Quotable Quotes

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 6:57 pm

The unknown is what it is.And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams,illusions,wars,peace,love,hate,all that.Unkown is what it is.Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing.

John Lennon----1940-1980

Steely Dan · Post by **Steely Dan** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 7:03 pm

One of my favorite Lou Holtz quips:

"One of my star recruits was not living up to expectations at Notre Dame. I was not sure what the problem was, but he just really seemed out of synch with what we are trying to do, so I decided to address this issue with him. Here's how it went.

Coach: "Son, you've got all the talent in the world, but you just aren't getting it done. I know you're smart, what is your problem, ignorance or apathy?"

Player: "Coach, I don't know and I don't care!!!!" :lol:

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 1:57 am

Getting married for sex is like buying a 747 for the free peanuts.....

Jeff Foxworthy

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 4:24 pm

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Albert Einstein

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 7:15 am

The difference between failure and success is doing a
thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.

Edward Simmons

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 8:08 am

Advice is probably the only free thing which people won't take.

Lothar Kaul

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:37 pm

The people who think they are happy should rummage through their dreams.

Edward Dahlberg American Author and critic --1900-1977

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

Nothing wrong with shooting as long as the right people get shot.

Clint Eastwood

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:35 am

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other .

Eric Hoffer

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:33 pm

To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages;and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers--or both.

Elizabeth Charles, British writer 1828-1890

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 5:29 am

This recipe is certainly silly. It says to separate two eggs, but it doesn't say how far to separate them.

Gracie Allen

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:34 pm

How the 'I' gervades all things!

William Ellery Channing,American clergyman 1780-1842

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:48 pm

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!

Benjamin Franklin

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:28 pm

Use your brains..It's the little things in life that counts.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 4:50 am

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

Ellen Goodman

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 8:17 am

Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.

Christina Rosetti---British poet 1830-1874

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 12:32 pm

There is no king whom has not had a slave among his ancestors,and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Helen keller, American author and lecturer---1880-1968

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 7:37 am

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man
can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:04 pm

The price one pays for pursuing any profession,or calling,is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

James Baldwin,American author---1924-1987

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 5:58 am

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

Woody Allen