Once in a while, I encounter some quotes, analogies, metaphors and fun words that tickle my funnybone. May as well have a category for them.
The difference between genius and stupidity is, genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein
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Nice! Now are you going to post one per day or is this intended to be an forum where, possibly, many quotes per day might be submitted? In other words, what are the rules? :)
There are those who make things happen
There are those who watch things happen
There are those who ask what happened?
Some people feel the rain
Others just get wet.
Bobby....That's a good one. Nice idea fo rthe thread too.
Been wanting to tell you I was at your website (about your dad - very interesting) and there's a comment on there to "contact us" but no way to do it that I could find. Just thought I'd let you know in case it was not intentional.
Oops, I just realised it said 'Quote of the Day' so I apologise for not reading correctly and doing two quotes.
Hi, just wanted to remind you of good old graylox, she started for some time such a thread too :
Temporarylox, you are way ahead of your time as always, and way ahead of the pack. :)
Maizey, excellent, I will pay that one.
Good luck! I can't wait... We'll have to take your payback to the "WARNING" thread, when/if you can come up with a suitable one. :D
"If you don't believe me, ask your mother. If your mother doesn't believe me, you'd better get a new mother. But, watch out! A duck could be somebody's mother and you could end up with a real quack for a mother."
- Groucho Marx
(I can't remember which movie. Maybe, Duck Soup?)
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.
George Santayana (1863-1952)
Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.
Teddy Roosevelt (sp?)
Life is to short to be egoistic
(It really helps me...)
TempoLox, I did not realize you started a similar one! I'll close this one if you'd like to run yours. Your posts are so much more fun anyway :)
Otherwise, post however many you choose and on any family-friendly topic.
*Hoss, almost fell out of my chair laughing at that one .. it's definitely a keeper.
*Maizey, I'm a card carrying Groucho fan .. excellent choice!
*RobM, who gets the credit for your rain quote? I've never heard that one before, but it's already a favorite.
*Paulga, "The Life of Reason" is an old favorite, love the choice.
Here's one that Pretzel, Runes and other writers will appreciate:
"Never pick a fight with anyone that buys ink by the barrel."
19th Century adage about annoying newspaper editors
Bobby........i am sure temporarylox was just mentioning, in passing, that graylox had started a similar, but not the same, type of thread,and i feel you should proceed with your thread, there are more people around now, than there were then, perhaps that is why it petered out?.....i owe you an apology!.....sorry!.....suggestive?......will you accept?, i would like to put it behind us,.....can we!
My quote of every day: Expect the unexpected!
We are not primarily put on earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.
Peter de Vries
Paulga, thanks for the explanation...I totally missed that one. 'pology 'cepted...if you'll accept mine. Already behind us because I learned not to drag a yesterday into today... not only does it give me grey hair, but it annoys the dickens out of tourists in the space/time continuum.
"The past is not only that which happened, but that which could have happened but did not."
Tess Gallagher
"A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
Grace Hopper, who single-handedly dragged the Navy into the computer era
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought."
Albert vonSzent-Gyorgyi Nagyrapolt, 1937 Nobel Laureate, Medicine
"To be is to do." -Socrates
"To do is to be." -Sartre
"Do be do be do." -Sinatra
Vonnegut (who else?)
***Edit to BuckleysMom
Thank you for visiting my Dad's site. The Homestead site is still a work in progress and I really appreciate the heads up on the broken link. I will get that fixed tomorrow.
***Edit to Pieter
That's a great quote .. more! more!
**Edit to Copmom
HA...I need that engraved on a sign. Preferably one shaped like a baseball bat :)
To Bobby, 'Some people feel the rain, others just get wet' is by the infamous Bob Dylan, sorry I forgot to mention him.
"Live everyday as if it is your last. One day you'll be right."
Anonymous and a variation of a James Dean quote.
"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."
-Rita Mae Brown
(Luckily, my memory is really bad!)
Bobby........I would accept your apology, even more, were i to remember what it were for?
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William shakesphere.
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Ben Franklin
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
Theodore Roosevelt
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John Lennon
Mikerb, I love that John Lennon quote above. So dry!
Thanks rob, I've been told before about my humour, the quote is actually 2 I put together 'cos they fitted well.
All the world is a birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much
George Harrison
“And keep a sense of humor. It doesn't mean you have to tell jokes. If you can't think of anything else, when you're my age, take off your clothes and walk in front of a mirror. I guarantee you'll get a laugh.”
Art Linkletter
"Yes'm, old friends is always best,'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of."
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
American Writer
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
– Groucho Marx
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