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Post by Equus on Aug 6, 2014 20:43:18 GMT
This may be one of my bad ideas... but then again... It might also be a lot of fun. The idea is to find a quote that you consider to be great fun, very wise, silly, or something else. It can be something you read, something a friend once said. You may quote yourself, you mother, your cat... Alright, I'll quote the cat...
"Meow." - Cat
Or it could be this guy...
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing." - Socrates
Or this guy...
"I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food." - W. C. Fields
Or what about this fine gentleman? A real hero of mine!
"She's the Robin Hood of Highgate, helps the poor man get along." - Ian Anderson
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Post by Equus on Aug 6, 2014 21:03:08 GMT
"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln
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Post by Equus on Aug 6, 2014 21:15:22 GMT
"If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding, how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat!" - Pink Floyd
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Post by steelmonkey on Aug 7, 2014 0:49:55 GMT
Lying is cool...heh heh. Heh heh
-Beavis
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 7, 2014 8:24:12 GMT
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much"
Oscar Wilde
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Post by onewhiteduck on Aug 7, 2014 9:02:58 GMT
"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down".
-Aneurin Bevan
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Post by Equus on Aug 7, 2014 10:05:38 GMT
“ There must be millions of people all over the world who never get any love letters . . . I could be their leader.” - Charlie Brown
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Post by Equus on Aug 7, 2014 10:38:15 GMT
"I can't go on like this - losing a billion dollars a minute! I'll be broke in 600 years!" - Uncle Scrooge McDuck / Carl Barks
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Post by Equus on Aug 8, 2014 9:06:08 GMT
"Bah, humbug!" - Ebenezer Scrooge
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 8, 2014 13:40:55 GMT
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Post by bunkerfan on Aug 8, 2014 15:42:03 GMT
I don't know who wrote this but after having the Grandchildren for the last 2 days it seems appropriate.
" Children should be seen and not heard."
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Post by rredmond on Aug 8, 2014 16:35:15 GMT
My current email signature, seems appropriate to put it here as I think I'm going to change it to an inspirational Dropkick Murphys quote.
But this one is fun because it's inspirational and geeky:
“We've done the impossible and that makes us mighty.” – Malcolm Reynolds
Be well, --Ron--
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Post by Equus on Aug 8, 2014 20:56:20 GMT
I don't know who wrote this but after having the Grandchildren for the last 2 days it seems appropriate. " Children should be seen and not heard."What do you mean!! Won't you talk to me anymore??
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Post by Equus on Aug 9, 2014 6:26:37 GMT
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 9, 2014 9:08:00 GMT
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few
Spock
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Post by onewhiteduck on Aug 9, 2014 10:37:22 GMT
Just remember the old American saying.....
"The more arguments you win the less friends you'll have"
Latest Scores just in...........
Martin Barre 2 (Barre 2) Ian Anderson 4 (Anderson 2,Ophale 1, O'Hara 1)
TwoBlackSwans (OWD Tribute Member)
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Post by Equus on Aug 9, 2014 15:02:01 GMT
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few Spock Now we're getting closer to the heavier stuff... Spock is a favorite of mine...
"Live long and prosper." - Spock
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Post by onewhiteduck on Aug 10, 2014 11:14:31 GMT
"Three things it is best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise".
-Welsh Proverb
Can anyone explain - I can't - strange lot the Welsh.
OneproverbialDuck
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Post by bunkerfan on Aug 10, 2014 16:23:51 GMT
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
groucho marx
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Post by Tull50 on Aug 10, 2014 16:39:14 GMT
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Post by Equus on Aug 10, 2014 18:15:23 GMT
"Three things it is best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise". -Welsh Proverb Can anyone explain - I can't - strange lot the Welsh. OneproverbialDuck This is a challenge... and I can't help but try...
Well. it seems that the wise man is the important thing here. Why a strange dog, and a flood? Why not an elephant, and a tiger? Still, I think that the wise man is what we should be focusing on... Why should we avoid a wise man? That is the question. A wiser man could manipulate us into doing something we don't want to do. A wise man may be someone who is self declared. A person who believe that he is wise, may have stopped to develop. Why seek anything new, when you know it all? Such a person could very well be arrogant, and if this: I know it all... attitude manifests itself into thoughts of superiority, he may very well be a person that you would want to avoid. Experts can be dangerous. An experts is a wise man, or we may perceive that he is a wise man. This may lead us to stop thinking for ourselves. We do whatever the expert tells us to do, and get into trouble... If he turns out to be a wannabe...
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Post by onewhiteduck on Aug 10, 2014 18:42:31 GMT
Thanks Equus.
What about this......
"It's a wise, wise prophet who keeps his own council".
Ian Anderson (Valley - Roots to Branches) - good song.
OneJesusDuck
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 10, 2014 19:15:11 GMT
Hitch your wagon to a star
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You laugh at me because I'm different. I laugh at you because your all the same.
Jonathan Davis
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Post by Equus on Aug 10, 2014 19:21:29 GMT
Thanks Equus. What about this...... "It's a wise, wise prophet who keeps his own council". Ian Anderson (Valley - Roots to Branches) - good song. OneJesusDuck Whenever we ask for council, we risk to be misled... A real prophet could not be a prophet if he didn't think for himself. Prophets leads, and shows us new ways of thinking, but to tell about new things, they first need to be discovered. The prophet can't wait for others to discover what he needs to know. He will find a road, or make one. All of this requires thinking on a deep level. He will have to penetrate chaos, and transform that chaos into wisdom. You can't give away, what you haven't got. The profit has to think for himself. If we let others think for us, we may lose direction, and like a leaf, we will drift aimlessly with the wind...
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Post by steelmonkey on Aug 10, 2014 22:01:50 GMT
So, help me out on this...my girlfriend thinks i should be more a 'sipper' in life, than a 'gulper'...I tell her that the next world is full of people who wish they had gulped, not sipped. British people, it seems, are taught to sip, not gulp...but Tull fans seems to gulp, not sip.
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 11, 2014 6:50:04 GMT
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T. E. Lawrence
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 11, 2014 14:36:49 GMT
So, help me out on this...my girlfriend thinks i should be more a 'sipper' in life, than a 'gulper'...I tell her that the next world is full of people who wish they had gulped, not sipped. British people, it seems, are taught to sip, not gulp...but Tull fans seems to gulp, not sip. Are you talking tea?
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 11, 2014 14:47:48 GMT
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Post by bunkerfan on Aug 11, 2014 18:52:58 GMT
My wife could have written this. "The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool."
Rudyard Kipling
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Post by Equus on Aug 11, 2014 19:09:50 GMT
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." - Buddha
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