Quotable Quotes

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:51 pm

Literature is news that stays news.

Ezra Pound--American poet and critic (1885-1972)

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:31 pm

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Muhammad Ali----American boxing champion (1942- --)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:49 am

Inside every older person is a younger person -- wondering what the heck happened.

Cora Harvey Armstrong-

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 1:14 pm

In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my 'l-ity' or merge it in what the world doubless considers my better half (historian Thomas Carlyle),I still find myself a self-subsisting and self-seeking ME.

Jane Welsh Carlyle--English writer (1801-1866)

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:16 pm

Take it easy,but take it.
Take it easy,but take it.

Studs terkel--American author

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 1:08 pm

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others,and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.

William Graham Summer-American sociologist and economist (1840-1910)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:21 am

Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good
partner, you'd better have a good hand."

Woody Allen

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 6:39 pm

now thats funny :lol:

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 1:48 pm

True excellence is rarely found,even more reaely is it cherished.

Johann Wolfgang von Gorthe,German poet,dramatist and authar (1749-1832)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:09 am

I think the world is run by 'C' students.

Al McGuire

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:41 pm

Show me the country in which there are no strikes and I'll show you that country in which there is no liberty.

Emma Goldman--American anarchist (1869-1940)

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:47 pm

Those who foresse the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which makes it certain that what they dread shall happen.

Dame Rebecca West,Irish author journalist (1892-1983)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:37 pm

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap,
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be content to take their own and depart.

-Socrates

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:31 am

Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.

Robert Browning

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:18 pm

It is good to be without vices,but it is not good to be without temptation.

Walter Bagehot--English editor and economist (1826-1877)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:53 am

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.......

H.L. Mencken

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:00 pm

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

Albert North Whitehead---English philosopher and mathematician (1861-1947)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:30 am

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.....

George Carlin

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:29 pm

Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him forever when he merely wanted her to love him for a few weeks.

Helen Rowland--American writer,journalist and humorist (1876-1950)9

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:04 am

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.....

G.K. Chesterton