Page 4 of 9
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 7:57 pm
by imtired
If you are flammable and have legs you are never blocking a fire exit.
-Mitch Hedberg
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 7:03 am
by rested gal
jnk wrote:
"Ooh-ahh-eee-aah-ooh-aah."
--Cat Stevens, Peace Train.
You got me hummin', Jeff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sjSHazjrWg
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 10:19 am
by 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
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 2:08 pm
by M.D.Hosehead
EXFLATA IN SAUNAM NON TOLERANTUR SUNT.
(Romans didn't use lower case.)
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 7:39 pm
by Hospiceangel
M.D.,
My Roman is not good. Translation please......
Shar:)
Opps! My italian...
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 8:07 pm
by jnk
Hospiceangel wrote:M.D.,
My Roman is not good. Translation please......
Shar:)
Opps! My italian...
Latin is Greek to me, too.
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 10:10 pm
by 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!
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 11:00 pm
by 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
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 4:53 am
by 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.
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 7:20 am
by FoxNewsFan
"When you cut your own wood, it warms you twice" Attributed to various people from Thoreau to Henry Ford.
Ed
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 9:08 pm
by 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
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 9:14 pm
by 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
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 6:18 am
by 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
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 6:07 pm
by 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
Re: OT: Quotes
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 5:34 am
by 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