"If I simply tilt my head to one side, and shake the compass just so...
then it shouldn't matter that I'm holding the map upside down. Duh!!!"
-- Anonymous Future Astronaut
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"If I simply tilt my head to one side, and shake the compass just so...
then it shouldn't matter that I'm holding the map upside down. Duh!!!"
-- Anonymous Future Astronaut
" No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious"
George Bernard Shaw
"It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Hercule Poirot
“I’d rather be a hopeless romantic than a skeptic, because while the hopeless romantic may get burned many times, the skeptic will never really experience love.”
― Kealohilani, Half-Hearts
“Always keep fighting”
― Jared Padalecki
"Germs attack people where they're weakest – which is why there are so many head colds." --Mark Twain
‘You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.’
--- Sherlock Holmes
" The more complete the despotism,the more smoothly things seem to move on the surface."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“Compared to the you in my heart, the I in you is insignificant.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Box Man
" He is about the nastiest little man I have even known, He struts sitting down."
Lillian Dycstra...
I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with.
--Eli Whitney
“We're better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others.”
― V.C. Andrews, Pearl in the Mist
"If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows."
Vince Hemingson
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett
"Times there are, when success is worse than failure."
Protagonist in novel.
Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws.
--Mayer Amschel Rothschild
“the lonely mind wanders.
the happy mind goes.
the weary mind travels.
the thoughtful mind flows.”
― Barry DeCarli
Money doesn't change people, it just unmasks them.
(J.J. Starbuck)
Maybe if we all emailed the Constitution to each other, the NSA would finally read it.
"Many, perhaps most, things in life are done best with a smile."
-- Dr L. C. Wilde
“If you open the flood gates of thought you do not know what may come. You may discover that you are better than you thought or worse than the devil himself”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
" A simile is worth a thousand words."
~Richard
“Despite your best efforts, not everyone wants to be helped. Make a difference where you can and be at peace with the rest.”
― Gary Hopkins
" What is passed, is past!"
Character in a novel.
Or is that "A simile is like a thousand words."Quote:
Originally Posted by Geezer
Yup, now all you can do is escape the smell!Quote:
Originally Posted by Geezer
:)
“To truly know what is good in life you must experience the bad as well.”
― Various
" BEAUREGARD'S LAW: When you're in it up to your nose, keep your mouth shut."
If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Dang those are some good ones! Let me dig one up.
"Those who rely on certainties are certain to be disappointed.."
-- Drizzt Do'Urden - Road of the Patriarch (Forgotten Realms: The Sellswords, #3)
By R.A.Salvatore
Great books! :)
"Talks Cheap--It Takes Money To Buy Whiskey"
In other words--Put Up or Shut Up
My father Watson A Davis
“Each positive thought is your refuge and your sanctuary, where in that thoughtful moment, you are safe.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
" It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human behavior. "
G.K. Chesterton
~Richard
Out of the mouths of babes: "PMS is what Mommy gets when she's monsterating."
...........Quote:
Originally Posted by Dieseld
I know this is mostly a thread for simply posting a quip, I simply had to respond to these two.Quote:
Originally Posted by Geezer
Thank you for these ones! Very relevant for me. Adopted by two psychiatrists, didn't learn about positive thinking until later in life but can recite info from the PDR on command. Lol
My sanctuary for a time now has been thinking about shaving and straight razor restoration and custom scales. It's like a meditation in a way!
Thanks again and keep up these awesome quotes!
:beer1:
"Everyone needs a moment away."
--Charles the barber
-My first shave with a straight razor. In a Chicago barbershop, in a neighborhood that I perhaps should not have been.
The only words he spoke, in a sea of my endless yapping. :)
That has to be tough!! To go along or to defy, that is the question...Seems no middle road till old age.Quote:
Originally Posted by MikeT
One of my lady friends has parents that are in the psycho babel game.
Father a Freudian Psychiatrist, Mother a Jungian psychologist..
~Richard
"Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory."
--Bruce Lee
“Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it”
― abhishek vicky
Good from far, but far from good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dieseld