Found any quotes you think should be shared?
I'll start...
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"By all means get married! If you find a good wife, you'll be very happy. If you find a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." - Aristotle
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato
"I yam what I yam and tha's all what I yam." -- Popeye the Sailor
Quote from: Flangepart on August 28, 2013, 12:51:54 PM
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All right, you win. You win. I give. I'll say it. I'll say it. I'll say it.
DESTINY! DESTINY! NO ESCAPING THAT FOR ME! DESTINY! DESTINY! NO ESCAPING THAT FOR ME!
~Dr. Frederick Frankenstein
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Anon.
Quote from: indianasmith on August 28, 2013, 06:15:09 PM
"By all means get married! If you find a good wife, you'll be very happy. If you find a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." - Aristotle
Which explains why I'm always on the philosophical lecture circuit, :bouncegiggle:
"When the game is over, the king and pawn go back in the same box"..
Unknown
"I once cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. Then I just took his shoes - it wasn't like he was going to be needing them." - Jack Handy
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend once, but she left me before we met." - Stephen Wright
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"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation." - George Bernard Shaw
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"This Is about who we are. We are the United States of America." amazing orator John Kerry today
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What an odd hallucination.
But the human mind is often inflamed with strange complexes.
I suggest you consult your physician
~Count Dracula
He who ascends the throne is still obliged to sit upon his own @$$ - Ben Franklin
"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and not tried." - G. K. Chesterton
Quote from: VenomX73 on August 28, 2013, 09:45:55 PM
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All right, you win. You win. I give. I'll say it. I'll say it. I'll say it.
DESTINY! DESTINY! NO ESCAPING THAT FOR ME! DESTINY! DESTINY! NO ESCAPING THAT FOR ME!
~Dr. Frederick Frankenstein
TERI GARR: "Why look! You haven't even touched your food...!!
GENE WILDER: "There. Now I've touched it.
Happy??!"
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"The worst vice in political discussions is that dogmatism which takes its stand on great principles or assumptions, instead of standing on an exact examination of things as they are and human nature as it is....An ideal is formed of some higher or better form of things than now exists, and almost unconsciously the ideal is assumed as already existing and made the basis of speculations which have no root.
The whole method of abstract speculation on political topics is vicious. It is popular because it is easy; it is easier to imagine a new world than to learn to know this one; it is easier to embark upon speculation based on a few broad assumptions, than it is to study the history of states and institutions; it is easier to catch up a popular dogma than it is to analyze it to see whether it is true or not. All this leads to confusion, to the admission of phrases and platitudes, to much dispute but little gain in the prosperity of nations."
William Graham Sumner, "Democracy and Responsible Government".
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If I had a nickel for every time I said, "If I had a nickel...", I'd be 10 cents richer now. --Me
"If you fall, I'll be there."
--the ground
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"How should I prepare? Should I jump off the tallest building in the world? Should I lie on the lawn and let them run over me with lawnmowers? Or, should I go to Africa and let them trample me with raging elephants?"
~Ultimate Warrior
"The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets." - Steve Valentine
"When the sea is calm, all ships alike show mastery in sailing."
---William Shakespeare
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~Bruce Lee
Somewhere, lost children are driven to the edge;
Can we not be the hand that leads them to safety?
Somewhere, the predators tear the spirits of their victims;
Can we not be the hand that strikes them down?
-Oath, Legion of Night.
"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway."
The Duke.
"that's what" she said
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"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"If at the end of your life's journey, you find that you have made some enemies - congratulations! It means that, at some point, you stood for something."
-Winston Churchill
Good one, Indy! :thumbup:
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S. Thompson
"In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity." - Ambrose Bierce
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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The comedy of man survives the tragedy of men."
---G.K. Chesterton
Quote from: Green on September 06, 2013, 09:26:41 AM
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like this one. a lot.
edit, found some more by this guy here (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/ralph_waldo_emerson.html). good stuff
Quote from: zombie #1 on September 06, 2013, 11:16:33 AM
I like this one. a lot. edit, found some more by this guy here (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/ralph_waldo_emerson.html). good stuff
From that link:
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Hah, not bad.
"Fairy tales do not teach children that dragons are real. Children already know that. What fairy tales teach is that dragons can be slain." - G.K. Chesterton
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"How absurd, said the gnat to the gnu, To spell your queer name as you do! For the matter of that, Said the gnu to the gnat, That's just as I feel about you." - Oliver Herford
"I like you just the way you are." - Fred Rogers
It's never too late to have a happy childhood. -- Berkely Breathed
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"Once more unto the breach, dear friends!" - Shakespeare, HENRY V
"Well, would it be any different if I said, 'Get to Heaven out of my room'?"
---Dennis the Menace
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Murdock........................... I'm coming to get you!
~Rambo
"Pain is temporary, All wounds heal, and chicks dig scars." - Josiah Hayre (a former student of mine, now deceased)
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And I question The Rev's drinking glass. Is it really that clean?
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"Hey, nice hat! Where'd you get that, at a soup kitchen? Oh, but it looks good on you." (grimaces)
--Rodney Dangerfield, to Ted Knight, in Caddyshack
~and~
Rodney: "Hey, cutie! How old are you?" (to little girl)
Little girl: "THIS much!" (holds up five fingers)
Rodney: "Yeah? Well, call me when you're THIS much!" (holds up 10 fingers twice)
--Rodney Dangerfield, from Easy Money
also from Easy Money:
Rodney (to mother-in-law): You were the inspiration for twin beds!
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That should be "friends."
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently. - Harry A. Blackmun quotes (American Supreme Court justice, 1908-1999)
What an odd truth.
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Overheard at our school's fall festival, from one elementary kid to another:
"You can't just live a life of crime in the bathroom!"
(Obviously, they don't know my friend Trevor! :teddyr:)
Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions. - Woody Allen
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Quote from: Flangepart on September 24, 2013, 10:53:45 AM
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Just as Thomas Jefferson said that "Eternal Vigilance Is The Price Of Liberty."
(Actually it was said by John Philpot Curran in 1790, but Jefferson seems to always get the credit for it. No matter, the words ring true. :cheers:
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. - Oscar Wilde
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. - Robert A. Heinlein
"Talent recognizes genius, mediocrity recognizes only itself."
---Oscar Wilde
One of my former students posted this on his FB:
"I threw a boomerang a couple of years ago and it never came back. Now I live in constant fear."
I know my career is going badly because I'm being quoted correctly.- Lee Marvin.
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I have two acting styles: with and without a horse.- Robert Mitchum
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"The trouble with socialism is you eventually run out of other people's money."
---Margaret Thatcher
"The problem with liberals is not that they are ignorant. The problem is they know so much that just isn't so." - Ronald Reagan
The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.
Tom Clancy
"It ain't easy being Cheesy"
-Mr. DS
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
Julius Caesar
"The point of the convoy is to keep the convoy going" -Kris Kristofferson "Convoy" 1978
"Not that I support fascism, or any other -ism, for that matter. -Isms in my opinion are not good."
Ferris Bueller
"A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic."
--Carl Sagan
"If a man has a garden and a library, he has enough." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Boingy! Boingy! Boingy!"
---The animaniacs
"Let me give back some of the liberties I have taken from the people," said NO GOVERNMENT EVER.
Quote from: indianasmith on October 05, 2013, 12:19:40 AM
"Let me give back some of the liberties I have taken from the people," said NO GOVERNMENT EVER.
Not even the Canadians?
"This Government shutdown, at its core, is about egos getting in the way of logic"- Me.
Quote from: indianasmith on October 05, 2013, 12:19:40 AM
"Let me give back some of the liberties I have taken from the people," said NO GOVERNMENT EVER.
The US government gave slaves liberty they had taken from them.
Many state governments have restored people's right to use marijuana.
It's rare, though.
The U.S. government did not take liberty from the slaves . . . they were enslaved long before American independence was thought of. Good point, though.
Prohibition comes to mind. There might be one or two to be found in a list of repealed legislation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:United_States_repealed_legislation (//http://)
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It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong. - G. K. Chesterton
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits. - G.K Chesterton
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"Confess to your crimes, stale end piece of white bread!"
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If there were no rewards to reap, no loving embrace to see me through this tedious path I've chosen here, I certainly would've walked away by now. - Maynard
"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like."--Lemony Snicket
"Be more afraid of Irish wile than Irish war; Irish friendship than Irish fire; Irish honey than Irish hemlock; Irish shrewdness than Irish soldiery; Irish betrayals than Irish battles; Irish friendship than Irish enmity."
---Gerald of Wales, 12th century
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"One should avoid having the Italians as either enemies or allies. They are equally treacherous in either capacity." - Otto von Bismarck
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Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species - Konrad Lorenz
Beware of South Africans bearing clean underpants. ;)
Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because really, who's gonna wanna work? - Jon Stewart
*I'm misunderstanding this quote, because Jon Stewart's heart is clearly a tune of crimson, so there is no way this means what I think it does.
"Be true. You will not fail, however he may assail you. There is also love in the world." - Stephen R. Donaldson
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Physicist Richard Feynman meet a Buddhist monk that told him
To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx.
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"Have you heard about McDonald's Obama Value Meal? You order what you want and the guy in line behind you has to pay for it."
---attributed to Conan O'Brien
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You know what your problem is? Chastity Pariah.
~ Bob Redding, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)
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"Women are not 'simple.' Women are a Jenga tower balanced on a Rubik's Cube wrapped in a jigsaw puzzle, then duct taped to the back of a terrorist who is shouting at you in a foreign language!"
- from FAILBOOK.com
"If you men only knew..."
---Alice Harford
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"Failure to forgive those who hurt us is like swallowing poison and expecting someone else to die."
Quote from: indianasmith on November 26, 2013, 03:17:07 PM
"Failure to forgive those who hurt us is like swallowing poison and expecting someone else to die."
Very good quote.
And I would SO watch it, Hitch...
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I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.
----Stephen Hawking, when asked what his IQ was.
Quote from: ChaosTheory on December 04, 2013, 03:34:37 PM
I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.
----Stephen Hawking, when asked what his IQ was.
"I ain't never been to college, got the IQ of a Rhodes Scholar..."
--Kanye West
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I am not actually sure who said the following first (Benedetto Croce, Shaw, or Theodor Fontane), but my dad told me this as a kid and it got me thinking quite a lot.
"Anyone, who is not a communist in their 20s, has no heart.
Anyone, who is still a communist in their 30s, has no brain."
I believe it is a variation on Winston Churchill:
"Any young man who is not a liberal has no heart;
Any old man who is not a conservative has no brain."
Another slight variation on that:
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"Bacon is proof that God loves us."
---Anonymous
Quote from: ER on December 10, 2013, 01:40:02 PM
"Bacon is proof that God loves us."
---Anonymous
I think that's a variation on "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy," which is a common misquote of a Benjamin Franklin saying: "Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy. "
From one of my students a couple years back (to another)
"I'm going to punch you so hard it'll drive your nose deep into your brain and you can finally smell just how stupid you really are!"
BEST PUT-DOWN EVER!!!!
"There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. The choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there."
---Tyrion Lannister (George R.R. Martin)
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Respect all men, but grovel to none.
--Chief Tecumseh
"You can teach a cat to do anything it wants to do."
---Unknown (I find Unknown to be a very quotable person, by the way...)
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, race or creed.
--Bertrand Russell
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"How fortunate for leaders that men do not think."
---Adolf Hitler
"If one day speed kills me, don't cry because I was smiling" - Paul Walker
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"Time destroys the speculations of man, but confirms the rule of nature."
---Cicero
"I had weed when I was preparing for my speech and everything went into place"
-A former classmate of mine in my World History class
"Frisbeetarian is the religions which believes that, when you die, your soul lands on the roof and gets stuck."
- George Carlin
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We could be heroes just for one day.~David Bowie
Wait till I really let Titanosaurus loose! ~ Dr. Shinzo Mafune
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It doesn't count as bringing Jesus Christ to someone if all they do is scream his name while you chase them.
---Seanbaby
"The most effective argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter!" Winston Churchill
"A best friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have."
--Erma Bombeck
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io9.com recently had an article about writers giving advice. It had some good quotes.
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Some of the ones I really like.
"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." - Linus Pauling
"Begin with an individual, and before you know it you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find you have created – nothing." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
. "There are three rules for writing. Unfortunately, no one can agree what they are." - Somerset Maugham
"Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different." - John Scalzi
What I like about the last two is that they don't really just relate to writing. Replace writing with, well just about anything and they still apply.
"Dear, Math, please start solving your own problems."
---Unknown (but wise)
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."~Dr. Seuss
"Forsooth but it bee-eth very hotteth todayth." - me :hot:
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Y'know, I'm no fan of Ethan Hawke, but that's always been my approach to movie-watching.
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"Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get." - Mark Twain
"I know a guy who has kleptomania. When it gets bad he takes something."
--Groucho Marx
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"But other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?"
---Some jerk
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"To be ignorant of one's past is to perpetually remain a child." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"We've come to realize; we've been made to realize . . . that who we are is who we were."
- Sir Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams in AMISTAD
"February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned."
---Hunter S. Thompson (an optimist)
"Democracy lasts until the unworthy learn that they can vote themselves the keys to the treasury."
---Someone wise
(Although I think the quote would work better if the sentence stopped at the word "vote.")
I believe Plato wrote that.
"We avoid risks so we can make it safely to death."
---Unknown
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"I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace." - Abraham Lincoln
Beauty and the Beast. Why did we need this movie 34 times? Well, the moral of the story is that women can see the good in an ugly man's heart and fall in love. But the other side of that coin, ugly ladies, is that even an actual donkey monster can do better than you. That's a truly insane moral to get pounded into our brains by so many different movies. My theory is that a vast conspiracy of ugly men control everything, and the fact that I have no proof can only mean I'm far too handsome to be let in on it.
---Seanbaby
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"When it comes to the past, we all write fiction." - Stephen King
"All we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
--Edgar Allan Poe
There is nothing in the world more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
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"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
"I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid."
"All I need is room enough to lay a hat, and a few friends."
"I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem."
"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at who he gave it to."
"I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host."
---All by Dorothy Parker
Heck, you could have a whole thread just for Dorothy Parker quotes.
From a book review: "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
Clare Booth Luce- "Age before beauty."
D. Parker- "Pearls before swine."
"If a man doth not haveth any clean under garments left, he doth useth what he hath till they falleth aparth." :wink:
- Trevor T. Moses. :wink:
"No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out."
― Bohumil Hrabal
"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
---Isaac Asimov
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The thing about the stupid is that they think they're just like you and me.
---Seanbaby
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Today a baker's dozen by Oscar Wilde, the greatest wit Ireland ever produced...and therefore which the world ever produced!
"Work is the curse of the drinking class."
"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
"Biography lends to death new terror."
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable we have to alter it every six months."
"I am not young enough to know everything."
"I hate when everyone agrees with me, for then I must consider that I may be wrong."
"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."
"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
"I can resist anything except temptation."
"Experience is the name best given to mistakes."
"We are all of us lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
"To get back my youth I would do anything except take up exercise, get up early, or be respectable."
"Either that wallpaper or I has to go." (Nearly his last words as he lay dying in a cheap Paris hotel.)
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"A woman without a pistol is like a pistol without a trigger."
---My friend misquoting Victor Hugo
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True words indeed. :smile:
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"Never fail to note that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody."
---Helen Gurley Brown
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I had to imdb Thewlis b/c I wasn't sure which movie he meant, and I'm still not sure. TIMELINE? DRAGONHEART? 7 YEARS IN TIBET? oh well....
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HAaaaa?...
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Words to live by. :teddyr:
". . . reason accepts no authority above itself and is necessarily subversive."---Allan Bloom
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Words of wisdom from Brother Crow :wink:
"Music is a time machine for the soul." - Random YouTube Comment
"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man."--Springfield town motto
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A quote from one of the greatest soccer managers ever - next to Sir Alex Ferguson and Sir Matt Busby of course. :smile:
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The author's name is Brooke McEldowney, BTW. I looked him up; he's got some nice stuff.
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Comic book geeks are normally solitary, but engage in very noisy arguments when gathered in numbers. These are usually based on the most recent superhero movie, and in which direction it sucked. This sucking is always measured in direct relation to the number of continuity problems between it and old issues of The Incredible Hulk, which was probably about The Hulk fighting circus performers with Hostess fruit pies and then dying six times. Safety Tip: If a nearby comic book geek isn't loudly complaining about something, check carefully-- you might have blacked out and rage-killed it. And I think you're infected, because that's exactly what The Incredible Hulk would do.
---Seanbaby
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Bill Watterson, aka the Anti-McEldowney
"Nothing is impossible to one who refuses to listen to reason!" - John Belushi
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"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by a***oles."
---William Gibson
"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."
- Elbert Hubbard
"A man who cannot keep his wedding vows is unlikely to keep any other vow he makes." - Harry S Truman
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An even dozen by G.K. Chesterton, that great apostle of common sense (an uncommon quality, by the way):
"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."
"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead."
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried."
"Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite...The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head."
"Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it."
"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude."
"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."
"One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak."
"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."
"It is only when one is afraid that one can be brave."
"A loving God is a master suffering instead of the servants."
Quote from: ER on May 02, 2014, 12:09:41 PM
An even dozen by G.K. Chesterton, that great apostle of common sense (an uncommon quality, by the way):
"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."
"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead."
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried."
"Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite...The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head."
"Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it."
"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude."
"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."
"One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak."
"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."
"It is only when one is afraid that one can be brave."
"A loving God is a master suffering instead of the servants."
And one more for the baker's dozen:
"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece."
"One out of three American married couples is entirely platonic. And when husbands and wives do actually have sex, it lasts on average statistically for seven-and-a-half minutes, and that includes the time the husband spends begging." – Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
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"When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour."
Revelation 8:1
something about that line is so random
Some would say that proves there will be no women in heaven . . . :teddyr:
Quote from: indianasmith on May 08, 2014, 10:26:34 PM
Some would say that proves there will be no women in heaven . . . :teddyr:
Two responses...
1: Christ is the 'Lamb' of God, so he gets to open the 'sealed orders' that direct his return to earth, to correct the failure of human rule...the half hour being a pause to let the moment sink in, be my guess...
2: Indy has just ticked off his wife, if she reads this, and he's toast.
Correct on both counts . . . or you would be, if my wife ever read this forum!!! :teddyr:
Hey, Indy. What's your wife's email address? :twirl:
"The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past, while every sinner has a future."
---Oscar Wilde
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What a cheerful human being! I bet he was a blast at parties!!
"It is better to marry someone who loves you than to marry someone you love."
---Ancient Chinese Proverb
I made that based on a quote from this old shock cinema magazine. He was talking about what drew him to the story behind 40 deuce, a trashy film he eventually made
"Mothers are all slightly insane."
---J.D. Salinger
On disk 4 of the biography of Jim Henson. What a life! Sooooo...
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"I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice." - Abraham Lincoln
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"We are taxed in our bread and wine, in our income and our investments, on our land and property, not only for base creatures who do not deserve the name of men, but for foreign nations who bow to us and accept our largesse, and promise to assist in keeping the power. These mendicant nations who will destroy us when we show a moment of weakness or when our treasury is bare---and surely it is becoming bare---were they bound to us by ties of love they would not ask for our gold. They hate and despise us, and who shall say we are worthy of more?"
---Marcus Tullius Cicero, ca 46 BC
Look to the past for the key to the future.
Cicero said a lot of epic stuff which is still relevant to today's world
Yeah, but what did it get him? His head cut off and his hands nailed to the Senate doors!
We were discussing Peter Jackson's HOBBIT movies on FaceBook, and when I said I was reserving judgment on the series till I had seen the last movie, one of my former students replied thus:
"What judgement is there to reserve? Peter Jackson drove to the store, rented The Phantom Menace, watched it very closely, fell in love, tried to propose to it, realized it was a movie, went to work, and then proceeded to honor his new found lover by ruining the Hobbit. He Lucased this. I think I would prefer to set my own eyes ablaze than see Radagast the Brown driving a bunny sled or see new elven characters whisper sweet nothings into the ears of dwarves again. Judgement delivered: Peter Jackson has committed unforgivable cinematic sins against God, man, and Tolkien and therefore must face eternal damnation (which is in this case me not seeing the third in this trilogy)."
His awesome old b-movies might not forgive him, I enjoyed them but not as much as LOTR from a totally "let's watch some things blow up" perspective.
Quote from: indianasmith on May 22, 2014, 05:09:17 PM
We were discussing Peter Jackson's HOBBIT movies on FaceBook, and when I said I was reserving judgment on the series till I had seen the last movie, one of my former students replied thus:
"What judgement is there to reserve? Peter Jackson drove to the store, rented The Phantom Menace, watched it very closely, fell in love, tried to propose to it, realized it was a movie, went to work, and then proceeded to honor his new found lover by ruining the Hobbit. He Lucased this. I think I would prefer to set my own eyes ablaze than see Radagast the Brown driving a bunny sled or see new elven characters whisper sweet nothings into the ears of dwarves again. Judgement delivered: Peter Jackson has committed unforgivable cinematic sins against God, man, and Tolkien and therefore must face eternal damnation (which is in this case me not seeing the third in this trilogy)."
That was SO funny! Indy, I hope you gave the lad an A+. No doubt a future Supreme Court judge or owner of a Dunkin' Donuts. Peter Jackson should be tarred 'n feathered and run back to New Zealand on a rail. I liked LOTR a decade ago but the man all but raped Tolkien's ghost with this bloated trilogy that left me embarrassed for everyone concerned. On the subject, did you guys catch Viggo Mortensen's slam of Jackson in EW? I agreed with every word. Maybe some of us will live long enough to see a truer version of
The Hobbit done on virtu-scope or whatever movies are shot on by then. I still haven't watched the second Hobbit installment because the first one was an offense when more worthy flicks like
Test Pattern II: The Seizure Zone were out there instead. Heck, you can read the novel in less time than it takes to sit through one of those alleged Hobbit films. The student who wrote that comment was spot-on!
The first film really didn't bother me nearly as much - most of the added storyline was actually take from Tolkien's work, other than the "Pale Orc" plotline. But the second film . . . good grief!!! :buggedout:
Quote from: indianasmith on May 22, 2014, 10:40:36 PM
The first film really didn't bother me nearly as much - most of the added storyline was actually take from Tolkien's work, other than the "Pale Orc" plotline. But the second film . . . good grief!!! :buggedout:
O-kay...haven't missed anything. Sad to say it, but there it be, lurking by the dark waters below the mountains, grabbing any literary fish that swims too close.
"The sea has never been friendly to man.
At most it has been the
accomplice of human restlessness."
---Joseph Conrad
"A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject, short enough to create interest."
---Winston Churchill
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"Of course we can talk about honor, truth, all these things. These esoteric terms. But I think they'd all be covered very well If what we really observed was what we observed. That we took care to observe what we were observing. That we always observed to observe."
---L. Ron Hubbard
Um, yeah...
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"A man who won't believe in God will believe in anything."
G.K. Chesterton
"I don't understand how a cemetery can raise its burial fees and blame it on the cost of living."
---Groucho Marx
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"Wouldn't it be terrible if you'd spent your whole life doing everything you were supposed to do, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't eat things, took lots of exercise, all the things you didn't want to do, and suddenly one day you were run over by a big red bus, and as the wheels were crunching into you you'd say, 'Oh my God, I could have got so drunk last night!' That's the way you should live your life, as if tomorrow you'll be run over by a big red bus."
---Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
(no, seriously, she said that)
And if she didn't she should have!
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"Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town."
---Steve Martin
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"It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no on else will speak."
---Neil Gaiman
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"From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away."
― Raymond Chandler
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"I hit a casket with a puppet stage; What am I doing here?"
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"When you take a gallon of knowledge, & try & pour it into a shotglass of a brain, you're going to spill something."
"If by chance you bear a child, if it is a boy, let it be, if it is a girl, cast it out [to die] " Hilarion to his sister Alis 1 BC
http://www.attalus.org/docs/select1/p105.html (http://www.attalus.org/docs/select1/p105.html)
Michael Crichton > Quotes > Quotable Quote
Michael Crichton
"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."
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And alien tears will fill for him
Pity's long-broken urn,
For his mourners will be outcast men,
And outcasts always mourn.
Engraved on Oscar Wilde's tomb.
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"You know how dumb the average person is? Well, by definition, half of 'em are even dumber than THAT."--J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
"There is nothing than can get me into trouble that can actually get me into trouble." - Nassim Taleb math/ economics guy
"Celebrities [are] being treated like blacks were in the '60s, having no rights..."-Kanye West
Just when I thought my respect for Kaney could not be more non-existent . . .
"Abandon hopelessness, all ye who enter here!"
--Sign above G.K. Chesterton's study.
'Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative."
---John Lydon
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"If you would go fast, go alone. If you would go far, go together." - African Proverb
"The course of true love never did run smooth."
--William Shakespeare
"If you give votes to the people who own no property, they will sell them to the rich who are able to buy them." - Governeur Morris, principle author of the final draft of the U.S. Constitution
"Existence is.. well.. what does it matter? I exist on the best terms I can. The past is now part of my future. The present is well out of hand."
---Ian Curtis
from "Heart and Soul"
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"Jesus loves me when I doubt, even when I shut him out.
He who saved us on the cross, will not let his lamb stay lost."
I composed this new verse to a very old Sunday School song on the way home from church Wednesday night.
"You're not really drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."- sign high up on the archaeology lab wall. I'll credit John the lab tech. Who brought the single malt scotch and the tequila to the field school. :cheers:
Quote from: Newt on August 24, 2014, 07:19:16 AM
"You're not really drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."- sign high up on the archaeology lab wall. I'll credit John the lab tech. Who brought the single malt scotch and the tequila to the field school. :cheers:
On the wall, not the ceiling? Odd that.
Can't help thinking it's easier to grab a floor with carpeting than linolium.
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"Fridays are the gravy on the eggplant of the soul." - Me
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"Worry about toxic waste. Worry about the fact most of our country's kids aren't being educated anymore. Worry about some terrorist in the Middle East who wants to come blow you up. But don't get hysterical just because somebody uses a word you don't like."
---Joan Rivers
Quote from: ER on September 04, 2014, 09:53:35 PM
"Worry about toxic waste. Worry about the fact most of our country's kids aren't being educated anymore. Worry about some terrorist in the Middle East who wants to come blow you up. But don't get hysterical just because somebody uses a word you don't like."
---Joan Rivers
Amen, Sister.
"I feel about ants the same way I feel about gray hair. If you think you're going to come in here and set up shop, it's going to be a bloody battle."
---Liz Phair
"Regular naps prevent old age. Especially if you nap while driving."
---Some person.
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The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure than in inventing new ways to make each other miserable."
— Emil Cioran
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"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away".
Philip K. Dick
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"After all, what is a single generation?"
"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths are a statistic."
- Josef Stalin
"Ouch." -- E.T.
You cannnot give or recieve with a fist.
Bela Lugosi
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"Holding onto anger is like swallowing poison and expecting another person to die."
--Attributed to Buddha
(Said that to my cousin tonight.)
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"We wouldn't mind the sun, if it didn't set."
--Emily Dickinson
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Dum spiro, spero.
(While I live, I hope.)
---Traditional Roman saying, and a good one.
"You'll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do."--David Foster Wallace
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Well...someone said it, so I'll call it a quote.
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One without honor...
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Two about honor.
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:smile:
For RC...
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"A fool and his money are soon elected."
--Will Rogers
This post reminded me of a passage from a Theodore Dalrymple column. The column itself deals with the subject of collectivism vs. individualism, and he briefly notes the demise of eccentricity in Britain:
"The British are sadly changed from Hayek's description of them. A sense of irony is the first victim of utopian dreams. The British tolerance of eccentricity has also evaporated; uniformity is what they want now, and are prepared informally to impose. They tolerate no deviation in taste or appearance from themselves: and certainly in the lower reaches of society, people who are markedly different, either in appearance because of the vagaries of nature, or in behavior because of an unusual taste they may have, especially for cultivation, meet with merciless ridicule, bullying, and even physical attack. It is as if people believed that uniformity of appearance, taste, and behavior were a justification of their own lives, and any deviation an implied reproach or even a declaration of hostility. A young patient of mine, who disliked the noise, the vulgarity, and the undertone of violence of the nightclubs where her classmates spent their Friday and Saturday nights, was derided and mocked into conformity: it was too hard to hold out. The pressure to conform to the canons of popular taste—or rather lack of taste—has never been stronger. Those without interest in soccer hardly dare mention it in public, for fear of being considered enemies of the people. A dispiriting uniformity of character, deeply shallow, has settled over a land once richer in eccentrics than any other. No more Edward Lears for us: we prefer notoriety to oddity now."
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Justin Martyr from "The Apology of Tertullian"
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"Here in Britain, of course, it's 'Thank f**k We Got Those Weird Jesus Bastards on the Boat Day'."
---Warren Ellis
The Four Ages of Man
He with body waged a fight,
But body won; it walks upright.
Then he struggled with the heart;
Innocence and peace depart.
Then he struggled with the mind;
His proud heart he left behind.
Now his wars on God begin;
At stroke of midnight God shall win.
--W.B. Yeats
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"...each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword..."
----Oscar Wilde
From The Ballad of the Reading Gaol
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Sharing this here b/c the Ferguson thread appears to be pretty much a wash:
"At some point while I was playing or preparing to play Monday Night Football, the news broke about the Ferguson Decision. After trying to figure out how I felt,... I decided to write it down. Here are my thoughts:
I'M ANGRY because the stories of injustice that have been passed down for generations seem to be continuing before our very eyes.
I'M FRUSTRATED, because pop culture, music and movies glorify these types of police citizen altercations and promote an invincible attitude that continues to get young men killed in real life, away from safety movie sets and music studios.
I'M FEARFUL because in the back of my mind I know that although I'm a law abiding citizen I could still be looked upon as a "threat" to those who don't know me. So I will continue to have to go the extra mile to earn the benefit of the doubt.
I'M EMBARRASSED because the looting, violent protests, and law breaking only confirm, and in the minds of many, validate, the stereotypes and thus the inferior treatment.
I'M SAD, because another young life was lost from his family, the racial divide has widened, a community is in shambles, accusations, insensitivity hurt and hatred are boiling over, and we may never know the truth about what happened that day.
I'M SYMPATHETIC, because I wasn't there so I don't know exactly what happened. Maybe Darren Wilson acted within his rights and duty as an officer of the law and killed Michael Brown in self defense like any of us would in the circumstance. Now he has to fear the backlash against himself and his loved ones when he was only doing his job. What a horrible thing to endure. OR maybe he provoked Michael and ignited the series of events that led to him eventually murdering the young man to prove a point.
I'M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I've seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.
I'M CONFUSED, because I don't know why it's so hard to obey a policeman. You will not win!!! And I don't know why some policeman abuse their power. Power is a responsibility, not a weapon to brandish and lord over the populace.
I'M INTROSPECTIVE, because sometimes I want to take "our" side without looking at the facts in situations like these. Sometimes I feel like it's us against them. Sometimes I'm just as prejudiced as people I point fingers at. And that's not right. How can I look at white skin and make assumptions but not want assumptions made about me? That's not right.
I'M HOPELESS, because I've lived long enough to expect things like this to continue to happen. I'm not surprised and at some point my little children are going to inherit the weight of being a minority and all that it entails.
I'M HOPEFUL, because I know that while we still have race issues in America, we enjoy a much different normal than those of our parents and grandparents. I see it in my personal relationships with teammates, friends and mentors. And it's a beautiful thing.
I'M ENCOURAGED, because ultimately the problem is not a SKIN problem, it is a SIN problem. SIN is the reason we rebel against authority. SIN is the reason we abuse our authority. SIN is the reason we are racist, prejudiced and lie to cover for our own. SIN is the reason we riot, loot and burn. BUT I'M ENCOURAGED because God has provided a solution for sin through the his son Jesus and with it, a transformed heart and mind. One that's capable of looking past the outward and seeing what's truly important in every human being. The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the Gospel. So, finally, I'M ENCOURAGED because the Gospel gives mankind hope."
--Saints TE Benjamin Watson
Ya know...THAT should all be quoted more often.
Thoughtful and impressive. Thanks for sharing.
"The result is never in question for me. Just what path do I take to get there. And I have never questioned my path. There is always one that is most right."
--J.C. Chandor, "A Most Violent Year"
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"To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul."
"Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share. I am completely penniless, and absolutely homeless. Yet there are worse things in the world than that."
"The final mystery is oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?"
"Love is a sacrament..."
---Oscar Wilde
From: De Profundis
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"I've learned you can tell a lot about a person from the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights."
--Maya Angelou
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"It is not wise to insult the crocodile while your buttocks are still in the water." - African proverb
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Hunter S. Thompson > Quotes > Quotable Quote
Hunter S. Thompson
"Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for f^#*offs and misfits -- a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy pi$$-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage."
"Those lacking imagination take refuge in reality." Jean-Luc Godard
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"I Have Nothing More To Say."
---What Ted Turner wants on his tombstone.
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This one from Darrel Royal is really dumb... If worms had guns, birds would probably have the same.
I would simply say: "fewer guns means fewer deaths; it is quite simple actually." Unfortunately I don't remember the author.
Naw...more like 'the fewer murderous idiots there are, the fewer deaths.'
Take away the guns, but leave the same impulses and you just keep banning more things until they have to ban rocks.
After all, guns are just the current level of weapons, invented in an endless game of oneupmanship.
Just wait till someone invents a working portable laser. Yeesh!
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"Oh for a muse of fire, that might ascend the brightest heavens of invention!" - Shakespeare, HENRY V
"When in doubt, get the hell out." - Trevor T. Moses :teddyr:
"The"
---everyone who speaks English
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"I don't have to take this abuse from you. I've got hundreds of people dying to abuse me."
---(the great) Dr. Peter Venkman
Quote from: ER on February 06, 2015, 10:08:45 AM
"The"
---everyone who speaks English
You'd probably like this Gadsby, a novel by Ernest Vincent Wright (http://spinelessbooks.com/gadsby/01.html) without a single "e."
"...Time is never time at all/You can never ever leave/Without leaving a piece of youth/And our lives are forever changed/We will never be the same/The more you change the less you feel..."
---Billy Corgan, tonight, tonight
For lots of reasons I'll always love MCATIS. By coincidence it was released one year to the day after I nearly died at fifteen.
"I am sorry, but you are dead wrong. And soon you'll be dead and wrong."
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"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." ~ William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." ~ Abraham Lincoln.
"He is a self-made man and worships his creator." ~ John Bright.
"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." ~ Jack E. Leonard
"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" ~ Mark Twain
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts for support rather than illumination." ~ Andrew Lang
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Ah, yes, I wrote the "Purple Cow,"
I'm Sorry, now, I wrote it;
But I can tell you, Anyhow
I'll Kill you if you Quote it!
—Gelett Burgess, Confession: and a Portrait Too, Upon a Background that I Rue.
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"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."-William Butler Yeats
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"One of the things that's turned me against LSD is that all the people I know who use it have a peculiar inability to distinguish between things that are really interesting and stimulating and things that appear so in the state of universal bliss the drug induces on a good trip. They seem to completely lose their critical faculties and disengage themselves from some of the most stimulating areas of life. Perhaps when everything is beautiful, nothing is beautiful."--Stanley Kubrick
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Stephen King
"A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh."
― Stephen King
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"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like."― Lemony Snicket
"You know, when you really think about it, rhinocerouses are just really fat unicorns." - one of my 8th graders
"Me. We."
--Muhammad Ali, 1974
(Sometimes said to be the shortest poem in the English language.)
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
>Groucho Marx<
A Children's Museum, however, is more of a Funatorium. You are encouraged to touch things, which is poor training for subsequent museum visitation.
>James Lileks<
"Life is like a B-movie: you don't want to leave in the middle of it, but you don't want to see it again."—Ted Turner
"That's awesome dude, I got fifty-seven hundred dollars this year [tax return] so I bought a new Mac. f**k bills and lines of credit. I can't watch porn on those."
-adamclark
He who wields
a minigun,
fears not.
- Haiku of Netrisca from Serious Sam
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
David Cronenberg
Quote from: dean on April 29, 2015, 01:49:18 AM
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
David Cronenberg
When I look at the horrors of the SA Censor Board (1933 - 1994) I agree with that 100%. :smile:
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"Days will come in which the vines shall grow, when each one will have ten-thousand branches and every single branch ten-thousand twigs and on every single twig ten-thousand leaves and on every single leaf ten-thousand clusters, and on every single cluster ten-thousand grapes and each grape that is pressed will give twenty-five measures of wine. And when one of the saints plucks a cluster, another cluster shall call, 'I am better, take me, bless the Lord through me.' In the same way an ear of wheat will grow ten-thousand kernels of grain, and every single ear of wheat will have ten-thousand kernels and every single kernel will give five pounds of the finest pure flour, and the rest of the ripe fruits and the seeds and the grass will be like these in a following proportion. And all the creatures who desire these foods will receive them from the earth, becoming peaceable and united to one another, submissive to men and entirely obedient."
-Jesus (according to Papias who was an assistant to the Apostle John edit: no it was second hand)
"All things are ready if our minds be so." - Shakespeare, HENRY V
Just found out a quote I always attributed to Eric Estrada in CAGED FURY was actually first said by movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn:
"I want to go where the hand of man has never set foot."
He has some other good Yogi Berra-type quotes:
"A bachelor's life is no life for a single man."
"A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad."
"Don't pay any attention to the critics — don't even ignore them."
"Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg."
"Flashbacks are a thing of the past."
"Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success."
"I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years."
"I paid too much for it, but it's worth it."
"I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth – even though it costs him his job."
"Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible."
"Why did you name him Sam? Every Tom, Dick and Harry is named Sam!"
"Why should people go out and pay to see bad movies when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing?"
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"Mother Necessity isn't a virgin."
Only one mother ever was!
Quote from: indianasmith on June 22, 2015, 08:38:06 AM
Only one mother ever was!
Well, thanks, indy, at least somebody believes my cover story! Oh, wait, you meant Mary.
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Quote from: Rev. Powell on June 05, 2015, 08:21:56 AM
Just found out a quote I always attributed to Eric Estrada in CAGED FURY was actually first said by movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn:
"I want to go where the hand of man has never set foot."
He has some other good Yogi Berra-type quotes:
"A bachelor's life is no life for a single man."
"A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad."
"Don't pay any attention to the critics — don't even ignore them."
"Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg."
"Flashbacks are a thing of the past."
"Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success."
"I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years."
"I paid too much for it, but it's worth it."
"I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth – even though it costs him his job."
"Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible."
"Why did you name him Sam? Every Tom, Dick and Harry is named Sam!"
"Why should people go out and pay to see bad movies when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing?"
Here's another:
SG: "We have all passed a lot of water since then." :buggedout: :buggedout: :wink:
"If I tell you I'm good, you'll think I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm no good, you'll know I'm lying."--Bruce Lee
"I'm guessing this is the whole reason this movie was made." - Thomas Servo, Manos: "The Hands of Fate"
"To the rocket scientist, you are a problem. You are the most irritating piece of machinery he or she will ever have to deal with. You and your fluctuating metabolism, your puny memory, your frame that comes in a million different configurations. You are unpredictable. You're inconstant. You take weeks to fix. The engineer must worry about the water and oxygen and food you'll need in space, about how much extra fuel it will take to launch your shrimp cocktail and irradiated beef tacos. A solar cell or a thruster nozzle is stable and undemanding. It does not excrete or panic or fall in love with the mission commander. It has no ego. Its structural elements don't start to break down without gravity, and it works just fine without sleep.
To me, you are the best thing to happen to rocket science. The human being is the machine that makes the whole endeavor so endlessly intriguing."
― Mary Roach, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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"The only way that we may purge these chains from our hands is if we strike this matter in the butt!" - (one of my 9th grade students, who had been asked to write an anti-slavery editorial for an 1850 newspaper)
"Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending anytime. You know where you are with an ending."
--Neil Gaiman
The Sandman, Volume Nine: The Kindly Ones
The big shelves are almost done. I've been going through the boxes of books, deciding what goes up and what goes to the Salvation Army. I'm being more ruthless than I expected. I'm donating most of the Steven King hardcovers, for example, because I'm reasonably sure I'll never read them again - with the exception of The Stand, It, Misery, and a few collections. It's not that the others are bad; it's just that I know I'll not read them again. And if I want them, I don't think they'll be difficult to find. He'll be in print in 300 years. The Klingons will love him. They'll use them as children's books.
James Lileks.
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Reporter to Pope John XXIII: "Your Holiness, how many people work in the Vatican?"
John XXIII: "About half of them."
---The Book of Catholic Anecdotes
Quote from: ER on July 27, 2015, 09:38:32 AM
Reporter to Pope John XXIII: "Your Holiness, how many people work in the Vatican?"
John XXIII: "About half of them."
---The Book of Catholic Anecdotes
If the Catholic Church was an incorporated company, excluding government entities, including the military, it'd probably be the largest employer in the world, as it probably has around 6,000,000 lay employees. And that is excluding priests, nuns, etc. The figure is from Gerald Posner's "God's Bankers," which we'll give a report on at a later date.
GAHHH!...
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Kinda Logical...
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To his clubfooted child said Lord Stipple,
As he poured his post-prandial tipple,
"Your mother's behaviour
Gave pain to Our Saviour,
And that's why He made you a cripple."
---Edward Gorey
"May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and the road downhill all the way to your door."
---A toast oft given in Connaught.
"I'd rather get 80% of what I want than go over a cliff with banners flying!" - Ronald Reagan
"Let us, therefore, in training our Scouts, keep the higher aims in the forefront, not let ourselves become too absorbed in the steps. Don't let the technical outweigh the moral. (Things like) field efficiency, backwoodsmanship, camping, hiking, good turns, jamboree comradeship are all means, not the end. The end is character with a purpose. And that purpose (is) that the next generation may be sane in an insane world, and develop the higher realisation of service, active service of Love, and Duty to God and neighbour."- Lord Robert Baden Powell
"Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed... But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation... will come to the end of sorrow."
--The Bhagavad Gita
(My second favorite holy scripture.)
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." ~Mark Twain
I feel quotey today....
"It is fortunate for leaders that the majority of men do not think for themselves."
--Adolf Hitler
"But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?"
---Mark Twain
"I wrote this song. Why should somebody who didn't write it make a profit from it?"
---Billy Corgan (on why socialism sucks)
"Peace, to those who deserve peace."
---Old Irish saying
"Too f**king busy, and vice-versa."
---Dorothy Parker (on why she so seldom met her publishing deadlines.)
"How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple, I drink the blood of young runaways."
---William Shatner
"Somehow Christians went from being fishers of men to keepers of the aquarium."
--- I dunno, some priest they sent us in high school
I like that one.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every person takes the limits for their own field of vision for the limits of the world. - Arthur Schopenhauer
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The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject. - Marcus Aurelius
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RIP Robin Williams.
"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths a statistic."
---Joseph Stalin
"Everyone knows that the Devil is a communist and God is a good conservative." - Joseph Stalin
"If Hitler invaded hell, I would try to summon up a few kind words to say about the devil in the House of Commons." - Winston Churchill
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell
There is nothing in the world more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. -- Martin Luther King Jr.
"You're a mad scientist,' said Maggie, in what may well have been intended as a reassuring tone. 'We don't expect you to be nice. We just go to bed every night hoping you won't mutate us before we wake up.'
Dr. Abbey blinked at her. 'That's...almost sweet. In a disturbing sort of a way."
― Mira Grant, Blackout
"A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people."
--John Cleese
"The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason."
G.K. Chesterton
(He's not just for Catholics anymore! ---Karma if you caught that reference.)
Skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. - Aldous Huxley
"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
- G. K. Chesterton-
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
- G. K. Chesterton-
Existence well what does it matter?
I exist on the best terms I can.
The past is now part of my future,
The present is well out of hand.
---Ian Curtis, from Heart and Soul, by Joy Division
(Good song, but ever notice how suicide suddenly makes someone's words seem artificially profound?)
Preach it, Uncle John! :thumbup:
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"The key to wisdom lies in understanding that we control but three things. Our mind. What we think with that mind. And the actions we take based on our thoughts."
---Epictetus
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. - George Bernard Shaw
"Prove it!"
---Dora Winifred Read
Arthur, season four, episode four.
"Prove it! Prove it! Prove it! Prove it! Prove it! Prove it!"
--My daughter.
Who for some reason singled that line out from that show to now quote sixty-three trillion times an hour without drawing a breath.
"It later came to light that Otto Thorbeck, the SS judge who sentenced Dietrich Bonhoeffer to be hanged in 1945, had read most of the same books as Bonhoeffer, had received an education very similar to Bonhoeffer's, had come from a strikingly similar family background, belonged to the same church, prayed devoutly to the same God, tested roughly the same IQ as Bonhoeffer, spoke the same language, and grew up not far from Bonhoeffer. Yet Thorbeck took the same education and circumstances, and turned his talents to cruelty, injustice, the service of evil. What is it that makes one man a saint, another man so otherwise like him, a monster?"
---J. Rufus Fears
Meditations
"Before knowing that God is truth, first know that Truth is God."
--Bhagavad Gita (The Song of God)
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Laws control the lesser man...right conduct controls the greater one. - Mark Twain
"To say that all things end is less true than to say all things are in a constant state of change."
--A Texan I once knew.
"Silence is golden, except when you have small children in the house. Then it's suspicious."
---Erma Bombeck
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"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."
- Elbert Hubbard (American editor, publisher and writer, 1856-1915)
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"If a man is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, he is not a nice man." - Things I Have Learned After It Was Too Late
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This one made me laugh: :bouncegiggle: :teddyr:
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"The nail that stands up, is beaten down."
---Japanese proverb
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument
Maslow's hammer, popularly phrased as "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" and variants thereof, is from Abraham Maslow's The Psychology of Science, published in 1966. It has also been called the law of the hammer, attributed both to Maslow and to Kaplan.
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"I dropped an ice cube on the kitchen floor, so I think the spider that lives under my fridge had a heart attack and died." - Sadie M. (one of my 8th grade students)
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Quote from: indianasmith on November 06, 2015, 08:39:47 PM
"I dropped an ice cube on the kitchen floor, so I think the spider that lives under my fridge had a heart attack and died." - Sadie M. (one of my 8th grade students)
lol I like that quote. I think I'll save it for another horror short story :)
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"Only those are lost who give themselves up for lost!"
- Hans Ulrich Rudel (Germany's most decorated pilot of World War II)
Quote from: indianasmith on November 17, 2015, 12:05:29 AM
"Only those are lost who give themselves up for lost!"
- Hans Ulrich Rudel (Germany's most decorated pilot of World War II)
As a dedicated 'wing nut', I know about him. An unrepentant Nazi, IIRC. What a sad waste of courage.
Quote from one of my favorite filmmakers:
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Preach it, Uncle John :smile:
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"I wish I could tell you it gets better, but it doesn't. You get better."
--Joan Rivers
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"I'm not a demon, but I am very inappropriate!" - one of my 8th graders today
The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the moldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.
My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
My thoughts still cling to the moldering Past,
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast,
And the days are dark and dreary.
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.
---Longfellow
The Rainy Day
(My aunt loved this poem, and read it to me and a friend of mine one stormy night in the summer of 1995.)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost.
Brandon Antonio Smith
Brandon Antonio Smith
Oct 2, 2014
The Bizarre Meteorite Last Night
What you've been waiting for.
The irresistible minerals of our afterlife
Awakened them from their recurring coma.
Radiation descended toward jagged terrain.
A deer was calcified.
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This world that we're a-living in,
Is mighty hard to beat,
You get a thorn with every rose,
But ain't the roses sweet?
---Private M. W. Edwards
Army Services Mechanical Corps
Killed at the Somme, July 1916
The days when sour winds
Scour concrete landscapes,
Post-modern in promise
But old in their hearts,
Are the times when betrayals
Ring sweetest in spirits
Made weak from longing,
Stirrings hearts vulnerable to
Lies set like tinder in ashes
Coaxed to glowing life
For one final gift of heat
Amid the coldness of
Hope slowly dying.
Someone I knew in high school wrote this for a college composition class in late 1995. It was the start of a longer piece commenting on the Republicans' big win in 1994. He said you can rarely go wrong with your college professors by bashing the Republican Party. He had a point, and got an A for the class.
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S'il vous plaît expliquez-vous, M. Truffaut. :wink: :wink:
None would live past years again,
Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain;
And, from the dregs of life, think to receive,
What the first sprightly running could not give.
---John Dryden
"Idealism is all well and good - but as it intersects reality, the cost becomes prohibitive." - William F. Buckley
"If you do not have Christmas in your heart, you will not find it under a tree."
---Someone wise
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Uh-huh...e-yeah...sure...
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"If you're ever in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at your enemy, throw one of those tiny pumpkins.
Then maybe he will stop and think a minute about how stupid war is - and while he's thinking, you can throw a real grenade at him."
-Jack Handy
"The trouble with wanting something you can't have is... Nevermind, it's too much trouble to talk about."
--Me at age fifteen, displaying a rare lack of verbal motivation.
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:teddyr: :teddyr:
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Bet I know where ya'll looked first!
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"They're always abusing the women,
As a terrible plague to men.
They claim we're the root of all trouble,
And say it again and again."
Aristophanes, THE WOMEN
"I can't answer why/But I can tell you how/We were born upside down/Born the wrong way 'round..."
---David Bowie
Blackstar
(Missing him hard today!)
"Attack an idea, not a person. Plenty of good people have bad ideas."
--Antonin Scalia
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"And we'll have fun with our gun till the lifeguard takes the ammo away!"
- Nick Rivers, "Skeet Surfin'"
Nick Rivers: Hillary. That's an unusual name.
Hillary Flammond: It's a German name. It means 'she whose bosoms defy gravity'.
Nick Rivers: I'm pleased to meet you. My name's Nick.
Hillary Flammond: Nick? What does that mean?
Nick Rivers: Oh, nothing. My dad thought of it while he was shaving.
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"In the Occident, where death is much feared, the art of dying is little practiced."
--The Tibetan Book of the Dead
"Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar."--Friedrich Nietzsche
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Happy is the night he tells you he married the best person he ever had sex with....
Less happy is the morning you realize that means he thinks it's as good as it'll ever get for him...
Unhappy is the afternoon you understand that human nature always seeks to improve on what's been.
But truly joyous is the evening you remember your pre-nup can wreck his life!
---The Jewish Hausfrau Tao of My Friend Edie
I think she's a bad influence on you!!! :buggedout:
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I cheated myself,
Like I knew I would,
I told ya I was troubled,
You know that I'm no good.
--Amy Winehouse
I'm No Good
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Diamond Eye: Inner-Soul Illumination Beam! Thy true form has been seen, Zensei Majin Wareatama!
Wareatama: Hehehehahahaha, you found me out!
Because why not? :twirl:
"Never test how deep the water is with both feet."
---Lao Tzu
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Quote from: Flangepart on March 09, 2016, 12:32:55 PM
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Dean stole that line from W.C. Fields! (It's in NEVER GIVE A SUCKER AN EVEN BREAK).
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The filthiest quote you will ever learn in Catholic school:
"Inter faeces et urinam, nascimur."
--Usually attributed to Saint Augustine of Hippo
(The Jesuits were fun!)
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Strange that fear of failure is one of my greatest fears:
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"Cats are such charming creatures I have always found it odd that they are not universally adored, and odder still that they so often dislike others of their own kind."
--C.S. Lewis
"What you leave behind is not what is engraved on stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."
---Pericles
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I see so clearly how my life must run,
One year behind another until
At length these bones that leap into the sun
Are lowered into the gravel, and lie still.
I would at times the funeral were done,
And I abandoned on the ultimate hill.
---Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane."-Tom Waits
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"You're wife's not supposed to be your best friend. When's the last time you begged your best friend for a blow job?"
-Adam Carolla
"There was a Subaru commercial a few years ago that showed their competitors' cars driving around on the front wheels with the rear ones six feet off the ground, illustrating they are front-wheel drive versus Subaru's all-wheel drive. And then came the disclaimer: "Do not attempt." It's sad that we've regressed as society to the point where we have to put warning labels on s**t that's physically impossible."
-Adam Carolla
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"The difference between real life and fiction is that fiction has to make sense."
-Mark Twain
Quote from: AoTFan on May 05, 2016, 04:06:34 PM
"You're wife's not supposed to be your best friend. When's the last time you begged your best friend for a blow job?"
-Adam Carolla
Oh my God that's funny!
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"If you dream of beating me, you better wake up and apologize."
--Muhammad Ali
"Why do people say Anne Frank is such an influential author? She only wrote one book, and didn't even finish it."
---Joan Rivers
"you don't build a house based on a weather report" - some guy https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/740565597944176640
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"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
--Emily Bronte
(When I was a teenager in love, that sentence made my head spin.)
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"The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American (for Hoover or Roosevelt) is far more virulent than any antipathy he can work up against foreigners... Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life."--Eric Hoffer, 1950
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"For Ash, who is new,
for when he is grown.
These were some of the things
your father loved and said
and cared about and believed,
a long time ago."
Neil Gaiman's dedication, at age fifty-five, to his infant son Ash, in Gaiman's latest book of non-fiction and essays A View From The Cheap Seats.
I found these words, this gathering of his past thoughts while gazing toward the future, almost unbearably poignant.
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"There is no corporate media conspiracy. I know this because I've journeyed into the heart of cable news. It's, honestly, a miracle that any truth-even a dollop-ever gets through because power prefers silence. The closest thing that resembles a conspiracy is the fact that media and politics both want to give you what you want. And what you want is to be told lies. The media has no strategy beyond primal survival. And what you want is to be told lies, served with a healthy squirt of fear on the side. Fear is America's favorite condiment. The media has no strategy beyond primal survival."--talking-head-for-hire John Devore in this month's "Esquire"
"Okay, I'm as offended as you are. But I can see why a lot of guys would rent this particular image. - Michael Garibaldi
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I'm sorry for any fool who rates sleep a prime blessing
And enjoys it from dusk till dawn
Night in, night out. What's sleep but cold death's
reflection?
--Ovid
"Terrorists really don't give a s**t about the Geneva Convention. So picking apart a soldier's every move against a dark, twisted, rule-free enemy is more than ridiculous; it's despicable". – Taya Kyle, wife of American Sniper Chris Kyle
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"If a surgeon slips with a scalpel, even slips by accident, he faces not only a malpractice lawsuit but perhaps losing his license. Why are there no such penalties for these rats in the media who not only do not slip with the scalpel of their tongue, but purposely lie everyday and in every way in order to burn cities to the ground and in order to increase their importance and ratings?"
-Michael Savage
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"All I ever find here is fish and death!! Mainly death!" - my daughter's boyfriend today, complaining about not finding any arrowheads at the river.
Quote from: indianasmith on August 16, 2016, 06:59:33 PM
"All I ever find here is fish and death!! Mainly death!" - my daughter's boyfriend today, complaining about not finding any arrowheads at the river.
Huh, I didn't know you had a daughter. How old is she? How old's her boyfriend? Have you done the ol' "casually polishing a shotgun when he came to pick her up for the first date" thing yet or are you past that point?
:)
Are TV shows allowed?
"You know you're like the A-bomb - everyone's laughing having a good time and you show up BOOM! Everything's dead!" -Shake, Aqua Teen Hunger Force
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"Why do we have to take all these tests? God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Achieve!!" - one of my Junior American History students, before Friday's test.
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"God, I only ask for one thing, please let me outlive that b***h Betty White."
--Joan Rivers
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"My boyfriend called me a pedophile. That's an awfully big word for a six-year-old."
--Anna Kendrick
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Quote from: indianasmith on September 23, 2013, 05:20:41 PM
Overheard at our school's fall festival, from one elementary kid to another:
"You can't just live a life of crime in the bathroom!"
(Obviously, they don't know my friend Trevor! :teddyr:)
:bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
How did it take me three years to find this? :teddyr: :teddyr:
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When Vanity Fair asked Fisher how she was originally cast in "Star Wars," she responded: "I slept with some nerd. I hope it was George [Lucas]. ... I took too many drugs to remember."
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"I'm a doctor-not an escalator!"-Dr.McCoy,Star Trek,1966
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"Marriage has nothing to do with capability, okay? First time you can't make a house payment, it doesn't matter that you both like red." -Larry Miller
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I can't help it, I've been addicted to this poem since I was twelve:
The Four Ages of Man
He with body waged a fight,
But body won; it walks upright.
Then he struggled with the heart;
Innocence and peace depart.
Then he struggled with the mind;
His proud heart he left behind.
Now his wars on God begin;
At stroke of midnight God shall win.
---William Butler Yeats
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And the internet will pause for a moment while the people of France disdainfully blow cigarette smoke at P.J.'s photograph.
"All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."
--Mark Twain
"Former Austrian President and UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim failed to disclose that he was a guard in a Nazi death camp. Nowhere on his resume did it say, '1938-1941, gassed the Weinbergs.' If he can lie on his resume and become head of the UN, who'll care if I never really worked with Brando?"
--Joan Rivers, on the subject of padding her resume.
"Old age would not be so cruel if our desires died along with our abilities."
That quote sums up a lot of my life right now.
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"Never burn down the bridge you're standing on."
--Someone wise.
(Yes, I'm thinking of you here, Slovo.)
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"I found that the best way to handle filmmakers was to hang medals all over them. If I got them cups and awards they'd kill themselves to produce what I wanted. That's why the Academy Award was created."
(Supposedly said by) Louis B. Mayer
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"I keep telling people I'm cool, because on their own they don't seem to notice."
---Friend of mine
"....you'll be a lover in my bed and a gun to my head..."
----I've always thought Billy Corgan's description of the longing of infatuation, from Ava Adora, pretty much nailed the torment of that horridly lovely condition.
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"Let me tell you what I wish I'd known, when I was young and dreamed of glory:
You have no control who lives, who dies, who tells your story."
George Washington in HAMILTON
"Having undies with skid marks is better than having no undies at all."
- Some anonymous South African :wink:
"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
–G.K. Chesterton
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"When the British taxed our tea we all got frisky -
What you think's gonna happen when you try to tax our whiskey?"
Thomas Jefferson in HAMILTON
"I have watched the beggars of most of the great cities of America and Europe, and have made some investigation into their methods, and I do not hesitate to say that ninety times out of a hundred, the man who asks for alms on the street corner is a cheat and a fraud. If the public would take my advice and absolutely refrain from giving to beggars, this nuisance might soon be done away with. If the beggar no longer found his calling profitable, he would soon go to work or find other fields of activity."
-Harry Houdini, The Right Way To Do Wrong
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"You must show that a man is wrong before you start explaining why he is wrong. The modern method is to assume without discussion that he is wrong and then distract his attention from this (the only real issue) by busily explaining how he became so silly. In the course of the last fifteen years I have found this vice so common that I have had to invent a name for it. I call it 'Bulverism'. Some day I am going to write the biography of its imaginary inventor, Ezekiel Bulver, whose destiny was determined at the age of five when he heard his mother say to his father — who had been maintaining that two sides of a triangle were together greater than a third — 'Oh you say that because you are a man.' 'At that moment', E. Bulver assures us, 'there flashed across my opening mind the great truth that refutation is no necessary part of argument. Assume that your opponent is wrong, and explain his error, and the world will be at your feet. Attempt to prove that he is wrong or (worse still) try to find out whether he is wrong or right, and the national dynamism of our age will thrust you to the wall.'" --C.S. Lewis
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A quote from the great Mike Pinder of The Moody Blues
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"Boys told me they masturbated to pictures of my mom in Star Wars, and I'd run home crying. My mom would say, 'You know what you do? Turn around and say, "Me too." ' That's when I realized that my childhood wasn't 100 percent normal."
-Billie Lourd (daughter of Carrie Fisher)
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"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger."--Franklin P. Jones
" I remember once when my dad gave me money to pay the electricity bill but instead i bought a raffle ticket for a brand new car. When i got home,i explained to my dad what i did and he beat the crap out of me. But the next day,when my dad woke up and opened the door, outside my house was a brand new car. We all cried especially me, because the car was from the electricity company, they were there to cut off the electricity, my dad beat the crap out of me again."
-someone on the Internet, probably an old joke.
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"We are all mortal until the first kiss, and the second glass of wine."
--Eduardo Galeano
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"War does not increase death upon the face of the earth, only hastens it."
---Billy Graham (who was likely ripping off someone else's quote)
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Almost exactly the same thing as that clown at the fire happened at the Beverly Hills Supper Club disaster in May 1977. A busboy ran on stage in the middle of a comedy routine to announce the massive structure was ablaze, and people thought it was a joke and few reacted. I believe the final death toll was 165, nearly all in the room where the warning was issued.
Years ago when I was seeing Gladiator, a fire alarm went off and someone on a loudspeaker said ignore it, it's a malfunction, but I got out of there and got a voucher for seeing a movie again at a later time.
Fire is the devil's only friend, and the devil has never been kind to any person.
And on that note, ER...
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Quote from: ER on September 05, 2017, 03:54:50 PM
Almost exactly the same thing as that clown at the fire happened at the Beverly Hills Supper Club disaster in May 1977. A busboy ran on stage in the middle of a comedy routine to announce the massive structure was ablaze, and people thought it was a joke and few reacted. I believe the final death toll was 165, nearly all in the room where the warning was issued.
Years ago when I was seeing Gladiator, a fire alarm went off and someone on a loudspeaker said ignore it, it's a malfunction, but I got out of there and got a voucher for seeing a movie again at a later time.
Fire is the devil's only friend, and the devil has never been kind to any person.
Being an old git, one remembers about reading this tragedy in the news. You are correct ER, the death toll was 165, with the last victim dying 9 months later. With 200 injured. It was the worst fire in the U.S. since 1944 and the circus fire in Harford, Connecticut, in which 168 people died. While there were some claims that arson was involved, it really seems to be an accident waiting to happen, as the loss of life was put down to . . .
overcrowding -- inadequate fire exits -- faulty wiring -- lack of firewalls -- poor construction -- safety code violations -- and poor oversight by regulatory officials.
Most of which means that a fire of such magnitude is unlikely to occur today.
From his book How to See: Visual Adventures in a world God never made
George Nelson says
"It is better to be in the company of a crazy painter than a sane critic"
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Commandancy of the The Alamo
Bejar, Feby. 24th. 1836
To the People of Texas & All Americans in the World—
Fellow Citizens & compatriots—
I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna — I have sustained a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not lost a man — The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken — I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, & our flag still waves proudly from the walls — I shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism & everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid, with all dispatch — The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily & will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible & die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor & that of his country — Victory or Death.
William Barrett Travis.
Lt. Col. comdt.
"The state lottery is not a tax on the poor; it's tax on all those people who never did well on mathematics."
-Neil Degrasse Tyson.
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"This isn't the Republicans versus the Democrats, where we're in a hole economically or... or we're in another war. This is more crucial than that. This is down to the line, folks, this is down to the line. There can be no more divisions among the living!"
DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978)
"If you seek his monument, look around."
This is the epitaph of Sir Christopher Wren, 17th/18th century architect of St. Paul's cathedral, London, affixed to his tomb, inside the church.
I can never decide if I like Wren's more, or John Keats, the goosebump-inducing:
"Here lies one whose name was writ in water."
Though in fairness Wren had more than sixty years longer to achieve things in life than Keats did.
I figure my epitaph will be something cynically lame, like:
"Almost."
But I could live with that as long as I'm dead.
One of the coolest epitaphs I have ever seen read:
"Stranger look, as you pass by -
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, soon you shall be -
Prepare for death and follow me."
Quote from: ER on December 22, 2017, 10:13:35 AM
"If you seek his monument, look around."
This is the epitaph of Sir Christopher Wren, 17th/18th century architect of St. Paul's cathedral, London, affixed to his tomb, inside the church.
I can never decide if I like Wren's more, or John Keats, the goosebump-inducing:
"Here lies one whose name was writ in water."
Keats, by a mile. Someday St. Paul's will fall down but there will always be water.
"Man, this play sucks.. someone shoot me."
-last words of Abraham Lincoln-citation needed
"Look. Folks. It's simple. If you have poor taste in decorating, don't go nuts in the entryway. Wait until your guests are inside before you spring something unusual on them."
― James Lileks, Interior Desecrations: Hideous Homes from the Horrible '70s
"She was from the wrong side of the tracks no matter how you gerrymandered the town."
― James Lileks, Falling Up the Stairs
"If you can pick the baby up without him squirting our of your hands like a bar of soap in the shower, he's not oiled up enough."
― James Lileks, Mommy Knows Worst: Highlights from the Golden Age of Bad Parenting Advice
"What's the deal with putting animal feet on tubs? It's like insisting that all pianos should have tails, or dinner tables should have scrotal sacs. One of the things we like about tubs is their immobility, their general disinclination to bolt out of the room, scramble down the stairs, and make for the woods in a blind feral panic."
― James Lileks, Interior Desecrations: Hideous Homes from the Horrible '70s
I been thinking about my wish that people would laugh more and lose the great international sense of butt-hurt that is gripping the world these days, and it seems I am not alone.
"If we couldn't laugh, we'd all go insane."
--Robert Frost
"I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh."
--Maya Angelou
"Always laugh when you can. It's cheap medicine."
--George Gordon, Lord Byron
"The human race has only one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."
--Mark Twain
"We're all here for a just spell, so get all the good laughs in that you can."
--Will Rogers
And of course, my Dead Gay Celebrity Buddy and fellow countryman Oscar Wilde (whom I prayed out of Purgatory as a child), who said:
"If you want to tell people the truth, better make them laugh, lest they kill you."
So really, if Oscar could still laugh after being sentenced to hard labor for buggery, and Byron could laugh after being exiled for f**king his sister and buggery, and Mark Twain could laugh in the midst of his lifetime of bad hair days, why can't everybody? I hope to do what these wise people suggested, and just laugh more often, because even though life will kill us all, it can't stop us from making an honest effort at a chuckle before it does.
Right?
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"Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand." ― Mae West
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"Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand." ― Mae West
NOW you tell me there's no sex in Heaven, after I been waiting the last eighteen years to start banging some guy again in the afterlife??
Quote from: ER on February 11, 2018, 10:04:24 AM
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"Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand." ― Mae West
NOW you tell me there's no sex in Heaven, after I been waiting the last eighteen years to start banging some guy again in the afterlife??
And you wonder why I'd rather go to hell. :P
Quote from: Dark Alex on February 11, 2018, 10:07:40 AM
Quote from: ER on February 11, 2018, 10:04:24 AM
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"Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand." ― Mae West
NOW you tell me there's no sex in Heaven, after I been waiting the last eighteen years to start banging some guy again in the afterlife??
And you wonder why I'd rather go to hell. :P
Naw, man, in Hell they'd probably burn your privates off, then marry you to a mucus demon with a thing for Scottish eunuchs.
FWIW, the Bible never says there is no sex in heaven. It says there is "neither marriage, nor giving in marriage."
Assuming that Heaven is real and that Jesus knew a thing or two about it, I am willing to bet that what we have there will surpass what we have here as the stars in the sky surpass the diamonds of the earth.
Quote from: indianasmith on February 11, 2018, 06:44:17 PM
FWIW, the Bible never says there is no sex in heaven. It says there is "neither marriage, nor giving in marriage."
Assuming that Heaven is real and that Jesus knew a thing or two about it, I am willing to bet that what we have there will surpass what we have here as the stars in the sky surpass the diamonds of the earth.
Besides, I don't think having sex is truly the greatest experience this life contains. (Don't say it, indy, don't say it, indy....)
Am currently into Woody Allen's mindset (as an actor) - if only because I have been dieting on some of his old films these last few weeks. Here's a few of my favourites:-
"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all those things that make you want to live to be a hundred"
"I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens"
"I don't think my parents loved me much; they put a live teddy bear in my crib"
"I had a terrible education: I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers"
"When I was a kid my parents got us a quicksand box. I was an only child . . . eventually." - Stephen Wright
"Drunk drivers don't only kill drunk drivers."
PSA from my childhood.
"The relationship between husband and wife can be described as 'Psychological' - one is psycho, the other is logical." - FB
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"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away."--Tom Waits
"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."--Vladimir Nabokov
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
---Samuel Beckett
"I can't go on.
I'll go on."
--Samuel Beckett
"The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy save time."
--WB Yeats
Experience is the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde.
Hmm, I don't know if I am legally allowed to have all my ex's names changed to Experience.
Three Irish poets in a row quoted here. Can anyone say Irish aren't the most eloquent of all God's chilluns?
Quote from: Dark Alex on February 21, 2018, 02:51:59 PM
Experience is the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde.
Hmm, I don't know if I am legally allowed to have all my ex's names changed to Experience.
All of them. That's 100%? Whew, I'm impressed. lol
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Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed
In one self place; for where we are is Hell,
And where Hell is, must we ever be.
--- Christopher Marlowe
"In order to write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself."
--Anne Rice
I really like this quote because it reflects the truth that self-expression takes courage.
Quote from: ER on March 07, 2018, 08:51:56 PM
"In order to write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself."
--Anne Rice
I really like this quote because it reflects the truth that self-expression takes courage.
I wonder how many wrote "I agree."
"If all else fails: duck. As a defensive stratagem it's unreliable, but incredibly reassuring for a moment or two." -Lord Corvis of Petrax.
"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
---Oscar Wilde
"Don't read reviews, measure them."
--Somerset Maugham
(Gosh gay men are quotable.)
He who claims to be at peace with himself yet shows rancor to another betrays he is not at peace but speaks falsely within and without; his anger unhealed, he seeks it to multiply, his rage but a smoldering ember, his master, not his servant.
---RUMI
"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."
- F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
"Never believe you know the last word about any human heart."
--Henry James
"I had to get rabies shots for biting the head off a bat, but that's okay, the bat had to get Ozzy shots."
---Ozzy Osbourne
The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon
Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon,
Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face
Lighting a little Hour or two - is gone.
--Edmund Fitzgerald loosely translating Omar Khayyam
Life's brief, do good works always, seek happiness when you can.
"Therefore, in shame, I ask you to receive a message from my ugly and insignificant daughter" - Fu Manchu
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"I happen to know that up here in Canunuhda it isn't rape if someone's dead."
--Oderus Urungus, Gwar
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"One man with a gun can control 100 without one."
-Vladimir Lenin
" 'Attack' is the only order worth remembering." Kharn the betrayer.
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"And if this makes sense in the universe you live in, please come over here and explain it to me in mine."
-Roger Ebert, on "Dennis, the kung-fu kid scene in Cabin Fever"
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"I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying. Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd."--Robert Anton Wilson's last (written) words
Quote from: Rev. Powell on December 06, 2018, 09:53:49 AM
"I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying. Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd."--Robert Anton Wilson's last (written) words
Rev, you made me look something up...
OSCAR WILDE's supposed last words (an inside joke for one loyal friend) while dying in a shabby Paris hotel room:
"Either that wallpaper goes or I do."
"Alas, how terrible is wisdom
when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew well, but had forgotten it,
else I would not have come here."
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
"All things are ready if our minds be so!" - Shakespeare, Henry V
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
― Dr. Seuss
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
― Jim Henson
"A little revolution, now and then, is a healthy thing." Thomas Jefferson.
"OK, I'm a very stupid girl, fine."--Ann Coulter
"Time is the school in which we learn;
Time is the fire in which we burn."
- Delmore Shwarz
The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
Bob Marley
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"I know that you know that you know that I know."
---Buddha, as quoted in fiction in an imaginary meeting with Confucius.
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When Mick Jagger insisted that his wrinkles were actually laugh lines, jazz singer George Melly replied, "Surely nothing could be that funny."
He has Van Gogh's ear for music. Billy Wilder.
The Democrats are the party that says government
will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove crabgrass
on your lawn. P. J. O'Rourke.
The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it. also by P. J. O'Rourke.
"The number one cause of atheism is Christians."--Theologian Karl Rahner
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"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
Albert Einstein
"Stalin. Stop sending people to kill me! We've already captured five of them, one with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send another."
- Josip Broz Tito
"I'm going to wait till after I am 21 to have kids. That way, if they turn out evil, I can start drinking right away!"
- Robert H., One of my former students
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak & weary..."
-Poe
"My great-great-grandfather did not travel across 4,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this country overrun by immigrants."--Stephen Colbert (testifying at a Senate hearing)
"Make a joke and I will sigh, and you will laugh and I will cry. Happiness I can not feel, and love to me is so unreal."
Ozzy
"Sleeping is the magic that brings us tomorrow.."
---My eight-year-old.
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"If we are asked to lay down our Constitution on the shrine of party, our answer is: the price demanded is too great. . . . Let us tell the President he has erred. Let us be true to ourselves, to our constituents, and above all, to the Constitution."
- John Tyler (10th President of the U.S., while serving in the Senate)
"To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture."--Thomas Paine
"I read the Bible through from cover to cover four times during my sophomore year in college for the explicit purpose of finding scientific contradictions in it. By that, I mean statements in the Bible that were false that I could throw back at her to show her how ridiculous it was to believe in God. I had even decided to write a book called All the Stupidity of the Bible. Something amazing happened as I did this. As I considered and thought about these things, I found that I could not find a contradiction — to find some kind of scientific inaccuracy in the Bible. I just simply was not able to do it. I gave up writing the book because of lack of material! It is amazing to me that as I talk to people, I find many who claim to be Christians and who perhaps claim to have been Christians for many years who have not read the Bible through cover to cover once. I find it hard to believe that they believe in God very much if they do not even want to know what he has to say."
https://www.doesgodexist.org/AboutClayton/PastLife.html (https://www.doesgodexist.org/AboutClayton/PastLife.html)
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"Absinthe makes the tart grow fonder."
---Oscar Wilde, of course
A bit long, but here it goes:
QuoteIF—
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling, 1895. Published in 1910.
"The object of liberty, is life."
---G. K. Chesterton
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
― C.S. Lewis
"Men are most inclined to believe that which they wish to be true." - Gaius Julius Caesar
They say laughter is the best medicine, but if you go around laughing for no reason, you might need medicine.
--Unknown
"The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion."
Proverbs 28:1, KJV
"I feel beat, & I'm not even part of that generation."
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"I wouldn't want to live in a country where a dead pimp couldn't get elected to Congress!" - Zoe Pittsinger, a former student of mine.
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
Jimi Hendrix.
http://youtu.be/vZuFq4CfRR8 (http://youtu.be/vZuFq4CfRR8)
"We'rwe aww pwathetic & cweepy & can't get girwls; that's why we fwight wobots."
-The Big Bang Theory, Season 2, Episode 12
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Quote from: Rev. Powell on April 12, 2021, 11:50:24 AM
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I think I will Rumi-nate on that. :tongueout:
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Interesting perspective.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on May 01, 2021, 05:28:15 PM
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Interesting perspective.
Sorry, but that's the dumbest thing I have read today.|
Who exactly is supposed to feed all these people who are trying to figure out their purpose in life?
and who pays for the food? And pays the people that grow it?
Sadly, I know this is just gonna tick a couple people off...
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Last month, Pence reiterated his view that the vice president has "no such authority" to reject or return electoral votes certified by the states
"The truth is there is almost no idea more un-American than the idea that one person could choose the president," Pence told a crowd assembled at the Reagan Library in California. "The presidency belongs to the American people, and the American people alone."
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"...the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right ALWAYS ARGUED MUCH LOUDER than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves."--Terry Pratchett
"Wars are not won on evacuations" Winston Churchill.
"Death does not discriminate between the sinners and the saints; it takes and it takes and it takes -
We keep living anyway; we rise and we fall and we break and we make our mistakes . . ."
- Lin-Manuel Miranda, HAMILTON
"Why certainly I'd like to have that fellow who hits a home run every time at bat, who strikes out every opposing batter when he's pitching, who throws strikes to any base or the plate when he's playing outfield, and who's always thinking about two innings ahead just what he'll do to baffle the other team. Any manager would want a guy like that playing for him. The only trouble is to get him to put down his cup of beer and come down out of the stands and do those things."--Danny Murtaugh, manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it you'll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."--Rudyard Kipling
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"The world is in more peril from those who tolerate evil or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it." -Dr. Albert Einstein, 1953
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 30, 2022, 07:06:33 AM
"The world is in more peril from those who tolerate evil or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it." -Dr. Albert Einstein, 1953
:thumbup: Brilliant.
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A gentle answer turns away anger,
but a harsh word stirs up wrath.
Proverbs 15:1 (HCSB) (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2015:1&version=HCSB)
For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
Ecclesiastes 2;16 :bluesad:
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Quote from: RCMerchant on June 03, 2022, 04:31:42 PM
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How old is Alfred E. Newman supposed to be? I've never been sure. He could be a bar mitzvah boy or a thirty-five year old.
Knock! Knock! Knock!
Do come in!
You're the people from the loony bin!
"I never thought I'd live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones giving the middle finger to the establishment, and the left wing becoming the sniveling self-righteous twatty ones going around shaming everyone."
---John Lydon
Quote from: ER on June 06, 2022, 09:41:56 AM
"I never thought I'd live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones giving the middle finger to the establishment, and the left wing becoming the sniveling self-righteous twatty ones going around shaming everyone."
---John Lydon
Advice about being 'cool' from this guy-
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Quote from: RCMerchant on June 06, 2022, 12:27:16 PM
Quote from: ER on June 06, 2022, 09:41:56 AM
"I never thought I'd live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones giving the middle finger to the establishment, and the left wing becoming the sniveling self-righteous twatty ones going around shaming everyone."
---John Lydon
Advice about being 'cool' from this guy-
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He lost all his credibility in the UK when he started advertising butter.
Quote from: Alex on June 06, 2022, 03:31:34 PM
...
He lost all his credibility in the UK when he started advertising butter.
:bouncegiggle: He looks like rancid butter.
"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die." St. Augustine
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."- Samuel Beckett
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Seijun Suzuki
"The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth."—Jim Harrison
"God pre-punishes evil people in childhood."
(Heard it, don't know who originally said it.)
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger; comedy is when a man falls in an open sewer and dies." - Mel Brooks
"Reason should not be silenced, but it needs to take a vacation sometimes."— Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, "Think Again: How to Reason and Argue"
"The sleep of reason breeds snoring."
---Uh, me
"He is a very modest man, with much to be modest about." - Winston Churchill (not sure who he was talking about)
"If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy."--Bertrand Russell
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"Thomas Jefferson once said: 'We must not judge a President by his age, but by his actions.' And ever since he told me that, I've quit worrying about it."
- Ronald Reagan, upon turning 73 as President
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"Social Media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it."
— Mike Tyson
"Men are most inclined to believe that which they wish to be true." - Julius Caesar
"I will not insult your intelligence by presuming to think you actually believe what you just said." - William F. Buckley
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"What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun."
---Ecclesiastes 1:9
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"The Dude abides." - THE BIG LEBOWSKI
"Mom? Mom who?"
---Nevermind who dropped that atomic bomb of a quote.
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation not instruction is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expressess his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
Oscar Wilde
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."
"Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever... And remember that it is for ever. The face will always be there to be stamped upon."
"What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?"
George Orwell, 1984
"Look at my African-American!"- Donald Trump
Quote from: LilCerberus on October 03, 2023, 04:17:30 PM
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."
"Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever... And remember that it is for ever. The face will always be there to be stamped upon."
"What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?"
George Orwell, 1984
That's very heart warming!
Doom and disorder!
It's ironic, that you- as a Trump supporter- post that quote.
"Strong men create good times. Good Times create weak men. Weak men create hard times."
---Sallust
Donald Trump on Biden recently-
"He's now in charge with dealing with Russia and possible nuclear war ... just think of it, we would be in World War II."
"Poor kids are just as bright and talented as white kids"
"You need to get vaccinated against hurricanes"
"You gotta give Mitt Romney credit. He's a job creator..in Singapore, China and India"
"No ordinary American cares about their constitutional rights"
"Let's go Brandon, I agree!"
- Joe Biden'
"I like hot butter on my breakfast toast!"- the Sugar Hill Gang
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"By putting the tea in first and stirring as one pours, one can exactly regulate the amount of milk, whereas one is likely to put in too much milk if one does it the other way round"
George Orwell - 'A Nice Cup of Tea' (1946)
"Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us."
---Jesus
" Son, it's better to regret what you have done, then what you haven't done. And when you see your Mother, be sure to tell her-SATAN!"
the Butthole Surfers.
"Filmmaking is the great leveler: one minute, you're on top of the world, the next you don't have a pair of underpants to put on."
- David Millin ASC, my friend and mentor.
"I'm going to punch you so hard, it'll drive your nose deep into your brain so you can finally smell just how stupid you really are!"
- K. Brown, one of my former students to a classmate (both of them are female, BTW!)
^ :bouncegiggle:
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Felix the Cat
"In the paper today
Tales of war and of waste
But you turn right over to the TV page"
Crowded House, Don't Dream It's Over
^Whosaidthatone?
Quote from: ER on October 17, 2023, 06:00:28 PM
^Whosaidthatone?
https://youtu.be/J9gKyRmic20?si=4-JIGxxP-tY_7l-o
"The future ain't what it used to be."
---Yogi Berra
Quote from: ER on October 17, 2023, 08:29:23 PM
"The future ain't what it used to be."
---Yogi Berra
"Science Fiction & Nostalgia have become the same thing!" - T Bone Burnet
"They eat their young - they eat their old - I've even heard they nibble on their contemporaries!" - Bucky Katt (he was talking about beavers at the time)
"There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers" - Ronald Reagan
Psalm 118:5-6 (Holman Christian Standard Bible)
I called to the Lord in distress; the Lord answered me and put me in a spacious place. The Lord is for me; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
Src: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20118:5-6&version=HCSB (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20118:5-6&version=HCSB)
"Man is the only animal to borrow tools."
Tim Allen
John 21:20-25
New King James Version
The Beloved Disciple and His Book
'20 Then Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following, who also had leaned on His breast at the supper, and said, "Lord, who is the one who betrays You?" 21 Peter, seeing him, said to Jesus, "But Lord, what about this man?"
22 Jesus said to him, "If I [a]will that he remain till I come, what is that to you? You follow Me."
23 Then this saying went out among the brethren that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but, "If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you?"
24 This is the disciple who testifies of these things, and wrote these things; and we know that his testimony is true.
25 And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen.'
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+21%3A20-25&version=NKJV (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+21%3A20-25&version=NKJV)
"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me." - William Shakespeare.
I never saw a Purple Cow,
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one.
---Gelett Burgess
"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible."--Frank Herbert
^That's one reason I admired Queen Elizabeth II, she truly seemed to place duty ahead of other considerations. Granted, her position was not precisely that of those elected to or appointed within a government, but I do think her dedication had something not far from selflessness in it, whatever other criticisms could be made of her, or the institution she represented.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2010%3A1&version=NKJV (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2010%3A1&version=NKJV)
Wise Sayings of Solomon
10 The proverbs of Solomon:
A wise son makes a glad father,
But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.
(NKJV)
"I just beat my own personal record for most consecutive days without dying!" - Bill Murray
"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
- Richard Burton
Romans 8:28
New King James Version
28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%208:28&version=NKJV (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%208:28&version=NKJV)
"Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before, and God will call the past to account." - Ecclesiastes 3:15
Longer one today:
Luke 16:19-31
World English Bible
19 "Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. 20 A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores, 21 and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried. 23 In Hades,[a] he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom. 24 He cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.'
25 "But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish. 26 Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.'
27 "He said, 'I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house; 28 for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won't also come into this place of torment.'
29 "But Abraham said to him, 'They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.'
30 "He said, 'No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'
31 "He said to him, 'If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.'"
Jeremiah 17:7-8
New King James Version
7 "Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,
And whose hope is the Lord.
8 For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters,
Which spreads out its roots by the river,
And will not [a]fear when heat comes;
But its leaf will be green,
And will not be anxious in the year of drought,
Nor will cease from yielding fruit.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2017:7-8&version=NKJV (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2017:7-8&version=NKJV)
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+4%3A24&version=NKJV (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+4%3A24&version=NKJV)
Proverbs 4:24
New King James Version
24 Put away from you a [a]deceitful mouth,
And put perverse lips far from you.
"We're gonna put crime back in law and order!" - Donald Trump
"Men are, that they might have joy."
2 Nephi 2:25
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+5%3A20&version=NKJV (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+5%3A20&version=NKJV)
Proverbs 5:20
New King James Version
20 For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman,
And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?
Quote from: pacman000 on March 27, 2024, 09:14:31 AM
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+5%3A20&version=NKJV (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+5%3A20&version=NKJV)
Proverbs 5:20
New King James Version
20 For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman,
And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?
Hey, do I criticize your personal life?
Quote from: ER on March 27, 2024, 09:37:25 AM
Quote from: pacman000 on March 27, 2024, 09:14:31 AM
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+5%3A20&version=NKJV (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+5%3A20&version=NKJV)
Proverbs 5:20
New King James Version
20 For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman,
And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?
Hey, do I criticize your personal life?
Immoral women are more fun and I like being seduced.
Quote from: Alex on March 27, 2024, 09:44:30 AM
Quote from: ER on March 27, 2024, 09:37:25 AM
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Proverbs 5:20
New King James Version
20 For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman,
And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?
Hey, do I criticize your personal life?
Immoral women are more fun and I like being seduced.
I think in Biblical terms this is usually a metaphor for worshiping pagan gods instead of Yahweh.
:wink:
Quote from: Rev. Powell on March 27, 2024, 09:47:41 AM
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Proverbs 5:20
New King James Version
20 For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman,
And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?
Hey, do I criticize your personal life?
Immoral women are more fun and I like being seduced.
I think in Biblical terms this is usually a metaphor for worshiping pagan gods instead of Yahweh.
Darn they're out to get me from every side.....
Quote from: Rev. Powell on March 27, 2024, 09:47:41 AM
Quote from: Alex on March 27, 2024, 09:44:30 AM
Quote from: ER on March 27, 2024, 09:37:25 AM
Quote from: pacman000 on March 27, 2024, 09:14:31 AM
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Proverbs 5:20
New King James Version
20 For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman,
And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?
Hey, do I criticize your personal life?
Immoral women are more fun and I like being seduced.
I think in Biblical terms this is usually a metaphor for worshiping pagan gods instead of Yahweh.
In books of prophecy, yes, but Proverbs is probably being literal; the book's a collection of short sayings urging someone to do right.
I picked this by randomly entering a chapter & verse. Thought about picking to a different verse, but that felt like censorship. :/
1 Timothy 2:5-6 (New King James Version)
For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time,
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%202:5-6&version=NKJV (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%202:5-6&version=NKJV)
Man has always created his gods, rather than his gods creating him."
― Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible
John 8:4-11
New King James Version
4 they said to Him, "Teacher, [a]this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now [ b ]Moses, in the law, commanded us [c]that such should be stoned. But what do You [d]say?" 6 This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, [e]as though He did not hear.
7 So when they continued asking Him, He [f]raised Himself up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first." 8 And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9 Then those who heard it, being[g] convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had raised Himself up [h]and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, "Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?"
11 She said, "No one, Lord."
And Jesus said to her, "Neither do I condemn you; go [j]and sin no more."
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+8%3A4-11&version=NKJV (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+8%3A4-11&version=NKJV)
Quote from: pacman000 on March 29, 2024, 09:52:44 AM
John 8:4-11
New King James Version
4 they said to Him, "Teacher, [a]this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses, in the law, commanded us [c]that such should be stoned. But what do You [d]say?" 6 This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, [e]as though He did not hear.
7 So when they continued asking Him, He [f]raised Himself up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first." 8 And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9 Then those who heard it, being[g] convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had raised Himself up [h]and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, "Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?"
11 She said, "No one, Lord."
And Jesus said to her, "Neither do I condemn you; go [j]and sin no more."
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+8%3A4-11&version=NKJV (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+8%3A4-11&version=NKJV)
I know the message is against hypocrisy, but whenever I've read that it's always seemed to me that it is also saying...if other people are doing wrong, your own wrongdoing can be overlooked. Like if you're a bank robber, you should associate with killers, so you won't be held accountable for your lesser crime. Also, if we are not told the woman repented, why did she merit forgiveness? Mercy, I guess? Thank God (literally) for mercy.
On a lighter note, I've also thought the cheating whore was also lucky Jesus' mom wasn't around, holding a rock, eh? Now there's a woman without sin. :wink:
Happy Good Friday, everyone! Remember, no one comes to the father, save through Jesus, and today marks the act which made that coming to the father possible. I may not comprehend many of the mysteries of faith, but I do accept that the miraculous events of Holy Week did happen as we were told. If anyone can show otherwise, I will stop believing, but no one ever has.
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."
― Christopher Hitchens
"Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead."
― Kurt Vonnegut
"Everybody is stooopid!"
---Dexter, Dexter's Lab
"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion."
― Robert M. Pirsig,
"....children behave, that's what they say when we're together..."
---Some red-haired chick who sang that when I was eight.
I never wanted
I never needed
I never begged
And I never pleaded
To a god unknown
That I won't let in
Cos religion is business
And there's money in sin
You're blind and offended
When reality hurts
But I've never seen Jesus
Inside a church
And I've prayed
I won't pay to be saved
Buying a brief burst of heaven
Immaculate deceptions
Going on everyday
Still you follow the clowns
Who give the circus away
Reaching for something
That's never been felt
And they're tightening their grip
On your bible belt
Dead eye disciples
Who sin too deep
Jesus loves you
But his love don't come cheap
And you pray
Yeah, you pray to be saved
Buying a brief burst of heaven
I never wanted
I never needed
I never begged
And I never pleaded
Pained by beliefs
Of lies and deceits
When cash must be shown
To this god unknown
And we pray
We're too frightened to stray
Buying a brief burst of heaven
Jesus loves you
But I don't
Jesus loves you
But I don't
Jesus loves you
Kill your idols
Religion induced insanities
Pained by beliefs
Pained by beliefs
That I don't believe anymore
The Almighty.
Jesus Loves You...
But I Don't.
1 Corinthians 6:12
New King James Version
Glorify God in Body and Spirit
12 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not [a]helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of [b ]any.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%206%3A12&version=NKJV (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%206%3A12&version=NKJV)
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^ A good description of Donald Trump!
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 01, 2024, 06:54:17 PM
^ A good description of Donald Trump!
I've found it an excellent description of your guy.
And quit trolling like a spoiled brat.
"You can't back up the cat" -Pat Buchanan on "The McLaughlin Group" a long time ago. I think that's what he said.
Quote from: LilCerberus on April 01, 2024, 07:36:02 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 01, 2024, 06:54:17 PM
^ A good description of Donald Trump!
I've found it an excellent description of your guy.
And quit trolling like a spoiled brat.
I'm not trolling. I'm expressing my dislike of an wanna be authoritarian. And just because it hurts your little fellings is not my problem.
"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
Richard Burton, "1984"
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 02, 2024, 05:32:16 AM
Quote from: LilCerberus on April 01, 2024, 07:36:02 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 01, 2024, 06:54:17 PM
^ A good description of Donald Trump!
I've found it an excellent description of your guy.
And quit trolling like a spoiled brat.
I'm not trolling. I'm expressing my dislike of an wanna be authoritarian. And just because it hurts your little fellings is not my problem.
But it is
my problem, because, you know, flamewars. :hot: :hatred: :bluesad: You can find all that kind of negative energy you could ever want on Facebook and Twitter. People come here for peaceful vibes.
I did not say anything about Cerb, I said Trump was a wannabe aurhoritarian. Why he got all bent outta shape, I dunno. Would he get mad if I said that about Mussolini?
Alright-whenever I make a comment about Trump- I guess I'll peek around to see if his sensitive ears are outta the way. :lookingup:
Ok, Rev. I'll not bring it up anymore for you.
My quote doesn't name anybody.
"American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome." ~ Jack Germond
^ :bouncegiggle: ^
"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'."
Bob Newhart
"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. "
George Bernard Shaw
Oh, great, troll calls me a crybaby.
"You get your rhymes from a grab bag" - LL Cool J
"Mr. Smith, can I go to my locker? I have to pee." - one of my (female) students today
"They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it."
Red Cloud
"Women started giving each other home perms. Pretty soon everybody looked like Art Garfunkel" ~ Rose Nylund
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
World English Bible
9 Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God's Kingdom? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God's Kingdom.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+corinthians+6&version=WEB (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+corinthians+6&version=WEB)
^ You're absolutely right, that is a direct quote, it is doctrine. What qualifies as sexually immoral, though? Is hard core S&M moral under the bonds of marriage, but a sweet little roll in the hay with your significant other immoral, and therefore you'll be tortured eternally because of it? Seems vague to me. I figure under those rules virtually all of us are f**ked.
But if you read further, Paul says: "And such were some of you, but you have been saved . . . "
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Acts 22:12-15 NKJV
12 "Then a certain Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good testimony with all the Jews who dwelt there, 13 came to me; and he stood and said to me, 'Brother Saul, receive your sight.' And at that same hour I looked up at him. 14 Then he said, 'The God of our fathers has chosen you that you should know His will, and see the Just One, and hear the voice of His mouth. 15 For you will be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard. 16 And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.'
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts+22&version=NKJV (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts+22&version=NKJV)
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"When you stop being useful, you start dying."
(Eleanor Anna Roosevelt)
"I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk."
Stevie Ray Vaughan
"I intend to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer." - Ulysses Grant, July 1864
Romans 5:6-8
New King James Version
Christ in Our Place
6 For when we were still without strength, [a]in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%205:6-8&version=NKJV (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%205:6-8&version=NKJV)
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"If I have seen farther than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Sir Isaac Newton
"I have seen farther, because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."
Richard McKann 4/20/24
You can quote me.
"I have fallen farther, because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."
me
"Courage is knowing it might hurt and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. That's why life is hard."--Jeremy Goldberg
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"Doubt is like a divining rod; it begins to tug when it nears something fertile and fluid and underground."--Stacey D'Erasmo
"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
Richard Burton, "1984"
"What's that? Ah - Playoffs? Don't talk about - playoffs? You kidding me? Playoffs? I just hope we can win a game!" - Jim Mora
Matthew 16:25
Holman Christian Standard Bible
25 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me will find it.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2016:25&version=HCSB
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Proverbs 3:13
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Wisdom Brings Happiness
13 Happy is a man who finds wisdom
and who acquires understanding,
At Atari Corp, in the late '80's, Jack Tramiel, the company president, asked why his engineers couldn't get anything done. "I'm paying you enough!"
"I don't think that's the problem," said a programmer. "I think we need to feel our work matters."
"So I can pay you less?"
"All my life needed was a sense of direction, a sense of someplace to go.
I do not believe one should devote his life to morbid self attention, but should become a person like other people."
- Travis Bickle
"In the end it's not what you don't do; it's what you do do.
Uhhh... That sounds terrible."
-Michael Eisner
https://youtu.be/iHanRFkB9_M?si=FdEmI4UsGcddCVtK
"In Springfield, they are eating the dogs. The people that came in, they are eating the cats. They're eating – they are eating the pets of the people that live there."
Donald Trump- Sept. 10, 2024
"Politics is made up of two words: 'Poli,' which is Greek for 'many,' and 'tics,' which are bloodsucking insects."--Gore Vidal
"That was definitely not just a fart."
----- Some guy from Pretoria 😳😉🐢
"War is the terrorism of the rich. Terrorism is the war of the poor." - Peter Ustinov
"One day Joe Bear was hungry.
He asked his friend Irving Bird where
some honey was. Irving told him there
as a beehive in the oak tree. Joe
walked to the oak tree. He ate the beehive."
-TALE-SPIN, an early AI story generator, by James R. Meehan, 1976
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." ― Aldous Huxley
"Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own."
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Bruce Lee
My Hero!
Quote from: VenomX73 on November 07, 2024, 07:21:48 PM"Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own."
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Bruce Lee
My Hero!
😊😊👍🙏
Colossians 1:9
English Standard Version
9 And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians%201%3A9&version=ESV
Psalm 119:18
Holman Christian Standard Bible
18 Open my eyes so that I may contemplate
wonderful things from Your instruction.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20119%3A18&version=HCSB
1 Corinthians 1:4-5
English Standard Version
Thanksgiving
4 I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, 5 that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge—
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%201%3A4-5&version=ESV
"Comparison is the thief of joy." - Theodore Roosevelt
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word was with God." John 1:1
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"You know, I'll never forget my old dad. When these things would happen to him... the things he'd say to me."
Igor
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%201%3A1-2&version=ESV
Hebrews 1:1-2
English Standard Version
The Supremacy of God's Son
1 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
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"You cannot straighten that thing in others which is crooked in yourself." - St. Athanasius of Alexandria
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Luke 1:68-70 (New American Standard Bible)
"Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, For He has visited us and accomplished redemption for His people, And has raised up a horn of salvation for us In the house of His servant David— Just as He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient times—
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%201%3A68-70&version=NASB
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%202%3A11-14&version=NASB
Luke 2:11-14
New American Standard Bible
11 for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is [a]Christ the Lord. 12 And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a [b ]manger." 13 And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly [c]army of angels praising God and saying,
14 "Glory to God in the highest,
And on earth peace among people [d]with whom He is pleased."
Quote from: pacman000 on December 23, 2024, 09:53:49 AMhttps://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%202%3A11-14&version=NASB
Luke 2:11-14
New American Standard Bible
11 for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is [a]Christ the Lord. 12 And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger." 13 And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly [c]army of angels praising God and saying,
14 "Glory to God in the highest,
And on earth peace among people [d]with whom He is pleased."
I was gonna share that one today, LOL! Good job.
"My parents raised me in the way the world was going, not the way it had been."
---Fred Meijer
Quote from: ER on December 23, 2024, 01:00:12 PM"My parents raised me in the way the world was going, not the way it had been."
---Fred Meijer
The head of the hypermatket chain?
Luke 2:16-20
Holman Christian Standard Bible
16 They hurried off and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby who was lying in the feeding trough. 17 After seeing them, they reported the message they were told about this child, 18 and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. 19 But Mary was treasuring up all these things[a] in her heart and meditating on them. 20 The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had seen and heard, just as they had been told
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%202%3A16-20&version=HCSB
"Be Sure to Drink Your Ovaltine"
- Ralphie Parker
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"After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, asking, "Where is the One who has been born King of the Jews? We saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him."
Matthew 2: 1 - 2
"The wretched world is run by ox and ass."--GPT-2 neural net from OpenAI, attempting to compose a Christmas carol in 2020
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2090%3A12&version=NASB
Psalm 90:12
New American Standard Bible
12 So teach us to number our days,
That we may [a]present to You a heart of wisdom.
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From that fateful day when stinking bits of slime first crawled from the sea and shouted to the cold stars, "I am man.", our greatest dread has always been the knowledge of our mortality. But tonight, we shall hurl the gauntlet of science into the frightful face of death itself.
Tonight, we shall ascend into the heavens. We shall mock the earthquake.
We shall command the thunders, and penetrate into the very womb of impervious nature herself!
-Dr. Frederick Frankenstein
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From that fateful day when stinking bits of slime first crawled from the sea and shouted to the cold stars, "I am man.", our greatest dread has always been the knowledge of our mortality. But tonight, we shall hurl the gauntlet of science into the frightful face of death itself.
Tonight, we shall ascend into the heavens. We shall mock the earthquake.
We shall command the thunders, and penetrate into the very womb of impervious nature herself!
-Dr. Frederick Frankenstein
The stinking bits of slime are my ancestors 😳😉😉
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians%205%3A1-2&version=NASB
Ephesians 5:1-2
New American Standard Bible
Be Imitators of God
5 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; 2 and walk in love, just as Christ also loved [a]you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.
Amos 5:14-15
New American Standard Bible
14 Seek good and not evil, so that you may live;
And so may the Lord God of armies be with you,
Just as you have said!
15 Hate evil, love good,
And establish justice in the [a]gate!
Perhaps the Lord God of armies
Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Amos%205%3A14-15&version=NASB
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https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs%2021%3A%203&version=NASB
Proverbs 21:3
New American Standard Bible
3 To do righteousness and justice
Is preferred by the Lord more than sacrifice.
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"In all of literature, there are only three great stories: boy finds girl, someone goes on an epic quest, and Godzilla versus Megashark." - Count Leo Tolstoy (probably)
Quote from: indianasmith on January 14, 2025, 05:44:36 PM"In all of literature, there are only three great stories: boy finds girl, someone goes on an epic quest, and Godzilla versus Megashark." - Count Leo Tolstoy (probably)
😂🤣😆😄😀🐢
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"Growing old would be less tragic if our desires died along with our abilities." - Wes Williams
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Proverbs 1:5
New American Standard Bible
5 A wise person will hear and increase in learning,
And a person of understanding will acquire wise counsel,
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs%201%3A5&version=NASB
"Do not go gentle into that good night..... rage, rage against the dying of the light."
- Dylan Thomas :thumbup:
"They all strive towards the throne: it is a madness they have — as if happiness sat upon the throne! Often filth sits upon the throne — and often the throne upon filth, too."--Friedrich Nietzsche
Quote from: Rev. Powell on January 26, 2025, 02:18:43 PM"They all strive towards the throne: it is a madness they have — as if happiness sat upon the throne! Often filth sits upon the throne — and often the throne upon filth, too."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"He who ascends the throne is still obliged to sit upon his own arse." Benjamin Franklin, The Way To Wealth
Cerberus - "it's in the struggle itself that you define yourself" - Pat Buchanan
"Every triangle is a love triangle if you love triangles." - Pythagorus
"I bought a decaffeinated coffee table.........can't even tell by looking at it"
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-Steven Wright
We fat all creatures else to fat us,
and we fat ourselves for maggots.
--- Shakespeare, Hamlet
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"Thus spake brave Horatius, the Captain of the gate:
'Death cometh for every man whether soon or late.
What better way for man to die than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods?' "
Lod Tennyson
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"It's Amateurs Like You Who Give Kidnapping A Bad Name!"
--Wednesday Addams
(Amen, sister, amen...)
"How awful goodness is."
---John Milton
Paradise Lost
"Any [political] theory which is obviously dishonest and immoral ('realistic' is the favorite word at this moment) will find adherents who accept it for just that reason. Whether the theory works, whether it attains the result aimed at will hardly be questioned. The mere fact that it throws ordinary decency overboard will be accepted as proof of its grown-upness and consequently of its efficacy."--George Orwell