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momoese
12-17-2011, 01:20 AM
"I've been dealt a pretty good hand by the cosmos, which doesn't know I'm here — and won't notice when I'm gone."
Christopher Hitchens
Jack Daw
12-17-2011, 12:49 PM
“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”
~ Orson Welles
"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day."
~ Dalai Lama
RobG7aChattTN
12-17-2011, 10:20 PM
In the book "The God Delusion" there was some talk of someone lamenting the thought of the world going on without them after they die. The response was that the world went on just fine without them BEFORE they were born. It's all in the mind.
Richard
12-17-2011, 10:34 PM
In apparent response to the mention of astrology:
Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do — but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
-- Albert Einstein (1933)
saltydad
12-18-2011, 02:59 AM
"To love another person is to see the face of G-d." Herbert Kretchmer, lyricist, Les Miserables.
Richard
12-18-2011, 09:14 PM
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
-- Thomas Paine. The Age Of Reason, Part I (1793).
momoese
12-19-2011, 12:25 PM
I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
Thomas A. Edison
Richard
12-19-2011, 01:39 PM
Potassium is the most overlooked nutrient for fruit production
-- Dr. Thomas Ruehr, Plant Sciences, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
momoese
12-19-2011, 07:10 PM
I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.
Diane Lane
Richard
12-19-2011, 08:19 PM
You can take a boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of a boy.
-- Arthur Baer, in Hollywood. Baer and Major, 1938.
Note: "country" here refers to "rural setting".
momoese
12-22-2011, 04:20 PM
He that plants trees
loves others beside himself.
Thomas Fuller
sunfish
12-22-2011, 04:30 PM
Even a fish could stay out of trouble if it would just learn to keep its mouth shut.
-Unknown
saltydad
12-22-2011, 11:42 PM
"You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." Milton Berle
momoese
12-24-2011, 01:21 AM
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge
momoese
01-05-2012, 09:08 PM
“there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late”
Charles Bukowski
momoese
01-07-2012, 11:29 PM
Be patient and calm, for no one can catch fish in anger
Herbert Hoover
sunfish
01-07-2012, 11:40 PM
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. -Franklin D. Roosevelt
sunfish
01-07-2012, 11:45 PM
A good garden may have some weeds.
Thomas Fuller
momoese
01-08-2012, 12:26 AM
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
Virginia Woolf
sunfish
01-08-2012, 12:31 AM
“I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.”
Chi Chi Rodriguez woohoo
momoese
01-08-2012, 12:50 AM
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
Pablo Picasso
caliboy1994
01-09-2012, 01:32 AM
"For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death." ~Tom McMillan, quoted in Francesca Lyman, The Greenhouse Trap, 1990
"Modern technology
Owes ecology
An apology."
~Alan M. Eddison
"Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years." ~Charles Haas
"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun." ~Ralph Nader, quoted in Linda Botts, ed., Loose Talk, 1980
"There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all". ~Robert Orben
"Somewhere out there in the vast nothingness of space...
Somewhere far away in space and time..
Staring upwards at the gleaming stars in the obsidian sky
We're marooned on a small island,
In an endless sea,
Confined to a tiny spit of sand,
Unable to escape
But tonight, on this small planet
On earth, we're going to rock civilization." ~Rob Swire
momoese
01-13-2012, 01:42 AM
You give them money. They give you a stuffed dog.
Ernest Hemingway
sunfish
01-13-2012, 02:06 AM
You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
sunfish
01-13-2012, 10:20 AM
You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
But who wants to catch flies ? Not me.:03:
sunfish
01-13-2012, 04:44 PM
Do As I Say Not As I Do
Richard
01-13-2012, 05:03 PM
Patience is an inherited trait -- you get it from your children.
sunfish
01-13-2012, 05:08 PM
:ha:Patience is an inherited trait -- you get it from your children.
BigBananaBoy
01-14-2012, 02:27 AM
Middle age is when you go to bed at night and hope you feel better in the morning. Old age is when you go to bed at night and hope you wake up in the morning. :eek:
Jack Daw
01-14-2012, 11:48 AM
Middle age is when you go to bed at night and hope you feel better in the morning. Old age is when you go to bed at night and hope you wake up in the morning. :eek:
I'd say it's more like:
Middle age is when you go to bed at night and hope you feel better in the morning. Old age is when you go to bed at night and know you won't be feeling better when you wake up in the morning. :08:
sunfish
01-14-2012, 02:00 PM
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Harry S. Truman :2180::07::07:
Richard
01-14-2012, 02:28 PM
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana -- Groucho Marx
BigBananaBoy
01-16-2012, 09:09 PM
I'd say it's more like:
Middle age is when you go to bed at night and hope you feel better in the morning. Old age is when you go to bed at night and know you won't be feeling better when you wake up in the morning. :08:
:ha:
caliboy1994
01-17-2012, 01:34 AM
"One does not simply walk into Mordor." - Boromir
Jack Daw
01-18-2012, 08:03 PM
I recently discovered a forum while trying to learn more about clinical virology and one man had these interesting quotes in his signature:
"People who know little are usually great talkers, while
those who know much say little."
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics
are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so
full of doubts."
~Bertrand Russel
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
~Confucius
"Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt."
(Men readily believe what they want to believe.)
~Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico, III, 18
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
~Derek Bok
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatsoever that it is
not utterly absurd."
~Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970
"It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity."
~Albert Einstein
And one of my personal favorites that I forgot to post before:
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
~Gandhi
Richard
01-18-2012, 10:15 PM
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. -- Abraham Lincoln
orinoko
01-21-2012, 04:37 AM
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." (John 14:6)
sunfish
01-22-2012, 11:22 PM
"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." Twain, Mark
Richard
05-04-2012, 03:16 PM
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages
of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know
absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's
look at the bird and see what it's doing --
that's what counts. I learned very early the difference
between knowing the name of something and knowing
something. -- Richard Phillips Feynman
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