Quote of the Day

[Tacitus]

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - Ghandi

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves. - Brendan Behan

[nebbit]

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves. - Brendan Behan

:laugh:

[susan]

Friend: One who knows all about you, and loves you just the same.

Elbert Hubbard

When good natured people leave us, we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.

Henry W. Shaw

[Caitlyn]

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. ~ Stanislaw Lec

[7thson]

Last, but not least: I present to you my ex-wife, yeah I know it is curious, but I did say "ex" ~ Red Button

[Caitlyn]

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ~ Sydney J. Harris

[SelenaParsley]

"If you don't have anything nice to say....come sit by me"

~ Dolly Parton in Steel Magnolias

[Caitlyn]

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. ~ Albert Einstein

[Caitlyn]

"If you don't have anything nice to say....come sit by me"

~ Dolly Parton in Steel Magnolias


I think it was Clairee (Olympia Dukakis) who said that one.... :)

[birdygyrl]

I think it was Clairee (Olympia Dukakis) who said that one.... :)

I think you're right.

[Tacitus]

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. - Samuel Beckett.

http://www.haplessdilettante.com/images1/beckett.jpg

[nebbit]

:laugh:

[diamondgeeza]

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Spike Milligan

[nebbit]

http://bestsmileys.com/lol/5.gif

[diamondgeeza]

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
Christina Aguilera
http://idata.over-blog.com/0/21/16/07/the-best-and-the-worst/christina-aguilera-no-make-up1.jpg

[nebbit]

:rolleyes:

[7thson]

If all men were created equal why am I so lessthan? ~ Verne Troyer

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/775000/images/_776567_minime100.jpg

[nebbit]

If all men were created equal why am I so lessthan? ~ Verne Troyer

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/775000/images/_776567_minime100.jpg

If we all created equal, then there wouldn't be cute guys like Verne :D

[diamondgeeza]

Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home. David Frost
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1220000/images/_1220156_frost150.jpg

[diamondgeeza]

"Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches."
Jim carrey
http://www.moviegoer.cside.com/autograph/jim_carrey-01.jpg

[AmyLovesYou]

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

[Golgot]

Everything is a miracle. It's a miracle that one doesn't dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar
~Pablo Picasso

[diamondgeeza]

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
Oscar Wilde
http://images.google.co.uk/url?q=http://www.oddbooks.com/harris/wilde.gif&sig=__MvUU83JCbKVSCZDPB0RXMh9p7so=

[diamondgeeza]

Doing nothing is very hard to do...you never know when you're finished.
Leslie Nielsen
http://www.pixelquest.com/wall/n/nelson.jpg

[Golgot]

The days of the digital watch are numbered
~Tom Stoppard

(I cringed, but i liked. Then i cringed again ;))

[Tacitus]

The days of the digital watch are numbered
~Tom Stoppard

(I cringed, but i liked. Then i cringed again ;))

Heck, I didn't cringe! It's so corny that I'm thinking of pretending I came up with it. :D

[diamondgeeza]

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; I left my shoes and socks there - I wonder if they're dry?.
Spike Milligan
http://www.comedy-zone.net/images/people/comedians/milligan-spike.jpg

[VeronicaJ]

'You're not allowed to have a cell in class' 'I know.' 'But you do.' 'yup'

[diamondgeeza]

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.
Burt Reynolds
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/7/70/Burt_reynolds_younger.jpg

[cmitchell]

"Pirate suicide is one of the greatest tragedies of the modern era." -- The Gravedigger

[SamsoniteDelilah]

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
I've tried this. Then I remember why they're my enemies: they're idiots. :)

[NewDawnFades]

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this."
- Henry David Thoreau

[Cuban Pete]

"...what kinda mocasins is them? 'NeeKay!' Is that some kinda injun talk?"
-Unknown speaker (Back to the future 3)

[VeronicaJ]

'Here's the truth about the truth: it hurts' Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy

[nextman]

save a cow, eat a vegetarian

[diamondgeeza]

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; Our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Johann Von Goethe

http://www.madaboutbeethoven.com/pages/people_and_places/people_patrons/pics/patrons_goethe.jpg

[Golgot]

"...among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters, heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad."

~Herman Melville (Moby Dick)

[diamondgeeza]

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

http://www.twistedhistory.com/image/bertrand_russell.jpg

[BobbyB]

Why will you take by force what you may have quietly by love?

[chris w]

"If you eliminate one pancake,It leaves room for more bacon"

Homer Simpson

[ORO]

"I know to separate the wheat from the chaff, and let the small stuff fall away."

[ORO]

"You gotta be one of the goods guys, son: 'cause there's way too many of the bad."

[nebbit]

"You gotta be one of the goods guys, son: 'cause there's way too many of the bad."
:yup:

[Caitlyn]

I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween. ~ Anonymous

[diamondgeeza]

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants
Whitney Brown
http://www.uptownmag.com/archive/feature/05apr07_3.jpg

[susan]

If everybody remembered the past, nobody would ever forgive anybody.

Robert Lynd

[Piddzilla]

Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.

Jean Baudrillard

[Golgot]

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world”
~John Muir

---

(Got that from this (http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/scienceandnature/story/0,,1873570,00.html) marvellous obituary, which deserves a quote of it's own...)

'He loved the way that oak trees, for instance, would share nutrients via their root systems when one of their number was under stress'

(Looked it up - s'all true :))

[maisie]

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants
Whitney Brown
http://www.uptownmag.com/archive/feature/05apr07_3.jpg

"I am A. Whitney Brown. I hope someday to be the Whitney Brown."

[diamondgeeza]

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
Irwin Corey
http://povonline.com/images3/corey1.jpg

[nebbit]

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Aristotle :)

[diamondgeeza]

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

http://www.comedy-zone.net/images/people/comedians/cleese-john.jpg

[nebbit]

:laugh:

[Naisy]

“The great thing about telling somebody they’re dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they’re willing to die for. What they’re willing to lie for" Dr. House

[diamondgeeza]

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein

http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/history/people/images/albert-einstein.gif

[Piddzilla]

Nevermind Hall and Oates
Those guys are a couple of goats

- Red Hot Chili Peppers "Nevermind"

[diamondgeeza]

“It's very expensive to be me. It's terrible the things I have to do to be me.”

Anna Nicole Smith (R.I.P)

[Sedai]

[16:00] IamKevinSorbo: ill be flying business class and staying in a pretty great looking hotel, so at least I'll be comfortable before I either blow up or have a video of me with a sack over my head end up on YouTube
[16:02] Sedai99: ACK!
[16:02] Sedai99: bring your own sack
[16:02] IamKevinSorbo: lol
[16:02] Sedai99: well, you dont know where it's been!
[16:02] IamKevinSorbo: safety first!

[Caitlyn]

Just remember, if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off. ~ Anonymous

[nebbit]

Just remember, if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off. ~ Anonymous
:laugh:

Nice to see you Caity :kiss:

[Caitlyn]

Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. ~ Colonel Potter (M*A*S*H)

[Caitlyn]

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~ Voltaire

[7thson]

Hey Cait, good to see you back posting. Missed ya.

[Piddzilla]

Hey Cait, good to see you back posting. Missed ya.

Hey, 7. Is that Borat Mercury in your avvie?

[7thson]

Hey, 7. Is that Borat Mercury in your avvie?


Heh, no just Freddie...:)

[Sedai]

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" -Benjamin Franklin

[Caitlyn]

Hey Cait, good to see you back posting. Missed ya.

Thanks.... it's nice to be back. I really missed you and all your words of wisdom too.... :)


"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" -Benjamin Franklin

Great quote Sedai.... but I'm curious.... what does... Watashi wa doko desu ka? mean?

[undercoverlover]

'there are people who are born blonde and there are people who are born to be blonde.' - Kelly Ripa

[Caitlyn]

You were born an original. Don't die a copy. ~ John Mason

[firegod]

"It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses and apologized to no one. I shall die here. Every inch of me shall perish. Every inch, but one. An inch. It is small and it is fragile and it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away. We must NEVER let them take it from us." - V for Vendetta

[diamondgeeza]

Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football.

Anthony Burgess

[Caitlyn]

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. ~ Goethe

[firegod]

This is narcissistic as hell, but I was reading old posts, and this one cracks me up. I might make it my sig for a little while.

Well, since my apology for any offence I might have caused was completely ignored, I will assume that none was taken, and I will only say that I've dusted off my trusty old flame war gloves just for you, in case you feel the need to get seriously spanked anytime soon. - me

[Caitlyn]

History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil. ~ Joseph Heller (Good as Gold)

[firegod]

We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught. He can be killed and forgotten; but 400 years later, an idea can still change the world. I've witnessed first hand the power of ideas; I've seen people kill in the name of them, and die defending them. But you cannot kiss an idea, cannot touch it, or hold it. Ideas do not bleed; they do not feel pain; they do not love. And it is not an idea that I miss, it is a man. A man that made me remember the Fifth of November. A man that I will never forget. - V for Vendetta

[7thson]

I once thought that to be a man one had to be strong, now I know that to be a man one has to recognize one's own weaknesses.....~unknown?

[John McClane]

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -Voltaire

[Caitlyn]

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. ~ Sigmund Freud (about the Irish)

[nebbit]

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. ~ Sigmund Freud (about the Irish)
:laugh: Sorry Tatty :laugh:

[Tacitus]

Hehehe! I'm familiar with that quote and have to say that it makes me quite proud... :)

[diamondgeeza]

"I hope that after I die, people will say of me: 'That guy sure owed me a lot of money.'"

Jack Handey

[nebbit]

"I hope that after I die, people will say of me: 'That guy sure owed me a lot of money.'"

Jack Handey

My bank already says that :yup:

[VeronicaJ]

M: 'I'll make some babies soon.'
G: 'I Wont stop you.'
M: 'Ill get pregnant with Will'
G: 'Your babies will sure look pretty then'
M: 'Yeah, and i'll tell Gertjan they're his.'
G: 'Only 50% pretty.'
M: 'Damn, you're right.'

M= Me G= My best friend Gertjan=my boyfriend
:furiousdevil:

[Caitlyn]

A kind word never broke anyone's mouth. ~ Irish Proverb

[diamondgeeza]

"Eighty-five pence for a plastic bottle of Coke? I thought they’d stopped using cocaine as one of the ingredients..."

Jeremy Clarkson

[Caitlyn]

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

[Othelo]

Nice quote, I like that one!

"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared." - Gautam Buddha

[Caitlyn]

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. ~ Mother Teresa

[Tony Montana]

"Always bet on Black" - Wesley Snipes in Passenger 57 (lol it was just on tele b4)

[Golgot]

"Socialism collapsed because it did not allow the market to tell the economic truth. Capitalism may collapse because it does not allow the market to tell the ecological truth."

~Oystein Dahle [ex Exxon vice president for Norway and the North Sea]

(It was on the internet ;))

[Sedai]

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly" - Keen

[Caitlyn]

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

[Caitlyn]

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. ~ Cherokee Proverb

[nebbit]

Thanks Caity, I like it and I am going to use it if thats ok, ;D

[Golgot]

“[T]he human colon is the bacterial equivalent of eBay,"
~ Abigail Salyers (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
In 'Are Antibiotics Killing Us?’ by Jessica Snyder Sachs

{But on a more playful note}...

"The whole word is one big round orooni to me"
~ Slim Gaillard – And to get a glimpse of where this prodigious polyglot survivalist is coming from, you'll have to watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1byHzUBrWi4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1byHzUBrWi4)

{And ignore how much of a comparative-tit Van Morrison is ;)}

[Caitlyn]

Is minic a bhris béal duine a shrón. (It is often that a person's mouth broke his nose.) ~ Irish Proverb

[nebbit]

:laugh:

[Caitlyn]

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. (15 Jan 1929 - 04 Apr 1968)

[NoeWhan]

awsome quotes from here:

arnold exposed . com (no spces)

"My friends don't want me to mention Kurt's name, because of all the recent Nazi stuff and the U.N. controversy, but I love him and Maria does too, and so thank you, Kurt."
Arnold Schwarzenegger on his friend and fellow Austrian Kurt Waldheim, a Nazi war criminal

[Tacitus]

Not so much a quote, but well-known nonetheless...

Easter 1916 by WB Yeats

I HAVE met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses.
I have passed with a nod of the head
Or polite meaningless words,
Or have lingered awhile and said
Polite meaningless words,
And thought before I had done
Of a mocking tale or a gibe
To please a companion
Around the fire at the club,
Being certain that they and I
But lived where motley is worn:
All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.

That woman's days were spent
In ignorant good-will,
Her nights in argument
Until her voice grew shrill.
What voice more sweet than hers
When, young and beautiful,
She rode to harriers?
This man had kept a school
And rode our winged horse;
This other his helper and friend
Was coming into his force;
He might have won fame in the end,
So sensitive his nature seemed,
So daring and sweet his thought.
This other man I had dreamed
A drunken, vainglorious lout.
He had done most bitter wrong
To some who are near my heart,
Yet I number him in the song;
He, too, has resigned his part
In the casual comedy;
He, too, has been changed in his turn,
Transformed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.

Hearts with one purpose alone
Through summer and winter seem
Enchanted to a stone
To trouble the living stream.
The horse that comes from the road.
The rider, the birds that range
From cloud to tumbling cloud,
Minute by minute they change;
A shadow of cloud on the stream
Changes minute by minute;
A horse-hoof slides on the brim,
And a horse plashes within it;
The long-legged moor-hens dive,
And hens to moor-cocks call;
Minute by minute they live:
The stone's in the midst of all.

Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
O when may it suffice?
That is Heaven's part, our part
To murmur name upon name,
As a mother names her child
When sleep at last has come
On limbs that had run wild.
What is it but nightfall?
No, no, not night but death;
Was it needless death after all?
For England may keep faith
For all that is done and said.
We know their dream; enough
To know they dreamed and are dead;
And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?
I write it out in a verse -
MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.

[Caitlyn]

Thank's Tatty.... I love Yeats.... :)

[nebbit]

Thanks Tatty :)

[Caitlyn]

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. ~ Herb Caen

[7thson]

I was once looking for a way to change my life, instead I found out that I was an ungrateful bitch ~ unknown...from an 80's movie though.????

[Caitlyn]

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

[nebbit]

I like that one Caity :yup:

[Caitlyn]

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. ~ James Bryant Conant

[Caitlyn]

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. ~ Anonymous

[nebbit]

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. ~ Anonymous
Good one :yup:

[Tacitus]

"Lawrie Sanchez. B*stard." - Tacitus, 2007

[nebbit]

:laugh:

[Caitlyn]

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. ~ Anonymous

[Piddzilla]

Welcome to the desert of the real

Jean Baudrillard (1929 - 2007)

and later by Morpheus

[Tacitus]

Mike Leigh, on being asked if it irked him that his films tend to only get broad exposure in 'art house' cinemas:

I am totally frustrated by that. That's never the intention. The idea that a film like this, or any film I have ever made, should be dumped in what are regarded as art house cinemas isn't on. I am not concerned with making esoteric, obscure kinds of films. These are films that can share and talk to anybody about real things.

[Golgot]

'They forget, if ever they knew, how the voracious caterpillars of an obscure moth from the American tropics saved Australia’s pastureland from the overgrowth of cactus, how a Madagascar ‘weed’, the rosy periwinkle, provided the alkaloids that cure most cases of Hodgkin’s disease and acute childhood leukaemia; how another substance from an obscure Norwegian fungus made possible the organ transplant industry; how a chemical from the saliva of leeches yielded a solvent that prevents blood clots during and after surgery; and so on through the pharmacopoeia that has stretched from the herbal medicines of Stone Age shamans to the magic-bullet cures of present-day biomedical science.'

~EO Wilson on the importance of biodiversity (and why we should limit our tendency to destroy it)
[The Creation - p31]

[7thson]

"I might have something profound to say, I just cannot remember what it was."

~me~

[nebbit]

'They forget, if ever they knew, how the voracious caterpillars of an obscure moth from the American tropics saved Australia’s pastureland from the overgrowth of cactus, how a Madagascar ‘weed’, the rosy periwinkle, provided the alkaloids that cure most cases of Hodgkin’s disease and acute childhood leukaemia; how another substance from an obscure Norwegian fungus made possible the organ transplant industry; how a chemical from the saliva of leeches yielded a solvent that prevents blood clots during and after surgery; and so on through the pharmacopoeia that has stretched from the herbal medicines of Stone Age shamans to the magic-bullet cures of present-day biomedical science.'

~EO Wilson on the importance of biodiversity (and why we should limit our tendency to destroy it)
[The Creation - p31]
Gollygosh :kiss: so nice to see you :kiss: I miss you :( :kiss:

[Caitlyn]

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. ~ Frank A. Clark

[7thson]

I think things are like they are now more so than they have ever been before ~ bathroom wall~

[nebbit]

I think things are like they are now more so than they have ever been before ~ bathroom wall~
:goof:

[Caitlyn]

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

[Caitlyn]

The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle. ~ Anonymous

[Munkey]

"They say Diet Dr. Pepper tastes just like regular Dr. Pepper? Well all that means is that they ****ed up! - Mitch Hedberg

[7thson]

" What the Hell!!!!!!!!!!!!! What is that thing on my leg!!!?????? ARGgggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh get it off it is biting me!!!! ....................... I hate the Desert."
A fellow soldier on our first night in Saudi during Desert Storm.

[Caitlyn]

Don't ever cry over something that cannot cry over you. ~ Cheewa James

[Banggagiba]

"Keep smiling, it makes people wonder what you're up to."

[Caitlyn]

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit. ~ R.E. Shay

[nebbit]

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit. ~ R.E. Shay
:laugh:

[draper04]

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Sydney J. Harris

[nebbit]

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

[Raziel1]

Man at his best, is at best just a man.

[Caitlyn]

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)



I've always loved that one.... :yup:

[Caitlyn]

Man at his best, is at best just a man.



Do you know who said that?

[7thson]

If it were not for me, I would not be here....
~ unknown to me.......anybody know who said this?

[draper04]

Aristotle - “Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.”

[Caitlyn]

The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off. ~ Gloria Steinem

[nebbit]

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.:yup:

George Moore

[Caitlyn]

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. ~ Joan Didion

[Banggagiba]

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

[VeronicaJ]

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
aaaah, good one!:up:

[Raziel1]

Do you know who said that?

No, sorry I heard it from an evangelist when I was in church. Just always stuck with me.

[Raziel1]

"Character is easier kept than recovered"

[Caitlyn]

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. ~
Charles Richards

[Caitlyn]

Sometimes the worst answer to your prayer would be to give you that for which you asked. ~
Attributed to Silver Birch

[Banggagiba]

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. - anonymous

[nebbit]

Love that :yup:

[dojo]

"wherever you go, go with all your heart"

[Escape]

"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world." Jean-Luc Godard

[Caitlyn]

How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away. ~ Bill Copeland

[fbi]

"fortune favours the bold".

"truth is stranger than fiction".

"if i had succeeded, i would have become the greatest man that ever lived". Napoleon :king: (dont know if this counts)

[Caitlyn]

He who gives when he is asked has waited too long. ~ Anoymous

[Sedai]

Good one ^^^


"I just keep hoping that one day I will wake up and find out what the hell yesterday was about. I'm not too keen on tommorow, and today's slipping by. " Nikki Grace - INLAND EMPIRE

[nebbit]

Interesting Seds :yup:

[Caitlyn]

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right. ~ William Safire

[VeronicaJ]

What is populair, isn't always right. Was is right isn't always populair - no idea

[diamondgeeza]

“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.”

Bill Shankly

[Powdered Water]

“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.”

Bill Shanklyhttp://www.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/sign/sign0021.gif (http://www.mysmiley.net)

[Golgot]

“If I did use the word meaningful I did not mean it to carry any significance at all, I assure you.”
~Margaret Beckett [politician]

[Caitlyn]

A man who limits his interests, limits his life. ~ Vincent Price

[nebbit]

A man who limits his interests, limits his life. ~ Vincent Price
:yup:

[Sedai]

McClane hit me with this today on IMS. I was roaring...


[17:33] OATroopRep: So yea, I keep replaying last night through my head. Over and over and over and over. :/
[17:34] OATroopRep: =?
[17:34] OATroopRep: =?
[17:34] OATroopRep: crap!
[17:34] OATroopRep: =/
[17:34] OATroopRep: There we go. lol

[Caitlyn]

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold

[fbuenanry]

"Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember." - unknown

[Caitlyn]

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. ~ Ambrose Redmoon

[7thson]

I once thought about the offspring of an otter and a duck billed platypus, It felt like an oar and a spatula either way it cannot be good.

~ me

[nebbit]

I once thought about the offspring of an otter and a duck billed platypus, I felt like an oar and a spatula either way it cannot be good.

~ me
:laugh: :goof: :laugh:

[Caitlyn]

When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you've got plenty to watch. ~ Anonymous

[nebbit]

When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you've got plenty to watch. ~ Anonymous
:yup:

[zero_digit]

What Failure Truly Means

Failure doesn't mean that you are failure,
It just mean you have not yet succeeded.

Failure doesn't mean you have accomplished nothing,
It just mean you have learned something.

Failure doesn't mean you have been a fool,
It just mean you had enough faith to experiment.

Failure doesn't mean you have been disgraced,
It just mean you have dared to try.

Failure doesn't mean you don't have it,
It just mean you have something to do in a different way.

Failure doesn't mean you are inferior,
It just mean you am not perfect.

Failure doesn't mean you have wasted my life,
It just mean that you have an opportunity to start over.

Failure doesn't mean that you should give up,
It just mean that you should try harder.

Failure doesn't mean that you will never make it,
It just mean that you need more practice.

~ author unknown

[nebbit]

Good one :up:
I have printed it out so i can use it at work Thanks :)

[Prospero]

If at first you don't succeed, lower your expectations. :D

[Caitlyn]

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. ~ Mary Pickford

[VeronicaJ]

Knowing your boundaries limits you less, than not knowing them at all - Moi

[Caitlyn]

Look back not in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. ~ James Thurber

[7thson]

Given the gravity of any situation one should be thankful that they are on the Earth and not Jupiter.

The grass may be greener on the other side, but thats because the other side is built on top of sewage.

If I had the choice of going over Niagara Falls in a bucket or a large aquarium, I would pick the glass cube, because on my way out I want to see everything and everyone that I love looking at me wondering wth I am doing.

[zero_digit]

Miles Logan (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001454/): No, I'm over your head, because your head's up your ass.

- Blue Streak

[fbuenanry]

"The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive." - John Sladek

[Caitlyn]

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together. ~ Carl Zwanzig

[thebest]

My dad after seeing the trailer for 1-18-08:

"What's it called?"

[Tacitus]

My wife was like a fine wine

I had to keep her locked in a cellar...

Me, 2007

[Mrs. Darcy]

"A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Mrs. Darcy]

"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd."

Bertrand Russell

[Memnon]

Money - the root of all evil... and the tree of life (I've said that one for a long time, but can't remember if I heard it somewhere else first)

Hey, hey, hey. Don't be mean. We don't have to be mean because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are. (Buckaroo Banzai)

[Caitlyn]

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. ~ Will Rogers

[Slug]

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/p/phyllisdil400596.html)

[Misterking]

Well I don't give a sh*t who said what, who did what and who did who. ~ Big George

[Memnon]

I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "I drank what?"

Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?

- Val Kilmer as Chris Knight in Real Genius

[MarKus]

Do not allow yesterday's success to lull you into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure. - Og Mandino

[Tacitus]

In celluloid we trust. - Werner Herzog. The White Diamond (2004)

Amen.

[Mrs. Darcy]

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
George Carlin (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/georgecarl383028.html)

[Mrs. Darcy]

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks

[Caitlyn]

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. ~ G.K. Chesterton

[Tatanka]

"The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose- but the fly comes close." - Mark Twain

[Mrs. Darcy]

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

Margaret Laurence

[FranzPatrick]

I got this off a friend's profile:

You're stupid! TV is not real life... except for reality TV!

[MarKus]

Bad habits must be destroyed and new furrows prepared for good seed. - Og Mandino

[Memnon]

ughhh.. arrgg... ooo ooo... hoooo... - prehistoric man

ok, that was silly... I'll come up with a real one...


"I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that" - HAL

[Caitlyn]

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~ Voltaire

[7thson]

The smartest thing anyone has ever said was: Who put this colon in front of my quote?

[Golgot]

“Do not do unto others that which is repugnant to you. Everything else is commentary.”
~Rabbi Hillel's 'standing on one foot' summary of the Torah


“Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.”
~David Sloan Wilson & Edward O Wilson's 'standing on one foot' summary of 'non-selfish selection'

[mark f]

"Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed". - Mark Twain

"Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect." - Mark Twain

[Mrs. Darcy]

"If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth."

Mitsugi Saotome

[Caitlyn]

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
~ Leo Aikman

[Mrs. Darcy]

Never a truer statement than that.

[Mrs. Darcy]

"Humor is a universal language."



Joel Goodman

[fbuenanry]

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain

[Mrs. Darcy]

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."


Sir Winston Churchill

[Caitlyn]

I love Thanksgiving turkey. It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts. ~
Arnold Schwarzenegger

[nebbit]

I love Thanksgiving turkey. It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts. ~
Arnold Schwarzenegger
:laugh:

[Caitlyn]

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words,
but to live by them. ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy

[nebbit]

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words,
but to live by them. ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
:yup:

[Mrs. Darcy]

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

-Melody Beattie

[Tacitus]

Uberfuhrer of Norn Iron football commentary Jackie Fullerton speaking about a player's mistake during last night's glorious failure by the men in green against the Spanish last night:

Senna (the player in question) was a little lax there!

Think about it. ;)

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/greenspagbol/8.jpg

He's a National treasure. :D

[Caitlyn]

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. ~ Mother Teresa

[VeronicaJ]

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life" My big friend Charles Darwin

[fbuenanry]

"If you are trapped between your feelings and what other people think is right, always go for whatever makes you happy.
Unless you want everybody to be happy for you except you being happy for yourself."

[Mrs. Darcy]

I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward.

-Firdtjof Nansen

[fbuenanry]

"You will never realize how much you care about a person until the thought of him/her being with someone else is enough to break your heart.."

[Tacitus]

After yesterday's self-pitying nonsense I got an email from one of my oldest friends, who's not been too well. Part of it went like this:

I also remember that tasty little Newcastle redhead when we went to see Spring Awakening in Manchester. In retrospect, I spent 3 years watching you copping off with girls I would have given my right arm to ****. you bastard.

This might not matter a tinker's cuss to the greater MoFo populace but it tickled me and brought the old Tatty self esteem back.

In case you're wondering, the answer is 'yes'. And 'yes'. :blush:

But it didn't work out...and I got engaged soon after. Thus ended my philandering ways.

Mostly. :D

[fbuenanry]

"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything." - Sydney Smith

[Mrs. Darcy]

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.


-Allan K. Chalmers

[mark f]

Homer: "Every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff outta my brain. Remember when I took that wine tasting lesson and I forgot how to drive?"
Marge: "You were drunk!"
Homer: "And how..."

[7thson]

I am aka Me....deny that logic Bitch! ~ not sure who said this, but it was funny at the time.

[fbuenanry]

"my world would not be complete without you."

[Caitlyn]

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. ~ Roy L. Smith

[Mrs. Darcy]

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
Charlotte, "Charlotte's Web" - E.B. White

[Tacitus]

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.Charlotte, "Charlotte's Web" - E.B. White

That nearly made me cry. :)

Charlotte's Web is the favourite book of someone very close to me and I've read it to her countless times.

[Mrs. Darcy]

"The world breaks us all. Afterward, some are stronger at the broken places."


Ernest Hemingway- Farewell To Arms

[Lockheed Martin]

H. L. Mencken - "Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

[Caitlyn]

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. ~ Janet Lane

[fbuenanry]

"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything." - Sydney Smith

[Mrs. Darcy]

"Beauty is whatever gives joy."


-Edna St. Vincent Millay

[Tatanka]

"I'd rather be a little thing climbing up than a big thing tumbling down."
-old Sunday School song

[Mrs. Darcy]

"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room.

"Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"

"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but Really loves you, then you become Real."

"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.

"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."

"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"

"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get all loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

The Velveteen Rabbit~Margery Williams

[nebbit]

awwww :)

[Mrs. Darcy]

No kind action ever stops with itself. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

-Amelia Earhart

[Caitlyn]

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?" ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Mrs. Darcy]

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.

~Peyton Conway March

[Caitlyn]

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
~ Larry Wilde

[Prospero]

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.

~Peyton Conway MarchReminds me of the saying "Respect is something you have to give in order to receive."

[pokerman]

if everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough

[Prospero]

"I am sorry, Boy" said the tree, but I have nothing left to give you - my apples are gone."

"My teeth are too weak for apples," said the boy.

"My branches are gone," said the tree. "You cannot swing on them-"

"I am too old to swing on branches," said the boy.

"My trunk is gone," said the tree. "You cannot climb-"

"I am too tired to climb," said the boy.

"I am sorry," sighed the tree. "I wish that I could give you something...but I am just an old stump. I am sorry."

"I don't need very much now," said the boy, "just a quiet place to sit and rest. I am very tired."

"Well," said the tree, straightening herself up as much as she could, "well am old stump is good for sitting and resting. Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest."

And the boy did.

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

[Yoda]

if everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough
Mario Andretti. :)

[Tatanka]

http://loganberrybooks.com/most-soule.jpg

Not really a quote, but wise words nonetheless.

[Mrs. Darcy]

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,
Therefore, we are saved by hope.
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
Therefore, we are saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.

~Reinhold Niebuhr

[Godoggo]

. . .suffering has been stronger than all other
teaching, and has taught me to understand what
your heart used to be. I have been bent and
broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."

-Charles Dickens-Great Expectations

[mark f]

"From the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick to receive the candle. But man is only briefly competent:...After fifty his performance is of poor quality; the intervals between are wide, and its satisfactions of no great quality to either party; whereas his great-grandmother is as good as new."
-Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth

[Holden Pike]

"She was a blond. A Blond to make a Bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window."
- Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:PSx14oDJ3HUVcM:http://www.tbpcontrol.co.uk/TWS/CoverImages_TBP/014/010/0140108920.jpg http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:QVjAeGFE8y4SSM:http://bkmarcus.com/blog/images/heads/Chandler.jpg

[Prospero]

To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.

~Bessie Stanley~
(sometimes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson)

[Mrs. Darcy]

"It is never right to do wrong. It is never wrong to do right."


~Robert Flatt