Words to live by

[Columbus Civil]

I mean, if you got a cat for one day, man. I mean, if you, say, say, if you want a cat for 365 days, right. You ain't got him for 365 days, you got him for one day, man. Well I tell you that one day, man, better be your life, man. Because, you know, you can say, oh man, you can cry about the other 364, man, but you're gonna lose that one day, man, and that's all you've got. You gotta call that love, man. That's what it is, man. If you got it today you don't want it tomorrow, man, 'cause you don't need it, 'cause as a matter of fact, as we discovered in the train, tomorrow never happens, man. It's all the same ****ing day, man.

-Janis Joplin

[mikedsjr]

When peace like a river, attendeth my way;
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say,
It is well, it is well with my soul.

It is well...with my soul... It is well, it is well, with my soul...

Horatio Gates Spafford [1873]

[gc]

Know your limits, then break through them....

Garrett Carey

[214]

TIME IS MONEY!!!!!!

[pariah]

never hunt live rabbit with dead dog


charlie chan

[drycreek]

even a blind squirrel can find a nut...

[freewaytincan]

Hey, I'm lazy! So why don't I just include my semi-famous "Quote List?" It's fantastic, and growing every day! I reccomend copying it for your use.



“Many are the plans of a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.” – Proverbs 19:21
“Maybe it’s not healthy, but it’s fun!” – Michael Keaton, Mr. Mom
“I will never allow schooling to interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.” – Mark Twain
“You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted and used against you in a court of law.” – John Barr
“God invented the idiot for practice. Then he invented the school board.” – Mark Twain
“They don’t like fast food because it’s fast. They don’t like fast cars, either, or quick bucks. This is the slow growth crowd, which also delights in grinding bureaucracies and is likely to support federal laws against running around the pool. Deep in their quaking souls, they believe that if they eat right, get to bed by 9.00 PM, stay out of the sun, and otherwise cling to the Gospel According to the Surgeon General, they might live forever. Shame on them.” – Dave Shiflett, The Wall Street Journal
“Do your problems for you? You do your problems for you! That’s why I graduated, so I wouldn’t have to do problems.” – Richard Dreyfuss, Close Encounters
“If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
“I have gone out to find myself. If I get back before I return, please keep me here.” – John Barr
“Don’t look at the trombones; you’ll only encourage them.” – Richard Strauss
“Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” – Timothy Bell
“Genius has its limits, but stupidity has no bounds.” – Albert Einstein
“If a product is labeled, ‘New and Improved!’ does that mean that the company is admitting that the previous product was inferior? Like BMW…how do they have the ‘Ultimate Driving Machine’ every year?” – Pastor Dave Haney
“There are years in which nothing happens, and years in which centuries happen.” – Carlos Fuentes
“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it.” – Washington Irving
“Emancipate yourself from all mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.” – Bob Marley
“In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
“I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.” – Steven Wright
“Oh great. Now you’re all going to fail.” – Lynn Kaneps
“The wise are so uncertain, the ignorant are so positive.” – Carl Sagan
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” – Walt Disney
“Friendships are precious. You never know how much you have until it’s gone.” – Emmy Stringer
“For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.” – Bob Wells
“I would never bet against time travel, because my opponent could be from the future.” – Stephen Hawking
“Mayonnaise is whipped fat!” – Jamie Wright
“Advice is like getting underwear for Christmas. It’s never what you want, but usually what you need.” – Mark Tattuli
“Well, nobody’s perfect.” – Some Like It Hot
“Bad artists always admire each other's work.” - Oscar Wilde
“I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.” – Anonymous
“It is either very good, or very bad; I don’t know which.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Hey! Watch this!" – Matt Vega
“If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.” – Alan Greenspan
“…a night walker in the urban landscape.” – Brent Staples
“Isn't having a smoking section in a restaurant like having a
peeing section in a swimming pool?” – Anonymous
"In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!'" – Dave Barry
"The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat."
-Albert Einstein
"I'm glad cave people didn't invent television, because they would have just sat around and watched talk shows all day instead of creating tools." - Dave James
“In our studios, we have ten television monitors to keep an eye on the news channels and it’s like clockwork: you’ll see one go the story and then – bink! bink! bink! – the other three will go to it too. There will be a small Cessna in trouble and MSNBC will say TERROR IN THE SKY, and FOX News will say, JEOPARDY IN THE JETSTREAM and CNN will say, REPUBLICANS ABOUT TO KILL SMALL CHILDREN IN CESSNA, and you’ll think, “What’s happened? Another hijacking?” – Glenn Beck, The Real America
"In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks." - Scott Adams
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." - Groucho Marx
"2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2." - Anonymous
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." - Mark Twain
"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.” - Lily Tomlin
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Albert Einstein
“If nothing is sacred, then everything is profane.” – James Howard Kunstler
“I can’t help it; there you go again!” – Ronald Reagan
“It will also be just one more joke on ourselves, one more thing to make us look like a civilization of morons.” – James Howard Kunstler
“Don’t take life too seriously; you’ll never get out alive.” – Mark Twain
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” – Douglas Adams
“Free people will set the course of human history.” – George W. Bush
“In the beginning, the Universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and is generally regarded as a bad move.” – Douglas Adams
“Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country and an act of disloyalty to the Majesty of Heaven, who I revere above all earthly kings.” – Patrick Henry
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
“These are the times that try men’s souls.” – Thomas Paine
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
“We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.” – Eric Hoffer
“We may never know when the right word will transform a person’s life.” – Philip White
“Eat right, exercise…die anyway.” – Anonymous
“Freedom, in this culture, means that whatever makes you happy is okay. This is the freedom of a fourteen-year-old child. Freedom to eat a whole box of donuts in one sitting. Freedom to make a mess, to be loud and obnoxious, to blow things up, to inflict injury for the thrill of it, to conceive babies without care or thought for the consequences. Mostly, it is freedom from parental authority which, when it exists at all now, often functions at a level qualitatively no higher than a child’s. Under this version of freedom, there is no legitimate claim for any authority to regulate human desires – not even the personal conscience – nor any appropriate scale of management, and all supposed authorities are viewed as corrupt, mendacious, and irrelevant. This view of freedom is not what Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and the other founders had in mind. It is these crude emotional states masquerading as ideas about democracy and freedom.” – James Howard Kunstler
“The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in time of great moral crisis.” - Dante Alighieri
“Why you bunch of pitiful, hypocritical, idiotic, spoiled mug-wumps. Get your heads out of the sand and smell the Twin Towers.” – Charlie Daniels
"Going to war without the French is like going deer hunting without your accordion." – Donald Rumsfeld
"What da heck? Why you do dis for?" – Odin Chang
"Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness." – Samuel Adams
"We desire peace. But peace is a goal, not a policy. Lasting peace is what we hope for at the end of our journey. It doesn't describe the steps we must take nor the paths we should follow to reach that goal." – Ronald Reagan
“We don’t have to hate each other to disagree. We’re not liberals.” – Michael Savage
"...I've called for whatever it takes to be so strong that no other nation will dare violate the peace. If that means superiority, so be it. ... You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. Is it worth dying for...? Should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots of Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools...." – Ronald Reagan
“Space: it seems to go on and on forever, but at the end, there’s a big ape throwing barrels at you.” – Fry, Futurama
“‘Status quo,’ you know, that is Latin for ‘the mess we're in.’” – Ronald Reagan
“Two things…have staggered me…The first has been the dangers that have so swiftly come upon us in a few years, and have been transforming our position and the whole outlook of the world. Secondly, I have been staggered by the failure of the House of Commons to react effectively against those dangers.” – Winston Churchill
“All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into darkness…We have sustained a defeat without a war.” – Winston Churchill
“Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.” – Thomas Carlyle
“Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.” – Edmund Burke
“When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people...and...becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression...it is a...sacred obligation to their posterity to abolish such government, and create another in its stead.” – Sam Houston
“Believe me I know about commercialism. It’s my job. If I couldn’t get companies to get companies to put products on my show that we could sell, I wouldn’t be doing my radio show. I’d be selling Hush Puppies and talking into a shoehorn – or I’d be a homeless guy doing card tricks on a cardboard box for booze – or God forbid it would ever get this bad: I’d be a trial lawyer.” – Glenn Beck, The Real America
“Who’s misunderestimating now?” – David Frum, National Review



And somehow, I still have over 3,500 characters left. Incredible.

[dallastophoenix]

holy, moly!