A quote...or two

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 4:40 pm

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Robert Fulghum, It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It

US author & Unitarian clergyman (1937 - )

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 5:12 pm

Many people hold onto a grudge because it offers the illusion of power and a perverse feeling of security. But in fact, we are held hostage by our anger. It is never too late to forgive. But you can forgive too soon. I am especially wary of what I call "saintly forgiveness." Premature forgiveness is common among people who avoid conflict. They're afraid of their own anger and the anger of others. But their forgiveness is false. Their anger goes underground. I define forgiving as letting someone back into your heart. This returns us to a loving state -- and not merely within the relationship -- we feel good about ourselves and the world. True forgiveness isn't easy, but it transforms us significantly. To forgive is to love and to feel worthy of love. In that sense, it is always worthwhile.

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-Robert Karen, Phd, Bottom Line Personal, November 1, 2001

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"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

-John Fitzgerald Kennedy

devist8me · Post by **devist8me** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 7:44 pm

My new favorite thread

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. Benjamin Franklin

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 7:47 pm

devist8me wrote:

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. Benjamin Franklin

You can't fix stupid. Ron White.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 7:50 pm

Marie5656 wrote: You can't fix stupid. Ron White.

Ok I get it I get it ! :rolleyes:

devist8me · Post by **devist8me** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 7:51 pm

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. Author: Eric Hoffer

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 7:51 pm

Nomad wrote: Ok I get it I get it ! :rolleyes:

Oh Nomad..you know you will always be my hero. :-4

devist8me · Post by **devist8me** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 7:52 pm

Marie5656 wrote: You can't fix stupid. Ron White.

Ron White cracks me up. He almost deserves his own thread :wah:

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 7:54 pm

devist8me wrote: Ron White cracks me up. He almost deserves his own thread :wah:

Gotta love the Tater.

devist8me · Post by **devist8me** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 7:58 pm

“I believe if life gives you lemons make lemonade¦then find someone that life gave vodka to and have a party.

Ron White :wah:

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 7:59 pm

I have a suggestion that I think would help fight serious crime. Signs. There are lots of signs for minor infractions: No Smoking, Stay Off the Grass, Keep Out, and they seem to work fairly well. I think we should also have signs for major crimes: Murder Strictly Prohibited, NO Raping People, Thank You for Not Kidnapping Anyone. It's certainly worth a try. I'm convinced Watergate would never have happened if there had just been a sign in the Oval Office that said, Malfeasance of Office Is Strictly Against the Law, or Thank You for Not Undermining the Constitution.

-George Carlin

theia · Post by **theia** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 2:57 am

Wendybird wrote: To do is to be. -- Kant

To be is to do. -- Rousseau

Do be do be do. -- Sinatra

I love that! :wah:

Gygz · Post by **Gygz** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:08 am

"intelligence has it's limitations..Stupidity is not so constrained"..no idea who said it.someone inteligent..

"An intellectual is someone educated beyond the bounds of common sense .."

My favourite

Shweet tatersalad · Post by **Shweet tatersalad** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:25 am

devist8me wrote: Ron White cracks me up. He almost deserves his own thread :wah:

Ron Rocks! Thats where half my name came from.I love that story,I got drunk in a bar in New York city.I use "I don't think so scooter" alot.

I did see his Can't fix stupid specail,but i did not think it was as good as his first effort,but i know he will level me next time.

tater salad is da bomb!

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 1:40 pm

And don't forget his son..Tater Tot.

911 · Post by **911** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 1:47 pm

“I want to get a job as someone who names kitchen appliances. Toaster, refrigerator, blender.... all you do is say what the **** does, and add "er". I wanna work for the Kitchen Appliance Naming Institute. Hey, what does that do? It keeps **** fresh. Well, that's a fresher....I'm going on break.

Mitch Hedberg

koan · Post by **koan** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 2:27 pm

God cannot alter the past but historians can.

Samuel Butler

Shweet tatersalad · Post by **Shweet tatersalad** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:00 pm

Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I've stayed alive

-George Carlin

daBunnyWendy7 · Post by **daBunnyWendy7** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:15 pm

Doo wap...wendybird

har de har har.LoL:wah:

Shweet tatersalad · Post by **Shweet tatersalad** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:38 pm

Alright,if we are going too talk quotes.here are some I have a problem with:

They say when you die You can't take it with you

Well,that depends on what it is.If it's your blue suit,you can certainly take it with you.In fact not only can you take it with you,you can probably put some things into the pockets.

You learn something new every day.

Actually, you learn something old every day.Just because you just learned it,doesn't mean it's new.Other people already knew it.

Columbus is a good example of this.

What you don't know won't hurt you

Why don't we just ask Abe Lincoln and John Kennedy about this one.

weber · Post by **weber** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:17 pm

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.:wah:

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. :wah:

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:35 pm

"I have always found strangers sexy."

- Hugh Grant, six months before he was arrested with stranger Divine Brown.

"I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear."

- Margaret Thatcher in 1973.

"That rainbow song's no good. Take it out."

- MGM memo after first showing of The Wizard Of Oz.

"You'd better learn secretarial skills or else get married."

- Modelling agency, rejecting Marilyn Monroe in 1944.

"Radio has no future."

"X-rays are clearly a hoax."

"The aeroplane is scientifically impossible."

- Royal Society president Lord Kelvin, 1897-9.

"You ought to go back to driving a truck."

- Concert manager, firing Elvis Presley in 1954.

"Forget it. No Civil War picture ever made a nickel."

- MGM executive, advising against investing in Gone With The Wind.

"Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little."

- A film company's verdict on Fred Astaire's 1928 screen test.

"Very interesting, Whittle, my boy, but it will never work."

- Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Cambridge, shown Frank Whittle's plan for the jet engine.

"There will be one million cases of AIDS in Britain by 1991."

- World Health Organization in a 1989 report. It over-estimated by 992,301 cases.

"The Beatles? They're on the wane."

- The Duke of Edinburgh in Canada, 1965. They went on to produce a string of Number 1 hits.

"The atom bomb will never go off - and I speak as an expert in explosives."

- U.S. Admiral William Leahy in 1945.

"All saved from Titanic after collision."

- New York Evening Sun, April 15 1912.

"Brain work will cause women to go bald."

- Berlin professor, 1914.

"Television won't matter in your lifetime or mine."

- Radio Times editor Rex Lambert, 1936.

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."

- director of the US Patent Office, 1899.

"And for the tourist who really wants to get away from it all, safaris in Vietnam."

- Newsweek magazine, predicting popular holidays for the late 1960s.