"You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself."

--Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.

"Don't you that ain't no Devil, that's just God when he's drunk." Tom Waits

"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills."

--Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.

"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills."

--Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.

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No doubt!!!

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

--Carl Gustav Jung

Swiss psychiatrist, psychologist and founder of the Analytic Psychology, 1875-1961

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. - Will Rogers

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. - Will Rogers

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I guess he never heard of laughing gas.

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. - Will Rogers

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I guess he never heard of laughing gas.

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...served with steak, or in a nice curry?

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. - Will Rogers

I guess he never heard of laughing gas.

Laughing gas is a vegetable?

The fun of talk is to find what a man

really thinks, and then contrast it with

the enormous lies he has been telling all

dinner, and, perhaps, all his life.

--Benjamin Disraeli

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. - Confucius

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. - Will Rogers

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I guess he never heard of laughing gas.

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Laughing gas is a vegetable?

The fun of talk is to find what a man

really thinks, and then contrast it with

the enormous lies he has been telling all

dinner, and, perhaps, all his life.

--Benjamin Disraeli

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Of course it is!!! My mother used to say, "Chownah, you are the grandest little boy in the world but you haven't even touched your laughing gas, sweet cherub. You need to eat your vegetables so finish your laughing gas...and then we can have strawberry amyl nitrate for desert." Then I'd say, "Alright Mom,...whwhwhwhwhwhwhhwhwhwhwhhhwh.....,,,,,hahahhahahahahhahahhaha."

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. - Will Rogers

I guess he never heard of laughing gas.

Laughing gas is a vegetable?

The fun of talk is to find what a man

really thinks, and then contrast it with

the enormous lies he has been telling all

dinner, and, perhaps, all his life.

--Benjamin Disraeli

Of course it is!!! My mother used to say, "Chownah, you are the grandest little boy in the world but you haven't even touched your laughing gas, sweet cherub. You need to eat your vegetables so finish your laughing gas...and then we can have strawberry amyl nitrate for desert." Then I'd say, "Alright Mom,...whwhwhwhwhwhwhhwhwhwhwhhhwh.....,,,,,hahahhahahahahhahahhaha."

Hmmm...you gotta put that Bong down from time to time...

"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. "

--George Bernard Shaw

Irish literary critic, playwright and essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950

He plunged into a sea of platitudes,

and with the powerful breast stroke of a

channel swimmer made his confident way

towards the white cliffs of the obvious.

--W. Somerset Maugham

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

Seems more than appropriate, today, considering the newly closed thread.

EDIT/ Which seems to have re-opened.

...Seems more than appropriate, today, considering the newly closed thread.

EDIT/ Which seems to have re-opened.

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"Look before you leap."

...Seems more than appropriate, today, considering the newly closed thread.

EDIT/ Which seems to have re-opened.

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"Look before you leap."

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Just to clear up what might be a misunderstanding: I was referring to the thread's content.

Whether it is closed or not is a mod's prerogative.

Just to clear up what might be a misunderstanding: I was referring to the thread's content.

Whether it is closed or not is a mod's prerogative.

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No misunderstanding, TM. Just trying to humorous. Didn't work.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Voltaire (1694 - 1778)...

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100% in agreement TM.

Live and learn....or live and don't learn.

Chownah

Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly. - Publius Syrus

Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly. - Publius Syrus

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This must be a first - quoting a Syrian.

When you are bored or depressed, get off yer arse and do something exciting and fun or try to help someone - Neeranam

Am I allowed to have more than one thought today?

Live and learn....or live and don't learn.

Chownah

When I go to bed at night, I ask myself what I learned that day. If nothing, it was a waste of bloody time getting out of bed.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Mark Twain

"If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change"

--Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Italian writer, 1896-1957.

(The inherent paradox of conservatism)

"A healthy society must stop at nothing to cleanse itself of evil" -- Karl Rove

What is Evil but the Good's job security. -SPB

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. - Plato

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which he has inflicted on men, he would kill himself.

Alexander Dumas (1802-1870)

Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

Dean Wormer, Animal House