Quotable Quotes

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:54 am

If youâ€™re looking for friends when you need themâ€¦itâ€™s too late......

Mark Twain

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 12:22 pm

This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

Elmer Davis---America news commentator (1890-1958)

Tigercannon71 · Post by **Tigercannon71** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:45 pm

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused â€“ preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
George W. Bush (1946 - ), speech, November 19, 1999

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:34 pm

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.....

Francis Roberts

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:17 am

It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.........

William Randolph Inge

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:07 pm

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom,for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

H.L. Menchen,American author and journalist (1880-1956)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 11:13 am

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem. They're there every night, they see it done every night, they see how it should be done every night, but they can't do it themselves."

Brendan Behan

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:53 pm

Revolt and terror pay a price.Order and law have a cost.

Carl Sandburg--American poet and author (1878-1967)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:30 am

Life is an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep......

Carl Sandburg

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:16 am

"A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in

.... and how many want out."

England's Prime Minister Tony Blair

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 12:37 pm

Civizations die from philosophical calm,irony,and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

Joseph Wood Krutch--American autyor,critic and educator (1893-1970)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:48 am

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.........

Muhammad Ali

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 1:33 pm

My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.

Fiona MacLeod--(William Sharp) Scotish author and poet (1855-1905)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 2:34 pm

If you think nobody cares if you are alive, try missing a couple of car payments........

Earl Wilson

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 7:29 am

The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.......

Bertrand Russell

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 1:17 pm

You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like.You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.

Robert Hugh Benson--English author and clergyman (1871-1914)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 5:09 pm

Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows of the world, lighthouses erect in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print........

Barbara Tuchman

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:21 am

The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect......

U.S. Andersen

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:24 pm

Loneliness-----is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.From You Can't Go Home Again.

Thomas Wolfe---American Author (1900-1938)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:12 am

Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies.......

St. Augustine