"I may not be as strong as I think," the old man said. "But I know many tricks and I have resolution.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
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"I may not be as strong as I think," the old man said. "But I know many tricks and I have resolution.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
" Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it ends."
Marcellene Cox
"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
This should be tacked at the top of every internet forum.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tack
“Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
" I don't see much of Alfred anymore since he got interested in sex. "
Mrs, Alfred Kinsey
Spoken of a local politician:
" He must be in the witless protection plan! "
~Richard
"If I knew at age 19 what I know now at age 65, I probably wouldn't be here... question is, where's here??"
Truer words have never been spoken.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Utopian
Have you ever noticed that anyone driving slower than you is an idiot, and everyone driving faster is an maniac?
George Carlin
“Reaching the finish line isn't possible without beginning the first step of the journey. Start today, don't wait.”
― M. Gail Grant, Magdalena Gottschalk:
" If you think that health care is expensive, wait till you see what it costs when it is free! "
P.J. O'ROurke
If the Earth really was flat, cats would have pushed everything off of it by now.
A man who has been nicely" dressed by a woman be she his Mother, wife, girlfriend or other, is regarded by other men as a wimp and someone not to be trusted. "
Leo Frankowski in "A Boy and His Tank"
“The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I have strong feelings about gun control. If there is a gun around, I want to be controlling it.
Clint Eastwood as 'Tommy Nowak' in the movie Pink Cadillac
Question asked at Amazon about a set of Universal Bicycle Pedals:
Will these scrape my calves like the metal ones do?
Answer:
Not likely. Try putting your feet on them, makes it easier to pedal.
"We can argue all we like, but if capital punishment is being inflicted on some man, we are inclined to say: ‘It serves him right.’ That is not the spirit, I believe, in which legislation is enacted. If in this present age we were to go back to the old time of ‘an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,’ there would be very few honorable gentlemen in this house who would not, metaphorically speaking, be blind and toothless."
Mr Graham, Canadian house of parliament.
1914...
“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
" A plucked goose doesn't lay golden eggs. "
Anon
“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
" If we weren't supposed to be, we would not be here ! "
Anon
"A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit." – Catalan proverb
Reminds me of the joke of the man driving home from a doctor's appointment when his wife calls. She asks where he is and he responds on the interstate heading home.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grizzley1
"Be careful" she says "there is a crazy man on the news driving on the wrong side of the road!"
"That's nothing"he responds. "Seems like everyone is driving on the wrong side where I am!"
Forgot who said it originally;
The key to immortality is owe your Dr money.
“So, there’s this hornet’s nest. And there’s this long stick. And then there’s me. How I walk away from all of this will depend on whether I realize that some things go together and some things don’t no matter how hard you try.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
" There is no fatigue so wearisome as lack of work."
Char;les Haddon Spurgeon
“Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
" In Vino Veritas" ;and, like so many specimens of life, pickled, and long dead."
Anon
"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." -- Isaac Asimov
“I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for ladders and start climbing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
" I love mankind, it's people I cannot stand. "
Charles M. Schultz
“When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Simple is best, all it takes to find a needle in a haystack is a magnet.
Annon
Who invented the brush they put next to the toilet? That thing hurts!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tack
An unending question.
All it took was marriage to change my new wife from "Melancholy Baby" to Honey dew" :gaah:
“One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.” --Mark Twain
Update: Change "read the newspaper" to "watch the news media"
True words! Mark Twain was very insightful!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tack