Quote of the Day

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[Heartless Bastard]

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey

 

[HybridCrow]

"The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come to pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. Let the dragon ride again on the winds of time."

Wheel of Time series, Robert Jordan

 

[My Own Way]

I was wrong about happiness. I thought if I just knew where to look it would be easily retrievable, like a hairbrush I lost between the cushions of the couch, or the name of someone I used to know.
*Meg Kearney**

 

[JustSkye]

Other men said they have seen angels,
But I have seen thee
And thou art enough.
~ by G. Moore ~



What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson ~




To live is like to love -
all reason is against it,
and all healthy instinct for it.
~ by Samuel Butler, Life and love ~


Love is like a friendship caught on fire.
In the beginning a flame, very pretty,
Often hot and fierce,
But still only light and flickering.
As love grows older,
Our hearts mature
And our love becomes as coals,
Deep-burning and unquenchable.
~ by Bruce Lee ~



She walks in beauty,
Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
~ by Byron ~

To love a person is to learn the song
That is in their heart,
And to sing it to them
When they have forgotten.
~ by Anonymous ~


You love simply because you cannot help it.
~ by Kim Anderson ~



Love is that condition in which
The happiness of another person
Is essential to your own.
~ by Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land ~

 

[Quoll]

To look deep inside oneself is hard.
To look deep inside oneself and see that which you think is bad, takes courage
To look deep inside oneself and look past that which you think is bad and see that which is good, takes strength.
To look deep inside oneself and take hold of that which is good and bring it into the light.
That is love for thy self, that is the way to happiness.

Quoll

 

[yesYesYEsYES]

Though miles may lie between us, we're never far apart, for friendship doesn't count the miles, it's measured by the heart.

 

[Heartless Bastard]

OMG yes, yes, yes

Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication when people rub togeather. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as "empty", "meaningless", or "dishonest and scorn to use them. No matter how pure their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.
- Robert A. Heinlein

 

[yesYesYEsYES]

It just seems so appropriate here....giving how far apart most of us are.....I'm glad you liked it....

 

[Xstatic]

Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication when people rub togeather. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these fromalities as "empty", "meaningless", or "dishonest and scorn to use them. No matter how pure their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.
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Hmm - I have this quote as coming from Robert A. Heinlein (The Notebooks of Lazarus Long)

Another quote from the same source:

"Have you noticed how much they look like orchids? Lovely!"

I'll leave what 'they' are to your imagination

 

[Heartless Bastard]

Hmm - I have this quote as coming from Robert A. Heinlein (The Notebooks of Lazarus Long)

Another quote from the same source:

"Have you noticed how much they look like orchids? Lovely!"

I'll leave what 'they' are to your imagination

Thanks Xstatic, I will mark it as such unless otherwise noted.

And thank you, yes, Yes, YEs, YES Nice comment and post. ...grins, did I mention I can't seem to pull my eyes away from your avatar......white boots?

 

[Heartless Bastard]

Whats the point of wearing your favorite rocketship underpants if nobody ever ask to see 'em.
--Calvin

 

[HybridCrow]

"Boy, you like to cover your bases, don't you?"

Some girl's response to me about a conversation.

 

[gregor2001us]

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.
----Isak Dinesen

Gregor

 

[My Own Way]

Screws fall out all the time, Sir. The world is an imperfect place.
**The Breakfast Club**

 

[Cathleen]

This isn't a quote but it is something that I'll click on when I need a quick vacation from life. When those times you need to see something pretty and real. I happen to be a flower freak - there are over 1300 pictures on this link. I enjoy watching it load, a treat for the eyes and it never fails to give me a soft smile within a few moments.

http://search.acclaimimages.com/cgi...floral arrangements&show_all=y&referring_url=

 

[Heartless Bastard]

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
-- James Thurber

 

[My Own Way]

This isn't a quote but it is something that I'll click on when I need a quick vacation from life. When those times you need to see something pretty and real. I happen to be a flower freak - there are over 1300 pictures on this link. I enjoy watching it load, a treat for the eyes and it never fails to give me a soft smile within a few moments.

http://search.acclaimimages.com/cgi...floral arrangements&show_all=y&referring_url=

That's so nice Cate....just what I needed to see today....

 

[SweetErika]

This isn't a quote but it is something that I'll click on when I need a quick vacation from life. When those times you need to see something pretty and real. I happen to be a flower freak - there are over 1300 pictures on this link. I enjoy watching it load, a treat for the eyes and it never fails to give me a soft smile within a few moments.

http://search.acclaimimages.com/cgi...floral arrangements&show_all=y&referring_url=

Beautiful, Cate! Thank you so much for sharing...that one has been bookmarked for the future.

 

[My Own Way]

I've learned
that you cannot make someone love you.
All you can do is
be someone who can be loved.
The rest is up to them.

I've learned -
that no matter how much I care,
some people just don't care back.

I've learned -
that it takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.

I've learned -
that you can get by on charm
for about fifteen minutes.
After that, you'd better know something.

I've learned -
that learning to forgive takes practice.

I've learned -
that it's taking me a long time
to become the person I want to be.

I've learned -
that sometimes when I'm angry
I have the right to be angry,
but that doesn't give me
the right to be cruel​

 

[Cathleen]

Glad you liked the link ladies - it is just a simple pleasure in life.

 

[Heartless Bastard]

If
Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat these two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And - which is more - you’ll be a Man, my son!​

 

[Heartless Bastard]

My Own Way - - I've learned

very very good, a keeper

 

[Heartless Bastard]

Mark Twain

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lighning and the lightning bug.

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a man and a dog.

Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she has laid an asteroid.

July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

 

[My Own Way]

My Own Way - - I've learned

very very good, a keeper

It's longer...I just picked ones that i thought were good. If you yahoo or google "I've Learned" you can find the whole thing in a bunch of different versions. Glad you liked it though!