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Quotable Quotes
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 1:44 pm
by noreply66
Christmas has come and 'one,and I-to speak selfishly-am glad of it.The season always gives me the blues in spite of myself,though I manage to get a good deal of pleasure from thinking of the Ultitudes of happy kids in various parts of the world.
Edwin Arlington Robinson,American poet---(1869-1935)
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 1:46 pm
by noreply66
Everbody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein,American author---(1874-1946)
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 11:10 pm
by RiverRatZap
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 11:12 pm
by whodeyAtown21
And when he gets to Heaven.
To St. Peter he will tell.
"One more Marine reporting , Sir--
I've served my time in Hell."
An epitaph on a fallen marines tombstone thingy
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 7:58 am
by friendoftheprogram
"Not everybody can be heroes. Some of us can only stand on the sidewalk and wave at them when they march by."
Roy Rogers
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 11:14 am
by noreply66
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
Jawaharlal Nehru---Indian statesman (1889-1964)
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:14 pm
by mohawkbaseball#1
"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. "
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), "Job", 1984
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:18 pm
by mohawkbaseball#1
"Goals determine what you're going to be"
-Julius Erving
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 12:41 pm
by noreply66
"he wise man must be wise before,not after
Epicharmus,Sicilian Greek comic poet
( ?-c.450 B.C.)
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 12:26 am
by RiverRatZap
"This telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -- An internal Western Union memo, 1876

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 2:37 pm
by noreply66
Working is a dull thing;you cannot get away from that.The only agreeable existence is one of idleness,and that is not,Unfortunatly, always compatible with continuing to exist at all
Rose Macaulay,English poet and essayist---(1881-1958)
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 4:15 pm
by pirates/redmen fan
KEEP YOUR HANDS IN YOUR POCKETS AND YOUR POCKETS IN YOUR PANTS.
MY DEAR MOTHER.
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 4:24 pm
by seofan_via_dublin
"If I can only kiss your daughter above the neck or below the knees, how long can she stand on her head?"
-a quick thinking HS boy.
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 4:31 pm
by mohawkbaseball#1
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 5:46 pm
by RiverRatZap
"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." - Joe Theisman
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 5:47 pm
by RiverRatZap
"I have opinions of my own --strong opinions-- but I don't always agree with them." - George Bush
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:41 pm
by noreply66
no one else would say something like that---ZAp
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:46 pm
by RiverRatZap
I didn't even have to add the "W".

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:52 pm
by mohawkbaseball#1
"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General Patton
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:55 pm
by fuzzhead
...."I would walk 500 miles and i would walk 500 more just to be the man who walked 1000 miles and fell down at your door." - The Proclaimers, Scottish one-hit wonder band