoreau to Henry Ford.

Ed

[SleepingUgly]

One way or another, every relationship must end. There's no such thing as a lifetime guarantee. It's like refusing to enjoy watching the sun rise because you hate to see it set. -- Irving Yalom

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering --Ram Dass & Paul Gorman

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities. --William Bridges

Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now. --Viktor Frankl

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. --Eleanor Roosevelt

Lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty; the difficulty comes from lack of confidence. --Seneca

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny. --Albert Ellis

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself--and how little I deserve it. --W.S. Gilbert

No matter who or what made you what you have become, that doesn't release you from the responsibility of making yourself over into what you ought to be. -- Ashley Montagu

Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet", deny your own experience or convictions. --Dag Hammarskjold

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. --Golda Meir

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. --Andre Gide

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. -- James Russell Lowell

[SleepingUgly]

Lest anyone say this OT is too OT:

A healthy mind has an easy breath. ~Author Unknown

If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance. ~Andrea Boydston

The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb

[Sleepy Taz]

It is the danger which is least expected that soonest comes to us.
- Voltaire

It's a very short trip. While alive, live.
- Malcolm Forbes

You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein

[SleepingUgly]

In the depth of winter, I finally realized that deep within me lay an invincible summer. --Albert Camus

One cannot consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar. --Helen Keller

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness. --Erich Fromm

Between grief and nothing, I will take grief. --William Faulkner

It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything. --Morton Irving Seiden

Sorrows are our best educators. A person can see further through a tear than a telescope. --Lord Byron

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. --F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor. --Isaac Barrow

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. --Exodus 23:20

[NotMuffy]

Ahehaheh daynt ah ah eheh safta culoush he ah ah eheh da loik andswuff gorra ah ah eheh kins heef gaeus eheheheh cowt. --O. Osbourne