Quotable Quotes

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:16 pm

Oct.3

In 1226,St Francis of Assisi,founder of the Franciscan order,died;he was canonized in 1228.

In 1951, the New York Giants captured the National League pennant as Bobby Thompson hit a three-run homer off the Brooklyn Dodgers' Ralph Brance in the "Shot heard round the world.

In 1962,astronaut Wally Schirra blasted off from Cape Canaveral aboard the Sigma 7 on a nine-hour flight.

In 1995,the jury in the O.J. Simpson murder trial announced its verdicts,finding the former football star not guilty of the 1994 slaying of his former wife,Nichle Brown Simpson,and Ronald Goldman.(However, Simpson was later found liable in a civil trial)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 6:55 am

If life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life, then let's all get wasted together and have the time of our lives.

Armand's Pizza, Washington, DC

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:12 pm

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages.it is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning,

Jane Addams--social worker and Nobel peace laureats (1860-1935)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:01 am

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Elvis Presley (1935-1977

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:55 am

Willie Nelson's public statement regarding being caught with a bag of Marijuana earlier this week:

"It's a good thing I had a bag of Marijuana instead of a bag of spinach. I'd be dead by now."

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:33 pm

^^^^^^

The usefullness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

Lane Kirkland--American labor leader--1922--1999

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:02 pm

No single man makes history.History cannot be seen,just as one cannot see grass growing

Boris Pasternak----Russian author---1890--1960

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:27 pm

The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it
becomes.

Amy Grant

keeper905 · Post by **keeper905** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:54 pm

all wars are civil because all men are brothers

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:23 am

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - even poverty - you can survive it.

Bill Cosby

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 7:04 pm

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Dolly Parton

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:46 am

In the early 80's, I was pretty innocent and confused. I was like Marie Osmond, only with bigger eyelashes.

Boy George

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:20 am

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Yves Saint Laurent

RiverRatZap · Post by **RiverRatZap** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:47 am

"There's a car shortage in Cuba, so Cubans are still riding in horse drawn buggies. The Cubans say the hardest part is teaching a horse to swim to Miami." -- Conan O'Brien

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:12 pm

If we would only give,just once,the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher--American author and essayist--1879-1958

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:52 am

I don't believe in pessimism.

Clint Eastwood

Tigercannon71 · Post by **Tigercannon71** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:13 am

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Scott Adams (1957 - )

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:38 pm

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr---Danish physicist (1885-1962)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:30 am

Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.

Jacqueline Bissett

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:33 pm

Compassion is the basic of all morality

Arthur Schopenhauer,-----German philosopher (1788-1860)